A long time ago I got a fortune cookie which had the following message: "If your head and your heart agree, you are seldom wrong." Interestingly, I have had this adage proven correct many times since. My last post here discussed the Paul Ryan pick for the V.P. slot on the Republican ticket and concluded that it was a decision of the head and not of the heart ... as a Marco Rubio selection would have been. To me, this had clearly diminished Mitt Romney's chances of being elected President.
The reason that I had thought this is that I believe that the American people too often vote using their emotions and not their logic. However, seeing the enthusiasm at some of the Romney/Ryan rallies over the weekend, has moved the needle somewhat away from my initial conclusion. Also, some of the talking heads on television have pointed out that, recently both in liberal New Jersey and Wisconsin, voters have responded to cerebral arguments about the economic futures of their states. There, they have elected fiscally conservative politicians who have treated them like adults ... and leveled with them about what would happen if meaningful austerity measures were not enacted. And so, although I still believe that the upcoming campaigns will be over-loaded with emotional vitriol, I now believe that the Republicans may still have an outside chance of prevailing.
Incidentally, the last fortune cookie I broke open said, "If all you do is hope, change is dangerous."
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