The conservative economist opines about the recent U.S. presidential election: "Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential
candidates favored by the Republican establishment-- nice, moderate
losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many
ad hoc talking points they may have."
He argues that while President Obama had a coherent albeit flawed vision, Mitt Romney did not: "The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes back at
least as far as 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey ran against President Harry
Truman. Dewey spoke in lofty generalities while Truman spoke in
hard-hitting specifics. Since then, there have been many re-runs of this
same scenario, featuring losing Republican presidential candidates John
McCain, Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and, when he ran for reelection, George
H.W. Bush."
Thomas Sowell Op-Ed: Nice Losers
