Fear is the mind killer. There are plenty of real things to be worried about without getting swept up in a false hysteria that plays into the hands of those who would manipulate you and control you in the first place.

Pie charts or bar graph? What sort of statistical analysis would you like?

Is this how you see us winning over voters in the general campaign? Cold, hard data points that everyone will absorb, process, and then spit out the desired response to?

Romney is weak because he changes his positions more frequently and more rapidly than any national politician I have ever seen. One day is he is promoting a national mandate for health care. Later on he changes his mind and states that is unconstitutional, when he realizes his earlier position would kill his campaign. The worst part is he denied ever having been for a national mandate.

This pattern of flip-flopping happens again and again, on any number of issues. Is he for pork barrel politics, or against it? Is he a champion of pro-abortion forces, or pro-life? Is he a severe conservative, or a progressive?

It ultimately doesn’t matter what Romney states his positions are now because all too often there is no correlation between what his current position is with the position he takes up in a year’s time, or six month’s time, or sometimes even three hours time, except that the later position will often be 180 degrees in opposition to the earlier one.

Now I’m going to venture back into the world of subjective analysis. You might be surprised to learn there are elements of reality that you can’t hold in your hand or put into a spreadsheet, but it’s the truth, whether you choose to accept it or not.

Nothing has happened to Romney that isn’t a normal aspect of the rough and tumble nature of campaigns. In fact, Romney himself predicted it would take until April before he had the nomination locked up. If you believe him, everything’s going according to his own schedule.

The fact Romney is viewed less favorably in the polls than Obama himself is ultimately Romney’s fault, for not being able to effectively counter whatever others are saying about him. He is a politician, and wants to be a leader. His entire job is dependent on his ability to persuade people to join his cause. He is doing an awful job of it, as measured by the metric no Republican nominee in the past two decades has had to fight this long to secure the nomination.

Your own subjective opinion that it’s everyone else’s fault that Romney is viewed less favorably than Obama is built on none of the factual evidence you demand from others, and also speaks to a sense of entitlement: No one should say anything bad about Romney.

Sorry. Your man is weak, whether that shows up in Excel or not. He’s timid. Overly cautious. He’s got no vision, beyond that patriotic songs are really fun and cool. He’s a manager, not a leader. And I don’t want him as the standard bearer of the Republican Party.

The people of America, the women, the independents, the Hispanics, the swing voters, won’t want him as their president. You can argue that is a subjective conclusion, and not fact. Don’t worry – it will be fact in eight months time.

If by any chance you were one of the Romney supporters who kept publicly bashing McCain after the convention, or if – even worse – you voted for Obama in 2008 to give Mitt another chance this go around, you have no right to demand we rally behind anybody.

By the way, I see you’ve named yourself after Ender Wiggin the sci-fi character created by orson Scott Card. Ender himself of course was a brilliant child with deeply ingrained sadistic tendencies, as exhibited by his brother’s skinning an animal while it was still alive, and Ender’s own actions in killing a fellow student.

Does your taking the character’s name mean you see yourself as a similar kind of brilliant and ruthless advocate for Romney?