Stormy weather update

Since this morning's posting, other commentary from around the country has widely voiced the analysis given here, that Mr Romney's candidacy is taking depressing risks of rebuke for racism in strategy and conduct. This page enormously hopes this particular specter can be kept at bay in this campaign, because there is one very much like it, which has seemed ready for permanent rejection at last -- exemplified in the exotic speculations of Congressman Todd Akin, of which more another day. For this campaign, meanwhile, we hope that the candidates will exercise some responsibility toward those who still believe they must be Republican, to spare them excessive despair for what they do.