Politically inconvenient persona.
From Charles P. Pierce:
...Willard Romney, staunch opponent of the big Wall Street banks.
Jesus wept, but that's hilarious.
The fact is that the president is a cool and rational man and he is facing someone who is running as a caricature not only of himself, but of the several other selves he's found it convenient to construct for himself along the way. It is possible that a cool and rational man is incapable of confronting someone this ridiculous on the simple grounds of how ridiculous that someone actually has become. How to do it may not be within the cool and rational man's comprehension. But what happened on Wednesday night — and, more to the point, what the president allowed to happen on Wednesday night — has changed this entire election. It has given the Beltway press the horse race of their dreams, which is going to matter a lot over the next couple of weeks. Moreover, it may have buried progressive government forever by demonstrating how tight the boundaries really are around what is considered acceptable economic solutions to a battered national economy.
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Unless one is very careful, that Romneyflouric Acid will eat through everything.
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At least all the pundits were shitting all over themselves pointing out all of Rmoney's lies and making for him all the arguments Obama should have made, destroying Rmoney vicariously...
I remember the anxiety I, among many, felt four years ago: "We could lose this thing!"
I remember the passage of the Affordable Care Act: "Die Stupak, you rat bastard motherfraking traitor!"
Go look at 538, or the Post's map. We're solid. And Our President will deliver in the hour of need. One thing matters. We must break the political will of the Christian right. The Republicans would be impotent without them.
Or maybe this desperate move of confronting Obama with the new Turncoat Romney will result in massive commentary that will freak out the Fundies and wake up the ditherers with the realization that lies aren't enough to win the hearts and minds.
Realization does happen, and a shock like Chameleon Mitt under the bright lights might trigger it.
One of the things I find so most frustrating is the American electorate's failure to be insulted by being consistently LIED TO - Romney reverses himself so often it's as if he is thumbing his nose at us and saying "nyahh nyahh" and nobody gets pissed? I'm pissed!
I'm sure the banks are sweating this election out, big time.
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Best quote from Charles yesterday:
"Romney got to bullshit his way to the next topic because the president couldn't rein him in, and because moderator Jim Lehrer was in a hurry to get back to that hillside on Easter Island."
"Unless one is very careful, that Romneyflouric Acid will eat through everything."
All except polyethylene.
I just don't know about Obama's Jackie Robinson strategy. Yes there are those who would love to get a video of his war face, but were they ever going to vote for him?
OTOH, there might be fence-sitters who are looking for some ass-kicking instinct such as he displayed at the SOTU where he pointed his middle finger at the Supremes.
Ben Franklin
I am still trying to figure out, what specific demo are the people who "lost their shit" over the debate worried about?
I imagine the president viewed it as a kind of a zero sum game. He wasn't going to really lose anybody with a lackluster performance, or gain enough by going aggressive to make the risk worth it: the big risk was in saying something wrong and having it hung around his neck until the next round. If not being aggressive enough turned into an actual measurable negative, he could always come out swinging and recover during the foreign policy debate, where all of Mitts hyperbolic swager will just look scary and unpresidential.
To me, he looked like he was holding back during the first debate...and it looked intentional. I think there is going to be a lot of distance between the polls and the instant pundits on it.
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