He really has nothing to run on.

TAMPA — More than 8,500 people crowded Centennial Park in Ybor City today to hear a hoarse President Obama give a shortened, 20-minute version of his standard stump speech as part of a whirlwind campaign tour with the election just 12 days away.

The crowd estimate came from the Tampa fire marshal but it wasn’t clear whether it counted what appeared to be hundreds more people in the street surrounding the park. […]

The crowd interrupted him to chant “four more years” after Obama went on a comic riff about “Romnesia,” his word for what he calls Mitt Romney’s tendency to forget his past stands on the issues.

Saying Romney’s economic policies are the same that led to the great recession, Obama said, “He’s hoping you won’t remember … He’s hoping you’re going to come down with a severe case of Romnesia just before you cast your ballot.”

The symptoms, he said, are, “You can’t remember what you just said last week … You start thinking Gov. Romney wanted to save the auto industry … there’s a sudden fuzziness about what’s on your web site. … Don’t worry. This is a curable condition and Obamacare covers preexisting conditions.”