Watching the news tonight and listening to the admittedly progressive opinions of the news analysts on MSNBC, I have come to a new realization. Of course, the pundits mirror my views, but something more has emerged from the commentary and the facts presented.

I once thought Romney was an intelligent man with moderate instincts he was hiding because he needs the extreme Right Wing of his party to support him. So I thought he was reasonably smart, albeit a sleaze.

Now I realize ROMNEY IS NOT INTELLIGENT!!! Wait … hear me out. The only good thing he did as Massachusetts governor was his health care plan. But it came from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Now, of course, he repudiates it because Obama based his affordable Care Act on the Massachusetts plan. It included, I might add, an individual mandate. Massachusetts loves it. But, now, of course, the Republicans and Romney hate it because Obama adopted most of it.

Romney’s views on how to deal with the Libyan tragedy and other foreign events is being orchestrated by G. W. Bush advisers who are helping to run his campaign. The reason he doesn’t get on camera to express how he will solve this or that is because he doesn’t have any ideas and has to wait to get them from advisers he has yet to choose. This is stunning. Romney is an empty suit without an original idea of his own. The ape-like beating of his chest and expression of outrage is pure theater. He doesn’t have a plan. He doesn’t have a plan. He doesn’t have a plan.

Romney’s ambition for the presidency is centered entirely around his visual appeal -- a rich good-looking family guy with a Stepford wife and umpteen kids and grandkids and, ho-hum, his ability to create jobs THAT HE DID NOT DO IN MASSACHUSETTS. While he was governor, Massachusetts sank to 49th (out of 50 states) in job creation.

And it has recently come out that Bain Capital received a bail-out package from the government. Did you know that?? So he parades his family and his wealth as proof of his ability to do WHAT WHAT WHAT? Bupkis is what.

xx, Teal