Ben Domenech is a right-winger, Alec MacGillis writes for Even the Liberal New Republic (and I frequently agree with him) -- but here they are snickering together collegially about the electorate:
I've said my own share of nasty things about low-info swing voters, but MacGillis seems to be saying that they'd be Peterson Foundation centrists if they weren't so damn ignorant, that they weren't swayed by the Simpson/Bowles reference in Obama's convention speech because they're dumb as rocks.
Can't we all get along? On this, MacGillis and Domenech certainly can.
I can see this being added to the conventional-wisdom list of reasons for Romney's defeat in November, if it happens: As I noted last night, many righties will say Romney wasn't conservative enough, and other pundits will say the memory of George W. Bush killed his chances; his personal style will (obviously) be blamed, and his Mormonism, and his wealth; and then people like MacGillis and Domenech will apparently say that the balance was tipped by stupid swing voters.
No one, I guess, will say that voters actually grasped what Romney had in mind, possibly as a result of the speeches at the Democratic convention, and voted accordingly.
Are people in Punditville ever allowed to suggest that Republicanism is the Republicans' problem? Or even part of it?
