Mitt Romney thinks Republican voters can't handle nuance (Reuters)
Steve Benen and Greg Sargent rightly take Mitt Romney to task for complaining that President Obama has shown too much "nuance" in handling the situation in Libya. As they point out, the notion that nuance is a bad thing is absurd on its face; if there's one thing we learned during the Bush presidency, it's that a simplistic approach to a complicated world is a recipe for disaster.
Romney was obviously trying to pander to the GOP base, but as Greg notes, that says more about what he thinks of the GOP base than it does about the GOP base itself. Republican voters may hate a lot of things about President Obama, but the fact that he's capable of holding more than one thought in his head at a time is surely not at the top of their list.
There's another thing: Mitt Romney might not want to be knocking nuance quite so loudly. After all, if he's going to have a prayer of convincing GOP primary voters that RomneyCare was a good idea but that President Obama's virtually identical health care reform plan was a bad idea, he's going to need a truckload of nuance—and then some.