In the debates I hope that Mittens will be so programmed with data

[WI_DEM]

and snap answers that he will misfunction...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Will the Blue Screen of Death come up in his eyeballs

or will he experience a system hang and just stand there with the little Mac pinwheel spinning on his corneas?

[monmouth]

2. He's going to be a nervous wreck and one couldn't blame him. He knows it's a make or break

time for him. He needs to sound serious, presidential and in full grasp of global knowledge as well as domestic.....Trying to accomplish all of this and throwing a few zingers to Obama seems like a mountain too high for the Mitt to climb. Bless his heart..

[PATRICK]

3. Psychologists should have a field day

If it has sunk in that he is sunk, collapse will be self-evident. If he is sweating out a voracious performance and succeeds in not blowing himself away, he has to do it all over again in the second debate. A vapid Palin cheerleading exercise can't even come close to avoiding more damage. When Mondale couldn't move the numbers because people only resented Reagan being embarassed as mentally incompetent, stressed, dulled sleepy, whatever, the second debate showed Mondale with a weakly smiling face colored like a tombstone. A "pepped" up but still vacuous Reagan with a run on sentence and was practically carried out of the debate room on the shoulders of the cheering media- who also recognized the poll numbers as the pre-debate Delphic Oracle. Reagan would have had to collapse onstage or had a fit. Obama is hardly even capable of losing it.

It depends on who believes you are the winner, if you are. The defending champion simply stays unperturbed. Even with a pro GOP skew the Dems are ready to do the job and the GOP is searching for a better presented, very evasive lie. Personal performance as a factor- is in the hands of a boob even by GOP entitled substandards. And the public should be reminded this is the best the GOP could do.

At this point Romney should send in Palin disguised as himself.

[grantcart]

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"In answer to the question I would just like to say that I think that 47% of the people, who I do love and support, should be getting an increase in social security retainer thingies and that I wouldn't like to fire any of them or the social security workers who work on the checks, that I don't believe that corporations are people in so much that they shouldn't be getting social security and that I like the trees of all of the different states and that all trees are more or less the right height and finally not only do I know that airlines cannot roll down their windows I believe that we should consider not allowing either cars or motorcycles to roll up their windows either."

[HopeHoops]

5. He'll have a "bulge" in his back like the shrub - "Wait, let me finish", said Rove's earpiece.

[sofa king]

6. Back then I suggested jamming the signal.

But I don't think Mitt is quite as willing to accept help. He's incredibly overconfident and self-important, and I am sure that he will continue to say the wrong thing.

Nevertheless, Romney actually has a much easier job of it. He isn't bound to the truth, to his record, or to the President's. He gets to talk right past the President and slide this week's set of lies he wants to tell to his captive and unquestioning audience.

If the President calls Romney out on it, the far-rights will believe Romney even more. It's called the "backfire effect" and it is very real--it's how George W. Bush was able to use this country as his diaper for eight years.

I think that the only way to address that problem is for the President to quote Romney against himself, which requires the President to memorize all of Romney's position shifts (which Romney himself clearly has not).

That's a huge pain in the ass, not easy to do, and of questionable worth--after all, nothing the President can say or do will sway the racists who form the bedrock of the Republican Party.

The two of them might just wind up talking straight past each other, to their respective audiences. Which would be pretty strange.