Willard "Mitt" Romney returns to Tampa today, the home of his Florida headquarters for the GOP nomination for President.
The former Massachusetts governor will speak before a private audience at 5:30 p.m. at the Tampa Museum of Art, which is just a couple of football fields away from the site of Occupy Tampa. The OWS crowd has seized upon Romney's comments over the summer that "corporations are people" as one of their signature talking points when decrying what they call the 1 percent that control the wealth in this country.
Before Romney's private appearance at TMA, he'll speak before a group of regular folks at the Tampa Port Authority, where he is scheduled to speak about trade. No doubt that speech will include some zingers directed toward President Obama, as has been his focus almost exclusively during his second run for the nomination in 2011.
But as Newt Gingrich continues his rise in the polls, the question that has to be asked is, how long will Romney ignore the former House Speaker's ascent?