Obama, for whatever reason, is struggling in the polls. The Republicans come to their senses just enough to nominate somebody who is not a political analog to one of the characters in the bar scene in Star Wars. That somebody turns out to be...Mitt Romney.
One of my favorite bloggers & pundits, Josh Marshall, regards Romney as an absolute joke in terms of the purity of his mendaciousness and complete lack of principle. I think that's a danger. Given the low expectations the American people have of politicians, it may be all to easy for the electorate to laugh off Romney's hollowness as indeed being merely a kind of joke--but if he were elected, he might be the perfect tool for the Palinite wing of the Republican Party.
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