Okay, now that Mitt Romney officially has enough pledged delegates to win the nomination, allow this one last comment about his overall worthiness for that nomination. From now until November, I will praise him or criticize him even-handedly as his conduct warrants, always keeping in mindhow he compares (still rather favorably) against the horrors of the current guy Occupying the Oval Office. But for now, let it be noted that Republicans have are managing to nominate a distinctly mediocre candidate, about as conservative on his best days as the “no vision thing” elderBush and about as inspirational as Hymie the robot from Get Smart. 

But, as I say, for the next six months, in terms of gratuitous and generic comments along those lines, I will impose upon myself the “cone of silence.” Of course, the darn cone never really works.