Pretty much what I've been thinking (actually, knowing)

Sally Kohn, writing in Salon, writes a lot of things I've been thinking lately.  I hope to put more of my thoughts into text soon.  But basically I keep thinking -- why did the GOP have to nominate this empty suit?  He truly is the last one standing, and he had the money to keep going when others more appealing to the base that he's appeasing couldn't keep up (like Santorum).  And if he does get elected, malleable Mitt is exactly what the Tea Party ordered -- a rubber stamp for Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell, and their cohorts.  

We as a country do not need that slowly unfolding disaster.

Mitt Romney, Tea Party Puppet

"With a few exceptions, Romney didn’t pepper his speech with the flagrant lies and smears against President Obama that have typified the Republican campaign.  In fact, Romney basically implied that he would have backed the president’s agenda — as European-influenced as Romney has alleged it to be — if it had worked.  But, oh darn, it didn’t.  So vote for me.  A pitch that might work with voters who have never heard about Romney’s plans to turn Medicare into a costly voucher system, Ryan’s legislation to narrow the legal definition of rape, or the campaign’s pledge to further cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires even if it increases the deficit — let alone Ryan and the Tea Party’s grand plan to basically get rid of all government except the military and national parks."