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Mitt’s Biggest Turnaround Yet
Romney wins the first debate so decisively, even liberals can’t deny it.
How decisively did Mitt Romney win Wednesday night’s debate? All you had to do was watch the most pro-Obama network to see it. “I personally do not know who won this debate,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said as soon as the debate ended. She was obviously the only one who didn’t know.
When Maddow brought on her colleague Ed Schultz, he moaned that President Obama “created a problem for himself tonight on Social Security. He agreed with Mitt Romney.… I thought he was off his game.” Nor did the president’s performance send a thrill up the leg of Chris Matthews. “I don’t know what he was doing out there,” Matthews complained. “He had his head down. He was enduring the debate rather than fighting it.”
If ever there were a night when conservatives wanted to watch MSNBC, this was it — an all-you-can-eat buffet of schadenfreude, as one after another of the liberal network’s personalities tried to come to grips with what was perhaps the most one-sided presidential debate since JFK beat a shifty-looking Richard Nixon in 1960. “In terms of debate tactics, Romney was on the offense most of the night,” a glum Howard Fineman acknowledged, while a shell-shocked Chuck Todd admitted that the result “automatically elevates Romney as a credible alternative” and later added, in reference to the Obama camp’s post-debate mood: “They know they lost tonight.”
Everybody knew it. The “flash” polls after the debate by CBS and CNN both showed that viewers scored it a win for Romney by better than 2-to-1 margins. John Hinderaker at the conservative Powerline blog said, “It wasn’t a TKO, it was a knockout. Mitt Romney was in control from the beginning. He was the alpha male, while Barack Obama was weak, hesitant, stuttering, often apologetic.” A similar view was shared by one of Obama’s most ardent fans in the blogosphere, Andrew Sullivan, who called the debate “a disaster for the president.” Sullivan derided the president’s “effete, wonkish lectures,” and concluded: “Obama looked tired, even bored; he kept looking down; he had no crisp statements of passion or argument; he wasn’t there. He was entirely defensive, which may have been the strategy. But it was the wrong strategy. At the wrong moment.”
The wrong moment for the Democratic incumbent perhaps, but absolutely perfect for Romney, who came into the debate after enduring a month-long media beatdown on his campaign. All the criticisms of the Republican convention, all the furor over the “secret video,” all the polls portending doom for Romney — all of this negativity became suddenly irrelevant in the wake of the GOP challenger’s decisive debate victory. Romney took charge from the outset, reacting to Obama’s opening barrage of accusations about taxes. “I’d like to clear up the record and go through it piece by piece,” Romney said. “First of all, I don’t have a $5 trillion tax cut.”
After defending himself, Romney then pivoted to focus onto Obama’s own economic record. “Under the president’s policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They’re just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I’ll call it the economy tax. It’s been crushing. At the same time, gasoline prices have doubled under the president. Electric rates are up. Food prices are up. Health care costs have gone up by $2,500 a family.”
It was these facts which flummoxed Obama. He kept trying to talk about his plans for the next four years, but Romney kept hammering the president’s record during the past four years, which undermined Obama’s credibility whenever he offered proposals for the future. This reality — that the president’s policies have been an abject failure — did not seem to register with Obama’s supporters on MSNBC, who afterwards complained about their man’s listless performance and also tried to blame moderator Jim Lehrer’s handling of the debate.
Admittedly, Romney scored points for style. He was aggressive, clear and specific and, in the superficial calculus by which candidates are measured in the TV age, he certainly looked presidential. Yet the style would have done Romney little good if he had not also delivered substance. “You raise taxes and you kill jobs,” he replied to Obama at one point. “That’s why the National Federation of Independent Businesses said your plan will kill 700,000 jobs. I don’t want to kill jobs in this environment.” Later, Romney accused the president of a “trickle-down government approach, which has government thinking it can do a better job than free people pursuing their dreams. And it’s not working. And the proof of that is 23 million people out of work. The proof of that is 1 out of 6 people in poverty. The proof of that is we’ve gone from 32 million on food stamps to 47 million on food stamps. The proof of that is that 50 percent of college graduates this year can’t find work.”
These are simply facts and, in a setting where Romney could point out the facts of Obama’s record directly to the people — with no intervening media filter — the one-sided nature of the debate perhaps shouldn’t have surprised anyone as much as it did. But the surprise was entirely pleasant for Romney’s supporters, including Reason magazine’s Matt Welch: “That wasn’t a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car.”
It will not be easy for the president to bounce back quickly from his debate debacle. The next scheduled debate is Oct. 11 between Vice President Joe Biden and Romney’s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, and Obama won’t meet Romney again until Oct. 16. In the meantime, Romney can expect to be riding a sudden surge of momentum, while the incumbent Democrat will just as suddenly find himself plagued by the same kind of gloomy poll numbers and naysaying criticisms that had hitherto been Romney’s problem. Of all the turnarounds Romney accomplished in his career at Bain Capital, perhaps none was so significant as the one he pulled off in 90 minutes last night.
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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FrankTrades| 10.4.12 @ 6:15AM
Barry Barak Hussein Unqualified O'Bama -- looked like he needed a ride home on top of Mitt's car.
spike59| 10.4.12 @ 6:23AM
i don't care who you are; that's funny right there
Jack in Wi| 10.4.12 @ 7:34AM
I think Romney did very well. From what I saw he looked like the professional and Obama was awful. His campaign has been horrible since at least the convention. Let us hope he keeps it up and turns this thing around. According to polls here he still has an uphill battle in this state.
Nick| 10.4.12 @ 5:33PM
Oh, stop it, Jackboot the Nazi.
