(Far be it from me to think that I could envision a campaign strategy that Obama's team has not already thought of, but just on the off chance that they haven't considered this idea, I'd like to through it out there.)
Mitt Romney has been trying for months to make this campaign a referendum on Barack Obama's presidency. The primary focus of Romney's attacks has been to call into question Obama's "job creation" record. Romney knows that its a tough haul for any President to get elected with unemployment over 8%. So if he get the voters to talk about jobs, Obama will lose.
At least that was the theory.
But Obama's team has been positively brilliant at deflecting Romney's attempts to define the campaign and has, instead, managed to force Romney to fall back into a "choice" campaign instead of the referendum he wanted it to be. Romney's choice of Ryan as his VP means that Romney has thrown in the towel on that strategy (because his analysts all told him it was going to fail). He now wants to focus the campaign on a contrast of governing philosophy.
Now the temptation will be strong to attack Romney and Ryan on Ryan's proposals to privatize Medicare while giving huge tax cuts to millionaires. And they should be attacked on these foolish proposals. But they will be expecting those attacks and have probably prepared themselves for them (though probably not to well, given Romney's current track record.)
But there might be an even better way to attack them that will really put Mitt back on his heels. You do it by asking him one simple question:
"Governor Romney, how many jobs will be created by turning Medicare into a voucher system?"
For months Romney has been trying to say this campaign should be about jobs. Well, let's give him what he
wanted.