I liked this from Romney:
I just don’t know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the -- at the kitchen table and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for “Obamacare” instead of fighting for jobs for the American people.
Further down in the transcript:
... First of all, I like the way we did it in Massachusetts. I like the fact that in my state, we had Republicans and Democrats come together and work together. What you did instead was to push through a plan without a single Republican vote. As a matter of fact, when Massachusetts did something quite extraordinary, elected a Republican senator to stop “Obamacare,” you pushed it through anyway. So entirely on a partisan basis, instead of bringing America together and having a discussion on this important topic, you pushed through something that you and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid thought was the best answer and drove it through ...
Romney hammered Obama at every turn. He ttook him to the woodshed on those 90 billion he gave to the “green” companies...choosing the “losers” and rewarding his contributors. He did it to the point that Obama asked Lehrer to go to the next topic and change the subject...but Romney came back to it again and again.
Pointing out to Obama that he could have funded 50 years of the oil “welfare” with what he did in a couple of years with a failing green energy policy.
That he could have hired two million new teachers with that money when Obama indicated he had a plan to hire 100,000.
In addition, Romney took something that most of us felt would be a severe weakness for him...that is, Obama discussing ObamaCare and linking it to RomneyCare, and he cleaneed the president’s plate on that too, turning it into a strength for himself through the bi=partisanship arguement, and the states’ rights arguement.
I believe Romney succeeded in changing the whole nature of the debate and the campagn last night...and it desperately needed to be done.