What Do I Know? My Judgement Can’t Be Trusted.
Looks like Hugh Hewitt had himself a nice, tall glass of Mitt Romney-brand Kool Aid.
Of course there are some nay-sayers. There always are. I don’t trust their judgment about the campaign at this point if they didn’t think the speech was at least very good. Getting too close to the campaigns or too inside-the-Beltway can blind some observers to what the average Republican thinks or how he or she responds.
I’m sorry. I’m not seeing it. If you read the speech, and I think you should, I believe you’ll find it very good indeed, but that’s only if you read it. I don’t see the “average Republican” who watched, or will watch, the speech getting quite as het up about it as Hewitt. Romney just wasn’t that good. He stumbled in his delivery a couple or three times. Some of the lines where he should have put on the Presidential mien he wants us to believe he has just fell flat. Yes, they resonate in the mind as you read them because, let’s face it, Romney knows his way around a turn of phrase better than most career politicians.
I saw the speech and, even though I very much liked what Romney had to say, I was entirely underwhelmed with how he said it. That makes his speech somewhat less than “very good”. From where I sit, Romney had a great opportunity to make himself look Presidential and he missed the mark. If that means that Hugh Hewitt must now and ever mistrust my judgment then, in the words of Mitt Romney, so be it.
UPDATE: Hewitt bolsters his sterling logic with the “Lots of Important People Agree with Me, so I Must be Objectively Right” maneuver first used by master logician Socrates. I would humbly remind Hewitt that it’s not wise to use the opinions of Many Important People to determine rightness. Many Important People thought that the Medicare Drug Plan was a great idea. Many Important People thought that Campaign Finance Reform was just fine, too. Many Important People can be completely wrong. Saying that they make you objectively correct doesn’t make it so. It tends to make you look defensive and petulant. Oh and the whole “if you disagree with me, you’re probably not a Republican anyhow” addendum won’t garner your man Romney any particular support from those who have yet to decide on a candidate.
Allah and Bryan at Hot Air are apparently among the outcast from the Hewitt Love party, too.
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Amen…from a longtime HH listener and reader (but no more). The following comment I found at HotAir pretty much represents my thoughts:
"I listen to alot of conservative talk ready. I enjoy most of the pundits, respect their perspectives and enjoy the guests. I have listened to liberal talk radio and just on the entertainment level don’t think they can hold a candle to most conservative talkers. Having said that, with the exception of Rush, it’s my perception that few of the top talkers have any accurate perception of what a normal, middle class conservative thinks about what is going on. I hear them and their guests tell me what I think about what’s going on and they are usually so far off it would be laughable except I wonder how many people give them too much credit. Most are Ivy League, have worked in government, have lots of money and run in the same social circles as those liberals they speak of every day. they each should be appreciated as entertainers, as providers of information and alternative view points. But in the end they all have their own opinions shaped by their own development and those opinions have no more weight then mine or any of the participants on hot air."
peacenprosperity on December 6, 2007 at 9:42 PM