Just heard the end of a terrific interview on CBC with P. J. O’Rourke, funny American conservative columnist. He said that watching the Republican candidates, it’s like the varsity team got food poisoning in the high school cafeteria, and so the equipment manager and the water boy and the drum major are all out in the field. That left-wing parties field better political candidates because their people believe in the efficacy of government and so run for office, whereas intelligent right-wingers don’t and so don’t. And that he is a Republican because right-wingers tend to have fewer “Big Ideas” than left-wingers. Big Ideas are almost always a expensive and sometimes dangerous, he said. I vote Republican due to their lack of ideas. Romney is very satisfying in that regard.