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[Paul Ryan did his job. He was supposed to lose to that brain dead hack, so he did. That year the GOP was the designated loser. The uniparty always has a plan and what we see is just theater performance ... until Trump showed up.]

That’s giving Ryan credit where credit isn’t due. He was in the VP slot because he wanted a shot at the presidency. He wanted to beat Biden. But he lacked the political antenna to see that he was losing the debate, and losing badly. Because debates aren’t about policy - they’re about who can lie most convincingly in a relaxed and confident manner. Biden was leagues ahead in that respect. In a just world, that would mean he not only lost the debate in the sense of having voters turn against the Obama campaign, but was dropped from the ticket due to the sheer egregiousness of his deceit, ending his political career right there and then. Instead, he got an opportunity to be the oldest candidate to win the White House ever.

Paul Ryan is an autistic personality who could only win inside his district. The tax cut he designed cost the GOP its House majority. He’s a freak of nature, a guy with no political instincts whatsoever who became Speaker because he was the most inoffensive guy running for the spot. And it was because of this lack of political instincts that he’s no longer even Minority Leader. He jumped before he was pushed.

As an aside, Trump reminds me of a character in Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' stories.

Long story short, the galactic republic was crumbling and a scientist set up a foundation of scientists and historians on some remote moon to rebuild society after it collapsed. He himself created a field he called psycho-history where he predicted future events with uncanny accuracy by using a strong understanding of how human beings in large groups react to events and projecting forward from event to event.

It all worked perfectly, for generations the secret foundation was secretly pulling strings behind the scenes guided by their all-knowing plan. Then suddenly a guy they called 'The Mule' came on the scene. He didn't follow any of the patterns they had laid out, a real wild card. Turns out he was a mutation but regardless, this one guy who was unpredictable and had his own plan made the foundation irrelevant and changed the path of the galaxy totally from what they had planned.

Like I said, Trump is 'the Mule'.

This is the only complaint I have about last night’s debate:

Why did the moderator allow the politician Chris Wallace to constantly interrupt his political opponent throughout the debate? If I were moderating last night’s debate, I would have emphatically told Chris Wallace: “Mr. Wallace, you must stop repeatedly interrupting your political opponent and let him answer the question. I must emphatically remind you that you and your Fox News team agreed beforehand to allow your political opponent to answer questions without you incessantly interrupting him throughout the entire debate!”

Paul Ryan did his job. He was supposed to lose to that brain dead hack, so he did. That year the GOP was the designated loser. The uniparty always has a plan and what we see is just theater performance ... until Trump showed up.

Then why did Romney wipe the floor with Obama in their first debate if they were "trying" to lose? Was that a mistake and Ryan was making up for it? And why did most people think Ryan won the debate if he supposedly did so poorly? https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/11/politics/vp-debate/index.html

Hurricane Sandy turned the race around for Obama - wiped Romney / Ryan out of the picture entirely, with people like Chris Christie going on TV slobbering all over Obama about how wonderful a job he was doing.

Not that it matters...given how Romney has turned out to be.