Prof. Victor Davis Hanson on “The Acts, the Players, the Hype”
As one might expect, Professor Victor Davis Hanson has penned a forthright assessment of the current situation in the U.S. Presidential campaign, The 2012 Presidential Election Circus: The Acts, the Players, the Hype. ”Circus” is an apt description, and I fear I must agree with the current prognosis:
There is a wish to cut and paste the flawed Republican candidates’ strengths into a composite nominee: Romney’s sobriety, Santorum’s conviction, Paul’s sense of outrage over debt, and Gingrich’s glib lectures about civilization—while pruning away their unique defects: Santorum’s self-righteousness, Paul’s otherworldliness, Romney’s Tom Dewey/George H.W. Bush patrician woodenness, and Newt’s tom-foolery.
Santorum and Paul cannot beat Obama. Romney is still the most likely to make it a close race; Gingrich possibly to win by a wider margin — or, more likely, to lose by an even wider one.
We are in for a rough ride, indeed.
