There is no denying it...Mitt won the debate...in the eyes of his base...here is the reason he lost, Big Bird...it isn't what you say but how you say it.
Mitt's Problem has been being perceived as an out of touch elite and effete gasbag who has as much empathy as a medieval executioner. The debate was great in reaffirming that the people who really responded to such cold calculation were the consumers of every fiction the GOP packages as fact...the lost souls living in Never Never Land with the Mad Tinfoil Hatters who are equal parts birther, truther and dumb.
In a fact free zone, like he was hamming it up with Hannity without the Colmes, Mitt bullied and chided, harried and lied his way towards the goal line with a rapid fire verbal barrage that left the champ stunned, fuming, confused and nearly laughing at the gall exhibited by the most public huckster since Uncle Al sold snake oil to those Tombstone illiterates who used guns instead of cars to make up for their lack of genital size.
But what did it, what cast Mitt in stone?...With an imperious stare Mitt looked down his nose at Jim Lehrer, and at Americans, and declared, "I like Big Bird, I like you Jim, but (I'm gonna kill you if I can.)" No emotion, no humor despite the fraudulent smile of the used car salesman pushing a bond-o bandaged lemon on a single check-to-check mom. "It's just business, Jim" was what the words and look implied, "the cold calculus of life."
Obama's supporters watched the debate with gaped maw and incredulous eye as we tried to keep up with the unending stream of purposeful lies. (Except Tweety Handwringa whose pasty visage nearly blushed with rage.) We knew...even those of us who were disappointed that Obama didn't take a step back from the podium, throw up his arms and yell, "Mitt stop fucking lying"; we knew that the lies couldn't hide, that Mitt's lack of veracity would be parsed far and wide; we knew that the candidate with the heart five sizes too small would be exposed as the callous and shallow fraud that he is to one and to all.
"I got Bin Laden, Mitt wants to Dick Cheney Big Bird."
Big Bird: "Mitt and Paul should watch Sesame Street because they could learn so much: Tolerance and love, math and comprehension skills, but above all, they could learn to have fun."