Some revealing twitters on the debate

[JimH52]

Romney became a victim of his desire to win the middle. But now he wakes up and he needs to face the Tea Party and the right wingers. He needs to explain his new positions and occasional lies last night.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

How long before a google image of obama on romneys car roof

Here you go.

 

[007]

How long before the right wing realizes Romney said nothing to advance their agenda? Spend spend spend.

Romney has to move to the left to win the election. He just has to hope that his insanely rigid conservative base recognizes as the lessor of two evils (in their minds). In his debate performance he moved left, was loose with the facts and aggressive. The strategy won him the debate and it will be interesting to see how the polls move. If the polls don't move he is dead in the water, if they do move then he has momentum.

The Republican strategy is for Romney to move left, hope the conservatives stay on board, do everything they can to keep voters from the polls in key states, eek out the election, then, with the presidency in hand, cut services, practice trickle down economics and gut the middle class.

 

[Avatar4321]

A couple of reporters on CBS post-debate analysis talked about things Obama should have said or should remember to say going forward -- kinda like they were trying to fix things for him because he didn't do the job himself -- which was sort of annoying. But in the end they declared a decisive win for Romney.

What a great night.

And whatever people are saying Lehrer did "wrong", I'd like more people to do it "wrong". That was a great discussion.

That's because the candidates were freer

 

[Conservative]

 

[auditor0007]

How long before the right wing realizes Romney said nothing to advance their agenda? Spend spend spend.

How long before you realize that's not our agenda?

In the long run, the debate did one thing; it made Romney's tax plan the focus of discussion for the rest of the election. The problem with that is that when people focus on it, they will see it as a losing proposition, because anyone with half a brain understands that if you cut the top rate by ten percent, somebody has to pay for that if the move is to be revenue neutral. When Americans look at this closely, they will understand that the ones who will pay for it will be the average working American. The door Romney has opened for the Obama campaign on this issue is massive. Romney may have looked good in the debate, but the fallout from this issue is going to destroy him.

 

[barry1960]

How long before the right wing realizes Romney said nothing to advance their agenda? Spend spend spend.

Romney has to move to the left to win the election. He just has to hope that his insanely rigid conservative base recognizes as the lessor of two evils (in their minds). In his debate performance he moved left, was loose with the facts and aggressive. The strategy won him the debate and it will be interesting to see how the polls move. If the polls don't move he is dead in the water, if they do move then he has momentum.

The Republican strategy is for Romney to move left, hope the conservatives stay on board, do everything they can to keep voters from the polls in key states, eek out the election, then, with the presidency in hand, cut services, practice trickle down economics and gut the middle class.

How articulate.......

 

[barry1960]

How long before the right wing realizes Romney said nothing to advance their agenda? Spend spend spend.

Romney has to move to the left to win the election. He just has to hope that his insanely rigid conservative base recognizes as the lessor of two evils (in their minds). In his debate performance he moved left, was loose with the facts and aggressive. The strategy won him the debate and it will be interesting to see how the polls move. If the polls don't move he is dead in the water, if they do move then he has momentum.

The Republican strategy is for Romney to move left, hope the conservatives stay on board, do everything they can to keep voters from the polls in key states, eek out the election, then, with the presidency in hand, cut services, practice trickle down economics and gut the middle class.

I'm curious, Barry...when Mitt Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts, did he "cut services, practice trickle down economics and gut the middle class"? Or did he govern from the center as a moderate, working hand in hand with Democrats? Romney hasn't "moved" anywhere. He always was the most moderate of the Republican candidates and the GOP chose him despite that. Gee, do you think perhaps Republicans aren't as "extreme" as you liberals have been trying to portray us for years now?

First of all I am a moderate, not a liberal. As yes, Romney is moving to the left, as he previously moved to the right to secure his party's nomination. That is politics. The tea party, which is part of the Republican Party is extreme. Norquist pledge to not raise taxes is extreme. It does not mean that Romney will be extreme right if elected, but there will be pressure from his party to do so. Just as Obama has to appease his left wing.