In all of the bloviating here, I haven't seen any comments yet about the way Mittens stabbed his base in the back during the debate! At first I was concerned that Obama wasn't being assertive enough, but now I realize he was giving Rmoney all the rope in the world to hang himself with. And sure enough, Mittens did! He completely impaled himself on one of the two prongs of the trap he's been building for himself this entire campaign: he can either appeal to the base or to the moderates/independents, but he can't win them both at the same time, even though he HAS to win them both to win the election!
Rmoney chose to go after the moderates/independents last night, treating the base like road kill. You can be sure Rush and Beck and Faux In The Morning will help the base understand how totally they've been betrayed. If they don't, you can be positive that the Obama campaign is going to do it with negative advertising. As it is, the base has been profoundly suspicious of Mr. "Severely Conservative's" bona fides and now their suspicions have been confirmed, in spades! Mittens has gotten away with a lot of his endless flip-flopping, but we're a month away from the election and with the debates his positions are finally going to get etched into stone. The base is stuck with this. There's no where else for them to turn, so a lot of them are going to throw up their hands in outrage and disgust (their favorite emotions, anyway) and just stay home in November! WE NEED TO ENCOURAGE THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN! Mittens was slick last night, all right. But like so many snake-oil peddlers before him, his slickness has cost him. Now the GOP's most enthusiastic voters are going to just despise him for abandoning all their pet causes! And Mittens did it to himself, as Obama just stood there and watched, with that ironic smile playing across his face!