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...psyched to go with Romney as my candidate. Then Brownback's spokesman agreed to put me on Brownback's top-friends list--in return for changing my screen name from "Joel Stein" to "Joel Stein Supports Sam Brownback." That guy knows how MySpace friendship works...
...There is something slightly anachronistic about all this. Romney is the most perfect iteration I've seen of the television-era candidate. At one point, I squinted a bit and saw him in the middle distance: blue suit, white shirt, red tie, high forehead, slick black hair, tan, tall and ramrod straight - he could have been an exhibit in some future Museum of Natural History: Politicianus americanus. Matt Lauer and a Today show crew were following him around, and at the high school speech Romney did a slightly cheesy thing, inviting Lauer on stage, amping his candidacy with a.m. glitz...
...Mitt Romney is the fastest-talking Presidential candidate I have ever seen. He dashes through his stump speech like a racehorse in full gallop - he even looks a bit equine - his feet barely touching the ground as he skims the surface of issues. He conveys a sense of power and fluency - and fun. He has a self-deprecating sense of humor and uses it to good effect. But his speed of delivery also has an element of sleight of hand. He moves so quickly, it's often hard to notice that there's not much nutrition being offered and much...
...Romney offered a welter of details, of Sunnis and Shi'ites and Kurds, which sounded sort of knowledgeable but was actually quite superficial - he said there was a risk that Iran would "take over" the Shi'ite areas, which is entirely unlikely - until finally, heading into the home stretch, he got to the point: he would support the President. In fact, when Romney slowed down and focused on a single issue - immigration - at a press conference in Dover, N.H., the brazen cynicism of his candidacy became almost embarrassing. He has flipped on immigration, to better suit the Mexican-fearing tendencies...
...Romney is on a roll right now. He jumped ahead of the pack in recent Iowa polls, a consequence of television advertising - he was on the air in Iowa before any of his competitors - and his strong debate performances. He has the money to play big in the Iowa straw poll this August. He has a perfectly Republican demeanor, sunny and businesslike, and a perfectly Republican stump speech. He tells a Chamber of Commerce lunch in Rochester, N.H., about how he successfully applied business principles like "strategic auditing" to the problems of Massachusetts. And then he hits the Reaganite stations...