"Attacking me is not an agenda..."

The narrative has slipped away from Obama... which means the attacks are just going to get increasingly shrill and hysterical.

This is a pretty good line from Romney:



But more revealing is how far out of Obama's control the overall narrative has swung.  Reading through the static, it appears Team Obama is now desperately trying to build a "Romney as flip-flopper" narrative.  This is completely reactionary as Obama reels from the discovery by everyday Americans that Romney isn't the psychotic, "imprison-women-in-the-1950s", "Ebeenezer-Scrooge-what-are-the-poor-houses-full?" monster Obama and the MSM have been making him out to be.

The flip-flopper approach is also unlikely to hold water as Romney increasingly focuses past Obama and continues to lock in on actual ideas and policies.  Every day Romney spends talking about what he'll do when he's President while Obama shrilly (literally--have you listened to his voice when he gets himself worked up into attack-attack-attack mode?) and derisively attacks Romney (instead of talking about his own ideas) is a win for Romney.

E.J. Dionne captures the overall meme nicely.  This article is a complete mess--it's not even internally consistent (is the tea party dead, or is it just marching under a "false flag"?)--but it nicely demonstrates how the "flip-flopper" line boils down to the fact that Romney has never been what the lefties have claimed he is.  As this becomes clear to America, those ensconced in the liberal narrative are left spluttering "Romney has changed his stripes."  Hilariously enough, it was those same lefties, hoping to bring Romney down in the GOP primaries, that so relished exposing Mitt's moderate positions in an effort to scare off the same tea partiers that Dionne incoherently dismisses.

In any case, as the narrative continues to drift away from Obama, I can guarantee that the attacks will get more outlandish and shrill.  Should be a fun ride.