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Is a Mitt Romney nomination really "inevitable?"

That's POLITICO's take

Yeah, except…

At times Romney sounded petulant and snarky, and we've already got a president like that. When he refused to even consider that Europe's financial meltdown could impact America I thought, "is this guy deluded?" And his "I'm a leader" schtick came off as sanctimonious. Leaders aren't self-proclaimed, leadership is defined by actions, not words. Again, we've already got a "cult of personality" guy and we don't need another one.

Plus, Romney is still defending TARP. He tried to spin it by saying he wouldn't have included GM and the UAW and he'd have picked the recipients "carefully." So what? It's still government picking winners and losers. That's not the government's job.

Just an aside — is Charlie Rose the most insufferable debate moderator ever? Oh, and why did he enforce the time limits on everyone but Romney? Mittens could have talked for an hour while Charlie just sat their making goo-goo eyes like a teenager in love. But, he cut off Cain and Perry with ruthless efficiency.

Truthfully though I'm glad Romney kept bloviating. It helped me to learn a few things. Like that he's for a trade war with China. The Senate just passed Smoot-Hawley V2.0 and Mitt Romney thinks it's a swell idea. But when Rick Santorum tried to point out that Bernanke devalued our currency too (via round-after-round of "quantitative easing") Romney stared at him like he was from outer space. C'mon Mitt, you're a businessman, right? Surely you understand how inflation works?

Then at the end when Charlie Rose tried to play gotcha with a Reagan clip Romney took the bait. "I'm not worried about rich people, they can take care of themselves." Um, OK. But the whole "help the middle class" mantra sounds an awful lot like a repackaging of Barry's class warfare game. Santorum and Cain had sensible responses — make the US a better place to do business, and "jobs, jobs, jobs."

Can you tell that I'm not sold on President Romney? 'Cause I'm not. The problem is, I've kinda given up on Rick Perry, because he looks like he's given up on himself. He's made too many missteps, and last night he may as well have phoned it in for all the good his presence on stage did. If he can't articulate a coherent message now how's he gonna whup Barry's ass next November?

Now I'm starting to veer off into incoherence here. So for anybody still paying attention I'll just say, gack, none of these guys inspired me last night. I just have a sinking feeling that by lining up behind Mitt Romney we're heading for Bob Dole territory and four more years of President Zero. And can America really survive that?

Posted at 10:14 by Chris Wysocki   [/election]   Comments | Perm Link |
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