Everyone knows that you were watching your personal collection of Nuremberg rally films last night.
Jack in Wi| 10.4.12 @ 8:04PM
Nick are you deranged again? I am not that intrested in this election. But hope Romney does better then he has been. We will see how he does on foreign policy? If he moderates his rhetoric he has a chance to win. He has to at least sound somewhat more sane then the neocons like you and Occam or he will surely lose. As I said before, a racist, bigot, and warmonger like you are, is no Christian. All you do is push wars and lies.
Alej| 10.4.12 @ 9:18PM
"I am not that intrested in this election."
Pieces of ambulatory shit like you are why eventually Texas will secede from this "union."
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.4.12 @ 3:17PM
If Romney wins, let's hope his foreign policy is a big improvement over Dubya's.
KyMouse| 10.4.12 @ 3:56PM
It can't help but be a big improvement over Obama's, which has been a disaster.
Most recently, the Benghazi debacle. At http://www.nationalreview.com/.....zi-editors , the editors ask why the White House took so long to admit that it was a terrorist attack:
"Was the White House wishfully guessing because it actually didn’t know or care about the conditions on the ground in a state in which it had intervened with precision-guided munitions to create, or was it telling tales as part of a shortsighted political calculation to keep the first assassination of a U.S. ambassador in 30 years from becoming a campaign issue down the home stretch?
"If it’s the former, it suggests a startling and dangerous disconnect between the administration’s diplomatic, intelligence, and political chains of command in a region critical to the national security of the United States.
"If it’s the latter, it reveals something just as dangerous: an administration willing to suppress the truth about the murder of Americans to protect its short-term political interests."
Controse| 10.4.12 @ 4:39PM
Give it a rest Obama, or whoever he is, fan. There is more to life than being a reliable "polly want a cracker" imitators such as yourself.
Alej| 10.4.12 @ 9:20PM
I think he wants a banana.
benny havens| 10.4.12 @ 6:51AM
It was like watching a CEO chastising a department manager for his business failure the previous quarter and it is now pink slip time.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.4.12 @ 8:11AM
I can just see his big ears flapping in the wind now.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 1:55PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Joellen| 10.4.12 @ 9:06PM
Tim is there are isnt there a contest tomorrow?
C Smith | 10.4.12 @ 10:58AM
Mind-boggling, the beguiled in hundreds of ABC News comments using the word "cult" regarding their "Messiah" Obama!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....bama-wept/
Cpm| 10.4.12 @ 2:39PM
Note that that is from 2008.
Frekki| 10.4.12 @ 11:29AM
He'd just sh-t all over it again.
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 10.4.12 @ 3:19PM
Okay- but make sure Mitt's foreign policy is good before he gets to write his memoirs!
SicSemperTyrannis | 10.4.12 @ 5:02PM
Just about any foreign policy will be an improvement over Obama & Shrillery's. Bush's was also better than Obama's.
In the words of the great imposter and lame debater Obama, "it's the economy, stupid". Every day I talk to business people and workers.None of them have mentioned foreign policy, except for our Libyan debacle recently, but they ALL talk about the economy and jobs.
George666| 10.5.12 @ 12:50AM
I don't think Mitt has yet written even one memoir let alone two like "THE ONE."
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 6:54PM
Did you see Mrs. Muslim, on Drudge?
He WISHES he could've rode home on the roof of Mitt's Car.
spike59| 10.5.12 @ 5:44AM
HILARIOUS!!!!! I'm thinking of making that shot my next desktop wallpaper...Her Royal Angriness was NOT amused
Deborah D| 10.4.12 @ 6:50AM
It was just an excellent showing by Mitt Romney. Let's remember: don't get cocky. Let's take this momentum all the way to the White House, but as Sarah Palin said last night -- the Obama campaign (and the media, but I repeat myself) will be coming after Mitt with whatever they have in these remaining weeks. Get your flak jacket on, Mitt, you're going to need it. God bless!!
drudge ette obama| 10.4.12 @ 6:56AM
That was the domestic policy debate? I can't wait for foreign policy.
Obama, there will be no sleep for you for the next 30 days. If you thought last night was a drag, we are waiting for the next debate - I bet you can't even finish it before you take your toys and run like hell, crying Mommie! Michelle!
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.4.12 @ 8:28AM
I agree, Republicans are celebrating as if Romney has already been elected. Sometimes, though, a basketball game is won in the final few seconds, and if Romney and his team get cocky and move in the direction of blandness, they could still those this thing with a last-minute Obama three-pointer. Sarah is right: the Mittster needs to keep his armor on, and should only take it off when the battle is finished.
Bill8472| 10.4.12 @ 11:35AM
It's more like Broncos fans celebrating a Broncos touchdown when the score is 20-12 against them.
benny havens| 10.4.12 @ 1:27PM
No. We are not cheering while being two TD’s behind. What happened last night shows three things.
1. This is what happens when there is no teleprompter.
2. This is what happens when you can’t make crap up as you go along.
3. This is what happens when an inexperienced celebrity tries to compete with a well accomplished professional CEO.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 1:57PM
Hear, hear.
Contest, tomorrow.
Look for it.
mike 3/505| 10.4.12 @ 9:42PM
+1
RCV| 10.4.12 @ 7:26PM
No, this is what happens when you make up crap as you go along. Romney just did it extremely well.
irish19| 10.4.12 @ 11:24PM
Nice try. Thanks for playing.
The only one making up crap as he went along was zero-who has been doing it for years. The difference was that this time he got called on it with no one around to save him. Lehrer tried, but couldn't.
