Think Romney can’t win? In 1972, a highly decorated war hero, history professor, Heartland-bred campaigner on the war on poverty, future champion in the war on hunger and admired, anti-war U.S. Senator got beat in one of the country’s biggest landslides by Richard “tricky Dick” Nixon. At the tail end of the Vietnam war, when over 50,000 American boys were in the ground for no reason. Anything can happen.
I don’t think Romney has a chance in hell of winning, but that’s the logical side of me talking. That side has been wrong on many occasions. If he wins, fine. Everybody can come over to my house, my bar, and get shitfaced drunk. If a means of leaving the country can be found, I’m gone. If not, I’ll bunker down even further and watch things unfold. I don’t have much more to lose. A sick part of me wants Romney to win. Bush wasn’t enough, Katrina wasn’t enough, getting sons and daughters and parents and grandparents killed for absolutely nothing in two godforsaken sand-lands wasn’t enough to prompt us to put down the video games and iPhones and change our ways. Obviously we need more misery, closer to home. Let Romney have two terms, and see where we’re at then.
The location of this massive rock of blissful ignorance that the “undecided voters” crawl out from under needs to be revealed. In case Romney is elected, I’d like to cozy up underneath it.
For the first debate, Romney gave the appearance of someone bullying an old man. For the second, he gave the appearance of bullying a woman. To be fair – and sex aside – a championship pro bout should not be officiated by a Golden Gloves referee. Not just in getting a candidate to shut up, but outright asking a candidate for a direct response, and indicating when a candidate fails to do so. And, to be fair, a debate of this or any other magnitude should have rules in place. As in, “This is my house, not yours. I will issue a warning to wrap it up, and you’ll have 15 seconds to do so. After that, I will deduct 30 seconds from your next answer time.” Without pro moderators enforcing established rules, the debates are no longer an integral process of the presidential election. They become farcical entertainment, at best.
