Voters don’t react positively when a candidate speaks incomprehensibly about taxes, as Mr. Romney did on “60 Minutes.”

But listeners don’t have to do the math to calculate how fundamentally hollow the proposal is.

The editorial points out the problems with Romney's approach, and then offers

fundamentally hollow

willingness to stray from the truth

Pretty harsh statement to make about a major party Presidential nominee.

But there is more. The penultimate paragraph is about Romney's statement on Americans having access to health care, because they can go to the emergency room. The editorial rightly points out that resorting to the emergency room is

the most expensive and least effective

But it also reeks of contempt for those left behind by the current insurance system, suggesting that they must suffer with illness until the point where they need an ambulance.

way of addressing health care needs. The point out that Romney, having put Romneycare through Massachusetts, surely knows that, which would make him a hypocrite (a word they do not use). They they put it bluntly:

Sounds like they have really taken him apart, right? Except they are not done. Let me preface the final paragraph of the piece by noting that the editorial writers are telegraphing their belief that Romney has probably lost the ability to change the outcome of the election:

Mr. Romney is free to pursue this shallow, cavalier campaign for six more weeks, but he shouldn’t be surprised if voters increasingly choose not to pay attention.

It could be worse. They could be paying attention, and getting even more turned off, not only to Romney, but to the Republican party.

What do you think?