I don't really understand the Romney-hatred. Back in the Bush days, Democrats were always lamenting the lack of moderate Republicans. Romney is no moderate, but at least he is about as close as we can get in these days.
can't speak for everyone, and I was a certified idiot during the Bush days, but this isn't complicated. Romney is basically a non-ideological candidate (perhaps Bush, as a figurehead for the forces behind him, was more ideological in this sense, or at least he thought he was)... but Romney so represents what is wrong with everything ever, is so intertwined with the private dictatorships that seek to destroy us every day, that he is in fact the living embodiment of these forces, in demonstrable fact as well as aesthetic. unfortunately it is the latter part of that that makes him such a punching bag (and is also as a result what you seem to be counter-reacting to)
Good post! What you say makes him weak. Not in the electoral sense (although it hurts there somewhat), but in the ultimate sense. This will sound tacky, but if he beats Obama, then it gives us a chance to overthrow the Democratic party and elect the true 'messiah' in 2016 (even though there is currently no-one in sight). I mean, even better would be for Ron Paul to win all the way and be thoroughly discredited after he successfully implements his ideas. But that will
never happen. He's destined to always be this annoying martyr-figure, which is why I dislike him more than Romney.
update- well it looks like Romney won. It's just a straw poll though, guys. It's not the delegate count.
