I've been scrolling around on the Internet, trying to find if any of my reactions to the second debate between Obama and Romney have failed to be aired. I don't think so. There was, however, one rather obscure moment--more obscure than "binders of women," anyway--that, if everyone were like me, would have qualified as Romney's worst moment. It was his response to Obama's line of attack concerning his (Romney's) "sketchy" plan to cut taxes, increase defense spending, and balance the budget. The president suggested that the financial sharpies Romney has hung out with in his business career would never go for such a lame pitch, and neither should the American people, "because the math doesn't add up." Romney:
Well of course they add up. I-- I was-- I was someone who ran businesses for 25 Years, and balanced the budget. I ran the Olympics and balanced the budget. I ran the--the state of Massachusetts as a governor, to the extent any governor does, and balanced the budget all four years. When we're talking about math that doesn't add up, how about $4 trillion of deficits over the last four years, $5 trillion? That's math that doesn't add up. We have -- we have a president talking about someone's plan in a way that's completely foreign to what my real plan is.
I'm Willard Mitt Romney! I went to Harvard! I've made 373 gazillion dollars! So of course the numbers add up. How dare you express skepticism about the arithmetical details! You're lying about "my real plan" (which, however, I will not divulge). And, by the way, it's irresponsible for the government to spend money in order to keep the national economy from tumbling into the abyss.
Pretty bad, but he probably could have done better than poor, hapless Anne on "The View."
