◼ Last week was very bad for America but very good for Mitt Romney's election prospects. - Hugh Hewitt/Washington Examiner
The week was horrible for the Manhattan-Beltway media elite and the institutions they captain, but very good for center-right media and the electorate that is coming to depend upon the new media.
Four Americans were slaughtered by the same forces that killed thousands 11 years earlier, and suddenly we are reminded that there is no holiday from history, no verbal shortcut to peace in our time.
The president's long-ago Cairo speech turns out to be so many meaningless words spoken into a part of the world that cares much, much more for strength than gestures....
Here is what they fear, what pollsters have to work overtime to hide, what the Chicago Gang knows: The country will not vote for civilizational suicide, nor for the cultural eclipse that the president's passivity telegraphs. His dismal economic record was enough to beat him, for how can he bank on the turnout of millions who have in fact dropped out of the search for employment?
Economics alone dooms his candidacy. But a faltering, indeed tremulous voice, combined with an arrogant detachment so extreme that he could fly to Vegas to gladhand and fundraise as news of the Libyan atrocity swept across the country, must deepen dismay even along his supporters.
President Cool is a much better actor than he is an executive. But the role is coming to an end, and not a minute too soon.
