IBP will be welcoming a number of guest bloggers in the coming months to report on the 2008 Presidential campaign, including the venerable C.W. Eversham, who has reported on every American presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower's re-election in 1956. No less an authority than author, Theodore White, once dubbed Eversham as "the crustiness on the American political baguette."
The telex has been chattering with missives all day from various and sundry second guessers, back seat drivers and Monday morning quarterbacks, questioning as to the howcomes and whyfors I did not foresee a Romney victory. The answer is simple. How can a rational man be expected to anticipate the actions of the ignoramuses who roam the countryside in this nightmarish State, which I was mercifully allowed to depart this evening.
However, I must add a note regarding the increasing coarsening of civility. I realize that the time when a respectable man would not dream of going out for so much as a walk in the park without a dress coat and proper hat is long gone. But today, when I arrived at the airport, I saw an apparent rummy, holding a sign suggesting that a certain presidential candidate be defecated upon. I made a point to flag down a passing constabulary and had that man arrested. And as much as the thought of returning again to Michigan before the passage of another four years sickens me, I will, as a matter of principal, return to testify against this dullard should the law so demand.
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