In a surprise move, Mitt Romney says something that doesn't make me vomit in my mouth

In last week's Republican primary debate, three presidential wannabes proudly raised their hands to say that they did not believe in evolution. The possibility (very slight though it is, according to polls) that we could have a president who denies the overwhelming evidence supporting (some crazy liberals may even go so far as to say "proving") evolution, is horrifying and scary.

Mitt Romney is quoted in the NYT today as saying the following, not so horrifying and scary thing: “In my opinion, the science class is where to teach evolution, or if there are other scientific thoughts that need to be discussed,” he said. “If we’re going to talk about more philosophical matters, like why it was created, and was there an intelligent designer behind it, that’s for the religion class or philosophy class or social studies class.”

Now, I'm no fan of Romney, and he doesn't really have a snowball's chance of winning. But it's nice to have at least one person on that side of the aisle advocating for evolution.

Of course, couple this with Giuliani's slow-in-coming but ultimately supportive stance on a woman's right to choose yesterday, and the conspiracy theorist in me comes out. Could the GOP, realizing they have no candidate who can cut it with the ultra-conservative evangelicals, be trying to lure unsuspecting Independents and Democrats into believing that another Republican president wouldn't be the worst possible outcome? I'm not fooled.