Former Carter Speech Writer Goes For Mitt?

No, it isn't an endorsement. But it is interesting to read James Fallows take on last night's debate, especially given it was his first time looking in. Link

As soon as this evening's Florida debate ended, the MSNBC TV commentators were wondering how it would have looked to "someone who was seeing these candidates for the first time."

Why didn't they just ask me?

This is the first debate among the Republicans that I've seen at full length and in real time.* So factoring in all the expectations I'd gathered from coverage (Romney too weaselly, McCain really the strongest one, Huckabee a charmer, etc), how did it look?

Romney by a mile. More precisely, the only candidate you could imagine putting up a plausible general-election fight. Again, I'm not handicapping the GOP race, which I know nothing about. I'm not saying how each candidate did relative to previous appearances. I am telling you how this one debate looked if you had never seen these guys on the same stage before.

Comments

[IslamoLlama]

Horray! Romney looks Presidential!
Run Mitt Run!

[templar knight]

That a former Jimmah Carter speechwriter would endorce Mitty scares me even more. God forbid this man be our nominee.

[serfer62]

This is a diabolical twist of events. Fellows is a left leaning editor but a good writer.

Speech writers get instructions from thier boss not the other way around.

So templer knight (is that a game name?) be sure to hide under the bed tonight...

[Fred Beloit]

One little problem. Fallows has a demonstratively terrible track record for picking presidents. He picked Jimmah, the worst president in American history.