Alej| 10.4.12 @ 9:23PM
"I agree, Republicans are celebrating as if Romney has already been elected."
No, just a breath of fresh air after 4 years of Democrat sewer gas.
spike59| 10.5.12 @ 5:46AM
not at all; Republicans are cheering because, FINALLY, the electorate gota chance to actually SEE Mitt Romney without the ObaMaofilter, and what made it doubly delicious is that the MSM couldn't do a damned thing about it, except to wail and sob afterwards
IzeHavitt| 10.4.12 @ 1:05PM
That's right, Deb. Let Mitt and his team be aware of the "Rope-A-Dope" strategy.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 1:59PM
We already had that. Last night.
Romney Roped that Dope, and Branded him with a well deserved "PATHETIC" Brand.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 6:52AM
Did anyone else notice the Cockroach, looking down at the floor, everytime the Light was shined on him?
He couldn't run away.
So, he just looked down at the floor.
Sunlight, truly is, the Best Disinfectant.
And, a good olde Fashioned Assbeating doesn't hurt, either.
Thank You, GOD.
chuck| 10.4.12 @ 7:27AM
Kind of reminded me of Clint Eastwood talking to the empty chair. Romney thoroughly kicked ass, and the Idiot-in Chief was left speechless. But then it is impossible to defend the indefensible, which is what little barry had to do last night.
DTOM| 10.4.12 @ 7:38AM
"If somebody can't do the job, ya just hafta let them go"
Mr. Eastwood framed it as generously and gently as it could be...
Don't Tread On Me
benny havens| 10.4.12 @ 1:31PM
A good man always knows his limitations.
spike59| 10.5.12 @ 5:48AM
QOTD for November 7:
"To hell with them
fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms"
Cobalt| 10.4.12 @ 7:47AM
Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair, and Romney talked to an empty suit.
Life is different for Obama without a teleprompter, and without soft, easy questions asked by his sycophants in the MSM.
I hope Obama, out of desperation, doesn't go ahead and start something with Iran, before November 6th. Valerie is not in a good mood today.
Overall, not a good night for the mulatto metrosexual.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 8:44AM
Candy Crowley will make up for the lack of softballs to Obamarx come the next debate.
DTOM| 10.4.12 @ 9:39AM
I'm figuring Romney will be armed with those Gingrich bombs for meddling, mouthy, moderators. It's not like she hasn't telegraphed her moves - Romney is a smart cookie who knows how to counterpunch. I say he'll be ready. Biggest question, will they take the audience out of the equation again like last night.
You do have to ask yourself; 'what would last night have been like if the audience could have responded?' My thought is that it would have given a lifeline to Obama. If they let the audience make noise at the next debate, the Gingrich approach to moderator maintenance will be effective...if no audience reactions, I'm not sure...
DTOM
Alej| 10.4.12 @ 11:13AM
The audience has been cautioned at every debate not to respond. They do, anyway.
This was in Denver... California East.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:42AM
She can try her Fat @ss off, Jack, but whatever else anyone wants to say about Romney, he is a Self-made Man. A Man of Accomplishments. A Man of Integrity. A Man of Faith, who seems to possess The Midas Touch in the Arena of Commerce, as well as the Understanding that, what GOD has given him, comes with a Responsibility to his Fellow Man.
His Charitable Contributions are off the charts.
He took No Salary for Running The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. No Salary as Governor of The Massholes. He also Pledged to take No Salary when he was running for the Senate Seat of Mary Jo Kopechne's Murderer.
The other guy?
I Guarentee he has his Name written on his Underwear in Magic Marker.
Gary B| 10.4.12 @ 1:04PM
Like I said, all Romney has to do is enter the room to class the place up. Obama is simple manure spreader. Finally, everyone can stop giving that do-nothing, adolescent cry baby the benefit of the doubt, like that gas bag Bill O'Reilly.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:03PM
Gasbag, indeed.
Contest, tomorrow, Gary B.
B there, or br Michelle's Girdle.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:04PM
Speaking of Mrs. Muslim?
Go look at the Picture on Drudge.
I thought that Sasquatch had wandered into the room.
loulou| 10.4.12 @ 2:26PM
An ogress.
Cpm| 10.4.12 @ 2:42PM
Aunt Esther.
mike 3/505| 10.4.12 @ 9:44PM
Like Fred said, "Ester, you so ugly, I could put your face in dough & make gorilla cookies!"
Pelleas| 10.4.12 @ 10:02PM
TLP
YOU ARE A FUCKING PIG
..AND..
At least Mrs. OBAMA has never claimed that God sent Hitler to punish the Jewish People....AS YOU HAVE
SWINE..!!
Anthony| 10.4.12 @ 11:43AM
I love that show about haulers who bid on hauling unusual items across America.
I'm so inspired, I've decided to quit my day job and become a hauler myself.
Beginners luck!!!I just made the winning bid to transport Candy Crowley to the next debate.
Is this a great country or what? I need to borrow vtwin's Obozo tire gague so my tires don't blow out.
I'm kinda new at this, and I don't know all the ropes. Maybe I need to tape Crowley's mouth shut during the transport as well. Any suggestions?
Watch for me on next weeks episode.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 12:08PM
Take vtwin along. He can blow the tires up for you. Won't even need a pump.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:12PM
And, if you do?
He'll pump you.
And, of you're lacking in any Suction?
Well, you get the picture.
Mike G| 10.4.12 @ 10:14AM
"I hope Obama, out of desperation, doesn't go ahead and start something with Iran, before November 6th. "
Yeah, I agree. We have to consider the possibility. The idea scares the hell out of me!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:18PM
Valerie Jarrett is FROM Iran.
