Posted on 10/22/2012 10:41:15 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
What you said.
Sure wish we’d have had Newt instead of Squishy. Bleh.
Well, at least we still have Trump’s big “surprise” on Wednesday!!
Newt said it over and over and over and over again in every speech and in every debate....”At the end of the day who do you want debating Barack Obama in the debates? I will be relentless with his record and his words and make sure he loses this election at all costs.”
I think you are letting your biases impact your opinion. Even the worst poll, PPP, showed Obama lost independents and Romney gained independents in this debate. I would love to see Romney in aggressive mode, but he didn’t need to be. You saw tonight who was winning and who was losing. A desperate sitting president making wild accusations, one after another. He looked desperate, and the followup on his slams of the Navy and his other whoppers will be just as damaging as those after the 2nd debate.
Well think about this, if Newt couldn’t beat Mitt in the primaries, what makes you think he would beat Obama?
Four hours ago I was saying to friends and family that I really wish Donald Trump would sit it out and let this thing run its course because I was convinced that there was no way Romney wasn’t going after Obama tonight on his chaotic foreign policy and especially Libya.
Right now? I am actually waiting on another Trump PR stunt to erase this entire joke of a night. Horses and bayonets.
Newt stood no chance in the primaries because the GOP-e decided they wanted Romney after giving 2008 to McCain. It’s all about whose turn next it is. Newt was cut off of all funding and couldn’t mount a good campaign at all due to endless smears from Mitt during the primary season in Florida and some other states where the mailers were just disgusting.
Newt ain’t perfect. Nobody is. But he sure as hell would have schooled the hell out of the school boy from Kenya...that’s for damn sure.
ilgipper nailed it. Tonight was not about us or the disgust we have with Obama. Tonight was a final chance to reassure splinter-crotched wafflers that Romney is a safe choice. Based on our emotion Romney was wrong. Based on pure logic he was correct.
The trend line will remain with Romney. The rest of us made up our mind long ago.... tonight was about the undecided voters.
If Newt, Lincoln-Douglas would have become
Gingrich-0bama.
The elite couldn’t con me, I voted for NEWT!
Again, I don’t think Romney lost the election tonight but what he did lose was momentum. All he needed was a first round knock out and he didn’t deliver it to the utter SHOCK of every cable news reporter who by the way are just as shocked that Obama didn’t use the 47% line again.
Same here ;)
Undecided voters = uninformed lazy voters. Therefore, they don't know when 'the boy' was lying.
It didn’t take me long to figure out the Romney strategy tonight. Don’t get overly aggressive. Show that you’re competent and avoid the bitterness that marred the second debate.
Why?
Conservatives love to see this charlatan in the White House beaten down like the fraud he is. Independents and the squishy middle undecideds? They want solutions. they want to feel comforted that the guy they are about to vote into the White House can answer the 3 a.m. call in addition to fixing the economy.
Romney did just that.
You wrote a well-thought out piece, however, I totally disagree with you on some major points. Mitt did let a few things go by, however, he didn’t take the bait being dangled before his eyes. That’s what the left wanted - to drag him down into the weeds and gutters with them. He didn’t play their game.
He also doesn’t have inside information to all that is happening within the WH, so in that regard - he did remarkably well. I do think Mitt let Benghazi slide, but there must have been reasons for it. I think he wanted to show a distinct difference between him and Obama in the area of class. Mitt showed class and respect to a sitting POS, er, I mean president. If he had gotten down in the mud with Obama - he would have looked silly. Zero stayed in the mud and showed himself to be the petulant, snotty, arrogant radical that he is.
If people think this is how you win a debate, then I gesture that many aren’t aware of what does and doesn’t make a good debate.
Thy Will Not Mine Be Done.
Obama is finished and Romney was magnanimous.
If that isn’t the case then God himself has chosen against us
Just several weeks ago, in late September, many Freepers questioned his campaign's decision to withold the money until when the time was right. Polls showed he was losing and some conservatives who never wanted him to be the nominee started mental masturbation by saying, "I told you so! If only X was the nominee..."
Today, not only does he have upper hand on ad money, he also leads polls on national and battle ground states, including those that have been in Dhims' hands for several cycles.
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