From Robert M: Regarding your post “A note to the GOP leadership and all the establishment conservatives who will now begin telling us it’s our duty to rally around Mitt Romney.” I agree with you a more conservative/classic liberal would be the best way to go, but none of those running are and Mitt Romney seems to be heading towards the nomination. Let’s think about just two things: 1. The

Jim Pethokoukis: […] Romney was a starter and fixer of companies, not a wrecker and pillager like Gekko. Nor did he do anything illegal like Gekko. Indeed, the private equity industry overall has been a powerful force for good in American economic life for the past 30 years. Corporate America entered the 1980s fat and uncompetitive. Private equity firms like Bain helped get it back in shape. As one analysis

Because the most important thing now is to get Obama out of office, even if that means we only move the needle slightly back toward the center. Besides, don’t you remember what Reagan said? Or was it Buckley…? Discuss.

Don’t think it’s lost on us that you are the same people who were saying that a vote against debt ceiling increases would be a vote for Obama, and that to hold the line against further increases marked us as naive and unnuanced (right before the credit downgrade you pretended your capitulations would prevent); the same people who called us Hobbits for demanding the GOP stay good to its word