He's Hamas' Deliveror. Sent by their God of Rape, Pedophiloa, and Murder, to Destroy Israel, and Deliver Israel - and their little girls - back into Muslim hands.
It ain't gonna happen.
A. C. Santore| 10.4.12 @ 12:39PM
Cobalt: Good points.
Here's another for your teleprompter part: Obama said with a straight face that a candidate has an obligation to tell the voters what he plans to do.
Yet Obama himself hid all of his nefarious plans from the electorate, save one - redistributing wealth, and that in an unguarded no-teleprompter moment of madness hours before the election.
St Reformed| 10.4.12 @ 12:53PM
"Obama said with a straight face that a candidate has an obligation to tell the voters what he plans to do."
Please, Mitt, during the foreign policy debate: Ask Dear Leader what he meant (during his "open mic" gaffe) by telling the Russian President that, after his next election, he will be "more flexible."
irish19| 10.4.12 @ 11:32PM
Wouldn't that be fun.
Oblowme has exactly 2-3 things he can point to for foreign policy: Bin Laden, getting the troops out of Iraq, and increased drone strikes.
Romney could counter with the increased body count (ours) in Afghanistan that the media seems to have missed and the increased collateral damage from the drone strikes. I doubt, however, that jugears will tout his Mideast/AfPak "successes" too much with Benghazi still fresh in people's minds. Look for another blowout here.
junkyard infidel| 10.4.12 @ 10:43AM
more empty rhetoric from the empty suit that sits in the empty chair and stands behind an empty podium ! lil' berry hussein soetoro is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure !
IzeHavitt| 10.4.12 @ 1:08PM
Re. The Eastwood Episode: I understand the chair-as-prop thing was impromptu. Had he had more time, an empty suit in the chair would have been perfect. But then , last night illustrated that fact rather nicely. Go, Mitt!!!
Alan| 10.4.12 @ 7:59AM
You take the telepromptor away from this piece of sh!t and he's just that, a piece of sh!t. Even his butt barnacles in the pravda press couldn't defend the feces.
Von Mises Jr| 10.4.12 @ 8:22AM
He got shellacked, REAL GOOD. Michelle allegedly admitted that he schruggled.
His body language was hilarious. While Mitt looked aggressively at and took the Professor to school, Obama stared downward, made facial gestures of acceptance of the facts and nodded to agree. The responses by the smartest man ever to live in the White House were absolutely incoherent.
CJW| 10.4.12 @ 8:33AM
Von
O is not used to being questioned and challenged. He cannot defend his domestic record and foreign policy with any facts or logic. He can only blame Bush.
Biden should call in sick, Ryan will demolish him.
Did you see Romney used Biden's line that the middle class was buried the past four years.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 8:40AM
"Michelle allegedly admitted that he schruggled"
That comment had me "schruggling" to keep my coffee in my mouth.
Heh!
Von Mises Jr| 10.4.12 @ 9:13AM
Michelle was so disappointed, she said Barry must practice at master-debating.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:45AM
I'll say it, again.
Let's save those Funny Things for Tomorrow's Contest.
I'd hate to have you show up empty handed.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 9:50AM
Unlike obama who showed up last night with one full hand, according to Von.
Ok.Ok.Ok. I promise T, I didn't shoot the full load. I'll save some for tomorrow.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:27AM
Are you coming on to me?
Von Mises Jr| 10.4.12 @ 10:02AM
Sorry TLP. I can't help myself.
BTW, where the hell is Perp and sh!tgr!n?
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:26AM
Sh*tgrin?
You're really gonna have to narrow that down a little.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:28AM
p.s. Is he coming on to me?
Drunken Sailor| 10.4.12 @ 10:42AM
My guess is they tied on one after seeing the debate and are still sleeping off their misery.
Von Mises Jr| 10.4.12 @ 11:06AM
I wonder if those metrosexuals are holding each other for support.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:21PM
I wonder if she's got him Hogtied in her Underwear, and coming at him with her Free Vibrator?
Cat Shot| 10.4.12 @ 8:34AM
Not only was the emperor naked, he was caught playing with himself.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 8:41AM
That explains why he was looking down all night.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:48AM
And, just like that, I need a New Framework for Tomorrow's Contest.
Crap.
mike 3/505| 10.4.12 @ 9:46PM
Beach Scene....hardy, har, har, har!
Stephie| 10.4.12 @ 8:42AM
Looking down and pretending to scribble notes while Romney keep his gaze on obama. It was a sight to behold, seeing the cocky self absorbed fool brought down a peg or two.
I feel heartened by last nights debate.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:54AM
It's getting to be Contest Time.
Hope you're ready.
Cause I heard Joellen say that she was gonna Kick Your @ss!
No. My mistake. It was Bill Maher telling The Muslim that He was gonna Kick His @ss.
Except that it wasn't Kick. It was Lick.
Something about $50, I think.
What were we talking about?
Joellen| 10.4.12 @ 6:57AM
Deborah - and we too should be armed with information whenever the liberal/socialist media try to "Saul Alinsky", which they will, the failures of Obama. What occured last night is not a surprise to those of us who "got" Obama from day one. The man wouldnt even look up or look into the camera - he looked liked what he was CAUGHT!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:01AM
Did you see where Stephie's up there Predicting a Huge Victory, tomorrow?
Sounds like she's just thrown down the Gauntlet. (One of those Frilly Gauntlets, with the Silk Liner, and the Turquoise Beads along the top. You know - A Lady's Gauntlet.)
This is getting interesting.
I'm thinking Cat Fight.
