Reason covered the Norma McColvey endorsement from Arizona, and picked up a very interesting little glimpse into Dr. Paul. I think they might have encapsulated why there are men who are good at the game, and very rarely, a man who is just good.

Asked about Mitt Romney’s change of position on the subject of abortion, the Congressman offered:

I can’t read into anyone’s mind and heart but what he said is very similar [to McColvey's experience]. If we take him at his word, that is absolutely the case. I don’t think I’d put it at the same level of what Norma’s had to go through, but no, he says that he has had a changed attitude, and some people have challenged him on his sincerity, but I do not. I’m going to take his word for it unless something changes.

Those three sentences magnify for me the reason that Ron Paul probably will not be our next President; ironically, it is the same reason that he is a much wiser and better human being than I’ll ever hope to be.

I would have slugged Governor Romney between the eyes (metaphorically). I would have noted that abortion wasn’t the only thing the Governor had flip-flopped on, and spouted the requisite “his religion doesn’t matter” qualifier before I back-handedly asked if the Mormon Church’s death ritual had anything to do with his changes on the subject of abortion. (A clear non-sequitur – but as a presidential candidate, my primary goal isn’t to make sense. I just need to get the subject out there. Ask Mike Huckabee what I mean.)

I can’t verbalize this at the moment, but I’d try and get this video across in an easily understood soundbite (for those who would get on me for linking to the video above on some ludicrous sensitivity-based grounds…… this one is much worse…..).

I’m a bible-believing Christian, so I know something about putting up with a little ridicule. The LDS gestapo and the professional outrage squad can get a sense of humor….

Of course, his religion isn’t particularly relevant, but we’re not having a contest to see who can construct the most cogent argument. Politics is a contact sport, and impressions mean everything. They’ve tried to paint Paul as a ‘kook’, while his policies are the most sane thing within the blast radius of Washington DC. In that same way, the most bizarre rituals of the Mormon Church don’t make Mitt Romney a fruitcake. Does anyone wanna argue that you can’t make him look like a fruitcake by linking him to death rituals and heavenly orgies?

It’s certainly a tactic that Lenin would have approved of, but hey – this ain’t patty-cake. Did Mitt ever have a Mormon newsletter?