And Ryan allowed without a fight ... The Wrong Headed Advisers of Romney / Ryan keep on believing that nicey nicey will bring about election victory in November ... The RINOS who control the Advice Team for Romney / Ryan need to understand you cannot bring FACTS to a KNIFE FIGHT... !!!
Don’t see it that way. IMO once Joe got going on being such a jerk...Paul Ryan let him continue. Of the 90 minutes of the debate “big mouth Joe” was talking 82 of them.
“When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself get out of his way.”
Ryan early on told Biden that things would go a lot faster if we didn't interrupt each other. I'm glad Ryan didn't pursue the issue. He'd addressed it once, and Biden just kept up his aggressive and rude behavior. There was a clear distinction between the two. Ryan was a gentleman. Biden was a thug. It was the moderator's responsibility to control the debate. She didn't, and she should be roundly criticized for her letting Biden go off like a rabid animal. All the polls I've seen and voted in, all favor Ryan over Biden.
I thought that too, but then I realized that Ryan did a clever thing by staying calm, not reacting. His behavior talked for him and this is what it said: “This is the problem with politics, this is why nothing can get done, it is good to listen to people and to have respect,we are sick and tired of the phoney theatrics and gotchas because our country is in serious trouble right now”... In the end, Ryan really won when he did his closing and after thanking the moderator, etc., he said, “and thank you JOE.” He got to stick the knife in so sweetly, call him JOE, and in that moment Joe felt very small because he, I think, had not thanked Ryan in his closing, nor said one nice thing all evening, while Ryan said several decent things to “Joe.” It was that thing like when someone is very intrusive in public and you allow them through and they don’t even say thank you...and you say to THEM “thank you.” I can relate to that and it wins.