[AshleyO]

I think I get where Alan is coming from.

I'm just not sure if I can believe all of it.

I'd like to think that Romney is the way he is because his party is just far too severe for him but he's got all these other mad dogs who REALLY ARE crazy.

Then again, I've always kind of felt that what we're seeing is also not just a bunch of mad dogs encroaching on an amiable Romney.

Sometimes I think it's a generational thing. The death throes of the Boomers. They enjoyed a seemingly charmed life and all of it is crashing down around their ears and they seem to have a hard time understanding that the old solutions to such problems just don't work anymore.

Then again, I could be wrong. They all probably could be Captain Planet villains.