Well, Peter, I’m pretty clueless about it, too. So why don’t you share all those great clues you have about what does need to be done to make our country’s future sustainable.

I’m all ears.

It would certainly be a lot more interesting than this constant rehash of Obama’s sins and flaws, which have retained pretty much the same sequence, content, and lack of any authoritative factual evidence since about July 2008.

Here are the relevant facts at the moment. Romney did very well and Obama did very poorly in the first debate. In consequence, Obama’s polling number have been, and still are, in free fall, leading to the clear conclusion that Romney has won both of the last two news cycles. If this continues, Romney will be President, if it doesn’t, Romney still might be President.

So since he might just win this election, I’d love to hear what evidence you have that Mitt Romney has the most important clues about what needs to be done to make this country’s future sustainable.

Again, I’m all ears.

And, since he actually might be President, I’d like to here what all the good folks here think of the things Romney has actually had to say about anything in this campaign. Are there any memorable nutshell quotes of his that have struck you about his vision for the future of America?

Or, failing that, do any of you “postmodern conservatives” have any ideas of your own about what the future of America might be or should be?

Other than, of course, that the first step would be to make Mitt Romney President. I think we can all take that for granted.

Yes he has. To bad he keeps letting that running commentary get distracted by his latest running commentary “why Georgia is a bigger threat to world peace than Iran and Romney put together.”

“LEHRER: New question, Mr. President, two minutes. You have said there was a, quote, “miscalculation,” of what the conditions would be in post-war Iraq. What was the miscalculation, and how did it happen?

…[in Bush's answer]: We’re making progress. It is hard work. It is hard work to go from a tyranny to a democracy. It’s hard work to go from a place where people get their hands cut off, or executed, to a place where people are free.”

That is, grammatically, an excuse for the “miscalculation”. I remember it as an implicit plea for sympathy because of his distinctive Bushian tone of voice and facial expression when he delivered these remarks (he was clearly on the defensive). (That memory MAY be inaccurate.)

You may place a different construction on this reality if you like, but there’s nothing dishonest or naive in mine.

I largely agree with Peter above, except for points 5 and 7. Re 5, see the always sensible conservative comments on Romney’s complete lack of regard for the truth by Daniel Larison at TAC, e.g. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/another-reason-not-to-trust-romney. Re 7, a lot of us think the recent empirical evidence just hollers out that Republican mainstream thought is even more clueless (think of that fellow who found it “hard” to be president above).

I’ve always thought that he didn’t actually want or expect to be president at this point, but found being a Senator a miserable job (as he’s apparently found every job he’s ever held) and wanted out. Running a campaign against sure-thing Hillary was an easy out, and would allow him to then resign his position “to concentrate on fixing the real problems out there beyond the Beltway” and set him up for a future run in 2012 or 2016. But then people actually fell for his nonsense, and then he was stuck.