For more than a year, Mitt Romney has jetted across the country, calling Barack Obama an utter failure. The president has done his fair share of name-calling too, but it wasn't until two weeks ago that he had a chance to stand up to his challenger in person. Instead of taking it to 'em, however, Obama curled up into a ball and received a beating on national TV.
- In the first debate, Obama was bad. Last night, he was bad ass
- Mitt Romney didn't cagar la cama like Obama did last time, but the Republican came across as a cranky and bitter old man: more Ron Paul than Ronald Reagan
- To our surprise, Candy Crowley is not a sugary snack handed out on Halloween but a CNN commentator. Not that it stopped her from getting eaten up by the candidates
It's a journalistic cliché that politicians are like prize fighters, jabbing each other with facts and figures as the public scores the damage and declares a winner.
ROMNEY: He gets the first -CROWLEY: -- and the next question -ROMNEY: He actually got -CROWLEY: -- for you -ROMNEY: He actually got the first question. So I get the last question -- last answer -CROWLEY: It doesn't quite work like that. But I'm going to give you a chance here. I promise you, I'm going to.
And the next question is for you. So if you want to, you know, continue on -- but I don't want to leave all -
ROMNEY: Candy, Candy -CROWLEY: -- sitting here -ROMNEY: Candy, I don't have a policy of stopping wind jobs in Iowa and that -- they're not phantom jobs. They're real jobs.
So, it's conceivable that Governor Romney could bring down gas prices because with his policies, we might be back in that same mess."