Joellen| 10.4.12 @ 9:09PM
Tim, contest tomorrow:)
Joellen| 10.4.12 @ 6:58AM
HA Tim - you and I and millions of others noted that the coward knew he was trapped - so he could only look down.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 8:55AM
Tomorrow.
This Debate will be the Subject Matter, for what I predict will be The Best One Ever, again.
Now, put that Glamour Magazine, and Study.
mike 3/505| 10.4.12 @ 10:00AM
I'll stop by the Class VI store and pick up a bottle of Dahlmor to get my creative juices flowing. Looking forward to tomorrow.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:03AM
Tomorrow.
Be There!
This Debate will be the Subject Matter, for what I predict will be The Best One Ever, again.
Now, put that Glamour Magazine, and Study.
mike 3/505| 10.4.12 @ 10:27AM
It's an EEA Magazine...When you figure out what that is, I'll take you flying in the plane I'm building. I'll be there!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:26PM
Really?
I am an Air Force Vet.
Let's see.....................EEA Magazine.
Enlightened Effeminate Assh*les Magazine?
mike 3/505| 10.4.12 @ 9:49PM
Now I gotta come kick your....Well I would ifn' I ever get off the injured reserve list. Side note....wanna side bet on USAFA v Army. I won't bet on winning given Army's performance...but I will bet on the spread...I don't think it should be any more than 30 points. :-(
7-08| 10.4.12 @ 7:06AM
I will wager that even entertaining thoughts of Ann Coulter couldn’t keep the jug eared Marxist from being impotent twice in one night.
chuck| 10.4.12 @ 7:29AM
I'm thinking his fantasies are more along the line of some effeminate guy.......maybe George Stephanopolis.
jothepro| 10.4.12 @ 7:08AM
Thank You Mitt Romney for showing us you ARE a leader...
Doctor Right| 10.4.12 @ 7:31AM
Looks like a lot of Libs looked at Obama last night and asked "Where are his clothes??"
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:05AM
And, just like that, I have to come up with a Different Theme for Tomorrow's Meeting of the Movie Minds.
DTOM| 10.4.12 @ 7:41AM
Mr. McCain in the 1960 debate, the consensus was that radio listeners gave the debate to Nixon, the TV viewers gave it to Kennedy.
Nobody, anywhere scored an Obama victory last night. Nobody.
Don't Tread On Me!
Nancy in NC| 10.4.12 @ 7:53AM
Obama looked so lame even the lamestream media couldn't defend him. He really missed his best friend, the teleprompter, and boy, did it show!
Would loved to have been the fly on the wall last night when Michelle took him to the woodshed. Wonder is she is still proud to be an American.
JP| 10.4.12 @ 8:20AM
A few pooints:
1)Mitt forced the President and the MSM to admit that it is Obama who is the incumbent. President Obama has campaigned like he was the challenger. Until last night he ignored the fact that he and his party gave us ObamaCare/Dodd Frank and the EPA's attack on cheap energy.
2)Mitt's appeal last night was to the fence sitters. Those in the mushy middle now not only can see Mitt without the filter of the MSM, they can also see Obama without the teleprompter
3)It would have been even better if Mitt reminded voters (with winter approaching) that Obama's administration is forcing 200 coal powered power plants to shut down. In this regard, he could have mentioned the Ohio/Pennsylvania coal industries which the EPA has targeted. Ohio may determine the next President.
4)The domestic policy debates was supposed to be Obama's strongpoint. If he cannot do well here, it will be even more difficult with foreign policy.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 8:44AM
Oh but he killed Laden.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:05AM
And our Economy. Our Dollar. Our Credit Rating. Our Position in the World. Our Military's Hard Fought Gains in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our Space Agency - NASA. Our Home Values. Our Incomes. Our Present. And, our Children's Futures.
All these things he's killed.
But, don't worry.
"After I don't have to go through another Election, I'll have more latitude."
Capiche?
Jade12| 10.4.12 @ 9:19AM
Great answer Tim. I love your posts!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:08AM
Then, come to my Contest Tomorrow.
You like Movies, don'tcha?
Look for Directions in the Morning.
And, Welcome to our Family.
Mike G| 10.4.12 @ 10:26AM
You keep posting about this context. What are you talking about?
Mike G| 10.4.12 @ 10:26AM
Oops...contest is misspelled.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:31PM
Keep you're eyes, and your Spellcheck Button, open.
I will guide you to the spot.
Go to last Friday's Matt Purple Column, and check it out.
The KEY is the name of the person's house.
You sound like a smart (?) Boy.
You'll figure it out.
loulou| 10.4.12 @ 11:54AM
You have to show up tomorrow.
Anthony| 10.4.12 @ 9:32AM
Tisk, tisk, Bob, Obozo can't be brag'n nomo about doing Osama dirty.
Four Dead in Lybia: It ain't the video Obama, it was you bragging on Osama.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 9:53AM
True dat!!! (tr. I concur)
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:12AM
Have we "Had the Pleasure" of your Prescence at our little Friday get together?
See you tomorrow?
Mike G| 10.4.12 @ 10:28AM
Is he going to condemn the movie about the killing of Osama when it comes out? You know the movie I'm talking about, the one he cooperated in making by giving the filmmaker access to top secret information.
loulou| 10.4.12 @ 11:56AM
Director Kathryn Bigelow needs to be brought up on charges.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:34PM
If you took this to it's Logical Conclusion?
The Son of the Atheist Communist, and the Muslim Marxist, should Arrest Himself for Spiking the Football.
