Posted on 10/14/2012 11:40:59 PM PDT by Arthurio
In his first debate against President Obama, Mitt Romney seemed to effortlessly pass his most critical test: appearing to undecided voters as presidential.
The Republican challenger was confident and relaxed as he stood behind his podium, narrowing in just 90 minutes a sizable “stature gap” between himself and the man who has been commander-in-chief for four years.
In Tuesday night’s second head-to-head contest, one of his new tasks will be something Romney has faced throughout the six years he’s essentially run for the nation’s highest office: demonstrating that he feels the pain of regular voters and is able to connect with them on a human level.
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Interesting thing is Rob Portman was on Bill Cunningham’s radio show Sunday night, and Cunningham asked Portman to tell Romney to mention that both of Obama’s budgets were voted down by 100% of the Senate, getting 0 votes. Portman said it was a good suggestion and he would tell Romney to bring that up. I definitely was disappointed that, as far as I remember, that fact hasn’t been mentioned in the 2 debates so far. It shows a president who is either so incompetent or so extreme that he can’t get anyone else in the government to sign off on his economic proposals.
I also hope Romney links Fast & Furious and the Benghazi attack together to show that Obama has managed foreign policy so haphazardly and inattentively that he either doesn’t know what his own government agencies are doing overseas or he has failed to provide them with goals and direction that make any sense at all.
Plus, and this is a point that I’ve freely conceded in conversation with my liberal friends. Economics is Obama’s weak suit, and the first debate was all about economics. While I expect Romney to do well in the final debate, I don’t expect him to equal his performance in the first debate. This middle debate, he just has to not blow it, and this format will be a minefield for Romney.
I am fairly certain I could out debate Hussein, get him flustered, and look “presidential” doing it..
It would be quite interesting to see just how much Obama can support his “Islamofascism” without ever referencing to it.
It would be a low but legal blow to the body if Romney mentions the word.
If 0bama is wearing that gold ring, it would be interesting if Romney casually asked him what the inscription on it says. Supposedly in Arabic: ‘There is no God but Allah’.
If 0bama is wearing that gold ring, it would be interesting if Romney casually asked him what the inscription on it says. Supposedly in Arabic: ‘There is no God but Allah’.
If 0bama is wearing that gold ring, it would be interesting if Romney casually asked him what the inscription on it says. Supposedly in Arabic: ‘There is no God but Allah’.
If 0bama is wearing that gold ring, it would be interesting if Romney casually asked him what the inscription on it says. Supposedly in Arabic: ‘There is no God but Allah’.
Sorry about repeats. ISP trouble.
Who writes this tripe? Like Obamugabe is some kind of gem in interpersonal communication.
Foreign policy is supposed to be Obama’s strength?!
...”This middle debate, he just has to not blow it, and this format will be a minefield for Romney”...
Who lets these leftists set up these debates anyway? It seems that corruption reigns in the media conglomerates everywhere you look. The real threat to civilization is this kind of corruption and not things like global warming, etc. This is the kind of pollution we should be worried about.
He doesn’t need to feel anything. He simply needs to speak to them as an adult to an adult and not respond to their situations with promises of government largesse.
...”Again, Romney will be doing the Republican Party and America a huge disservice if he doesn’t forcibly makes these kinds of points”...
Exactly right!
Nope, a liberal form of populism is his strength. You’ll see it Tue with all the pro-choice, pro-gay, social-justice rhetoric on full display. We can pretend it’s universally disdained, but outside of conservative circles it is not. Even in conservative circles, the level of contempt over said issues is directly proportional to the age of the person in question. It doesn’t get much press, but we haven’t seen a generation gap like we have today since the 1960’s.
Sounds like a stupid thing to say to me. Unless you KNOW that’s what the ring says. Do you KNOW for certain that’s what it says? If I were Romney, I’d want something a lot more credible than wing nut daily before I made a public challenge.
I wonder how many donated to 0bama?
Or how many got questions handed to them from the 0bama camp?
What I think folks missed in the aftermath of the first debate and are still missing is how difficult it is for the president to debate on his record. There is not a lot of good there to discuss.
Later
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