I look into the last pre-election issue of the National Review.  I expect I will have a bit of schaudenfruede at some things as they look about to various elections, but I’m too puzzled by some things to get there.

So there’s an article by Jay Nordlinger on Congressional candidate Tom Cotton of Arkansas.  Written in a kind of scat beat.  Full of weird incomplete sentences.  To show a certain hipness and excited enthusiasm or — WHAT IS THIS?

Skpping along pas the feature on Candidate Mourdock of Indiana — the most fascinating thing about the article is the formula of wrapping it around statements he made about Petyon Manning… and the same article format for candidate Mia of Utah — wrapped around half marathon running…

The cover article… something like the opposite problem with the article about Tom Cotton of Arkansas…  Pompous and serving no practical political purpose, I imagine it can be written about any Democratic candidate and it would be thus as meaningless…

It unfortunately isn’t online, which is a shame… no, I suppose I wouldn’t want to vote for such shadows in the bleak plasticity our darkened souls or whatever the hell Michael Knox Beran is talking about (at times I feel like I’m reading bad teen angst poetry with this one*) — — too bad Romney didn’t work to expose this problem of Obama’s governance — his first debate would have sank him instead of knocking Obama astride.
I see Jonah Goldberg has a new book out on how liberals stake out the claim of non-ideology “whatever gets things done” (like I’ve never seen conservative political figures do the  “good ol common sense” card).  Yeah.  Well.

* When I get the chance I’ll post up the particular piece of the article that brought that comparison to mind.

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