Houdini| 10.4.12 @ 10:05AM
Mitt really exposed the American public to the lack of wardrobe on Obama's part. I imagine Mitt knew he was so far ahead that he decided to save some ammo for the next two debates. The most fun of the evening was watching the MSM squirm.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:13AM
Tomorrow.
Contest.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 8:46AM
Let me tell you, my friends, when you have Bill "I'll pay you 50 buck to let me lick your ass cheeks, Mr. President" Maher bemoaning how bad Obamarx did, the anointed one is in trouble. Too early to gloat, but a satisfying start for our side.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 8:49AM
And for an even more satisfying start to your day, go take a look at Tingles meltdown last night. Sweet, sweet, sweet. I think he, Maddow, and Schultz are probably having a circle jerk back in the hotel room just to cheer themselves up.
Bob Grant| 10.4.12 @ 8:58AM
Rachel Maddow being the pivot man?
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:10AM
Lets save it for The Contest, boys.
Besides - If Mahr will pay Bojangles $50 to Lick his A@sscheeks? What did he do after giving him $1,000,000?
I'm thinking that he gave our Effete Muslim Boy a Colonoscopy with his Tongue.
Pecos Pete| 10.4.12 @ 12:48PM
Oh dear me.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:36PM
Hey!
Get back in your Foxhole!
See you Tomorrow, buddy.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 4:07PM
Tim, got my first ever entry ready for the contest. Don't be changing the subject between now and then. BTW, some of us, me included, don't do movies.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 4:07PM
Tim, got my first ever entry ready for the contest. Don't be changing the subject between now and then. BTW, some of us, me included, don't do movies.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 4:07PM
Tim, got my first ever entry ready for the contest. Don't be changing the subject between now and then. BTW, some of us, me included, don't do movies.
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 4:08PM
Geez, how did I do that?
KennesawJack| 10.4.12 @ 9:51AM
Of course. Her's is a bit more flexible, being latex and all.
Cobalt| 10.4.12 @ 9:30AM
Tingles's wife (Kathleen Matthews) works for Marriott International (chief communications and public affairs officer).
The Marriott family is Mormon.
JimP| 10.4.12 @ 9:00AM
Wonderful. Romney was on his game while Obama came across as a defeated man, with nothing to offer. Nothing! Has any incumbent President ever given such a performance in a debate, or anywhere else? I guess his internal polls show he's going to lose, so he put no effort into preparing. Either way he obviously put no effort into preparation at all. Amazing, especially from a POTUS.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:11AM
"FACTS ARE HARD THINGS."
Indeed.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:15AM
Actually, that should've read: "Facts are Stubborn things".
AlandoyoumakeanyMaxiPadsthatwillcovermyass?Brooks' Frozen Bananas are hard.
I wonder why he would want Hard Bananas?
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 9:16AM
Sounds like a Future Contest Prize, if you ask me.
Bill8472| 10.4.12 @ 11:32AM
So it IS in your mouth!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:41PM
He's so Classy.
Isn't he?
Our resident Muslim Religion of Peace, and 9 Year Old Girls, SOLD to 70 Year Old Afghanistan Opium Growers, for two Goats, and a Chicken, idiot.
Let's all give him a big hand.
JimP| 10.4.12 @ 9:23AM
"AlandoyoumakeanyMaxiPadsthatwillcovermyass?Brooks'
ROTFL!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:15AM
Contest tomorrow, Jimmy Boy.
Join us.
Anthony| 10.4.12 @ 9:33AM
"Who stole my g-ddamn teleprompter"?????
PCC| 10.4.12 @ 10:22AM
The actual quote by John Adams (I think) is "facts are stubborn things".
Jade12| 10.4.12 @ 9:22AM
Mr. Romney kept on the offense and keep pounding away at him WITH FACTS!!!
Obama and the Dems can't deal with facts!
PAVega| 10.4.12 @ 1:48PM
He also did a good job in explaining the consequences of thoe "facts" for all to see.
Anthony| 10.4.12 @ 9:27AM
Folks, please do not post any further comments today here at TAS, we need to keep the hot line open for Purp and vtwin so they do nothing untowards to themselves.
Somebody please remove vtwin's tail pipe on his tricycle so he doesn't suck on it. And we need the doctors who post here to help remove Purp's head from his ass.
Who Knows?| 10.4.12 @ 9:35AM
Obama is the epitome of what Gertrude Stein had to say about Oakland, California—
There’s no there, there.
By the way, Intrade was up from 26% to 32% Romney right after the debate, and has been holding. If one wants to put their money where their political mouth is, why not go there and place a little bet on Romney?
In the next 12 days, at least, until the next presidential debate, as the news of the Romney coming out party AND unmasking of Obama, it seems to me that the future polls should show SOME gain for Mitt. Keep in mind the genius George Soros.
He wrote a book on reflexivity, and I’ll bet dollars to donuts that he’s at least partly behind Intrade’s heavy betting for Obama. By “investing” some of his billions (possibly) on BHO, and skewing the influential money poll, he makes it look like Obama IS a shoo in.
So, it’s in the GOP’S vital interest to take the opposite bet, and get Intrade more in line with the other polls---at least.
I feel like I willingly bent over, and was spanked on my bare butt, by grudgingly spending 90 minutes with The One’s face on my TV. God, what a poor excuse for a human being!
Perhaps, when all is weighed, the most useful result for a lot of swing voters will transcend policies, and just SEEING the contrast between the two contenders will yield---
Obama is small.
Romney is large.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 10:23AM
In keeping with the whole "Obama is Small/Romney is Large" thingy?
As far as the Gertrude Stein thing, about there not being any there, there?
