The extremism of his party is Mr Romney’s greatest handicap.

This article does a tremendous job of dissecting the present election choice in a fashion that is complimentary and critical of both candidates. Its a level of clue and objectivity that is almost impossible to find in our domestic political dialog anymore and I really appreciate it. The highest rated comments are very good as well.

The fact is that Romney could work, assuming, as the Economist says, that you ignore everything he has said during the campaign and focus on who he is - but the problem is a political party that has become too radical. Although they can be fooled into supporting a moderate candidate they believe they are fooling us, and they fully intend to be spiking the football and then pulling the knives out for fundamental facets of social order like equality before the law and the writ of habeas corpus just as soon as they get their man in office. That isn't acceptable.

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