Ronald Reagan won the election of 1980 because of a single
sentence. Recall, we had endured three and a half years of total
incompetence from one of the major fools of all time, Jimmy Carter.
Nevertheless, the Mainstream Media was totally on Carter’s side.
The liberals had painted Reagan as a pitiful, doddering has-been
cowboy actor. They sought to portray Carter as a brainy and
trustworthy peanut farmer and nuclear engineer (neither of which he
was, of course). The polls favored Carter.
Then came the Carter-Reagan debate. Carter began to go on a long
winded harangue about some imaginary complaint. Reagan looked at
him like a long suffering employer confronting a malingering clerk
and said simply, “There you go again.”
In an instant, Reagan was revealed as smart, sharp, strong, and
unable to be bullied and the election was his.
Mitt Romney had just that kind of opportunity last week — and
took an entirely different direction. When the question about Libya
began the debate, Gov. Romney could have said, “More in sorrow than
in anger, I must note that you and Mrs. Clinton and Susan Rice have
concocted the most egregious series of coverups of a diplomatic and
defense failure that has happened in this country since Pearl
Harbor.
“You allowed these murders to happen. Then you covered up, as is
your custom, by blaming the United States instead of the terrorists
whom you knew from the first day were the killers.
“We know you will not apologize. We also know that when I am
President, we will not cover up for al Qaeda. And we will classify
Major Hasan’s mass murders as terrorism, which they are, and we
will stop doing the kowtow to terrorists anywhere.”
Then, when Mr. Obama sputtered about Mr. Romney “politicizing”
the murders in Benghazi, Gov. Romney could have said, “There you go
again, still covering up. Since when is it unseemly in a democracy
to point out the blatant incompetence of an administration? Are you
going to put me in prison the same way you put that poor devil who
made the irrelevant video about Mohammed in prison? Is that your
plan?”
It is not too late for Gov. Romney to do this in commercials.
But he obviously has chosen conciliation and affection, and it may
well work for him. Let’s hope it does. Maybe the times and the
electorate have changed so much that the admonition that “he who
holdeth his temper is greater than he who conquereth a city…” wins
elections, if followed. I assume Mr. Romney knows what he’s
doing.
Speaking of “there you go again,” when the heck is the GOP going
after Mr. Obama for his condescension in discussing aircraft
carriers and submarines? When is Governor Romney going to ask, “Mr.
Obama, what the hell do you know about submarines or aircraft
carriers? When did you, a peace activist and community organizer,
get to be an expert on defense hardware?”
Is it not terrifying, by the way, literally life or death
terrifying, that Mr. Obama explicitly plans for unilateral
disarmament? Isn’t amazing that in a world as dangerous as ours, he
plans deep cuts in the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marines? Isn’t it
amazing that while Iran races toward nuclear weapons and missiles
to deliver them on Israel, Western Europe, and the USA, Mr. Obama
refuses the slightest effort to build an ABM defense? And that he
plans to unilaterally disarm the U.S. nuclear force in the face of
enemies with nuclear weapons? Whose side is he on? This by itself
makes a vote for Romney a necessity.
And while we’re at it, here is an idea that my pals at FNC put
in my head: The U.S. has satellite photos of everything on earth.
There are cameras at every U.S. consulate. When rockets are being
fired at a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, there is data about it going
to the President immediately if he is not playing basketball or
hanging with Jay-Z. That means Mr. Obama might well have known that
the attack was happening as it was happening.
That means it was probably the Big Kahuna himself who screwed up
big time. Suddenly it all makes sense: why go into total panic
mode, total lying mode, get the media into PROTEKTO BAMA RAMA mode
unless the boss himself is on the line?
It all makes sense now. It just now hangs together. It isn’t
some State Department officer who denied aid to the U.S.
Ambassador. It was Barry himself. Think about it. If it was Mr.
Obama himself who let the ambassador and staff be murdered, then
there absolutely has to be a coverup.
Finally, just for tonight, let me ask my loyal pals in
Spectator land, have you ever seen such nerve as for
Barack Hussein Obama to brag about how much domestic oil and gas
production have gone up in the past few years? That hypocrite. Yes,
the energy minerals tally has gone way up — with Mr. Obama
fighting the oil companies every step of the way. Oil and gas
production have risen despite Mr. Obama’s hatred of oil and gas and
yet he has the brass to brag about it? That creep, and yet why
hasn’t Governor Romney beaten him to a pulp over it?
Mr. Romney may win this election. I hope he does. But if he
does, it will not be because of following the road map that Ronald
Regan laid down for him. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Does it
win elections? We will see.
