Once upon a time, I played a lot of football. Weighing less than 180 pounds, I wasn’t very powerful, but I was very quick. kind of like John McKay of USC, though John was a lot older than I am. John was a WW2 age. I was in the Army during Vietnam.
In my post football years, or to more accurately pin my age down, these days, in my grandfather years, I’ve switched to softball. To get to the games, I drive a 19 year old, 8 cylindar Mustang Convertible. Matter of fact, I drive it all around town; a little college town, I might add, where Tony Romo of the Cowboys played his college football.
Anyhoots, about 8 years ago, the school invited me to teach a little college course. So nice of them I thought. Something different and fun to do in my retirement years.
My wife thinks I still think I’m a 19 year old hot shot. Hates to ride with me in my car because every now and then some college kid with a cute coed next to him pulls up next to me at a stop light on the main drag in town.
Does anybody know where this is going?
No matter what kind of vehicle he’s driving, more often than not, he apparently gets this urge to beat me off the line when we’re stopped at a red light.
Now, I’m much too mature to try to show my manhood in such a childish way so I…Oh, excuse me. My wife will tell you I’m not mature at all.
So far, friends, nobody has ever beaten that Mustang off the line. It can run just as fast as I ask it to. Man, that’s fun.
Then there’s the football I used to play. Most of the time I had a second and third gear so if a receiver caught a pass, I could run them down. White . Black. Scatbacks. Wideouts. I could catch most anybody.
In a debate, how much mental sprinting speed do I have? Not nearly enough to be a great debater.
Some debaters think on their feet like they’re driving a four cylindar 1998 Ford Pinto. They’ve got no afterburners. If they were an engine, they’d have trouble accelerating.
As I see it, that’s the problem with Mitt Romney. He seems to think at one speed. A little faster than average.
Newt, on the other hand, thinks like a halfback that can run the forty in about 4.3 seconds.
Maybe the GOP race is a tossup. If that’s true, it’s because Mitt has a powerfully large source of funds, not because he has a powerful amount of brain power.
Obama, on the other hand, also has one mental speed. There’s no next gear. Of course when it comes to being a lying corrupt miscreant, Obama is far and away leading the pack. Which is why if Obama wins another term, he’s the odds on favorite to lead this country into oblivion.
