Would Romney Shake Up His Campaign Team? The sun rises. The tides come in and out. And an outsider urges a presidential candidate to fire his advisers. Nothing in politics is more predictable, and so Rupert Murdoch's tweet over the weekend was hardly surprising - though not many would have picked the conservative media mogul as the most likely source of the advice. "Met Romney last week," Mr. Murdoch said Sunday on Twitter. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful. On Monday, Jack Welch, the former chairman and chief executive of General Electric, chimed in on Twitter: "Hope Mitt Romney is listening to Murdoch advice on campaign staff. playing in league with Chicago pols. No room for amateurs The message to Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was clear: dump your staff if you want to beat President Obama and his array of experienced, Chicago-based campaign operatives. The prospect of Mr. Romney following this advice? Not likely. Mr. Romney is running neck and neck with Mr. Obama nationally. The campaign is disciplined and precise. And the team is scooping up cash, having beat Mr. Obama in fund-raising by a wide margin in May. On Monday, Eric Fehrnstrom - one of the "old friends" running Mr. Romney's campaign - politely declined to depart, even as he once again generated unwanted news by disagreeing with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill. "We're very happy with the team that we have," Mr. Fehrnstrom said on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" show. I can't respond to every tweet that Mr. Murdoch sends out. We like the way things are right now. In that same interview, Mr. Fehrnstrom's comment that the president's health care mandate is a penalty, not a tax, might have offered fresh ammunition for anyone who thought Mr. Romney needed some new advisers. Earlier this year, it was also Mr. Fehrnstrom who suggested the general election campaign was like an Etch a Sketch toy. But Mr. Murdoch's missive came before those remarks and seemed as much to be a grudging admiration for the skill of Mr. Obama's team as it was a suggestion that Mr. Romney needed a new one. Mr. Murdoch may be genuinely worried about Mr. Romney's campaign team. Or he may just be tweaking Mr. Romney as he has for months. Last week, he chided Mr. Romney for deciding to "play everything safe," asking: "When is Romney going to look like a challenger?" Either way, on Monday, Mr. Murdoch's latest Twitter message made it clear that he had heard objections from Mr. Romney's high command. Romney people upset at me! Mr. Murdoch wrote. Of course I want him to win, save us from socialism, etc. but should listen to good advice and get stuck in! But what about the suggestion that Mr. Romney retool his campaign? The idea is usually floated during times of crisis - like the moment in 2008 when Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the Iowa caucuses and seemed to be on the brink of elimination heading into the New Hampshire primaries. Her victory in New Hampshire delayed a staff shake-up that came a few weeks later, amid further losses to Mr. Obama. Likewise, four years ago, Senator John McCain's presidential campaign imploded after a feud among his senior advisers ended in a mass walkout. Mr. McCain brought in Steve Schmidt, a veteran operative, to run the show. Mr. Obama's campaign team has been remarkably stable, though Democratic critics have complained for years about the failure of the president's communications team to effectively combat the Republican message machine. The 2008 team is back, shuffled into different desks. Mr. Romney is already on version 2.0 of a presidential campaign staff. In 2008, he assembled his first presidential campaign organization, filled with longtime friends at the helm in Boston, but also with a myriad highly-paid consultants who constantly bickered about the right way to win the primary. In the end, he lost. And when Mr. Romney assembled a new team for 2012, it was a pared-down version of the old one. Still in place: Beth Myers, a longtime confidant; Mr. Fehrnstrom, his former spokesman and adviser; Bob White, a personal friend and business partner; Matt Rhoades, a communications czar who now runs the show. None of them are likely to depart. But the consultants have been whittled down. Ad makers Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer are now the primary message mavens, having won the battles of 2008. Could a shake-up happen? With four months to go, the stakes are rising, and there is some evidence that the attacks on Mr. Romney's time at Bain Capital are beginning to have some impact on his poll numbers in swing states. If that trend continues, there will be increasing pressure on his campaign. Aides say Mr. Romney is incredibly loyal to his staff, so it is hard to imagine him dumping them for a new team at the last minute. But Mr. Romney is also an experienced business executive who spent part of his life in high-stakes deal-making. Perhaps no one is irreplaceable.