Here is C-SPAN VIDEO of Romney at the Iowa State Fair on a soap box.  This VIDEO is real basic stuff with Romney questioned on Social Security and Medicare.  This political exchange format is a thousand years old.  It is politics 101 and Romney has had years and years and years to prepare behind closed doors.  It is time to face facts.  The Republican party desperately needs a political war college which effectively trains elected Republicans how to stand on a soap box, not becoming mush-mouthed under pressure, and politically attack, attack, and attack on the ISSUES.  "This is what Mitt Romney is going to run on? Corporations are people? Really?" said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Brad Woodhouse. "There's a great message for people struggling to get by and trying to make ends meet. Don't complain -- corporations are people too!"  After years and years of plotting this moment, one would think Romney would know what to say before he started speaking about the nature of corporations.  For example one formulation Romney might have practiced in private might be: "Corporations are packed full of people, my friend.  It's American people inside those corporations; not space aliens from another galaxy with gobs of free money from magical money trees.  I am not going to raise taxes on hard working, responsible Americans.  America needs millions and millions and millions of new private sector jobs, creating more wealth, not less wealth.  My friend, we need more private sector jobs and fewer government jobs.  I am not going to raise taxes on responsible Americans building and running corporations.  Those are real people at the heart of those corporations you want to destroy just because you choose to drink the far-left cool-aid that corporations are evil.  Not me.  I want more jobs."  These elected Republicans in the political class here in America crack the Observer up.  Bottom-line: 75% of these elected Republicans are poorly prepared RINOs who don't take the time to study basic democrat narratives.  Friends, you cannot defeat what you don't understand.

http://www.cspan.org/Events/GOP-Presidential-Hopefuls-Campaign-in-Iowa/10737423434-6/

UPDATE (THIS IS NOT A JOKE or spoof AP article):  According to the AP - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney defended his recent comment in Iowa that “corporations are people’’ and said Democrats fundamentally misunderstand corporations’ makeup. “Businesses are people,’’ he said.  “What do they think they are? Little men from Mars?’’ Romney said.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-13/news/29884620_1_mitt-romney-ames-straw-poll-unions-plan