[Puddleglum]

Romney looked presidential; O looked like an disdainful punk who got angry and, actually, kind of creepy when his easy, inaccurate answers wouldn’t wash. When he saw the night wasn’t going his way he lost interest, steam, and his train of thought. He meandered and phoned in some rambling random lines from stump speeches. He wanted it over with. I mean his presidency, not just the debates.

[Rebelbase]

Did anyone catch Zero’s statement last night where he mentioned Biden as “my current Vice President”?

As if he’s already contemplated that if he wins there’s going to be a replacement?

[Puddleglum]

No “Great Pumpkin” moment = win.

[KevinB]

The idea of who “wins” these debates is a joke. The only relevance of debate performance is how many votes are changed. And there is no doubt that R/R’s performances have attracted more votes to their team than O/B’s.

[tomkat]

             

Aside from an ego massage, it serves no constructive purpose 'tween now and 06Nov.

Put a blowtorch to R's feet after January, but for now let's get that communist muslim TRAITØR OUT of our White House.

/.02

[teflon9]

"Chicago street punk jive talk"? Dog-whistle alert! Seriously, most Americans aren't buying Romney's foreign policy cred because they've become inward-looking, and rightly so. We've long forgotten that the US is a republic, not an empire. That's what the Framers wanted, and they'd be aghast at the aggressive, internventionist Romney, and the people like John Bolton (and who the hell told Romney to have that wackadoo on his team) who are advising him. We have pressing problems here at home, and the last thing we need is yet another round of Team America-World Police.

[trebb]

I think you missed the point. Everything was stacked in Zero’s favor and he failed to close the deal and made some huge gaffes that will come back to haunt him in the next two weeks. Any President who liken’s the Navy to horses and bayonets is so lacking in understanding that he automatically disqualifies himself. Mitt walked through a well-laid-out minefield and came out unscathed.

[Shery]

Romney’s team said that Romney chose how he wanted to come across to the public. Not contentious and looking presidential. I don’t understand why everybody gives the president so much when all he does is bluster his way through a debate with out and out lies. The debates are more than bluster. IF they are not based on truth then anybody could win by being the last man standing. Romney decided that he did not want to come across in the last debate as someone who had to have the last word...unlike Obama, who could not let anything stand, had to have the last word. PETTY! And, he looked it. He was angry much of the time. You could see him look to Scheiffer for help. This is a win for Obama? I know the left thinks a win is when their side overtakes the conversation and truth or not beats their opponent over the head. A win in a presidential contest is whoever is in touch with solid facts based in truth and holds the higher moral ground. Romney every time. Paul Ryan against Biden. Who wants fools who can sling falsehoods around with slingshots to be their president? The president is not in touch with truth, nor will he ever be. He rejects the truth because it is not what he wants to deal with or be responsible for. I want someone who has a command of the situation, and although Romney could have been more persistent, he has been before, so I know he can be. He let Obama show the public that he is always contentious and never takes the blame or responsibility for anything. THAT came through last night very well. Obama cannot get by with falsehoods all the time as even on the left they were fact-checking his remarks.