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Obectively Mitt
Mitt Romney threw a long ball today and scored. There can be no objective argument against that conclusion. Why? Because Romney is running for the GOP nomination, and his remarks, both in delivery and substance, were lavishly praised by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, and James Dobson, not to mention Mark Steyn, Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer -and these were just the seven people I heard on a long drive south to San Diego and then in a hotel room before leaving to post this and give a speech. I am sure when I get a chance to review the blogs more widely late tonight, there will be many others, though in fact every single one could denounce Romney and it wouldn’t matter given the line-up of assessments just listed, to which I add mine from earlier today.
Unfortunately I can no longer trust Hugh to make any objective statements about Romney. I’ll have to see it for myself, which I will as time permits.
UPDATE
Tom Bevan, this is going to leave a mark:
Indeed, the one person who cannot be trusted as an analyst these days is Hugh himself, who has taken his Romney boosting to surreal heights by posting press releases from the Romney campaign verbatim on his blog, constantly slagging every one of Romney’s opponents, suggesting criticism of Romney on the right is rooted in anti-Mormon bigotry, declaring victory in every debate, and just generally being so in the tank for the guy that it’s hard to take him seriously at all any more.
This is going to lead toward a post where I talk about the big divide in political blogs, no not the liberal/conservative divide, but the pundit/advocate divide. It’s a much bigger gulf than most realize.
UPDATE
HA!
And now: Mitt Romney’s magnificent, soaring, Olympian speech yesterday at the Bush Library.
Without question, The Speech is destined to enter the pantheon of the defining moments of our time; for in it, we lucky mortals were witness to what was inarguably the finest distillation of passion and and brains and square-jawed herculean glory of this or any other age; an achievement of such blinding white TelePromted perfection that, in 15 heart-pounding minutes, eclipsed every previous achievement of the human race, combined, and those who cannot admit this simple axiomatic truth are clearly soulless and/or deranged.
Forgive them Mitt, for they know not what they do.
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