I do expect Beldar Conehead to make a good "showing" at the debates
It's just that what's going to be considered "good" is merely a matter of opinion.
First off, he's going to lie. He'll lie about everything. Lying is his bread and butter. I've never seen a more profligate liar before in my entire life. Everyone knows that the man is a liar. He knows that no one will have the temerity to call him a "liar" in a national television debate, and he'll consider that his carte blanche.
He's going to try to use his lies to pressure the President. Since the President is cooly calm and in command of the facts, I'm sure that he'll rebut the lies effectively. The President's only concern is to LOOK like he's having a good time brushing off Beldar's lies. He can't look like he's been taken off of his game, in spite of the fact that everyone knows that he's dealing with lies.
Second, Beldar is going to have a big problem in how he approaches his attack. Either way, he's going to look bad to a portion of his voting block. If he's rude, he'll look like an arrogant, privileged asshole. That's going to be red meat for the fringe idiots in Teabaggerativille, but the middle who's suspicious of him in the first place is going to be turned off.
If he looks as if he's pulling his punches, the "Mitt is not Conservative enough" crowd is going to go apeshit and accuse him of purposely throwing the election against a President that they see as vulnerable.
Third, the first debate is on domestic policy… 47 Percent, anybody? Although I expect him to try to take cover under the President's proof of concern for working people, he's going to look pretty damn disingenuous while doing it. After all, he's got the Granny Puncher as a running mate. Sure, he can claim that his junior partner's budget will take a back seat to his own, how the heck does he expect to satisfy the deficit hawks and winger ideologues if he tries to portray himself as a nice guy that won't voucherize Medicare and turn Social Security into a panty raid?
Stick up his Bum has a record of being all over the place on everything. You never know what he's going to say, however there are some things that we should look for that will signal his utter demise.
- If he tries to defend Romney care he's screwed. He has absolutely no standing to either abolish the ACA or slice it up piecemeal, since his plan is based on it.
- On taxes, he'll try to obfuscate the fact that he plans on cutting taxes on rich. However, his own situation as a rich guy with overseas tax shelters demonstrates that he doesn't give a damn about being honest about taxes in the first place. He's still hiding his returns. On his latest return he paid a higher rate than he had to. By his own account, that disqualifies him from ever being president.
- Immigration policy, he's going to piss off the Latino vote. You can bet on it. He's already written them off anyway.
- Lastly, nothing that he's going to say is going give him any more votes on domestic policy. Any details that he gives will be unpopular.
Sure, he's going to do his level best to try to make the President look bad. But with the rising levels of optimism, plus the President's general like-ability, Herman Munster is going to look awfully haphazard while trying to skate uphill.
The man is clearly incompetent. His lies and stiff, privileged demeanor is a poor cover for his incompetence. Everyone will see it plain as day.
Hopefully, voters will realize that a man whose ONLY core competency is to make himself fabulously wealthy and then hide that wealth is ill suited to take the hardest job in the world. If he can't even run a half way decent campaign, how in the hell is this man going to be able to run the country.
The writing's on the way for all to see, only if they want to see it.
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Romney really does come off like Beldar. And he even spent some time in France.
A simple smile might do. 
