It’s hard to sum up the mendacity and the obscurantism of today’s GOP in a single column. But the real pros are up for the hard tasks.
Peggy Noonan, who taught Ronald Reagan the fine art of political lying, has her pants on fire (again). She starts out with a pround proclamation of ignorance: “Nobody knows anything.” But she doesn’t mean it; what she means is that she knows everything, based on nothing in particular, while those who study datam are mere menials, beneath her notice. Then she explains how she knows that Mitt Romney will defeat Barack Obama: she can read it in Obama’s body language:
This is not a man who feels himself on the verge of a grand victory. His campaign doesn’t seem president-sized. It is small and sad and lost, driven by formidable will and zero joy. I suspect both Romney and Obama have a sense of what’s coming, and it’s part of why Romney looks so peaceful and Obama so roiled.
Keep that in mind as you watch what Obama describes as “the last political rally I’ll ever do – for me.”
“Small and sad and lost”? In Peggy Noonan’s dreams.
[Cross-posted at The Reality-based Community]
