LOL - that’s a positive. I don’t like Romney at all and don’t want to vote for him (but I will), but his speech was pretty good. He needs to get out more and tell people how he is different than Obama (not that I think he is by much). Doesn’t seem like he is really campaigning. What is he doing with all that money he has raised?
1.) The best he might hope for is that NAACP members don't fear him -- and so maybe will be less inclined to get out and vote for Obama in November. So if he gave a good speech, and nobody threw anything at him, he did well.
2.) I think it's a reasonable strategy if Romney is keeping much/most of his powder dry. It's early July, who is focusing on an election in November? Besides hard-core political junkies, and Republican ads directed at us would be preaching to the choir.
I honestly think it's a brilliant strategy. Obama is on the constant defensive because of the economy, even without Romney running ads pointing it out. As a consequence, Obama is forced to spend a lot of money just so he doesn't lose ground, and money looks to be a real problem for him.
In the meantime, Romney is accumulating massive amounts of cash so that he can blitz after the convention -- when the real campaign starts. Obama pulled away in 2008 in part because of massive ad buys late in the campaign. This time, Romney will be able to respond, and his message and attacks won't be stale because they were played out in May/June/July. He'll bit hitting Obama with new stuff late in the campaign, which is always more effective. And by that time, Obama's attacks on Romney will just be old.