Why the debate was bad: He gave THEM our hope (& change).

[NCLefty]

The right is feeling very much better today, re-energized, donating, animated, talkative, HAPPY. It hardly matters how much he lied. They have a WIN and that's all they want, now and forever, however they can get it. And they're going to be crowing about it for weeks. There may even be no spontaneous collapse now(!). No one on the left wanted THIS. That's why I know this was not strategy.

Maybe it will mean nothing in the polls and on election day. Maybe the president will knock his block off next time and even things back up. But you give people hope and that's can be a dangerous thing. He gave them OUR hope & now changed them into happy, energized people. They were fairly demoralized before and now they're going to fight like the dickens.

/bad news bears

I'm going to console myself now by filling out my absentee ballot for Obama :p

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Kind of hard to debate an issue against somebody who keeps changing their position on it.

Kerry won the debates against W. So what?

[jsmirman]

3. Not hard to point out your opponent holds two contradictory positions nearly concurrently

leaving him with no position at all you can trust him on.

Not so hard at all.

[jsmirman]

2. That's exactly it - see my post on filling in the enthusiasm gap

and what kind of disastrous "strategy" that would be:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=119461

[grilled onions]

4. If Both Of Them Were Car Salesmen...

"O" would suggest you kick the tires,take her out for a spin,here's the facts--YOU decide what you want to do...meanwhile Mitt would high pressure you,trying to just take his word for it that it is a great car,sign here,only one left at that price..sign here.

[Raven]

5. Yup, Mitt tried to sell the clunker last night. n/t