Romney needs to spike the ball.

Romney needs to jump high and spike the ball at the debate this week. How? Review the last 10 weeks of George Will's columns at the Washington Post for debate materials. 

Will summarizes Romney’s opening for the debate this week: a 13.2 percent decline in durable goods orders, and nearly 25 percent — the highest in three decades — of Americans between ages 25 and 55 are unemployed, and the second-quarter growth rate was adjusted down from an anemic 1.7 percent to the stall speed of 1.3 percent. And regarding the Investor in Chief, his Tesla Motors his troubled. The California firm has received a $465 million loan from the world’s most incompetent venture capital fund, the U.S. Department of Energy — source of Solyndra’s $535 million — to make electric cars for the affluent. The Model S, unlike Tesla’s $109,000 Roadster, is supposed to sell for between $50,000 and $98,000 — after the $7,500 federal tax credit. But Tesla has just received a waiver on the terms of its DOE loan. Tesla joins California-based Fisker, another floundering would-be maker of high-end rides for rich people, which has received a $529 million DOE loan.

With this record, would you give Obama another 4 years?

Romney needs to keep pressing the simple issues: First, it is not relevant that Obama may have inherited a difficult economy, but it is relevant that he has had 4 years to do something and the economy has not improved. Second, increasing taxes on individuals and businesses that are already struggling can not by any stretch of the imagination improve the economy. If this method makes sense, then let's give all our money to the government and watch the economy soar.

Romney keep it simple. Have a few strong messages and stick to them.