I was shocked by the number of people on the Live Thread here on FR who were making negative comments about Ryan's performance.
I thought he was just great.
Ryan was average at best. He had the truth on his side, but to win in a debate many times you have to get the last logically coherent word in and he didn’t do that. Two examples: Biden was dead wrong on the “Iran doesn’t have a missile to carry a nuclear weapon” argument, but Ryan didn’t defeat this argument as he should have. Another example is the Romney tax plan - Ryan made his point but was cut of when Biden said “Now you’re Jack Kennedy”. Ryan needed to come back to that issue with the facts to hammer his argument home and “win” the issue.