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1 posted on 09/30/2012 12:09:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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Paul Ryan warns that the election will not be decided in one debate.

Meanwhile

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2938352/posts

Debate: Obama’s to lose, is Romney ready for Prime Time?


2 posted on 09/30/2012 12:16:03 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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No matter what happens in the debate, the media pundits will announce that Obama won. So the people who don't watch it (who are sure to outnumber those who do) will get their first impressions from pro-Obama soundbites. Of course some will also hear from family or friends who watched it but probably people will mostly react according to their previous political allegiance.

Expect the media especially during the first 24 to 48 hours afterwards to keep harping on how well Obama did and how Romney failed to "close the deal" with the American public. Even if Obama comes across as a cross between Zonker Harris, Eddie Haskell, and the John Belushi character in Animal House.

3 posted on 09/30/2012 12:16:15 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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I hope Mitt is sparing with some one like Palin or Christy. Really get in Mitt’s face and get his blood up.


4 posted on 09/30/2012 12:17:22 PM PDT by llevrok (By comparison to Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
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Debates alone are not going to do it.

WITHOUT BRIDGING THE GAP AMONG WHITE SINGLE WOMEN, ROMNEY LOSES.

Women in general are moved by emotion not by abstract numbers, graphs, and statistics about debt and budget deficits.

Run ads 24/7 that:

1. Show burning embassy buildings, our ambassador and ex-seals arriving in coffins with a tag line that Obama thinks all this is a “bump in the road.”

2. Show DNC delegates booing God during the DNC Convention.

3. Show Obama’s same old same old promises in his own words 2008 and 2012.

This is a hands down winner. It appeals to women. This is the one voting bloc that Obama needs to win.


5 posted on 09/30/2012 12:17:44 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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The other thing Romney has going for him is that he is actually tall and handsome and standing next to Obama on stage will make Obama look like the little big ear’d geek that he is.


6 posted on 09/30/2012 12:17:44 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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Mitt is going to win?

October 3 2012 debate, the MSM moderator presents the first topic..

Moderator: Now gentlemen you each have 20 minutes to present a summary of the best-selling, wildly popular, wonderful, All American book "Dreams From My Father." We'll start with you, governor Romney. . . .

7 posted on 09/30/2012 12:22:07 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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- Obamaphones are Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

- Vote for Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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10 posted on 09/30/2012 12:27:45 PM PDT by devolve (----- ------- ------------c.1000_and_c.1620-------- ----------------------------)
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Unfortunately, mainstream media has a way of distilling a 90-minute "debate" into a ten second sound bite. Who whoever comes up with the best "There he goes again" or "You're no Jack Kennedy" line will win in the eyes of the media.

You can bet that Obama is well-rehearsed on at least a dozen of these soundbites and the "moderators" have lined up the questions in such a way where Obama will get a least 2-3 hangers right over the plate to smack out of the park.

Fortunately Romney really is a good debater who can think fast on his feet and no doubt he's got a few soundbites and comebacks in the can himself. It's sad that this is what decides debates these days but at least we are not running John McCain or Bob Dole this time around.

11 posted on 09/30/2012 12:34:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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I don't doubt Romney knows ten times what Obama knows on any given policy issue. I am just afraid that McCain will show up instead of Newt.
12 posted on 09/30/2012 12:40:17 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Some say the election will be decided in the first 90 seconds of the debate.


14 posted on 09/30/2012 12:50:11 PM PDT by Vaduz
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How many more times can America take the fluffy kittens vs cuddly puppies questions lobbed at B Wacky?

A big chunk of the nation is unemployed, the "Death to America" Iranians almost have the bomb, and our national media is gonna axe his highness irrelevant pre arranged material once again!

It aint gonna float this time.

The Stinker is a sinker!

16 posted on 09/30/2012 12:54:34 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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The Repubs need to fend off the "red herrings" and quit getting sidetracked with Dim talking point rabbit trails! Stay on message........

"America has been totally fricked up by Obama."

17 posted on 09/30/2012 12:57:38 PM PDT by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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All I would ask is that Romney run his general election campaign like he ran the primaries. I was not a Romney supporter but his campaign instinctively knew when to go for the jugular to get the other guy’s numbers down. Gingrich can testify to that.Apparently, he has been neutered in the general election to date. Still waiting for the knives to come out and the bloodletting to begin. Hopefully the debates will be a kickoff.


19 posted on 09/30/2012 1:01:32 PM PDT by chuckee
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Wait. “Pressing issues” will require the debate be canceled by Obama.


20 posted on 09/30/2012 1:04:04 PM PDT by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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Saw a ridiculous article on CNN today about how the criticism about Dem oversampling is not accurate.

The absurd premise is that basically because people can change party ID, pollsters mentioning ID is supposedly new (that’s absurd....they’ve done that for years) and because Fox polls show the same thing it means Obama has it in the bag.

I only wish comments were still turned on for that article, for it was beyond ridiculous.

Fox Polls are notorious for being the WORST in oversampling since they changed polling firms a few years ago.

That was literally the best argument in this long-winded piece. The left is running scared.

I saw Ryan on Fox News Sunday a few hours ago. Wow....now I don’t want to win just to defeat Obama. I want to win to GET THAT MAN in the VP slot and have in next in line to run for president.

He was extremely articulate and the camera loves him.


23 posted on 09/30/2012 1:27:24 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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I just watched a couple pieces of the debate between Romney and Kennedy in 1994. Unfortunately, I can’t find the entire debate. Romney impressed me, he was fast on his feet, able to repel a couple of Teddy’s childish attacks and seemed to kick butt.

O, is not really a great debater. He may have seemed OK against McCain but McCain is an idiot.

Despite the speculation (hey, it’s possible) that they’ll give O the questions in advance, he’s not really good at thinking on his feet (or anywhere else, seriously) while Romney appeared in the ‘94 debate to be able to get his message across while not getting sidetracked by B.S. questions and quips.

Those debates are worth watching. The audience was a joke though.


24 posted on 09/30/2012 1:28:03 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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Christy was great - as usual. I hope he is right - but it will be Jim Lehrer controling - so it will be Romney vs Obama/Lehrer.

Romney needs to buy half hour TV spots - Ross Perot style, where he will not be filtered by others.

Good article, “How Romney Can Win With a Mandate” gives a great outline for such a forum - located here:

http://www.realitybatslast.com/2012/09/27/how-romney-can-win-with-a-mandate/


26 posted on 09/30/2012 2:14:37 PM PDT by Alex Baker (Still hopeful)
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Rumnie has to get through the debates without stepping on certain body parts! He HAS to get by without stupid statements like the 47% thing. He has to stay away from this stuff. Attack Obama’s do nothing government, massive debt spending, poor domestic and foreign policy blunders.


28 posted on 09/30/2012 2:20:45 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Scriptures clearly tell us we are in the last days, the end times. Christ is the only answer!)
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Why are there even debates. The last 4 years have been hell with a Muslim President who "sides with them"....PERIOD

How do we get rid of the debt. It's insane!!

29 posted on 09/30/2012 2:33:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I just hope Romney goes after barry the way he went after his fellow Republicans and isn’t afraid of attacking a blac,,,,,mulatto.


32 posted on 09/30/2012 3:47:34 PM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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