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Philip, my only point was that Romney's entire resume (I count his non-political experience as an asset) is stronger than Huckabee-Gilmore-Brownback trio's. The merits of what he actually did in Massachusetts are up for a vigorous debate, but between a fairly strong resume and an even stronger marketing machine over the last two years, he deserves to be mentioned among McCain and Giuliani.

Another way of looking at those top three: that the conservative press regularly mentions a guy earning 4 percent in polls in the same group as the other two indicates how weak the other two are in their own ways.