The election was turning into a foregone conclusion; and the pundits on both sides of the bar were crying in their drinks, wondering if the chicken wings were ready yet.
Low and behold their salvation lay in a truly etch a sketch moment and a President that couldn't keep up with the bullshit train.
Or as that idiot Brooks writes
But, on Wednesday night, Romney finally emerged from the fog. He broke with the stereotypes of his party and, at long last, began the process of offering a more authentic version of himself.
~snip
Either out of conviction or political desperation, he broke with Tea Party orthodoxy and began to redefine the Republican identity
What he fails to mention is that when someone completely changes their policy on just about everything to please the fictive independent and the even rarer moderate Republican something has to give. I wonder if Paul Ryan understands the new script, Obama sure as hell had a problem keeping up.
Charles Krauthhammer got out the pompoms after months of truly epic sobbing
It was the biggest rout since Agincourt. If you insist, since the Carter-Reagan debate. With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt Romney won the first 2012 debate going away.
~Snip
His success in doing this against a flummoxed Obama does more than rally the conservative base.
The English have the perfect word, gobsmacked, gobsmacked at the audacity of it all.
The audacity of change indeed.
Then on the other side of the bar; let the weeping and rending of garments began
Oh, the chutzpah
Barack Obama received a valuable reminder in his drubbing at Wednesday night’s debate: He is a president, not a king.
~snip
Nice comeback. Had Obama allowed himself to be challenged over the past four years, he might have come up with it in real time.
I mean seriously Mr Milbank, what the fuck?
I think we all had difficulty in keeping up with the Romney reboot, it's no wonder it took some time before they could roll it out. What they all seem to forget is that Romney basically denied all that had gone before, it took more that 90 minutes to catch up with it all. It is a bit like turning up for a geography exam and then being handed a paper on philosophy, you would be a little put off.
The triumphalism and setting oneself on fire go on and on at the pundit club. The column inches are saved! We have once again an election! Jesus be praised.
I'm just wondering when everyone catches up has anything changed, after all, Romney is "the not really liked chosen one" of the most radical Republican party in living memory.
Has anything changed? For sure, we have a bucket load more of videos showing Romney contradicting himself. I expect Paul Ryan has a headache, and apart from that; nothing in this election has changed at all.