Michael Walsh at NRO's The Corner on why Romney would lose to the Most Equal Comrade.
In a great-minds-think-alike moment, I was struck by his employment of the term "gentleman." Longtime LITD readers know that the term "Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome" gets used a lot here. It refers to the whole "reach-across-the-aisle" mindset for which John McCain was the poster boy. We're seeing it again in this cycle in Mitt's dance around the question of whether the MEC is a socialist. (Stanley Kurtz settled that once and for all with the indispensible Radical-in-Chief.) Laura Ingraham drove this home on her radio show yesterday by repeatedly playing the clip of Romney saying (about the MEC) "He's a good guy, he's just in way over his head."
No, he's not a good guy.
Yes, we have to live with our neighbors and associates even when we know them to be diametrically opposed to all that we cherish. We're not engaged in a civil war of the 1860s variety. But to characterize our times as pretty-much-normal-and-this-is-just-the-customary-heating-up-of-rhetoric-we-see-at-this-point-in-these-cycles is to willfully indulge in ignorance of the most dangerous kind.
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