"Please, Brer GOP, don't throw us Democrats in the briar patch!"

It seems that Nancy Pelosi- like Donna Brazile and certain far right Republicans even more divorced from reality than usual- is saying that Mitt Romney would be easy pickings in November.

Uh-huh. Tell it to the polls; Romney is the only Republican to lead the president for more than one brief, shining moment. He's consistently run better against Obama than anybody else, in fact. And tell it to the Republican voters of Iowa and New Hampshire, who aren't buying it for a moment. They know electability when they see it, and it's important enough to them to cause them to forego the ideological self-indulgence which, at least in Iowa, generally drives the Republican field so far to the right and the Democratic field so far to the left as to cast the electability of the ultimate winner into question.

This time they picked the guy who is going to beat Obama in November. Sorry, Nancy. I'm not buying it- and I don't think anybody but those ideologically purist far right Republicans are. I don't even think Donna Brazile really wants Obama to run against Romney.

The Democrats me of a story about Brer Rabbit. "Please, Republicans. Do anything to us Democrats you want. Roast us. Hang us. Tar and feather us. Beat us. Say "nih" to us. But please don't nominate Gingrich or Santorum or Perry or (snicker) Paul!"

Surest sign yet that the emergence of Mitt- the only Republican with a snowball's chance in the nether regions of beating Barack Obama- as the likely nominee has the Democrats scared silly.