. . . that Governor Romney came by to talk to us down at Bloggers' Row. There is something hilarious about the fact that no one who isn't a blogger really knows who's big and who isn't, candidates included. There's a "just in case" tendancy to treat us all like rock stars, because who knows what someone's traffic is without checking? And all these websites have such funny names that none of them sound serious to begin with.

Both Sean and James came up with challenging questions for Romney, which he sidestepped with practiced ease.

That doesn't mean I don't like him; this is the kind of things all politicians do. To answer a question like James' "how, specifically, would you go about cutting the budget?" is to risk making a mistake, and it's early in the day.

But I do take back my previous negative post about Romney. I don't think he has Giuliani's charisma, but he has some. What I do not like is the reflexively self-destructive impulse to nominate someone who has no chance whatsoever of winning.

Because, you know: the more conservative, the better. The more like Ronald Reagan.

Everyone here is a "Reagan Republican." It's just that the phrase has about as many different meanings as there are candidates.

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