Quote from AK Forty Seven:
The media has been saying that Romney lied the entire debate since the debate ended...bye bye bump
not even close.. click around on realclearpolitics... half the media has articles likes this..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ee5b92-0e65-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html
Reelection campaigns after a failed presidential term â so failed that Obama barely even bothers to make the case, preferring to blame everything on his predecessor â hinge almost entirely on whether the challenger can meet the threshold of acceptability. Romney crossed the threshold Wednesday night.
Reagan won his election (Carter was actually ahead at the time) when he defused his caricature as some wild, extreme, warmongering cowboy. In his debate with Carter, he was affable, avuncular and reasonable. Thatâs why with a single aw-shucks line, âThere you go again,â the election was over.
Romney had to show something a little different: That he is not the clumsy, out-of-touch plutocrat that the paid Obama ads and the unpaid media have portrayed him to be. He did, decisively.
Thatâs why MSNBC is on suicide watch. Why the polls show that, by a margin of at least 2 to 1, voters overwhelmingly gave the debate to Romney.
And he won big in an unusual way. This could be the only presidential debate ever won so definitively in the absence of some obvious and ruinous gaffe, like Gerald Fordâs âthere is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.â
Romney by two touchdowns.
Reelection campaigns after a failed presidential term â so failed that Obama barely even bothers to make the case, preferring to blame everything on his predecessor â hinge almost entirely on whether the challenger can meet the threshold of acceptability. Romney crossed the threshold Wednesday night.
Reagan won his election (Carter was actually ahead at the time) when he defused his caricature as some wild, extreme, warmongering cowboy. In his debate with Carter, he was affable, avuncular and reasonable. Thatâs why with a single aw-shucks line, âThere you go again,â the election was over.
Romney had to show something a little different: That he is not the clumsy, out-of-touch plutocrat that the paid Obama ads and the unpaid media have portrayed him to be. He did, decisively.
Thatâs why MSNBC is on suicide watch. Why the polls show that, by a margin of at least 2 to 1, voters overwhelmingly gave the debate to Romney.
And he won big in an unusual way. This could be the only presidential debate ever won so definitively in the absence of some obvious and ruinous gaffe, like Gerald Fordâs âthere is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.â
Romney by two touchdowns.