If you want to run on that level I can do it with turbines. Someone who spent eight years hanging off Bill Clinton's ass had better be damn sure his parameters for presidential qualifications and honesty are consistent.

I could care less what Romney said about voting for Tsongas. You think this is the most critical factor this fall?

This country is at an ideological crossroads. We know now what Obama believes, not by what he tells everyone in speeches but by what he's actually done and attempted during his first term and long before that. A "Mirror of Erised" campaign based on "hope" and "change" that worked in 2008 isn't going to work this time.

And neither will one article after another written by a leftist hack like Chait.

I could think of better candidates than Romney, but most of them are still coming up the ranks. I can wait. The trick is to stop the damage, and Romney at least has a chance of doing that.