A Perennial Question

The Republican Party is now living in a moon crater, and lo, many are bumfuzzled about what to do. At the recent conservative hoodah thingy, where Rush whipped up the true-bluers, the winner of the presidential straw poll was Mitt Romney, of all people. Now many of the good folks there might have abstained, on the view that if God had wanted us to vote, He would have given us candidates. The rest of them who voted were probably just exhibiting the ancient divide between optimists and pessimists, as they tackled the perennial question — is Mitt Romney a suit half empty, or a suit half full?