So, Mitt Romney was allegedly cocky and obnoxious as a teenager, prone to moments of cruelty to other teens. Or, so says this flash-in-a-pan story. My, my, the president's pronouncement of support in favor of same-sex marriages didn't even take a day to become too stale for the media cycle. We've already moved on to the sophomoric behavior of a grown man back when he was, well, a sophomore.
I guess I have something in common with both candidates for president. Like the incumbent, my views on same-sex marriage have evolved. Like the challenger, I regret some of the things I did as a youth.
I guess that approximately 100 million other Americans could say the same thing.
We've got two men of character running for the highest office in the land. Both seem like principled human beings. Both are family men, well-spoken, well-educated. Why is there reluctance on the part of them, their advisers, or the media to move on from this silly side-show stuff and onto more substantive issues. If the news cycle has stooped now to claiming that Mr. Romney was a bit of a brat in high school, I content that we have hit the law of diminishing returns of side-show character issues. For the president and his challenger, can we just concede that there aren't really any instrumental issues of character and that, instead, there are important issues of vision, policy, and priorities that should dominate our national discourse?
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