Democrats are right to panic right now. Clearly, Mitt Romney is the greatest politician of our time. The man cannot make a single misstep. Look at how he completely explains away his 47% video:

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney again distanced himself from his infamous 47 percent comments caught on video at a private fundraiser in May, telling CNN in an interview Tuesday night that, "the words that came out were not what I meant....Well, Wolf, as you know, I was talking about how do you get to 50.1 percent of the vote. I'd like to get 100 percent of the vote, but I figure that's not going to happen, so I was trying to tell contributors how I get to 50.1 percent. I think it's always a perilous course for a candidate to start talking about the mathematics of an election."

Genius! He certainly turned that into a non-issue. And listen to how he explains his tax plan in simple-to-understand language:

Elsewhere in the interview, the Republican nominee continued to present his tax plan as something that would be balanced in its budgeting and maintain the progressivity of the code. But while he pushed back forcefully on President Barack Obama's charge that he didn't have the means to pay for, what amounted to a $5 trillion tax cut, he continued to avoid offering specifics with respect to pay-fors.

"Well, I'm not going to lay out a piece of legislation here," he said...

Andrew Sullivan is right. We have never faced a more fearsome, articulate politician than Willard "Mitt" Romney. We should just give up now.