How Will Obama Run Against Romney?

Kevin Drum's guess, provided Romney gets the nomination:

[T]he flip-flopper charge probably won't get much traction. It's mostly a problem for conservatives, who don't fully trust that Romney is one of them, but by the time summer rolls around they're going to be his most fire-breathing supporters. They'll have long since decided to forgive and forget, and independents won't care that much in the first place as long as Romney seems halfway reasonable in his current incarnation. It's possible that Obama can do both — Romney is a flip flopper and a right-wing nutcase! — but if he has to choose, my guess is that he should forget about the flip flopping and simply do everything he can to force Romney into the wingnut conservative camp.

Joe Klein wonders whether the GOP base will turn out for Romney:

[Romney's] handlers have to be worried now that a certain number of evangelical conservatives simply won’t show up when election day rolls around. It may be his slickness, his CEO style, his mormonism, his flip-flops–who knows? But, suddenly, the Republicans have a passion gap to match the waning of enthusiasm for the President among Democrats.

My extemporaneous thoughts on how Romney will run against Obama here.