It's been Romney's defining moment. The public's perception of Obama is pretty much gelled after he's been president for four years. Romney on the other hand is more nebulous, by design; he's trying to give as few details about his plans as possible. But, panicking a bit on account of Obama's post-convention surge and the clock running out, Romney tried to depart from his safe game and instead seized on an international crisis to launch a political attack against Obama and flopped. The backlash against Romney was harsh and bipartisan. With less than two months to go, he committed an unforced error and very possibly lost the election with it.
Wishful thinking. Obama's failure to stand strong with Israel has cost him a lot more votes than anything Romney has said in the past week.
Being the first president since Carter to have an embassy overrun with its ambassador being assassinated is not exactly projecting an image of American strength. At best, it is the USS Cole for Obama (which probably hurt Gore, the incumbent, but only by a negligible amount); at worst, it is going to snowball into the Iranian Hostage Crisis circa November 1980 (i.e., devastating effect for the incumbent).
Really? I don't think so. I just saw a poll where Obama was beating Romney with the Jewish vote 2-1. Lol...
