Amen. But what is sickening, looking back, is my confidence that Romney would have dealt with Obama as he dealt with Gingrich and Santorum. After using the lowest of low means to get rid of both, he apparently experienced a sudden conversion to gentlemanliness and treated Obama, the Chicago machineer, with all the respect that he had not given to Santorum. His defeat was deserved, humiliating and, I hope, definitive; but the Republican party machine that backed him seems to have learned nothing from the disaster. They still are much more concerned with stomping on any internal social conservatism than with opposing Democrat radicalism.