Combined with the “parent weekend” I wrote about and which you researched a bit, Phil, it does seem a curious case of big government, dare I say,”compassionate conservatism”, for which I see virtually no constituency. Romney may need to address concerns he does not project a muscular enough foreign policy presence but the last thing he needs is the sense — for which there is some support in his Massachusetts record — that he is too enamored of government solutions, especially federal solutions, to problems.
