"Romney, I thought, had some good lines," Charles Krauthammer said about the candidate's Florida victory on FOX News' "Hannity" tonight. "I think he sort of said, 'Look,I'm the winner here. I won in Florida. I'm really going to speak as the guy who doesn't even have to so much acknowledge my internal opposition.' He tried to speak as the guy who was already the nominee. And I think he was effective in the lines he gave."
"I thought what was wrong with his speech was his basic argument was, if you're listening to the argument, 'I'm a businessman. I know how to create jobs. Trust me. I know how to start a business. I'll strengthen the American economy.' You know, that's not a terribly strong argument. In the absence -- I mean, he didn't make a conservative case. He didn't have an argument on exactly what he is going to do. Now you're not going to have that happening in a victory speech, but nonetheless I think he's got to give a speech out there somewhere," Krauthammer also said.
"If he can give speech like the one that Mitch Daniels had giving on the State of the Union night where he gave the response. Which was as concise and smart and I thought elegant defense of the conservative critique of Obama and the conservative agenda for fixing America. If Romney could memorize that speech, give it everywhere, he'd be President of the United States. But he just hasn't been able to do that. He's basically selling himself," Krauthammer said.
"Gingrich, I thought was the one really capable of giving a speech with contours, and giving on a night where he got really whacked, I thought spoke well of him. But he has to, I think, show that he can win between now and March 6th and I'm not sure he's got a place where he can do that," he said.
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