Give Romney This Much: The Fella Sure Can Speechify

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - "Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took aim at Democratic rivals on Sunday, calling them all unprepared to lead the country and comparing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's economic plan to that of Socialist Karl Marx.

"It would be helpful to have a person leading the country who understands how the economy works and has actually managed something," the former Massachusetts governor told reporters after a GOP fundraiser. "In the case of the three Democratic front-runners, not one of them has managed even a corner store, let alone a state or a city."

Romney, who leads Republicans in New Hampshire, has focused his criticism in recent weeks on Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards rather than rival Republicans. It's a strategy he hopes will help him maintain his lead over Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

"I wanted to focus on the Democrats," he said. "By and large, the best way to further my interest is to let people know what I would do and to distinguish that from what the Democrats would do."

(AP) Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, delivers his remarks... Full Image

His prime target was Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton just gave a speech the other day about her view on the economy. She said we have been an on-your-own society. She said it's time to get rid of that and replace that with shared responsibility and we're-in-it-together society," Romney told the crowd. "That's out with Adam Smith and in with Karl Marx."

Please now. Hillary had a crack at sorting through the health-care woes and embarrassed herself to no end.

I look at it this way; If Bill Clinton, the darling of the media, the Mr. Time-Magazine-The-Country-Handed-Him-A Resounding-Mandate, couldn't get more than 48% of the vote, how in all hells can this thick-ankled dwarf hope to do better? Even the people who say they'll vote for her really don't like her.