The great gaffe

Jewish World Review ^ | 10/19/2012 | Charles Krauthammer

[Former Fetus]

Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckoning, no more than one provocation away from actual fisticuffs, of the kind that on occasion so delightfully break out in the Taiwanese parliament. Think of it: the Secret Service storming the ring, pinning Mitt Romney to the canvas as Candy Crowley administers the 10 count.

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The rub for Obama comes, ironically enough, out of Romney’s biggest flub in the debate, the Libya question. That flub kept Romney from winning the evening outright. But Obama’s answer has left him a hostage to fortune. Missed by Romney, missed by the audience, missed by most of the commentariat, it was the biggest gaffe of the entire debate cycle: Substituting unctuousness for argument, Obama declared himself offended by the suggestion that anyone in his administration, including the U.N. ambassador, would “mislead” the country on Libya.

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It was a huge gaffe. It is indelibly on the record. It will prove a very expensive expedient.

[SC_Pete]

It was a setup, Charles.

[Future Snake Eater]

Krauthammer has anti-embiggened himself with this editorial.

To use less oddball words, Krauthammer has diminished himself.

You can use "embiggens." It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[Travis McGee]

"Who the hell is Ben Gazzi?"

[LibLieSlayer]

I don’t dislike krauthammer personally... I dislike him parading as if he were an actual Conservative... which he is not.

LLS

[GOPJ]

I'm tired of our people participating in rigged debates.

I'm sick of our people having to pretend elite liberals are 'objective journalists'. They aren't. Rush Limbaugh's a journalist as much as Candy is... let him "pick the questions' and interrupt Obama 28 times... and defend Romney with prearranged documents. I'm sure the democrats would sit quietly by and not complain... /s

Journalism - as an honored profession - is dead.

[TomEwall]

“Reason: To call this a gaffe is to buy into the Inside The Beltway conventional Liberal wisdom. This was not a gaffe by Mitt Romney in ANY way to normal people in America.”

The gaffe was by Obama, was K’s point, not Romney. He wrote the Romney missed the chance to nail Obama on this point, which is true, but that he’ll have another chance on Monday, also true.

I think this will be an interesting thing to watch, if Romney is able to take advantage of the Obama Administration’s handling of Libya. So far, this has been a missed opportunity. Hopefully Romney will make the most of this on Monday.