Romney’s been mostly a poseur since the beginning. I found his health care actions (“I’ll solve the crisis by making it a crime not to have health care”) exceptionally objectionable long before he decided to run for president. As a rational economist, I find such interference to be disruptive and counterproductive. If the rational decision for a healthy 25-year-old is to not pay an unaffordable $1,100/month health insurance premium inflated by government interference and mandated employer participation, the system must have this sort of decision-making feedback. Otherwise further distortion occurs and the system inevitably collapses. The Romneys of the world only make such collapses more catastrophic.

Romney’s been running countless ads in the Omaha market about how he’s been an expert problem solver. Unfortunately, I don’t see how “solution by fiat” counts as anything exceptional. In fact, his solutions have been either obvious or damaging in the long-run. Certainly he’s got some interesting people advising him, but as a real thinker and decision-maker, it’s apparent he’s not.

Fortunately it appears enough people have seen through his shallow, lacking credentials.

And if he’s going to love bad sci-fi, why can’t it be hilariously bad sci-fi? I mean, if he needs some good references I can even give him a review site that’s run by a Mormon.

That book was well… long. Really long. Like an Al Gore speech long. Now I know why I won’t vote for him.

Oh, I don’t know. Actually, my feelings are equally tepid for all of the front runners. In the abstract, however, Fred! has my knee-jerk vote, unless he blows it somehow.

Regarding bad sci-fi - and I have no supporting evidence for this - I’m inclined to think that the worst sci-fi ever written still couldn’t possibly be as bad as such fantasy behemoths as Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series or that dreck Terry Goodkind keeps putting out.

Also, I own, and have enjoyed reading,many Michael Crichton books, so by my own criteria, I’m unfit to hold any public office myself.

But just because I like crap, that doesn’t mean I want my elected representative to like crap as well. I want to vote for someone who’s NOT as stupid as I am.

Yah, to Hewitt, Romney can do no wrong. Its embarrassing. I heard him quoted on the radio this morning: Romney hit a home run blah blah Romney was the clear winner blah blah

Well, he’s definitely stumping for his guy. This is gonna be a loooong campaign. There’s enough time for me to have a mental breakdown, change parties, get addicted to - and then kick - various hemp and patchoulli habits, find myself at the center of an intervention, get a haircut, go back to church, switch parties again, and all before the Florida primary. Who knows what my politics will be like by then?

I’m inclined to think that the worst sci-fi ever written still couldn’t possibly be as bad as such fantasy behemoths as Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series or that dreck Terry Goodkind keeps putting out.

Amen, brother. Fantasy soap opera hyperstuffed with filler in the Dickensian tradition.