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eh. Say what one will about the lameness of the media when Ezra Klein, Jonathon Bernstein, Jonathon Cohn, Greg Sargent and Taegan Goddard write thoughtful post-debate pieces premised on the fact your guy won, well… He won. Their collective reasonable wonkiness seems easily more credible than the polemic Right; not to mention vastly preferable to the aimless synchronised swimming of CNN and Politico. Factor in the winning polling verdicts and one presumes the mainstream narrative will come to the same conclusion when the music stops. And what a sweet victory it is:
Governor Romney doesn’t have a five point plan. He has a one point plan, and that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. That’s been his philosophy in the private sector, that’s been his philosophy as governor, that’s been his philosophy as a presidential candidate. You can make a lot of money and pay lower tax rates than someone who makes less. You can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it. You can invest in a company, bankrupt it, lay off the workers, strip away their pensions, and you still make money. That’s exactly the philosophy that we have seen in place for the last decade. That’s what’s been squeezing middle class families, and we have fought back for four years to get out of that mess. The last thing we need to do is to go back to the very same policies that got us there.Rush transcript of President Obama-Mitt Romney town hall debate Daily Kos 16 Oct 12
Why vote for Obama’s second term? Asked and answered. What’s the Moose consensus on the post-debate vibe? Which ass-kicking is going to hurt Romney the most?
bi-Joe Bidenomi, you are our only hope.”