Watching the talking heads analyze the various Republican cat fights, squalls and rhubarbs in an effort to drum up some drama about the assorted root crops that are running for the GOP nomination is an exercise in tedium.
So I skimmed Daily Kos and came across an article jubilantly entitled something like "Why Obama's Election to a Second Term Should Be A Cakewalk." (In the context of recent political history "cakewalk" fairly drips with unintended irony).
I really didn't read the article, but my sense was that the author was arguing that the Republican base just don't like Romney 'cuz he's not a Christian, he's a Mormon, besides being a librul socialist on health care.
Well, that's as may be. The purity of Romney's opportunism shines for us lefty political junkies like the light refracted through a first water diamond.
I'm not sure the Tea Party and the Christian Right (to the extent that they are distinct phenomena, that is, hardly at all) really *care* about Romney's political amorality and utter lack of consistency. Well, they *do* care for the time being, and many of them also care that he is a Mormon.
But if the choice is between Romney and Obama, remember two things
1) of all of Obama's potential opponents, Romney is the most slippery fish, the most polished, the smoothest, canniest operator & fast talker...despite his fairly frequent gaffes about which his potential electorate care exactly...nothing...AND
2) People often don't go to the polls to vote *for* somebody, they go to vote *against* somebody else & this may be especially true with respect to Obama.
(Actually, I don't really feel nervous about this--yet I think I should be...)
R.
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