On a More Positive Note ...

While Romney has had a couple of good weeks, pushing past Santorum's surge, there is good news for those fearful of another CEO President: The New Republic. Yes Romney's lead among Republicans has gone up, he is leading in Wisconsin polls and has recently garnered a number of important GOP endorsements. But he has also seen his overall approval rating fall to the lowest of any leading party candidate since 1984. His paltry 34 percent rating is lower than any Obama has had throughout his presidency and maybe provides further proof that voters in America really have grown weary of the GOP's thirty year attack on the government that once helped create the very middle class now in financial free fall. Maybe they're tired of the continued GOP attempt to win on wedge issues like abortion, gay marriage and immigration. Maybe they are tired of cynical candidates and politicians that rarely mean what they say or even say the same thing from one day to the next. Or maybe they just feel that putting the one percent into what continues to be the most powerful office on the planet might not be such a good idea; like a Baywatch reunion show on a nude beach, for example. Let's hope those approval ratings keep falling ...