The old Mitt Milquetoast was in full form last night. He could have K-O’d Obama instead he let him up off the mat.
When Obama said “I” stood with the people of Tunisia and Libya, Romney should have hammered him with the fact that both countries are unstable messes. He should have then reminded Obama that he also stood with the people of Egypt and that nation is also a disaster. Yet when the people of Iran called for freedom, Obama said nothing.
Romney played this debate perfectly, actually. He didn’t have to go on the attack, because when you are going on the attack that means you are behind. He had to win the first debate because Romney was behind in the polls, and he had to beat Obama (in which he did, hands down).
Obama needed to do the same in the last two debates, but didn’t. He may have slightly won the last two debates on points but he didn’t hit neither one of those debates out of the park, like Romney did in the first debate.
But in this debate, Romney had to keep an even keel to avoid Obama’s trap on foreign policy, in which is exactly what he did. If Romney would have came out hard against Obama on foreign policy, it would have made him look like another G.W. Bush -—that’s exactly what Obama was trying to do-—and it failed.
That is what Romney did last night.
I know that makes many of you on FR very unhappy.