Midday open thread

• Everyone’s talking about whether Romney’s religion speech measures up to JFK. Romney’s wife is thinking along other lines.
• Republican victories in recent years have often been made possible by a coalition between corporate types and the religious right. This year’s presidential field makes that coalition difficult to maintain, and fractures are showing. One of those is Peggy Noonan saying religious right voters are idiots.
• Via DemocraticLuntz at Hat Thief, the most entertaining video of the Democratic primary is, of course, from Mike Gravel. In all seriousness, if you’re prone to seizures you might want to avoid the flashing graphics.
• When it comes to illegal immigrants, the buck stops…with Mitt Romney’s lawn service, apparently. Definitely not with Willard the Weasel.
• Maria at Crooked Timber has seen The Golden Compass and it sounds as disappointing as I’d feared, at the level of the story and of the intellectual and political content.
• Blackwater is still going strong – and Mitt Romney’s looking to them for advice.
• An LAT / Bloomberg poll shows that members of the military have grown just as disenchanted with Bush as the general population. (smintheus)

  Nearly six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush’s job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does.

  And among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60% say that the war in Iraq was not worth the cost, the same result as all adults surveyed.

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