The Country Is Just Not That Into Him

Wilkinson watched Romney give a speech in Iowa:

This solid speech, taken on the road and refined, won't hurt his cause. Mr Romney sounds assured and smart, and he certainly looks the part. But there is a hint of almost manic desperation in his relentlessly full-throated patriotism, as if he were trying to banish by sheer force of will a small dark doubt that an extravagant outpouring of furious love for America can make America even like him back.