Holy shit, this guy is doing everything wrong:

“Our campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature,” Romney said, according to excerpts of an upcoming interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd released Friday.

Romney said he would prefer the campaigns “only talk about issues,” and claimed that “our ads haven’t gone after the president personally. … We haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.”

This is pathetic. He's begging his opponent to leave his weaknesses alone. If Mitt Romney can't see how his taxes are an issue, he really doesn't deserve to be his party's candidate. And if he really thinks Reverend Wright is going to be an issue this time around, he's in for a surprise. You don't get a do-over with incumbents, you don't get to re-examine the same questions after your opponent has become one of the most famous people in the world for four years. Hillary Clinton's 3 AM phone call is not going to be an issue for Obama in 2012. And besides, Romney has already tried to punch the "scary guy with the foreign name" ticket this summer, and it just didn't work. This looks like desperation to me.