Over on the home page, I have a piece playing devil’s advocate and making a couple of potentially unpopular but worth-considering arguments: 1) That on balance, all four of the leading Republican candidates are about the same in terms of total conservatism; 2) that with that, the more important measuring stick is who would be the best manager in the Oval Office; and 3) that the problems of the Bush administration are not the result of the President’s ideology but atrocious management skills (ironically, from the first MBA president).

There are several pauses for you to reload your supply of tomatoes to hurl…

I should note that one reader objects to the comment that under the headling of Romney, I wrote “wife donated to Planned Parenthood.” Mrs. Romney herself was not donated, $150 was.