Romney Wins Debate

Most are saying that Romney won last night's debate but many are saying that much of what he stated was untrue or a reversal of previous statements.

Obama was not on the attack and failed to mention many of the things that his campaign has brought out regarding Romney.  The 47% comment was never mentioned.  "It was as if he left his campaign’s best attack lines in a folder backstage."

I would think that Romney may have pulled some undecided voters his way.  My favorite Romney line:" Look, I've got five boys. I'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it."  Rings true for me!

From the Washington Post: "Mitt Romney finally found his voice Wednesday night. After many months of awkward moments and shifting campaign messages, he forcefully and confidently stood alongside President Obama and offered an alternative economic vision to what he called Obama’s “trickle-down government approach.”

From the Huffington Post, The Etch-A-Sketch Debate: "We know who he is. He believes in more tax breaks for the wealthy, less regulation on the corporations, more corporate trade deals, more money for the military, deep and debilitating cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and every domestic program. The full catastrophe that got us into the mess we are in. But he's prepared to abandon that agenda to sell it, and to do so without even a glimmer of conscience that he forcefully argued the reverse last month."

If anyone cares, Sarah Palin called the night a victory for Romney and felt sorry for Obama: " "I almost felt sorry for him in his role as president trying to explain why we need to repeat four more years of failed policies. I thought this was Romney’s night. Romney did very well and he was able to articulate well why it is that someone with great business experience is what we need to turn this economy around.”

From the Washington Post, Presidential Debate: Two candidates on stage, two different ones on campaign trail "Wednesday’s presidential debate was a tale of four candidates: the two men who stood on the stage for 90 minutes and the two rivals Americans have seen for months on the campaign trail and in television commercials. There was no comparison."

Let the Fact Checking begin!
Washington Post
Dubious Denver Debate Declarations, from Factcheck.org