Posted on 10/03/2012 9:20:07 PM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles
He looked like a father chastizing his son!!
First Netanyahu scolded our little boy. Then Romney. The little boy must be privately throwing a tantrum right now.
While perhaps there would have been some differences, I do not believe the financial crash and the housing market crash would have been allayed with Romney in the WH in 2008. The road for the crash was paved by Dodd and Frank (with much help from Obozo while a community organizer/state senator/U.S. senator) during President Bush’s two terms. Bush warned Congress 17 times the country was facing a financial meltdown due to banking and housing loan problems. Dodd and Frank kept calling Bush a liar, and did nothing as the committee bosses overseeing those two areas of the economy.
Romney far exceeded my expectations tonight even though I did not like everything he said.
I think the two most important points for Romney were -
Confidence - He appeared to know exactly what he was talking about and Obama looked like he had no confidence and no clue. That is devastating to the average Joe/Jane who was paying attention as an undecided.
Compassion - I really hate that word. I still have to admit that it was a very important thing for Romney to convey against the media tide and he absolutely succeeded. Romney connected tonight with the mushminded voters that thought he did not care.
For the record - my favorite line tonight was “trickle down government”. That was funny!
Tomorrow should be equally entertaining, watching the Dems kill each other. The Left is going nuts!
He hit a home run.
>>Compassion..
Undecideds in one focus group moved from 30% to 67% as to whether Romney is compassionate.
Tonight was beautiful. Romney did far better than I ever dreamed.
The media loving ohamsters will spin out of their minds tomorrow to “fix it”. But I know what I saw and heard.
Still two more debates to go...but tonight, I’m pretty pleased.
Yes, he did. Romney not only looked cool and confidant, but he schooled Obama on many points with specifics. Obama could only talk in generalities with his talking points.
Even my wife, who is not a political junkie, noticed that Obama looked disheartened and confused and couldn't debate with Romney directly.
This is THE most lopsided debate I have ever seen in my political life. Let's just hope that Romney can keep it up and maybe go with MORE facts and attack Obama further.
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
Now let's see what Romney does with Obama's failed foreign policies. Hope Romney brings up that Obama has bowed to many foreign potentates, which has been an insult to American independence.
Maybe...but at least we wouldn’t have had the stupid government auto bailout, and I could still buy a GM car!
Obama is toast...I just hope the commies/islamists don’t try and disrupt or halt the elections by some catastrophic attack.
I kept waiting for Mitt to say “there you go again” LOL!!!
Brilliant! Post of the day for me.
It is also a sad reminder of how lousy a candidate McCain was in 2008. For years, I refused to board the Straight Talk Express bus. I argued with people that libs were building up McCain as a Republican favorite, so they could roll him in the general election. W. bested McCain in 2000, so the fixed fight was delayed, but McCain (who has many admirable qualities, but is, IMHO, not a good debater) was steam rolled.
It isn't over. The media is in shock, but it will only take a day to start a counter attack. They will feel they have to win the election themselves and drag Obama over the finish line, and they are shameless enough to do it. New media cannot allow that to happen.
If the next 2 go half as well as tonight, I think even obama may end up voting for Mitt!
Point taken.
>>Msnbc also said Romney needs to be called out, and things might change by tomorrow. Fact checkers need to work all night to go after Romney.
Way, way, way too late. Doesn’t matter what they come up with. First of all, we have fact checkers too.
Main thing though, you only get one chance to make a first impression. Lots of undecideds who were leaning well away from Romney are now leaning even more strongly towards him.
Anyway, it’s not so much about facts now which have been out there for a long time - it’s about personalities. This is the first look at Romney for a lot of people, and also the first at Obama in a long time in other than an teleprompted, partisan audience format. That’s all going to leave an indelible mark.
People who read liberal rags were already voting one way or the other. This was for people whose only information about these two was coming from watching the debates. In that regard, Obama was taken down on stage tonight... and Biden is next.
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