Perhaps you are right but I really don't know and I really don't think it really matters much in the end anyway. Neither one has America and its people best interest at heart. IMO they both have ulterior motives that are contrary to what good American people need or want.
Actually I believe average American people are getting exactly what they deserve no matter who wins in November at this point in time. Way too many have had their heads stuck in the sand far too long now. Voters no longer punish bad behavior in their elected politicians. They've long grown accustomed to being lied to.
Yes, I agree that willful dullness punishes itself.
Mitt is the sorriest GOP contender for president that the USA has ever seen. However, Barack has left such a huge vacuum in the American dignity that even Mitt has some vague idea how to fill it. In the best case it may even turn out analogously to Winston Churchill who had some execrably leftist ideas before the war forced his hand. (He was a eugenicist, for one thing.) Nobody remembers Churchill today, of course, except for his role in the war. What preceded and followed are lost in the fog of pedantic historians’ books. This may be Romney’s ultimate legacy looking back from decades in the future: he wrested America back out of Obama’s tentacles.