In today’s Boston Globe, Peter Canellos has a good column pointing out the similarities between Mitt Romney and George Herbert Walker Bush, “both sons of prominent politicians whose careers stalled short of the presidency.” But Canellos may get a little too psychoanalytical in his conclusion:

Romney clearly sees something of himself in the elder Bush. What each man probably sees is a decent, moderate man who secretly hates what he had to do to get ahead.

Romney, of course, admits no such thing, and one can make the case that he is simply an effective candidate with no reason to “secretly hate” any of his actions. But as a purely semantic matter, isn’t it a bit of a contradiction to say that a “decent” person does whatever it takes to get ahead?