Memo to Mitt: Send for Ian Poulter, Hero of the Ryder Cup

After watching Sunday’s epic comeback by the European team in the Ryder Cup, I think the solution for Mitt Romney’s problems is obvious. With his first prime-time showdown with Barack Obama just two days away, he needs to hire as his debate coach Ian Poulter, the strutting English peacock who inspired the Euros to pull a Jesus act.

On Saturday afternoon, Poulter and his colleagues were looking in even worse shape than Romney. With two four-ball matches left on the course, they were down by ten points to four points. They appeared bedraggled and beaten. The American players, inspired by their young “bombers”—Keegan Bradley, Bubba Watson, Webb Simpson, and Dustin Johnson—were playing great, and the Chicago crowd, the biggest ever, perhaps, at a Ryder Cup, were wearing out their vocal chords chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A.” From a European perspective, it was getting embarrassing.

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