GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - - It is a vast, echoing college gymnasium not unlike any other vast, echoing college gymnasium: cinderblock walls, basketball hoops, and fierce overhead lighting.
There is a difference, however, between this gym and most gyms. On this night, this gym at St. Anselm College is packed with the most talented political journalists in America.
Continue ReadingThere are the old and wise heads, who have covered many of these presidential primary races, whom I shall not name out of deference to their tenuous hold on their careers.
And there are the bright and fresh faces, who bring new and discerning eyes to this year?s contest, whom I shall not name because I hate them.
But the real question I have is this one: Is the Republican field worthy of the press that covers them?
Saturday night, after the first of two debates leading up to Tuesday?s New Hampshire primary, it remains an open question.
Six men, warily dressed as funeral directors, walked out onto the debate stage, five of them with only one mission: take down Mitt Romney.
Romney, who (probably) won the Iowa caucuses, leads prohibitively not only in the New Hampshire race, but also in South Carolina, which follows.
So it was going to be five against one. The press, which gives away its insights every day for free, predicted a brawl. Four of the five would attack Romney verbally, while Newt Gingrich might actually sink his teeth into Romney?s leg.
But if there is one thing that marks the press, it is our unquenchable optimism.
And, once again, our hopes were dashed. The debate seemed old and tired within minutes of its start. The moderators did what moderators are supposed to do: They encouraged the candidates to brawl.
But the five non-Romneys appeared more interested in trying out for the job of Romney?s vice president.
Even one of Romney?s most bitter opponents, Rick Santorum, had to satisfy himself with grammatical attacks.
Romney had used the extremely common term ?middle class,? and Santorum reacted as if Romney had spray-painted a dirty word on the Statue of Liberty.
?There are no classes in the United States!? Santorum said in a withering tone. ??Middle income people,? maybe.?
Wow, what a fight to pick.
Ron Paul did bait Gingrich - among others -?for never having served in the military, and, naturally, Gingrich took the bait.
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