WE'LL SEE HOW CENTRIST MITT PLAYS WITH THE BASE NOW
Well, that was much better. Don't know how it's going to play, but I think it was quite a good night for the president.
I said after the first debate that right-wingers would tolerate Mitt Romney his deviations from right-wing orthodoxy because their desire to see Obama get his ass kicked supersedes even their desire for ideological rigidity.
In the first debate, Romney did very well. In tonight's debate, not so much.
So I'm wondering whether right-wingers are now going to be upset that Romney is betraying their principles -- upset only because Romney may be seen as the debate loser (or at least not the big winner), especially if he starts slipping in the polls again.
Romney did somewhat better in the second half of the debate, so maybe this will be a wash. But if this debate hurts him, Romney's going to stop being the right's hero and start being that awful centrist who never should have been the nominee.
I said after the first debate that right-wingers would tolerate Mitt Romney his deviations from right-wing orthodoxy because their desire to see Obama get his ass kicked supersedes even their desire for ideological rigidity.
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly. 'Twas always thus. They're spinning furiously now.
Who thought it was a good idea to have that nice black jazz musician debate that coked-up old white used-car salesman?
ReplyDeleteMy Obama lovin’ Mama ‘n me loved the Presidents performance.
He clearly won. He was more assertive time, but at the same time, he was calm. It looked and sounded like Mitt literally was seeing how much word-salad he could spew in two minutes, and then demand more time.
Mitt bullied Candy Crowley, who did a very good job reining him in. And he tried to bully Obama - who was having none of it.
Obama wiped the floor with him. Especially when Mitt thought he had Obama on Libya, and ended up 'hoist by his own retardedness' when Obama and Crowley schooled him. And Obama got a laugh and applause from the audience when he said, "Can you say that louder, Candy?"
And then Mitt, inexplicably said that he cared about 100% of the people - and Obama wound up a haymaker, and hit Mitt right in the chops with his 47% comment said in private.
AND DOWN GOES ROMNEY! DOWN GOES ROMNEY!! DOWN GOES ROMNEY!!!