Are you sure that wasn't DOTTY STEIN, after looking down the front of Ben's Pants?
WRTolkas| 10.4.12 @ 9:52AM
Note to Mr. Romney:
"All victory is fleeting."
Note to supporters of Mr. Romney:
Don't get the "Victory Disease."
This fight ain't over by a long shot. OK, we won the first round: two more rounds to go. Ethelred the Unready can only get better than last night's performance. Be on guard.
Louis Jenkins| 10.4.12 @ 9:53AM
Perhaps Obama was looking down on the un-emloyed. Whatever, Romney was loaded for bear and it showed. I noticed in a pre-debate interview Obama seemed kind of down, not at all bubbly. The spell carried over into the debate, and of course, without the teleprompter Obama couldn't even joust against windmills. The question now is can Romney maintain his stature? Or will Obama be prepared for the next debate? Has Obama truly dug his hole too deep to defend it? Can't wait til the next debate.
cowgirl| 10.4.12 @ 10:00AM
Hope and Change was crying about Romney "hiding" his plans for cutting taxes and fixing the economy. Yeah. Great comeback from the guy who will not release his grades...
Riff Raff| 10.4.12 @ 11:50AM
I would not believe Obama's grades now if he did release them. They would no doubt be forged, as were his birth certificates.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:58PM
And, his Documents on the BP Oil Spill, to a Federal Judge.
Kingofthenet| 10.4.12 @ 10:24AM
Mitt kept claiming the President was 'Mis-characterizing' him, that's impossible as Mitt never actually characterized himself or his positions.
Alej| 10.4.12 @ 11:24AM
Riposte from the Peanut Gallery. Impressive !
Paul McGrath| 10.4.12 @ 11:51AM
On September 1, 2012, under the blog post titled, "Michelle Malkin is a Racist Like Me," by Quin Hillyer, Kingofthenet wrote this:
Kingofthenet| 9.1.12 @ 1:38PM
Michelle practices YELLOW Journalism, I would say the SLANT to her work is obvious. I would not pay even 5 dollar, for her 'work' because it never leaves me with a HAPPY ENDING.
loulou| 10.4.12 @ 12:07PM
Kingofthenet is filth.
I ignore him/her/it.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:57PM
Good for you.
You get it.
Riff Raff| 10.4.12 @ 11:00AM
The only surprise last night was the "Media" admitting that OBozo lost. For four years of candidacy and presidency, Obama has demonstrated clearly that he simply cannot speak extemporaneously. Without his teleprompter, Obama is lost and confused. This stems from Obama's core unintelligence. The man is not very bright. He has no achievements of any kind. Even is highly touted "education" is fundamentally fraudulent. Barack Obama was an affirmative action Columbia student, an affirmative action Havard Law student, and is now an affirmative action President. Barack Obama is incompetent and unaccomplished. He himself revealed this last night, quite pathetically. Without the media carrying his water, he would be laughed out of the campaign.
WRTolkas| 10.4.12 @ 11:20AM
Dear Riff Raff:
I am adding your commentary to my list of memorable comments.
Riff Raff| 10.4.12 @ 11:51AM
Thanks!
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 2:59PM
Contest, tomorrow.
Bill8472| 10.4.12 @ 11:27AM
There's one additional set of considerations to Barack Obama as an affirmative action child: how did he manage to keep from flunking out of Columbia and Harvard? How did he land a job, even a job as an adjunct instructor, at a good school like the U. of Chicago?
Some group of teachers thought it was valuable to keep giving him passing grades in his courses. There were probably a few teachers with academic integrity at those schools who didn't follow the mainstream and that's as good a guess as any as to why Obama won't release his college transcripts.
But the bottom line is that there were (and undoubtedly are) people at Harvard and Columbia and U. of Chicago who wanted him to have Ivy League credentials.
And in the end, look what their plan achieved; he got to be President. So maybe he actually DID have something compelling that made it worthwhile to guide him gently through the Ivy League halls.
PolishKnight| 10.4.12 @ 12:05PM
I have it (and it relates to why Mitt won last night). Ready?
He's good looking.
Although feminists have griped that women supposedly were held to a beauty standard, Americans want their leaders to look like football captains. And Obama fit the bill. He could wink and smile his way through classes, get plain looking girls to help him with his homework (guess how Bill Clinton got through school?) and won elections because people like voting for good looking people.
When I turned on the TV last night, I thought Obama was a senior citizen. He looks old and haggard. I don't think he realized his policies would be a flop and even for a friendly media, it takes a lot to keep this naked emperor, so to speak, from collapsing. Mitt is young and ready to take him down. He's not some old "good ol' boy" such as McCain who didn't want to make waves for his opponents. Mitt's an "outsider" at least in the context that he isn't used to hanging around with Obama in the Senate as McCain did.
Expect to see Obama's gray gone by next debate.
Robert| 10.4.12 @ 2:59PM
n.b. - Mitt is 14 years older than obama.
PolishKnight| 10.4.12 @ 4:57PM
And Roger Moore is older than Sean Connery but which looked younger? Mitt LOOKS younger or at least more energetic. Also, that gray hair for Obama is not making him look more dignified. The problem is that if he gets a "Just for Men" treatment, everyone will be talking about it.
Cobalt| 10.4.12 @ 12:13PM
Sunni, Obama, Saudi, money
HR| 10.4.12 @ 11:25AM
Clear, concise, and direct as usual, sir! You're always a pleasure to read.
But I think the quote being attributed to Mr. Welch was actually a "retweet" of the quip from The Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway ?
Jive Bomber| 10.4.12 @ 11:41AM
Romney beat Obama like a rented mule and I don't mind saying that it sends one helluva tingle up my leg.
