The bottom line is that Romney seemed to reject natural allies in favor of what I think was a desire to attract moderate liberals. That’s a fool’s errand, because once they get in the polling booth, they pull the lever for a real liberal rather than a clandestine liberal. Worth repeating, so I repeated your words. That in a nutshell is the disease and delusion the estabs suffer from: the notion that if moderates and liberals hate us a little less, they'll vote for us. NEVER EVER EVER works.