What's not to love?
Team Obama and Ann Romney are in agreement: The upcoming debates between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are an essential moment for Romney.
Monday:
Jennifer Psaki, the traveling press secretary for Obama's reelection campaign, noted that the president had not participated in debates in four years, while Romney had been in about 20 in the past 12 months or so because of the Republican primary. For Romney, the debates represent a "make-or-break" moment, Psaki said.
"We know that Mitt Romney and his team have seemed to prepare more than any candidate in modern history," Psaki told reporters Monday. "They've made clear that performing well is a make-or-break piece for their campaign."
Friday, Ann Romney
told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that she was looking forward to the debates because "I think it's going to be an opportunity for a lot of Americans to maybe tune in for the first time and see that this guy is a serious guy." (Wasn't the Republican National Convention supposed to be the moment when Americans tuned in for the first time and decided they liked what they saw in Mitt Romney? After he fails in the debates, what's Ann going to say is his next big shot?)
Both sides are, of course, playing the expectations game as far as how their candidates will perform. But there's a reason they're in agreement that the debates are especially big for Romney—"make or break" or the moment when suddenly Americans, en masse, tune in and give Romney his first last chance to shine. That reason is that Mitt Romney is losing. He's had screw-up after screw-up. Americans don't like him as a person and they don't like his policies.
So, no pressure, Mitt. Go out there and take your big chance to make us love you.