Six of one, meet half dozen of the other...

Last night in the last 2012 debate Mitt the Moderate led his pander parade even farther left as he embraced, condoned, and supported so many of the current administration's policy positions that it begs a couple of questions: 

1. If Governor Romney wants to be POTUS and would do pretty much everything President Obama is already doing, as he claimed he would last night, then six of one, meet half dozen of the other: why in the world would anyone want to change horses? The break-in period is too expensive and messy.
2. And if the neo-cons and Tea Party folks --- who are tacitly supporting Romney only because the "true" conservative(s) they really wanted didn't get the nomination --- don't agree with anything Mr. Obama wants, says, and does, which they don't, but their nominee Mr. Romney agrees with pretty much everything Obama wants, says, and does, which as of last night he claims to, then how can the neo-cons and the Tea Party folks stomach Moderate Mitt? 

The answer to the first one can be summed up with, "Why indeed" but the answer to the second one, while also pretty simple and something I talked about almost a year ago, is the real reason behind what is going on in this election.

It's because the neo-cons and Tea Party folks running the GOP side of congress --- and the handlers holding their leashes --- hate Obama as POTUS more than they hate Romney as their party's nominee, and they do hate Romney as their party's nominee. They are so anxious to see Obama out of office that they will deny and abandon everything they claim to stand for in order to get Romney into office. This is why they're silent about the emergence of Moderate Mitt, a guy they dislike only slightly less than they dislike Obama. But the positions that the president stated Monday night are positions he's held since day 1 of his presidency, and since that same day they are policies the neo-cons and Tea Party folks have railed against, but now with Mr. Romney's embrace of these same policies, they all fall suddenly silent. OK.

And so I say to the neo-cons and Tea Party folks, you're welcome to him, but be very careful of what it is you're asking for, because you might end up regretting for a long time to come what embracing Panderer-in-Chief Mitt will do to your brand and its credibility; just look what eight years of a "compassionate conservative" did to your brand and its credibility, and to the deficit and debt about which you claim to care so much. 

You bought him, you saddled him, you ride him. He's all yours.