Mitt Romney's Vanishing Act

``Can Romney get all the way to the White House like this? There's still plenty of time for him to step it up, but, for now, he is doing something risky and remarkable: asking people to vote for him while encouraging them to look away. The case he's making is more anti-Obama than pro-Romney, and it's only when he's bashing the president that his words catch fire, or his emberlike approximation of it.''