This is the most brilliant analysis of Romney I’ve ever seen. Courtesy of The Daily Dish.
The awkward phrasing (“What the heck is a severe conservative?”) reminded Erick Erickson of this bit from Chris Orr in 2008:
Superman was born Superman. It’s Clark Kent that is the invented alias, the pose, the “costume.” And in the way Superman plays Kent–weak, self-doubting, cowardly–we see his critique of the human race. It occurred to me that the same is true of Romney’s desperate, if never terribly persuasive, impersonation of a conservative Republican. That persona–angry, simple-minded, xenophobic, jingoistic–is exactly what Romney (who is himself cultured, content, and cosmopolitan) imagines the average GOP voter to be.
