Thanks to Romney, never again will the once-unelectable 1% be summarily excluded from running - now you can’t be too rich, with too many extremist billionaire backers, a past littered with shattered companies and outsourced workers, too low a personal tax, too many certified offshore accounts, and too many hidden tax returns. -- Frank Rich describe this rightwing vacuity as the “rise of false narratives:” with “fewer facts available to get wrong . . . I don’t think it matters when [Republicans are] called out. That’s the really interesting thing. The right always was against moral relativism but now they’ve embraced it. "With our facts, there is no climate change.’” —- So I say the plutocratic paradigm informing Mitt’s every breath has triumphed. If he wins, the field widens culturally for “cult” Mormons, or even more gung-ho sectarians. And if he loses, imagine an open field for those better skilled at selling “public service” while claiming riches grant immunity from bribery or selling out. Romney and his ilk are shameless, zeroing in on cost benefits, agency slashing, shredding employment, and feverishly cutting “waste” like pensions, vacations and sick pay.