With his first presidential debate victory, Mitt Romney kept alive his presidential campaign and boosted his election prospects. Congratulations, Mitt Romney.
With his passive, almost sullen, debate performance, President Obama tarnished his gold statue. Obama failed miserably to defend his record and his programs. Worse, in defending his presidency, Obama appeared intellectually confused about what he might have been explaining, such as tax policy and ObamaCare. He did not speak with the precision, rhetorical flourish, soaring platitudes, and verbal nimbleness which he expresses when reading from a teleprompter. Deprived of his props, compelled to rely upon his native wits, the affirmative action president looked diminished, weak, inadequate.
Romney was detailed, precise, expert. He conveyed the experience, expertise, and executive abilities that are his. He did not convey a large vision that ties together all his modest ideas, his competencies, his critique of ObamaErrors. Though he touched on the concept of the marketplace and schooled Obama on some Economics 101 chapters, Romney did not put the concepts, philosophy, and their pragmatic implementation in a forceful vision that could be quickly stated and grasped by voters eager to see the roadmap out of the Marxist-socialist, regulatory, welfare, social justice state that has grown up in the past two generations, under all presidents, and has now run out of money. Perhaps Mitt will himself, perhaps with advisory assistance, sketch such a vision in the next few weeks. He needs to do this. So, like Frodo climbing the endless muddy mountain, heartened by surviving a landslide of bullets, Romney, and those of us desperate to see Obama defeated, carry on.
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