Romney's Major Economic Speech That Wasn't   Despite the hype,
the Republican's address was devoid of new policy ideas -- but
that may not have been the point.   Mitt Romney gave a
supposedly Major Speech on the Economy in Iowa on Friday. He
spent the morning holed up in speech prep; his campaign sought
to stoke anticipation by sending out selections from the speech
in advance. Romney entered to the grand strains of the Air Force
One theme, a black zippered jacket over his shirt and tie.  But
there was nothing groundbreaking in the speech. Of the 2,700
words in Romney's prepared text, the first 1,500 consisted of a
familiar critique of Obama and his campaign. The president,
Romney said, has sought "to deflect and detract, to minimize the
failures, and to make this election about small shiny objects,"
while his handling of the economy has not achieved the results
he promised.  Finally, after about 11 minutes (out of a
20-minute speech) of describing how bad things are and how many
things Obama has done wrong,