Poor Mitt

My sense of “poor Romney” is that he may be too decent and earnest to be an effective politician. Which is not to impugn others, mind you, but heck-o-rama. Romney simply can’t win for winning. Even without a tie, he’s the tidiest, best-prepared boy in the class.

His search for practical solutions, alas, sometimes means that he fails the ideological-purity test, but this fact might also be viewed as refreshing. Apparently this is the way a majority of Republicans see it in the important primary state of New Hampshire…

Another signal of Romney’s strength will be how often Obama mentions Massachusetts health care between now and the primaries. I’d bet a margarita brunch, now overdue, that we’ll hear it quite a lot.