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Such questioning did little other than provide a platform on which Mitt could more easily work up his own version of a political "game change" which to Romney seems to go beyond a mere change in strategy, but instead, literally changing into your opponent.   

In addition, such bromidic querying by Schieffer -- who typically is notoriously on-point --also led to extended periods of mundane meandering by both Romney and Obama, a development that probably forced some viewers into channel surfing for a fix on one of those dizzyingly deceptive super-pac -funded attack ad to hold them over until things got a bit livelier over at the debate table.    

But it's probably safe to assume that since "lively" didn't entirely work out for him during the second debate, Mitt decided to play it safe by keeping the fireworks at minimum.   To do so, Mitt just needed to offer Obama no opening to challenge him, a task Romney employed by telling voters that if elected his policies -- on issues involving nuclear arms for Iran, managing the turmoil in Libya, Syrian and other Arab nations, "standing" with Israel, and dealing with China -- would pretty much mirror those of the President.

Will it work?   Well again, since neither life, nor politics is essentially fair, there's a good chance that it might.   Prior to the final debate, the election was considered largely a dead heat meaning that the shellacking Romney endured in the second debate did little to offset the bounce created for Mitt resulting from the shellacking he gave Obama in the first debate.

But a general inventory of noteworthy moments during the three debates might well start with a keyword Google of the following: Big Bird; Benghazi; binders; and bayonets, none of which leads to a narrative which holds a positive outcome for Romney.  

Yet, despite Obama's current positive Electoral College outlook , the race remains up for grabs.

Which means that in an unfair world it's completely plausible for someone to win the presidency even if that someone proposes an economic plan that's a mathematical non-sequitur; openly promotes a tax policy tilted toward people in the same pay grade as the candidate himself; promises to eliminate health care coverage currently available to millions; threatens to take away a woman's right to choose; offers no foreign policy coherency and   -- with neither remorse, nor consequence -- lies about both he and his opponent's policies and achievements.

So in light of this, if Mitt Romney were to be elected leader of the most powerful nation on Earth, could that result be viewed as the perverse embodiment of the biblical denouement about the meek inheriting the earth?

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Anthony Barnes, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a left-handed leftist. "When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the (more...)
 

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