. . . I'm sick of debates moderated by journalists. Democrat partisan hacks . . .
FIFY
Candy Crowley chose the questions . . . and she chose one for Romney that went something along the lines of "You're an EVIL REPUBLICAN - just how different are you from that son of Satan, the hellspawn George Bush?" (OK, I'm paraphrasing a little bit.
) It's not surprising that some "undecided" voter (undecided - yeah right.
) would bring up Bush since they think their guy is still running against him, but NO "professional" news person should include this sort of a "gotcha" partisan question in a moderated debate.
If Candy were being fair, impartial, and nonpartisan, she would have had to include a similar question for Obama asking him to define his differences from Karl Marx . . . or, at the least, Hugo Chavez.
But of course she wasn't about that, she was all about helping Obama. (By the way, BHO got about 9% more time to talk than Romney. And . . . notice that when Romney said at one point that he thought since Obama had started the question, he'd get the last word, that Candy said "Discussion doesn't work that way." Typical for a partisan hack.)
Romney could have been a bit more direct and to-the-point at certain parts of the debate (he should have had Libya
nailed with some very smooth talking points) and when he said the middle class was "buried" for 4 years he should have given Joe Biden credit for using the term - and then pointed out who's been in charge for the last 4 years.
AND . . . he should have resurrected Obama's comment about it being "unpatriotic" to go to the Bank of China to add 4 trillion to the debt, and then added that Obama added more debt twice as fast, and then posed the question "What word is twice as bad as unpatriotic? Maybe Obama can come up with one . . . and then apply it to the man he sees in the mirror each morning. "
Romney wasn't as firmly "pro gun" as I would have liked, but does anyone else think that Obama's support for a renewed AWB will cost him votes in flyover country?