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If
life were accordingly fair -- as in an evenly-balanced journey in
which the chips don't just fall where they may, but rather where they are supposed to -- we might have seen Clint
Eastwood stage an intervention during Monday's final presidential debate.
Fairness would have meant that
in less time than it takes for Joe Sixpack to suck down that first cold one, Mr.
Sixpack and the rest of us would have witnessed Eastwood make his way onto the
debate floor with the same chair that he made headlines with during the GOP
convention, place it between Romney and the President, and politely ask Mitt to
take a hike.
It was necessary. That's because during this debate, rather
than stand and deliver, Romney decided to sit and concede. Once again Mitt pulled his "empty suit" move,
but this time in a way that perfectly correlates with the dumb symbolism of
Eastwood's empty chair.
Anyone expecting a Patton-esque
bad-ass to show up looking for a showdown found him or herself stood up. As might have been expected, "severely
conservative" Mitt failed to show. But
even "moderate" Mitt was nowhere to be found.
Instead, viewers got "me too,"
Mitt. Thus, any expectation among the Tea
Party crowd of a "serious" philosophical debate -- during which the merits of an
amped up, take-no-prisoners foreign policy/national security approach would be
made in conjunction with an insightful unraveling of Obama's weak-kneed
apology-based agenda -- probably dwindled faster than Dan Rather can spit out a
colorful colloquialism.
History will show that on
Monday night "Mittens" was as meek as a kitten; more a missionary than a
militarist. He flat out sold out to the
max; jumping ship on the hawkish, foreign policy big-shot persona used to light
the trail he blazed through the GOP primaries right on through to this final face-off
with the current Commander-in-Chief.
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