Good conservative advice.  (Lowell’s added comments in italics.)  Looks like Romney’s following all of it.  So are all of the “early mention” candidates other than McCain.

An interesting comment string.  Indeed, and a good illustration of the reasons why we don’t have comments on this blog.  After about the tenth comment the commenters are arguing about subjects miles away from the original post, and eventually descend into petty religious arguments.  Even so, there are some interesting examples of the thinking on both sides of the issues.  My favorite was the one arguing that a vote for Romney was a vote validating Mormonism.  A silly argument, I think, but revealing.

Commenting on the Weekly Standard Michigan article from yesterday.

Grover Norquist shows why he’s controversial.  This is worth reading just to get a taste of the way Mother Jones writers see the world.  The endearing reference to Christians as “Christers,” for example.  Only the Left is blind to its own use of religious epithets, it seems– but only when Christians are the target.  I also loved this statement attributed to Norquist:

It would be nice to see Romney do for the Mormons what Kennedy did for the Roman Catholics but… his problem is he’s never lived in the United States. He’s lived in Utah and Massachusetts.

Well, about 6 of his 59 years in Utah, attending college or running the 2002 Winter Olympics.  The rest was spent in Michigan or Massachusetts.  An Norquist is supposed to be a Romney fan!

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