Voices
HOWARD
FINEMAN
HUFFINGTON
07.22.12
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES
The Book
of Ed
ED CONARD’S BOOK Unintended
Consequences is on The New York
Times best-seller list, but it was
hard to find at my neighborhood
Washington bookstore, Politics
and Prose, deep in what you could
call Obama Country. I stopped
by the other day to look for it. A
salesperson checked on her computer, and we eventually located a
single copy on a bottom shelf towards the back of the store. “Our
best sellers don’t always match
The Times’,” she said.
In this case, that’s too bad. Mitt
Romney is running his campaign
so close to the vest as to be nearly
invisible. The theory is to disappear, leaving President Obama to
run against himself and his record
on the economy.
So if you want to know where
Romney is coming from, as we
said back in the day, you need to
read not only the Book of Mormon
and clips from The Boston Globe
and his tax returns (OK, you can
Howard
Fineman
is editorial
director
of the
Huffington
Post Media
Group