Could anything do more to raise Mitt Romney's popularity than to have Howard Dean criticize him? Perhaps, Dean is playing reverse psychology to make Romney more popular since Dean thinks that Romney would be easy to defeat. Or, perhaps I'm giving Dean too much credit and he was just mouthing off about whatever entered his mine.

If you missed it, this is what I think will happen if Romney is the GOP candidate. That doesn't mean that I oppose Romney. On the contrary, there is much that I find attractive about him as a candidate. I'm just trying to be realistic about what the liberals would unleash if he were the candidate.