His latest spot, coming soon to South Carolina where he’s suddenly very much in the hunt. This may signal a momentary retreat from the social con red meat on which he’s been gorging lately; as Mitt himself will happily tell you per his three-legged stool analogy, nominees cannot live by Christian conservatives alone. So here’s his appeal to the fiscal conservatives, exquisitely timed to coincide with news that drives home the point rather forcefully. Note the killer final line here about change. At whom might that be directed?

All that said, Mitt should fire his advance team. Just for this.