Vic| 10.4.12 @ 12:20PM
I almost felt at times like Obama was going to burst out in tears after the shellacking Mittster gave him. Message for Obozo - It is sometimes ok to cry when being handed a pink slip. And that is something Romney knows how to do best!! haha
C Smith | 10.4.12 @ 12:04PM
What we saw last night, not the debate but what followed, was a phenomena as old as evil itself, EVIL CONSUMING ITSELF. The priests and oracles of "Messiah" Obama Matthews, Schultz, Sullivan... consuming their own like "... the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east [as they] lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude " (Judges 7:12) when Gideon and his less then elite delta force of three hundred men blew the trumpet....
http://popularapostasy.blogspo.....tself.html
Pecos Pete| 10.4.12 @ 12:57PM
CS: Sort of like the French Revolution when, in the end, everybody lost their heads.
Seek| 10.4.12 @ 12:21PM
I'd give a slight -- I repeat, slight -- edge to Romney. He and Obama both performed well. Perceptions, of course, differ. Partisans for each side, as could have been predicted, are aggressively insisting their candidate "won." No surprise there.
I'm glad Romney did well. But the idea that he routed Obama is based on wishful thinking, not reality. I'm planning to vote for Romney. But unlike Robert Stacy McCain, I try to be halfway objective.
TLP| 10.4.12 @ 3:06PM
Seek would give the Germans a Slight - I repeat - Slight advantage, to the Germans, over the Poles - in WWII - right after they Blitzkreiged Poland.
Because, he's an Idiot.
Seek| 10.5.12 @ 4:53PM
Nice to know that you're being your usual menacing, tasteless self, TLP.
Much as I pulled for Romney, I've seen this scene before: Emotionally-charged conservatives seeing a minor victory as a knockout, setting themselves up for a letdown later on. One debate doesn't tell the full story. It will win over some of the undecided, and even then not necesarily permanently. Both sides did reasonably well, with an edge to Romney. But a titanic triumph? Gimme a break. Wishful thinking isn't real thinking.
St Reformed| 10.4.12 @ 12:46PM
Matthews complained. "He had his head down. He was enduring the debate rather than fighting it."
Tingles went on to brag that Obama really should be listening to his excretable program "Hardball" more often. "We brought our knives," lamented Chris. So much for civility.
Prior to the next showdown, perhaps Obama should visit with Matthews' biggest pal, Johnnie Walker.
Pecos Pete| 10.4.12 @ 12:59PM
Oh dear, now 1300 ET and still nothing posted by the Village Idiots. I wonder why?
dickdata| 10.4.12 @ 1:37PM
If you think that this was the worst drubbing anyone took in a debate in the last 50 years, you must not have watched the first Kerry/Bush debate. Kerry, of course, had already LOST the election, as has Romney, in all likelihood.
Robert| 10.4.12 @ 3:04PM
As the winner said to the loser, "I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about!"
BackToBasics| 10.4.12 @ 3:43PM
All the lead democrats and the MSM were already saying tha Romney would beat Obam in the debate. So, Obam may just have been playing along thinking they'd carry his water for him regardless of how he did.
If this is what he was doing he greatly overplayed it. This has been his history so he just didn't "fully" realize just how poorly he did and thought it wouldn't matter anyway.
Butch| 10.4.12 @ 3:53PM
Looks like Obama picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Kingofthenet| 10.4.12 @ 5:19PM
Like most NeoCons here Romney has no decency, I think it took the President back, that someone could lie like that. You republicans are WHORES, willing to sell out ALL your beliefs to win, So Whores what did you like BEST last night? The part where your man is going to keep all the GOOD things in ObamaCare, except the way to pay for it? Or maybe it was the complete repudiation of ANY Conservative idea, Mitt was running on for the last 16 months?
Nick| 10.4.12 @ 5:26PM
Someone finally got their talking-points, huh?
Are you that far down the list, KooK?
Are you gonna' cry now?
JD| 10.4.12 @ 5:55PM
I guess all the leftists who say Obama isn't liberal enough can't vote for him. Kingofthenet said so!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.4.12 @ 9:02PM
King, should it be spelled "WAAAAHHH" or "Waaaannhhh"?
timoshev| 10.4.12 @ 5:23PM
Well, we all suspected that the Orator-In-Chief might be adrift without a paddle without his dual teleprompter screens and we were SO RIGHT!!!
7-08| 10.4.12 @ 5:52PM
This will build as a Romney swing but the nail in the coffin will not be the next presidential debate but the VP debate with Ryan taking Uncle Joe to school. It is the economy stupid, and if you look in the dictionary under “stupid” plugs will be the accompanying picture. You think Romney economically enlightened the Marxist? There is no greater instructor on the monetary dynamics than Ryan - the democrats better allot some funding for a stool, a dunce cap and a corner for the hapless Biden.
Kingofthenet| 10.4.12 @ 8:32PM
Mitt has more positions than the Kuma Sutra.
Riff Raff| 10.5.12 @ 9:27AM
That would be "Kama Sutra." Apparently you know even less about... well, THAT, than politics. Of course on the other hand, President Bozo has only one position: Take other people's money and spend it buying votes for himself. Clearly, you support corruption and vice, legalized theft for brazenly political purposes, and the destruction of the economy to promote the egos of corrupt politicians. You are a pathetic little loser, and even stupider than the inept and cretinous President Bozo.
BobbyBee| 10.6.12 @ 12:16AM
Romney's victory over the communist, Obummer, was MacArthur's victory over the communists at Inchon all over again.