Romney will say or do anything if he thinks it'll get him elected

A picture of Romney windsurfing would be very appropriate, far more than that other "Massachusetts liberal" John Kerry. :)

We just eat that stuff up!  If that just doesn't explain all the disappointments in politics, I don't know what does.  =)

He is so good looking and charming

Reminds me of that other Clinton guy what was his name again?

:)

every other politician in America.  Or if that is too broad, then just Hillary Clinton.

Push-polling against yourself is typically below the low standards even of ambitious politicians.  And it's not like this is the first time Romney has ended up distancing himself from something his own campaign has done.

And that is really different from planting questions for yourself in audiences at "town hall" meetings? 

Push polling against yourself seems just silly not below some arbitrary moral bar by which politics can sink no further.  And what was the bar on the Republican side anyway?  They don't seem to have some sort of code of conduct.  This is their primary, let them have a little fun.  =)

Do I need to spell this out?  Yes, setting up a phony push-poll against yourself so you can accuse John McCain of slandering you based on your religion then denying the whole thing is really bad.

I don't know how you can be so cynical about Hillary Clinton yet have some fantasy that those "town hall meetings" are pure as the driven snow.  Don't think the parties and campaigns aren't packing the crowd?  Don't think the questions aren't hand-picked by idiots?

The long record of the right wing is one of promoting itself as the poor, put-upon victim, whether it is whining about the liberal assault on Christmas, the anti-Christian decisions of activist judges on matters of everything from abortion to putting up their version of the 10 Commandments on public property, or teaching Intelligenct Design in school, and on and on.

While there is some dispute on just how Christian the relatively young Mormon Church is (I myself come from upstate New York where the Mormon tablets were dug up), Mr. Romney is laying the groundwork for himself to be viewed as the underdog, the victim, the put-upon innocent Christian, the humble server of God being assaulted by all these anti-Christs, these liberals, blah, blah.  We know how Americans rally around the underdog. Good show, Mitt.

Romney may not believe this, but his being a Mormon IS a problem for many of people left in the Republican Party. My wife constantly talks with conservative evangelicals, and they tell her that they can never see themselves voting for Romney because he is a Mormon. I have also heard Republicans on NPR making this same statement. The Washington Post also has stories quoting people making similar statements.

Romney fails to understand that the many decent people in the Republicans party have left it already. Most of the them are Independents, and many are already identifying themselves as Democrats. He is dangerously underestimating the bigotry of the people left in the Republican Party. This group is willing to destroy the party rather than include people. The whole anti-immigration wave demonstrates that the racists who are Republicans are willing to reject a population whose majority is socially conservative Catholic or Evangelical just because they happened to be Mexicans or Central Americans. Since so many Republicans seem to have no problem stating that he reject him for being a Mormon, why encourage this?

Well, I guess he will get what he deserves by using this kind of dirty trick.