We're Among Friends So We Can Be Honest

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I know we are supposed to lower expectations for the debate but Romney is hardly a great debater. Beating clowns like Rick Santorum , Ron Paul, and Herman Cain doesn't mean you're a great debater. It just means you beat a bunch of clowns in a debate.

[arthritisR_US]

1. My thoughts exactly! n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. He Comes Off A Cold, Unfeeling, Pompous Ass

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[arthritisR_US]

14. You nailed it! n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. Romney's last hope...

is to destroy the POTUS in the debates. To reduce Obama to a stuttering, quivering mass.

We all know (and I think Mitt knows) that's not going to happen. And having seen Mittens in the "debates" during the primaries and having seen Obama v. McCain, my money is that it's going to happen the other way around. Mitt is going to get flustered, and then offended by the audacious black man standing between him and his just reward.

[Flashmann]

4. Beating clowns doesn't mean you're a great debater

Puts me in mind of a saying my Grandpa used,a lot.....Cream floats to the top,but so does a turd..In this case we are absolutely talking about a turd...Two if one includes Lyan Ryan...I look for both to be utterly humiliated in their respective upcoming debates..I also look for both to be oblivious to that reality,after the fact....Turds....

[Gregorian]

5. Romney is a masterdebater.

Someone had to say it.

[JSK]

6. Well, Obama is a cunning linguist.

[spirit-soul]

7. He's actually quite good. Nice speaking voice, also.

He came out surprisingly strong against Newt, who is a good schmooze artist himself.

[GoneOffShore]

8. Disagree about his voice - Sounds like a bad used car salesman.

[spirit-soul]

9. I am sure your subjectivity does not play into this.

Gimme a break, man! He sounds like honey!

[Tsiyu]

13. WEll, here in the south a honey truck

is one that carries the contents of porta-potties.

So in this regard, you would be correct.

Enjoy your visit

[GoneOffShore]

18. Damn, do think the troll read my response?

I guess I came back too late.

[Tsiyu]

19. Oh, I'm sure that they did

You know their ego is such that they're checking out the responses.

But you just gotta wonder why they're wasting their time here when Stench is tanking so miserably.

[GoneOffShore]

17. I'm a casting director - I'd only call him for smarmy roles.

Anything requiring sincerity calls for a homey voice, a la the "Country Tyme Lemonade" guy.

[porphyrian]

10. Chances are, my vote will be in before the debates, anyway. n/t

[barbtries]

11. it would be wrong i think

to underestimate just how low the media will set the bar for romney. i hope i'm wrong about that. but seriously if he gets through it without yakking all over the podium or peeing his pants the corporate media is likely to call it a win for Romney. President Obama may get through it brilliantly, but all romney has to do is get through it.

i mean, i hope i'm wrong. i hope the corporate media has a fact checker with a bell to ring every time romney tells a lie, but i'm not holding my breath.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. It will all be up to how the Moderators handle it

and if you have crazies like Creepy Crawly and Bob Shitffer, it will be guaranteed to be skewed towards Rmoney. I fully expect more flag pin type equivalent nonsense. Lehrer is tossup.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Actually, they beat him..into moving so far right he's unelectable.

[livetohike]

16. I think so too. It's too late to try to appear moderate

The 47% video was the "nail in the coffin", imo. The ads the Obama campaign are producting are very good.

[Bluenorthwest]

20. After each Republican debate, a new 'frontrunner' emerged. So clearly Mitt did not

clean each of their clocks. He was not declared the winner of all of those debates. 999 won one of them, for the love of Mike, so a bunch of clowns is being generous.

[The Second Stone]

21. Huntsman and Gingrich were both better debaters

by a wide margin. Gingrich has lots of clever put downs, but is so immoral he disgusts Republicans.

[frogmarch]

22. Romney will laugh at inappropriate times

during the debate, and he'll sweat a lot, just like Nixon did in the Kennedy-Nixon debate. Romney will look nervous and fidgety. President Obama will be cool, calm, and very collected.

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first-ever televised general-election presidential debate. Within days, if not hours, the event gave rise to a mythology so well-known by now that it scarcely needs repeating. Handsome, dapper, poised, and articulate, Kennedy dispelled with his appearance any nagging worries that he might be too callow for the presidency. Clammy-faced, awkward, and plagued by his gloomy five-o'clock shadow, Nixon reinforced what he called "the Herblock image," in reference to his nemesis, the Washington Post cartoonist, who had already immortalized Nixon's menacing mug. As the story goes, the winner that night was not just Kennedy but the television image itself, which had, in a single stroke, demonstrated its newfound kingmaking power.

A widely told tale. But it's not quite correct.

There's no doubt that Kennedy looked better than Nixon that night. Wearing a dark suit and flashing his boyish smile, the junior senator from Massachusetts radiated charisma. Nixon, recovering from a knee infection and a cold, looked gaunt in his gray suit, which blended in with the walls, and sweat streaked his Lazy-Shave powder. "Fire the make-up man," Nixon's press aide Herb Klein was told by a supporter. "Everybody in this part of the country thinks Nixon is sick. Three doctors agreed he looked as if he had just suffered a coronary." Henry Cabot Lodge, Nixon's running mate, supposedly said, "That son of a bitch just cost us the election."

More: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history_lesson/2010/09/rewinding_the_kennedynixon_debates.html

It's bound to be deja vu all over again when Romney tries to outdo Pres. Obama. That's what I think, anyway.