Regardless of what a bunch of pundits think, my reaction to Romney is this: I know why the President loathes him. If Romney wasn't rich, he'd be one of those high pressure salesman you have to keep your mother away from, one of those conmen who goes around promising to fix your sidewalk, and overwhelming you with falsed data before leaving you with a crappy deal.
That's how Romney won his nomination, and that's how he "won" this debate. If our only criteria for judging his performance was aggression and compulsive style, sure, this guy's great at the hard sell, at pushing people into the kind of decisions that run against their better judgement.
But did he tell us the truth? Did he give us, the American people what we need in order to understand his policies? Are many of his policies not the same ones that caused the problems we're running into now? He's doing nothing more than a hyperactive, hypercharged blasting of the American people with the same promises That Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 made, the promises none of them have fulfilled, and which have left my generation more endebted and less employed. I am sick to death of this bullshit, and more importantly, I came out of this debate sick to death of Romney's bullshit.