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“I think what’s going to drive this cheap designer bags, really, are two things — authenticity and the economy,” Huntsman told me. “I think people have become so disillusioned by the professional nature of politics — the organizations around politicians, the way that politicians approach problem-solving, the way in which they go about their daily business. There has been very little in the way of designer handbags wholesale in politics in recent years.”

This sounded like pretty standard outsider rhetoric, but the more I talked to Huntsman, the more I began to understand that he had a theory of the case, a way in which he saw his cheap designer handbags becoming viable, and it involved abstaining from precisely the kind of emotional pandering we’d been talking about. Both Romney and Pawlenty were essentially moderate governors who have now rather baldly intensified their partisan rhetoric. Romney, in particular, has had a problem with authenticity ever since he burst onto the national stage, known as the gay rights, abortion-rights governor of Massachusetts, and started talking like Phyllis Schlafly. Romney-watchers note that first he wore a tie, and now suddenly he doesn’t — fairly or not, there is something about designer handbags on sale that evokes Al Gore, a man who seemed lost in a state of constant reinvention.