Oh this is just pathetic...

Brian McGrory is still trying to blow on the fading embers of the "Mitt Romney is a nice safe Moderate Republican" bonfire.
This time by insisting that the Former Viceroy's health care speech last week constitutes both manly political decisiveness and a ringing defense of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
His title "A Romney we can Respect".
I mean good lord talk about drinking the Romney Kool-Aid...
Shee-it, I'd settle for a Romney we can in fact understand.
Listening to Mitt discuss Health Care Reform is akin to reading Stephen Douglas' tortured speeches defending his own pro slavery doctrine of popular sovereignty.
They don't make a lick of sense but they admirably serve Douglas' political needs of the moment.
And so it is with Mitt, Obama's healthcare reform is Romneycare down to the last punctuation mark, Obama is anathema to the GOP base so by embracing his own healthcare plan in Massachusetts he alienates the very wingnut voters he is so desperate to win over.
And of course, Romney being Romney with little respect for ideas or idealogies he thinks he can just talk his way out of this like a busted police snitch.
Quite literally, Romney's thesis is "What is good for Massachusetts cannot be good for the nation unless the fifty states choose that plan individually then of course it's great".
It is nonsense of course but it serves The Former Viceroy's needs of the moment admirably.
That is the core of Mitt's problem, he really isn't a conservative, he has a healthy fear of conservative voters but that is all, the only idealogy he espouses is as old and familiar as Senator Stephen Douglas "what is right for ME is right for the nation".
As for Brian McGrory I can recall with the simplest nostalgia back in '04 when the entire Boston Globe punditariat dismissed John Kerry's position on the Iraq war as pandering and indecision.
But when Mitt Romney evades and nuances and toadies up on the issue of Health Care, that is the very core of political toughness sez Brian McGrory.
Hmmmm seems to be a disconnect there...