Will GOP perp walk lead to W.H.? (Politico)

I am sick to death of the media?s scare tactics.

Which is why I nearly jumped out of my skin when CNN?s John King said during Wednesday night?s Republican debate, ?One of these men could be president 11 months from now.?

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It was enough to give one chills.

This was the 20th time the Republican hopefuls had debated, and they seemed to be looking for whole new ways to communicate.

How else could you explain the statement of front-runner Rick Santorum, who said at one point: ?I voted for that. It was against the principles I believed in.?

See what I mean? Santorum was operating on a whole different level: Anybody can vote for the things he believes in. Anybody can vote for things that are principled.

But it takes a man of real courage to vote for things that he neither believes in nor believes are principled.

At another point, Santorum said, ?I have a personal moral objection (to contraception), but I?ve voted for bills that included it, too.?

It was that kind of night. Everything had been said but not everybody had said it, and the 90-minute debate proved Einstein?s theory that time can actually slow down.

I would accuse the candidates of just going through the motions, but there was hardly any motion.

Scratch that. CNN began with my favorite part of these spectacles: The candidate perp walk. One by one, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul paced wearily onto the stage. If their suits had not been uniformly funereal in color, they would have resembled prisoners on a chain gang.

During the debate, they seemed so dispirited ? even when regurgitating their pre-tested attack lines ? that I expected to see Madame Defarge sitting in the front row of the audience knitting their names into a sweater.

One word sums it up: desultory. Which Google tells us means ?lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.?

I would have been happy with just one of the three.

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