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Barack Obama’s aides and advisers are preparing to center the president’s reelection campaign on a ferocious personal assault on Mitt Romney’s character and business background, a strategy grounded in the early-stage expectation that the former Massachusetts governor is the likely GOP nominee. 
  
 The dramatic and unabashedly negative turn is the product of political reality. Obama remains personally popular, but pluralities in recent polling disapprove of his handling of his job, and Americans fear the country is on the wrong track. His aides are increasingly resigned to running for reelection in a glum nation. And so the candidate who ran on “hope” in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent. 
  
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 In a move that will make some Democrats shudder, Obama’s high command has even studied former President George W. Bush’s 2004 takedown of Sen. John Kerry, a senior campaign adviser told POLITICO, for clues on how a president with middling approval ratings can defeat a challenger. 
  
 “Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House. 
  
 The onslaught would have two aspects. The first is personal: Obama’s reelection campaign will portray the public Romney as inauthentic, unprincipled and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama’s advisers in about a dozen interviews, “weird.” 
  
 “First, they’ve got to like you, and there’s not a lot to like about Mitt Romney,” said Chicago Democratic consultant Pete Giangreco, who worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign. “There’s no way to hide this guy and hide his innate phoniness.” 
  
 A senior Obama adviser was even more cutting, suggesting that the Republican’s personal awkwardness will turn off voters. 
  
 “There’s a weirdness factor with Romney, and it remains to be seen how he wears with the public,” the adviser said, noting that the contrasts they’d drive between the president and the former Massachusetts governor would be “based on character to a great extent.” 
  
 The second aspect of the campaign to define Romney is his record as CEO of Bain Capital, a venture capital firm that was responsible for both creating and eliminating jobs. Obama officials intend to frame Romney as the very picture of greed in the great recession — a sort of political Gordon Gekko. 
  
 “He was very, very good at making a profit for himself and his partners but not nearly as good [at] saving jobs for communities,” said David Axelrod, the president’s chief strategist. “His is very much the profile of what we’ve seen in the last decade on Wall Street. He was about making money. And that’s fine. But often times, he made it at the expense of jobs in communities.” 
  
 Romney officials shrug off the tough talk, arguing that there’s nothing Obama can do that will turn the campaign away from functioning as a referendum on his stewardship of the economy. ||||| 2012 Obama to Pull a George W. Bush, Go Negative on ‘Weird’ Mitt Romney [Update] 
  
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 A report in Politico today allows President Obama's team of aides and advisers an extensive dress rehearsal of their reelection strategy — assuming Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination — of painting the former Massachusetts governor as "inauthentic, unprincipled and, in a word used repeatedly by Obama's advisers in about a dozen interviews, 'weird.'" Speaking both on the record and anonymously, Obama's team uses an article ostensibly about what their plan will be to actually begin enacting that exact plan: "a ferocious personal assault," modeled on President George W. Bush's dismantling of John Kerry in 2004. It's a two-pronged attack — both personal and professional — and it all stings already. 
  
 "They can try anything they want — but this race is going to be about the economy," said a Romney strategist in half of his side's lone retort in the article. (Update: Romney's camp responds in a statement below.) 
  
 But try they will: Romney, according to Obama's side, has an "innate phoniness" and a "weirdness factor" that results in awkward and off-putting public appearances. "When he makes jokes about being unemployed, or a waitress pinching him on the butt, it does snap your head back and you say, 'what's he talking about?'" said Obama chief strategist David Axelrod. ("Weird," at least on this go-around, has nothing to do, at least explicitly, with Romney's religion.) 
  
 There's also Romney's past as the CEO of Bain Capital, which Axelrod describes as "very much the profile of what we've seen in the last decade on Wall Street. He was about making money." And, assuming Romney moves farther to the right to claim the GOP nomination, that all makes way for the charges of fickleness: "If you were to write the history of his political career it would be called 'Extreme Makeover,'" said Axelrod, with Politico citing both "skinny jeans" and "abortion" as examples of Romney's changes over the years. 
  
 All told, that leaves us with a "principled" incumbent in tough times and "another stiff, wealthy patrician politician from Massachusetts with attacks on his alleged 'flip-flopping,'" just like 2004. Everyone remembers how that turned out. |||||

If Politico has it right, team Obama not only expects Mitt Romney to be the GOP nominee, it is ready to unleash a "ferocious personal assault" against him. The go-negative approach would have two fronts: portray Romney as a "weird" guy out of touch with ordinary people and as a greedy CEO willing to sacrifice jobs. For guidance, it will model its strategy in part on the one George W. Bush used in depicting John Kerry as an aloof rich guy. As Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin explain, the Obama camp figures that a nasty campaign will be a necessity because of the economy. "The candidate who ran on 'hope' in 2008 has little choice four years later but to run a slashing, personal campaign aimed at disqualifying his likeliest opponent," they write. The story already has generated a response from the Romney camp blasting the approach, notes New York's Daily Intel, as well as a Democratic response to that response.