Team Romney won't rein in GOP nominee during third debate

The Hill ^ | 10/18/12 | Justin Sink

[pepsi_junkie]

For me, his approach is a mixed bag, about 90% good but he could work on the 10% not so good.

Specifically, he seems to like to engage the other guy (in this case Obama) unnecessarily and it comes off as badgering. Consider the exchange about whether Obama checks his pension. He asked repeatedly, cut Obama off with a "yes or no, do you ..." sort of thing. All to make the point that Obama's pension has foreign securities in it, a point that could have been made without Romney seem to be badgering Obama and without giving Obama the chance to slip in the zinger about his pension being less than Romneys. The same thing with Beghazi, he decided to cross examine Obama about the rose garden speech rather than stay on point and talk to the audience about the concerted effort to spin the story for weeks. That enabled Candy Crowley to pile on and stifle the discussion where if he'd stayed on point that wouldn't have occurred.

I think the strategy is "force him to answer, he can only lie so make him do it on the record". That's good fodder for commercials but the "fact checkers" ignore it That's the one thing I'd try to tone down. Other than that, he's done fantastic.

[Enterprise]

I appreciated you pointing out the error. The wee hours of the morning tend to make those errors more likely.