When I write about Ron Paul or Rick Perry, a sizable portion of the responses I get are what I would classify as “angry” or “unhinged.” When I write about Mitt Romney, on the other hand, I seem to get an inordinate number of well-crafted, reasoned responses. I don’t know if that means anything, and I’m sure my sample size is too small to draw any conclusions, but that’s my experience.

My column yesterday laid out the ways in which Republicans do not love Mitt Romney, but they’ll settle for him anyway. In one part I wrote: