By
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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We
shall be getting a new government next week.
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WASHINGTON -- Reviewing the last few months of this tumultuous presidential
campaign, I see the debates as having a wondrous salience. The first was the
most momentous since Nixon vs. Kennedy, though that 1960 confrontation was
mostly a matter of cosmetics. Listening to it on radio, many in the audience
came away thinking that the participant with the five-o'clock shadow had won.
That would have been Richard Nixon.
In debate this time around, Mitt Romney hammered Barack Obama mercilessly. Under the ongoing assault Obama's knees buckled and he repeatedly looked glassy-eyed. If the contest were a prizefight, the referee should have stepped in. Actually, I felt sorry for Obama. My tax-bracket notwithstanding, I did not want to see Mitt hit him again, but he did: the economy! the national debt! joblessness! However, the debate was not a prizefight. It was the first of three presidential debates, and though restrained in the next two contests Romney accomplished just what he wanted. The debates left him looking reasonable, informed, competent, and presidential. | |
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