The Kinder, Gentler, Mitt last night was planned with the right wing media.

[progressivebydesign]

today, I'm seeing stories "The day after the debate Obama continues to attack!" And the MSM meme today is that the President is attacking poor Mitt, and being too aggressive, and too angry. (you know, that whole Angry Black Man thing.)

If anyone thinks that Mitt's performance last night was an accident, it wasn't. It was a strategy. Watch the meme grow.. it's growing now.

[thereismore]

1. No, they are just trying to salvage what they can. This was not planned. Mitt fumbled badly. nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

8. +1

[Johonny]

10. Yes the GOP spin was created last night

They would much rather be talking about a good Mitt Performance.

[Blue Owl]

2. Their coddled cream was still rotten as hell

n/t

[solara]

3. Could be why he was sweating so much

He was holding himself in check.. whoa nelly..

He couldn't say or do what he wanted because his Masters were watching..

makes sense to me

What a cretin he is

[madokie]

4. Mitt doesn't know shit about foreign policy

All he knows is how to buy companies and sent the jobs to china and then close the plants down. He's not smart enough to do as you suggest. If you look at his advisers you'll see that not much actual smarts there either. John fucking Bolton of all people is one of his advisers and that's just an example

Obama schooled the mitster last night and it left a mark you can bet on that. Yeah he pwned rMoney

[BumRushDaShow]

5. If it were planned, he wouldn't have been able to do that

Nixon sweating routine spontaneously. He really looked unwell. Raygun may have been a 2-bit actor but he acted the part of President well enough for his lackeys to believe it. This one may talk a bullshit game, but his appearance is difficult for him to control and is not believable.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Romney was a wimp. Wimpy wimpy wimpy.

[sabrina 1]

7. It's a Karl Rove strategy. It was revealed a while ago when a reporter was

invited to a Republican event where Rove was the speaker. He made the point that it would be a bad strategy to attack President Obama because people liked him.

He was unaware of the reporter's presence, who was not there to cover the event as it was private.

I will try to find the article where he revealed this strategy and post it later if I have time.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. Making lemonade...

out of lemons.

[JaneyVee]

11. Fuck the MSM, talk to me when they call Romney a Muslim, Socialist, Kenyan, Commie.

Then sling insults at his wife and kids.

[jmowreader]

12. That would have required a candidate who was minimally prepared

When forced to speak before Obama, he spent most of his time in introductory phrases.

Romney has two problems in a foreign policy debate. The small one is he cares little about policy. The real reason he wants to be president is to end his tax liability. He will have Norquist and Ryan to worry about domestic policy and a roster of PNAC types and Bush hangers-on to deal with foreign policy.

That leads us to his big problem. I have maintained for a while that if his tax plan ever gets out he can just stop campaigning right then. This is another of those cases. He can't tell the world his plan is to bring back Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith and let them do their thing, but it (or something similar with other white men) is what he plans to fo.

[cyndensco]

13. A reporter on CNBC last night claimed romney looked like a commander in chief.

Obama, on the other hand, interrupted too often and at times did so "arrogantly." (Funny how they reserve that word for President Obama).

I agree the kinder mitt was a strategy. As I watched, I remembered reading here that romney tweeted that he had a surprise. His peace-loving side must have been that surprise. http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10021602254

How could ANYone vote for this man who stands for nothing???

[truebluegreen]

14. No, it's just all they've got. n/t