Boy, if this Oliphant political cartoon doesn't accurately describe Romney's desparation over the past few days, nothing does:

These past few days, Romney has been playing to the crowd that was so outraged by a mosque bgeing built at Ground Zero (by the way, I've been there — you can't see any mosque — it's blocks away).  And he thinks this will help.  Well, sure — if you think you can win by catering to the far right.