Joe Biden faces Paul Ryan next week on Thursday night in the one and only Vice Presidential Debate. You can expect a similar tactic as Romney's to come from Paul Ryan next week. By tactic I mean lots of lying about what Romney/Ryan has said they plan to do, coupled with some weird new substitution and more"it is so because I say so" type rhetoric.
This is what Biden is up against.
Tonight President Obama tried to nail Jello to the wall. It should be perfectly clear to team Obama that pinning Romney's past positions and statements to him while effective, is not by itself enough. The Romney campaign clearly made the calculation that being seen as a flip flopper is not as bad as being seen as "severely conservative" and so what we saw was a relaunch of a patently more moderate Mitt Romney.
So instead of framing Romney as the out of the mainstream ideologue that he is, President Obama was forced to deal with this much more evasive, much more vapid reincarnation of Romney. The flip flopper who simply changes his position again and again, pretending that's always been his stance, and you just never understood it.
Given this change The President did a good job toward the end when he wrapped all of Mitt Romney's debate answers together in an overarching theme of lots of ideas and no plans. The mistake was that this strategy took up the entire debate before it paid off, and the payoff wasn't a total smack down.
But if there is anyone who can take on the Jello-Twins, it's Joe Biden.
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