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Romney was genious avoiding Libya in tonight's debate. If you didn't already understand Hussein's Bengazi lies, you never would.

He kept hitting Barry on the economy, over and over.

He zapped Barry on the Russia " I'll Show Putin More Backbone, Not More Flexibility" comment, the Bammy mid-east apology tour (including his Israel snub) and his green energy debacle. The 'America doesn't dictate, it opposes dictators' part was brilliant.

Not to metion his presidential demeanor, contrasted with zero's smilin' Jack smirks and glaring appeals to Bob to stop the slaughter.

Mitt hit a homerun.

[GonzoGOP]

Mitt hit a homerun.

No to continue that analogy, Mitt's first two debates brought hm to the plate in the bottom of the 9th with the winning a run man on second. Swinging for the fence brought the chance of a strikeout. So he hit an easy bloop single over the shortstops head and won the game.

Romney knew exactly what he had to do last night and he did it. What impressed me was his discipline. Obama needed a brawl to regain momentum and Romney simply refused to give him one. Romney had to look competent to command the US military. He did that.

We are political junkies and we want to see blood on the stage. But Romney is the consummate professional. He played it safe because he could. He landed enough blows to keep the twitter feeds buzzing today. Obama won the debate on points, but he will lose the next day because in order to win he had to look petty and make a bunch of statements that will not hold up to fact check. Romney never said he wouldn't help the Auto industry, he just said they should undergo a reorganization under existing US law. The transcript is going to back Romney. Oh and in 1916 the US Army was quite small. So there are probably more bayonets in use by the US army today then in 1916. In addition the only monument to the military at ground zero is a US special forces soldier on horseback. So Obama came of as being petty and uninformed. No surprise to us here, but not something that is going to help him today. In contrast all of Romney's zingers are going to soundbite nicely.

* "There is no place in the world where our influence is greater today than it was four years ago."

* "I will show Putin more backbone not more flexibility."

* "They noticed you skipped Israel"

To counter that you have Obama talking about playing battleship.

[catfish1957]

Well, if you base the success of the debate on the context of a high school debate contest, the punk POTUS may have won slightly. However, from a big picture perspective, Obama in his zeal to "win" this thing used tactics that did not fare well with moderates and independents.