Irvine511 said:
If I were Obama, I'd be more concerned about the optics. O looked bored and irritated.
The substance? Well, give 'em enough rope ... I we had any honest Republicans in here they'd be aghast at how centrist their candidate was tonight.
But we of the center who have made mocking comments about Mittens, and followed them up with "the ironic thing is that Mitt acted like he did as governor Romney instead of candidate Romney i'd probably vote for him" have at the very least been given a reason to stop and go "huh... where's that guy been?". And there's a lot of us.
Mitt waxed the floor with Obama last night. The whole idea of "well the ideas were actually better" on Obama's side doesn't really matter... sorta sad yet true. Whomever's ideas you believe in, Romney clearly did a better job selling his ideas than Obama, who appeared bored, annoyed, and completely caught off guard by Romney's effectiveness. Its almost as if that whole "we expect to lose the first debate" thing slipped from the Romney camp last week was a set up trying to lure Obama into believing that all he had to do was show up and he had it in the bag.
Kerry couldn't beat Bush because nobody really liked Kerry. All the dems has to do was put forth a candidate with a pulse and they would have won. They failed.
Up until last night the same could be said of the republicans in this race, because Romney had yet to show an actual pulse, and was one flub after another.
Well... that changed last night.
Is it enough to change my vote? No, not yet. I'm still disgusted at the social policies of Mitt's running mate. But reality is the VP doesn't really matter. If Mitt stays closer to the middle when social issues come up... abortion, gay marriage and the such... then yea, Obama might actually be in trouble here... which if you told me a week ago that I'd say those words i'd tell you you were crazy.