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Wall Street Journal editorial calls Romney 'politically dumb' | Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's bid for the White
House has suffered a setback after America 's leading Right-wing newspaper criticized
his campaign as 'politically dumb'. According to The Telegraph, in a blistering
editorial, the Wall Street Journal said that Romney was 'squandering an historic
opportunity' to beat President Barack Obama. Its editorial board, one of the most
influential voices on the American Right, said Romney must stop making errors
and start outlining how he would lift the US out of economic woe. "Mr Romney promised
Republicans he was the best man to make the case against President Obama, whom
they desperately want to defeat. So far Romney is letting them down," the editorial
said. The article came amid uneasiness about the Romney campaign from prominent
conservatives, and pressure from Obama about his finances and the release of some
encouraging economic data. Anxious conservatives are also voicing concerns about
Romney. Rupert Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal's owner, also criticized Romney
via Twitter for not looking like a 'challenger' and for 'playing everything safe'.
His newspaper's attack centred on Romney's fumbled response to the Supreme Court's
upholding of Obama's controversial health insurance 'mandate', which the court
effectively redefined as a tax. The Wall Street Journal said that Romney was turning
'the only possible silver lining' in the ruling, "that the mandate to buy insurance
or pay a penalty is really a tax, into a second political defeat".
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