Romney on Letterman
By Norman Leahy | Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 | Culture, PoliticsMitt Romney takes time out to read his own Top Ten list on the David Letterman show. I’m not sure what to make of it…
And maybe I’m just an old fogey, but this remains the standard for presidential candidates who decide to appear on comedy shows:
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Norman Leahy
Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Post contributor.
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5 Responses to "Romney on Letterman"
Nixon was the gold standard, but Clinton did a pretty good job, too.
Love it! Maybe all those guys should play an instrument
and shut up on the late-night shows.
Nixon’s appearance on “Laugh-In” was precedent-setting. No presidential candidate had appeared on a TV comedy show before that moment, though many have since.
Producer George Schlatter offered Hubert Humphrey an opportunity to appear on the same show but Humphrey declined, saying it would be undignified.
Nixon won a couple of weeks later in one of the closest elections in American history. It’s possible that he gained a significant number of votes by challenging his own old-fogey image.
He made up for that later by wearing dress shoes and black socks on the beach, but that’s another story…
I wouldn’t call 32 states to 13 close.
By “close” I was referring to the popular vote. Nixon beat Humphrey by about 512,000 votes, or 0.7 percent.
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