Garry, Garry, Quite Contrary

Garrison Keillor laments the relative civility of the presidential race:

The candidates are hoping to be affable, brave, capable, decisive, electable, etc., but wit and combativeness are not evidently what Americans hope for in a leader; otherwise, the pollsters would have located this hope and measured it, and speechwriters would be assigned to write invective that truly lashes and makes the lashee weep for pain. Personally, I think it would be a blast.

From Riley, who as a good Quaker enjoys nothing more than a bloody brawl.