I am beginning to become scared that Romney/Ryan will win. Can smart people please post here and say reassuring things to convince me that he won't?

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That's my point! Whatever he held with McCain it wasn't a debate.

Obama has a strong tendency to get professorial, which he needs to resist.

i remember him seemingly progressively sleepier through each of the last debates - like veering into a more solemn mode, looking downwards, &c. i figure he'll be okay at enumerating his triumphs & all, though, i don't think debates are actually like to be all that snappy or high-risk in this context.

it doesn't matter if he's a "good" debater or not, it's all about his opponent, who is a hideous boob.

Well, yeah, none of these are debates. You could put two staffers behind podiums who have iPads loaded with sound clips and they just play the appropriate one at the appropriate time for how much debating actually goes.

However, I do actually like watching these things, and am curious how much of a public event they'll be around here. For the last two cycles at least, people filled bars & theaters to watch and yell at the screen.

I may or may not have been yelling at the screen whilst typing on here with everybody whilst it happened.

kind of hoping Romney bursts into tears flames america the beautiful the dance of joy as a pas de deux with rafalca heaven, kissing the cotton clouds at the debate.

I'm curious though, almost everything that Romney's being doing recently seems like it should get Obama angry. Isn't there a portion of Obama's appeal that isn't compatible with him being "My esteemed opponent, who I believe has good in his heart.." about someone who's been blatantly lying and poor-baiting? Even more so if Charles Pierce is right and the Romney campaign is going to go straight evil over the next seven weeks.

My sense atm is that Romney won't go straight evil until after he sees the overnight polling after the first 'debate'. It isn't his preferred style. Rove would have been all Tyson-biting-Spinks'-ear-off by three days after the R convention, when he saw the numbers.

he can go straight evil in his ads, but i don't see him pulling off anything beyond petulant in a debate

Holyfield

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Tyson bit off Holyfield's ear, fwiw.

lol too late

There are some ads, not approved by Romney of course, poised to Swiftboat Osama vs. Obama (although described as starting with headline OSAMA DEAD, followed by an added question mark, which may be going "a bit far,some commentators agree")(predicted subhed)

Net ads, mostly.

romney is clearly not unflappable in public and I'm wondering what sort of verbal wilding he's going to engage in when face to face with his opponent.

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya curious to see what a desperate mitt dawg will do in the debates

i can't really imagine it getting any wilder than him reverting to his faux-laugh/fixed grin/intense stare, tbh, he more often speaks irrelevantly than he does incoherently

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I don't expect any major gaffes on either side in the debate. Most likely they'll be kind of boring.

I said way back in primary season that the GOP should pick Perry, that they were shying away from him because he was too much of a wild card, but he was the wild card with a 20% chance of winning whereas Romney has always been the guy with virtually 0% chance of winning.

feel like mitts gonna go on the offensive

when romneys attack, season premiere 10/12 9pm all the channels

rick perry is not a wild card, hes a goober

not ready 4 prime time, never gonna be

Dubya was a goober too!

the common line I heard about Rick Perry before he ran in the primary was that ppl in Texas said he made GWB look like Einstein

although tbf Perry is kind of a poor man's Dubya, which is, really, man how bad can it get

xp lol

its true bush was a goober, but he had waay more on the ball than perry

Just shows how sad the GOP field was, because Mitt has never truly been "ready for prime time" either, but they went with him because at least he resembles a cardboard cutout of a standard republican presidential candidate

Yeah, I think he won't freak, he'll turn on the locked society smile and break the switch off

Rick Perry did not have ivy league credentials and thus was not in the same league with Dubya, who was a full member of Skull n' Bones.

W too they really groomed him for a long time and he had the A team behind him everything was well planned and thought out

Thing I'm most curious about is vp debate. No idea how this one will play out, much like we didn't know how the last one would, only this seems way different weirdness than last time's

rick just kinda jumped in there like hay whats up *shoots finger guns*

VP debate is going to be totally tepid unless Ryan challenges Biden to a pushup contest or something (btw anyone following the recent Ryan 6-8% bodyfat lie hilariousness? He's great!)

ha yes at 6% body fat yr body starts to consume itself in a desperate bid to stay alive

i woulda thought the vp debate is gonna be the republicans' best bet?, like given that the appeal of ryan is like STRAIGHT TALKIN NO SPENDIN ATTITUDE he just has to appear to chastise biden on account of spending &c. biden can be all "now hold on a second, jackrabbit", though, so who knows how it ends up, i guess w/biden winning vice-presidential reelection as the grandparent we love to hate.

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Perry is merely the product of a base that has learned nothing and will double down on demonstrably wrong-headedness every chance they get. This is representative of the rump of the existing Republican Party and it is telling that Romney can slag off non-payers of tax when the bastions of his numbers are basically the top ten States in not paying income tax.

vp debate

ryan will destroy biden with mountains of facts that later turn out to be total fabrications

at the beginning when ryan goes to shake his hand biden should put him in an affectionate headlock and give him a lil noogie just to set the tone

Wasn't Bruce Lee rumored to only have like 3% bodyfat at one point? Or am I off by a factor of 5 or so

heres all yr ryan body fat debunking infos http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/09/paul_ryan_claims_he_has_6_to_8_percent_body_fat_.html

yeah folks are all over the fact that this "47%" is made up of A LOT of Republicans.

the flip side of that is that the 53% is made up of A LOT of Dems. 52% of ppl making over 200k supported Obama in '08. nearly half of of those earning 50k - 200k did, too. i realize this isn't 2008, but goddam how dumb can these Erik Erickson 53% chumps be??

Next up:

11th - TN
12th - NC
13th - UT
14th - AZ
15th - KY

I think Obama won NC in '08, but every single other one of those States (except Florida? I don't remember) voted solidly for McCain/GOP.

Considering that nerve tissue requires fat to operate, 3% would probably lead to brain damage.

yeah folks are all over the fact that this "47%" is made up of A LOT of Republicans.

the flip side of that is that the 53% is made up of A LOT of Dems. 52% of ppl making over 200k supported Obama in '08. nearly half of of those earning 50k - 200k did, too. i realize this isn't 2008, but goddam how dumb can these Erik Erickson 53% chumps be??

― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This (the first point) is being kind of overstated though -- Obama handily carries the vote of the non-income-tax-paying poor in a lot of those red states.

Obama handily carries the vote of the non-income-tax-paying poor in a lot of those red states.

Can you verify this?