All I seem to write on these days is Romney. But this post is about a different kind of Romney. Specifically, it's about Romney sheep, which despite being part Scottish (Scots are big on sheep), I never had heard about. Anyway, here's your second Romney post of the day. And here's your Romney.

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In response to reading this at SFGate.com:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who ran as a moderate in past campaigns in Massachusetts, on Monday rated himself as conservative as the late President Reagan.

In his 12th visit to Florida since January, the former Massachusetts governor was asked to grade himself as a conservative on a scale of one to 10 if Reagan were a 10.

"Probably a 10 as well," Romney said. "I'm trying to think in what places we would differ. As I've gotten older, Reagan keeps getting smarter and smarter."

a reader has emailed in to say this:

Romney is like RuPaul trying to tell women how he's more feminine than they are. No hate to RuPaul, but if you're not born with the equipment, it's a bit rich to call out others who are.

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I wrote awhile back that this bill that was being moved by Grassley, Baucus, Schumer and Lindsey Graham that would attempt to "deal" with China rigging its currency was bad news.

Turns out it is. According to the UK's Telegraph, China is now threatening a "nuclear option" of dollar sales, basically in retribution for trade sanctions that are on offer under the bill.

Were China to take this option, it could crash the dollar. Of course, they'd be silly to do it, because it would vastly increase strife between the two countries which no one really wants given the trade relationship. But still, they very well could. And it strikes me that since trade sanctions and tariffs are bad news anyway, that combined with this threat perhaps means that we should not be pursuing this bill apparently being backed by the Senate Finance Committee.

Duh, though, right?

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