To return the GOP campaign to "that theme" is a dangerous and less-than-honest concession to what might appear to be individual voters who "like" the President. The future liberty "of millions yet unborn" is at stake, and Republicans are going with a "nice guy" theme to protect that 200+-year accomplishment?
Romney must not cast himself as naive enough to concede "likeability" to be a favorable quality of a person whose mask has slipped in recent times, revealing a calculating but smiling villain who systematically has led the charge to "fundamentally transform" and "change" America, using Executive Orders to accomplish what cannot be accomplished under the Constitution's strict limits on his power.
Romney said this weekend that he would take his father's advice to "be bold."
Now is the time for the boldness required to call Americans to recognize tyranny "in whatever forms it may appear," to confront tyranny, and to choose the Creator-endowed liberty protected by the specific limits of the Constitution.
In 1775, Edmund Burke said of the American colonists and their "spirit of liberty":
"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke "Speech on Conciliation . . ."
Those colonists, in 1775, though, had leaders whose passion for liberty equaled or surpassed that of their fellow colonists, and one of them authored a Declaration of Independence which didn't call King George a "nice guy" who just was uninformed. That writer (Thomas Jefferson), who later became a President, specified King George's actions which violated the Creator-endowed rights and liberties of "the People" who, in turn, wrote a Constitution 11 years later to prohibit any President or other elected representative of "the People" in America from ever laying such a regulatory and taxation burden on them.
Now, that was "bold," Mr. Romney!
"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it." - John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, 1777