Does fate call back Mitt Romney?

“I will go further,” Carville said. “If Jeb Bush loses New Hampshire, they’ll get Mitt Romney back in the race.”

The Washington Post, covering Bush in New Hampshire, brought up Carville’s quote toward the end of an article this weekend. And this is interesting: The Romney observation made the banner headline in the Drudge Report. Then the Drudge Report headline and Carville’s comments were reported again in Salon. So something seems to be happening in the establishment press collective. A wish perhaps, but one shared in commentary by liberal and conservative alike.

Romney’s appeal to New England liberals is interesting and subliminal. Doubt perhaps, creepy and insidious after all this time, like the cry from the heart in Bob Dylan’s lonesome ballad, “A Simple Twist of Fate”: “‘Twas then he felt alone and wished that he’d gone straight” as the singular balladeer walks the docks in the chilly morning. The singular, agreeable and upright Mormon personifies the other path, the path not taken.