It's official: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney now has a talking point on the ailing economy that President Obama can't match. At a coffee shop in Tampa today, The New York Times reports, Romney gave unemployed Floridians the ultimate 'I-feel-your-pain' line. "I'm also unemployed," he said, drawing laughs. When one man asked if Romney was on LinkedIn, he answered, "I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job." At the end of the discussion, he told the small group, "I wish I had a job for everybody. I may be unemployed for longer than I'd like." That prospect's easier to stomach, of course, when you're worth several hundred million dollars.

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