Rubio: Obama’s a great guy, but a bad president.

Marco Rubio, who was almost picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate, demonstrated an important part of the Republican strategy last night: to steer clear of any personal attacks of Barack Obama and actually praise the president as a man. In his speech introducing Romney, the Florida senator had this to say:-

“Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he, too, is a good husband, and a good father and – thanks to lots of practice – a pretty good golfer. Our problem is not that he’s a bad person. Our problem is that he’s a bad president.

The Republicans don’t want to come across as angry, or resentful. They already have the angry voters in the bag. They’re looking for the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger voters who still admire Obama, and have his books in their shelves, but are just disappointed.