President Romney?

After John McCain's very poor campaign and final showing against Barack Obama in November 2008, many Republicans began to think that they had nominated the wrong guy. "Wouldn't Mitt Romney have fared better?" they asked themselves.

The Green Bay Packers were Mitt Romney this past weekend.

After watching the Arizona Cardinals get dismantled in New Orleans, it was hard not to wonder how we would have fared in that contest. I'm quite certain that we wouldn't have done any worse. And I am suspicious that we would have done better.

Would we have beaten New Orleans? I wouldn't want to put money on it. But I'm quite sure that we would have made the game closer than the Cardinals made it.

Here is one positive thing for Packer fans to take away from the first two weekends of this postseason: we came back and made a game out of what looked like a blowout.

Almost every game played so far during this year's playoffs has been a no-contest contest. The winners have won handily. The losers have fallen down and never really gotten up again.

But the Packers got back up again. And again! The loss was crushing, to be sure, and especially the way the final plays themselves unfolded. But the mere fact that we fell so far behind -- and on the road! -- yet still came storming back to force overtime is a great credit to our team, as well as a very encouraging sign. In that regard, we did what the Bengals, Eagles, Patriots, Cardinals, Ravens, and Cowboys did not do.

Could Romney have beaten Obama? I don't know. But he probably would have played better than the team from Arizona did.