I can't account for Jonathan Kay's seeing "fundamental similarities" between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, two men who, in worldview, character and demonstrable competence could not be more different; might it be Jon's occasionally donned blinkers/rose coloured specs, perhaps? As for Kay's contention that both men are "decent": I can think of a lot of ways to describe the C-in-C who hung Americans out to dry (and die) on American soil (as the Benghazi consulate was) rather than intervene and possibly upset the Libyans (and in the process torpedo his own carefully-crafted and entirely fictitious scenario about Al Qaeda being defunct post-Osama hit). "Decent" isn't one of them.
Update: "Poser" (also "poseur"). Works for me.