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Eye On The Prize

These moves may get him closer to the Republican nomination, but whether they reflect deep principles or merely a venture capitalist’s professional sense of what’s required to achieve his goal is already the defining question of the Romney campaign. ~Peter Canellos

Query: If Romney is the great venture capitalist who has a keen grasp of an operation’s weaknesses and the things that need to be done to ensure success, how is it that he can be so oblivious to the huge liability to his campaign that his religion represents?  Is that this particular venture capitalist’s blind spot?

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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