Great article, one point I thought I would draw out:
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Mitt Romney won the nomination for the simple reason that every other contender was utterly beyond the pale of national acceptability
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Why
was every candidate so terrible? Normally I'd say it's because none of the really good candidates wanted to run against an incumbent, but I see you guys saying things like "they had a softball and whiffed." If it was truly that easy to oust the current president, why didn't "better" candidates step up?
I mean, c'mon. Santorum? Rick Perry? Those guys are joke fodder for the Daily Show, nothing more.