Democrats now missing Romney

The Hill reports:

With the midterm elections just six months away, President Obama and the Democrats are pining for the days of Mitt Romney.

Obama wants the 2014 campaign to be about the economy, and is doing everything he can to portray the GOP as out-of-step with middle-class concerns on issues from the minimum wage to taxes.

What’s missing is Romney, the former GOP presidential nominee whose background as a venture capitalist made him a rich target for populist attacks.

The Obama campaign cast Romney as an elitist businessman and pounced on small biographical details, like the construction of a car elevator in his home garage, to feed the narrative that he was a heartless plutocrat. Romney’s missteps on the campaign trail, such as the surreptitiously taped remark about the “47 percent,” made the caricature harder to shake.

No word yet on this story from super-rich investment banker Rahm Emanuel.