Much of the campaign discussion today has centered on the
core-of-the-sun heat intensity that the election has adopted, and how
it’s only July, and how this might finally be the end-of-days we’ve all
been reporting about since Millard Fillmore was a pup.
Gotta be the heat. Campaign staff and candidates call the other guy a liar in every election, impugn the other guy’s past in every election, question his patriotism in every election. Surrogates will veer into the impolitic in every election. As Finley Peter Dunne famously wrote, and eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney reiterated, politics, ain’t beanbag.
Dunne was from Chicago, and he was published out of Boston, two cities of some import during this election. And his truism worked then, and works now. Unfortunately, manufactured and synthetic outrage over the other side’s tactics may be the most memorable characteristic of this election, which hasn’t really dealt with the fundamental and serious policy questions about which both sides have professed to care. When you trot out the weary, lame, and untrue crutch that this election is the most important of your lifetime, you probably owe that election a little more.
As overheated as the rhetoric, and the analysis, can get, it’s probably worth remembering that it’s pretty difficult to exceed the bounds of reason established by previous presidential campaigns.
Read more: http://nationaljournal.com/n2k-presidential-race-it-ain-t-beanbag-and-it-ain-t-new-20120717
Gotta be the heat. Campaign staff and candidates call the other guy a liar in every election, impugn the other guy’s past in every election, question his patriotism in every election. Surrogates will veer into the impolitic in every election. As Finley Peter Dunne famously wrote, and eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney reiterated, politics, ain’t beanbag.
Dunne was from Chicago, and he was published out of Boston, two cities of some import during this election. And his truism worked then, and works now. Unfortunately, manufactured and synthetic outrage over the other side’s tactics may be the most memorable characteristic of this election, which hasn’t really dealt with the fundamental and serious policy questions about which both sides have professed to care. When you trot out the weary, lame, and untrue crutch that this election is the most important of your lifetime, you probably owe that election a little more.
As overheated as the rhetoric, and the analysis, can get, it’s probably worth remembering that it’s pretty difficult to exceed the bounds of reason established by previous presidential campaigns.
Read more: http://nationaljournal.com/n2k-presidential-race-it-ain-t-beanbag-and-it-ain-t-new-20120717
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