A lot of pundits are saying that the debates are Mitt Romney’s last chance to make a good impression on the American public and then I see an article todaysaying that in debate practice Mitt’s team is working with him on some zingers, and I am reassured that he
Everybody loves a zinger
truly is circling the drain and by the time November comes, Obama will be the only candidate standing. Zingers. They think they are going to win this with zingers.
Well, it makes some sense. If he fights Obama on foreign policy, he will not only lose but he will embarrass himself badly, probably by not knowing where Canada is or something. If he tries to debate social issues like abortion or gay marriage or even immigration he will lose because Obama’s much closer to the general public opinion than he is. If he tries to talk about Obamacare, he will twist himself into an ourobouros, the mythical serpent who is constantly swallowing his own tail. If he tries to make it about the economy, he will still lose because everybody remembers which party caused this problem, Romney’s personal finances are not squeaky clean, and his history as a vulture capitalist is pretty well known.
So, he’ll try to fire off a couple of well placed zingers. Like, maybe, a teleprompter joke. Or something about Michelle’s vegetable garden and how silly it is of her to try to encourage American kids to not be fat. If he really wants to get some applause from his base, maybe he’ll go for the gold with a birth certificate joke.
If he decides to be a gentlemen, and a good sport, he may try to endear himself to the audience with a little bit of self-deprecating humor, like something about rolling down the windows on his airplane.
It doesn’t matter. If he’s resorting to zingers to carry him through the debate, he’s going to fall flat on his ass. Mitt Romney can’t sing…and he can’t tell a joke.
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