George W. Bush Haunts Mitt Romney

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney has a George W. Bushproblem.

In fact, that’s Romney’s biggest problem. It’s George W.Bush, not Barack Obama, who has made voters skeptical of many ofRomney’s core policies. It’s George W. Bush, not Obama campaignstrategist David Plouffe, who persuaded voters that our economictroubles aren’t mainly Obama’s fault. And so it is, in a sense,the electorate’s lingering fear of George W. Bush, as much asits residual affection for Barack Obama, that Romney needs tobeat if he’s to become president.