Jeff Smith: Is Romney in a Defensive Crouch?

In politics as in life, money can fix all sorts of problems. And in both politics and life, Mitt Romney has taken advantage of that fact.

Money can produce lovely television ads and glossy mailers, but the beauty of presidential campaigns, as Richard Ben Cramer showed us in “What it Takes,” is that they penetrate the veneer and expose candidates for who they are, good and bad. And no amount of money can make Republican primary voters like Mitt Romney.

(Cross-posted, with author’s permission, from Politico’s Arena)