yes. i like gergen. he says some interesting things. and the comparison with goldwater is sensible in some ways. his conclusion is surely correct, barring some unforeseen developments.
but he is slow off the mark this time. maybe comes of working at cnn for too long, the home of mushy reporting.
by now, it is surely blindingly obvious to almost everyone that mitt is a horrible candidate. he doesn't appeal to the republican far right, or the traditional right. he sure as heck isn't appealing to the middle or the left.
and also, goldwater was a puritan ideologue. whereas mitt really doesn't seem to believe in anything.
finally, he doesn't mention why he is moving out of the circle of comfort. it is because he is being pushed there by the man whose name is an anagram of his election technique. AM BOA. i've seen him do the same thing to the clintons, to mccain and now romney. he drives them towards exasperation, one news cycle at a time. and then they make mistakes.
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