Well, it looks like the economy is starting to fall apart. Too much foolishness on too many levels. Profligate government spending, very lax credit standards, “creative” investing and of course a housing bubble. (thank you, ownership society). I don’t know enough to be able to say if this could have been avoided. At this point I suspect that their isn’t much that can be done to stop it.

What will be the consequences? Certainly that will affect the election, it will be very interesting to see how.

Until about yesterday I was thinking to myself that Mitt Romney would be a great opponent because he had almost no chance of winning. Mitt Romney is, in my opinion, a transparent panderer. Right now he is on the campaign trail trying to out-bigot and out-hawk all the wingnuts in the field. This is a guy who was pro-choice, signed a (flawed) universal health care bill in massachussets and was governer when same-sex marriage was made legal there. This was all in the last five years, not twenty years ago.

But then it occured to me…dishonesty can work. This is a guy who managed to get elected in Massachussets. If he gets the nomination he will run to the center as fast as he can. He will suddenly be the reasonable candidate. And with our useless political press he might even get away with it.