I highly recommend Ryan Lizza’s dissection of Mitt Romney’s campaign in the current issue of The New Yorker. If, after eight years of presidential overstretch, you’re looking for a period of calm and a President who might adopt a more restrained view of what he might be able to achieve, might I suggest that a pandering, hyper-competitive management consultant is exactly the sort of obsessive tinkerer you would not want to elect?
Lizza sums up some of what makes Romney frightful in a single delicious paragraph that in a better world would torpedo and sink Romney on its own:
Politicians tend to pander, especially during the primary season. Romney’s chief opponent, Rudy Giuliani, also has a history as a pro-gun-control, pro-gay-rights Republican. But while Giuliani simply downplays his record on those issues, Romney sells himself as a true convert.
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