February 05, 2010 02:33 AM UTC

That Wasn't So Hard, Now Was It?

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• by: Colorado Pols

We haven’t been the only ones confused by Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s complete lack of messaging as to why he was running against Sen. Michael Bennet. From day one, Romanoff has been unable to articulate just what he would do differently if you voted for him instead of Bennet, which has always struck us as a remarkably strange deficiency. “What’s your message?” is kind of the first or second question you need to ask yourself when you decide to run for office. If you can’t answer that question, well, then you should probably re-evaluate your whole plan.

But while we’ve been critical of the fact that Romanoff spent the first several months of his campaign completely sans message, we can also acknowledge the fact that he has finally started to figure it out. This doesn’t exactly differentiate Romanoff from Bennet, but at least Romanoff is finally starting to say what he would do if elected. From an email sent to supporters today:

Speaking in Pueblo today to more than 100 people from Pueblo and Fremont counties, U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff called on Congress to solve America’s health care crisis, save money and save lives.

“If I were in the U.S. Senate today, I’d fight to take the pork out, put the public option back in and remove the health insurance industry’s antitrust exemption,” Romanoff said. “Congress should put an end to its backroom deals and pay-to-play politics and put the health of Americans first.”

Gee, that was easy. It was expensive, apparently, but it was easy. If Romanoff had been doing this from the beginning of his campaign, things might look a lot different for him than they do today.