Anybody else think it's ironic – or at the very least slightly tone deaf – that, in an economy flooded with foreclosures, overrun with occupiers and drowning in debt, the Republican Party floats its richest front-runner ever?

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I couldn't agree with Mitt Romney more that he doesn't need to apologize for being a successful businessman. Or for taking advantage of our convoluted system to cut his tax burden – we all do it every year, or at least try. Like my closest Republican friend told me repeatedly, Romney's like a successful George W. (with the personality of Al Gore, I always add.)

But the reason he's struggling is because of the increasingly clear divide he represents between Wall Street and Main Street. He's repeatedly revealed his disconnect with regular folk throughout the campaign – from $10,000 bets to shrugging off six-figure speaker fees as "not much" to Cayman and Swiss offshore bank accounts. While Americans desperately want to send Mr. Smith to Washington, the GOP gives them Gordon Gecko.