Conventional wisdom is made for one purpose and one purpose only. To be wrong.
The conventional wisdom last week was that Obama would wipe the floor with Romney and we all know how that turned out.
This week’s conventional wisdom is that Rep. Paul Ryan, a very smart, wonky, and articulate speaker will wipe the floor with human gaffe machine Vice President Joe Biden.
This is, of course, completely wrong. Why? Because it is almost impossible to beat someone who believes his own lies, I mean really believes them.
We certainly expect that in this debate between two baptized Catholics, a number of important issues about Catholic teaching and the attacks on the Church will be front and center.
In this debate you can expect …