Romney scored big against Obama last night in the first of their three debates, as most of the pundits, left and right, agree. When Romney came out with the "trickle-down government" line, I gave him a big 'thumbs up' to the mild amusement of my wife who, bless her heart, insisted that we watch the debate instead of a 1965 rerun of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. (I was tempted to blow off the debate, expecting nothing but the usual bullshit.)
But Romney should have repeated the excellent line that sums up the whole leftist approach: we take your money which, by rights does not belong to you but to the collective, and we dribble back to you such benefits as we see fit. (Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.") Obama 2016 provides evidence that this is the ultimate Obama agenda.
Romney should have pounded away with the "trickle-down government" line. Repetition is necessary to get through to Joe Sixpack. Romney is still too gentlemanly. Politics, however, is not gentlemanly debate but war by other means. Leftists have understood this all along. Conservatives are slowly learning.
So while POTUS was pounded, he did not receive the plenary pounding that he needs. Work for the next two debates. Romney needs to slug harder while maintaining his smiling 'nice guy' demeanor.
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