Not an auspicious election preview:
Romney remains an exceptionally unnatural public speaker. To convey passion and excitement, he raises the pitch of his voice and imbues it with urgency. But it never quite clicks. His tone and affect are like that of an adult doing a dramatic reading of a pirate story to a wide-eyed three year old. It doesn’t help that he speaks too quickly and often trips over his lines. At points during his speech, Romney seemed to slip into a frenzy and start madly free associating economic buzzwords.
His verbal slip about a black president – “we’re going to hang him with that” – was obviously unintentional. But it’s the kind of thing you don’t really want to have to explain afterward. Josh Green’s account of the debate’s dynamics makes it sound like a series of almost comic one-up-manship to see how loopy they can all be.
Bring back Alan Keyes. We need some calm, moderation and careful speech.
The Dish 