Once more, Stupid, it’s the economy

We may be a nation of saps, if the pollsters are correct in their current assessment of the presidential race, but we’re a nation of good-hearted saps. We always want to do the right thing. We like that lovable ol’ lug in the White House, blundering and incompetent though he is. We want to think highly of ourselves, and how better to do it than voting for Barack Obama?

The economy is in the dumpster, the Middle East is ablaze with hatred for America, and the president keeps busy making it worse. He’s about to preside over the expansion of nuclear weapons into the hands of Islamic mad men. The bill of particulars is a long one and bears repeating for the big audience. The president tries to console us with reassurance from Alfred E. Neuman: “What? Me worry?”
Mitt Romney, nobody’s idea of FDR, Harry Truman or Ronald Reagan, gets his last best chance Wednesday night to abandon the game plan of feckless establishment Republicans who are happiest when they join Democrats in trashing imperfect Republican candidates. This time their tattered slogan, “We’re not as bad as you think,” isn't working.
Mr. Romney has a presidential profile that looks as if it belongs on Mount Rushmore, but he has to offer more than that, even to saps. We’re told that voters want him to be someone they could have a beer with, as absurd as that would have sounded to earlier American grown-ups. Being “not Barack Obama” is a powerful qualification, and maybe the most important, but not this year. He can’t be a lovable ol’ lug – we’ve already got one of those – so he might as well run like a Democrat, and go after his opponent with mail and chain. Hammer and tongs won’t do it.

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