this debunks the myth that Romney is a fact-based and highly rational person.
Sorry, but you do not build a net worth of $200+ million by NOT being fact-based and highly rational. Connections only get you so far. For example, look at George W. Bush.
Obviously the campaign did not bank on Democrats being able to replicate the persuasion of Jim Jones. The kicker in the Kool-Aid kicks in, in about a year or two. Enjoy 2012 because 2014 and 2016 are going to be brutal. Alas, it will probably be too late to turn around the ship by then. We are indeed on a path towards a transformational change of America, but it's going to make 2008 look like happy days.
This is coming from a former Newt guy but...
Mitt Romney is a smart man, but he was so disastrously divorced from actually running the campaign and somehow, probably watching Fox news, reassured himself that the campaign was going fine, and that he was on track for a landslide, and that he put the campaign he wasn't running into the hands of some of the worst handlers imaginable.
