Last eve was the one and only Vice Presidential Debate and I scored it 3:1 for Joe Biden.
That is even higher than the 2:1 I gave Romney over Obama – 2:1.
Biden’s style may not have been the best, but he played with Ryan throughout like a cat plays with a doomed mouse.
It did not have to be so.
Throughout, Ryan let Biden have his way with him. For instance, Biden continually smiled and smirked when Ryan was speaking – all Ryan had to do was to publicly notice Biden’s disrespectful antics and say something along the following lines:
Mr. Vice President, you seem to find all this very funny – the fact is it is not funny at all – more American’s than ever before are out of work, the deficit is running at over a $Trillion Dollars a year, the Middle East is burning …and you have the nerve to sit there and laugh – shame on you.
That is all it would have taken.
But sadly, Ryan did not do that.
I predict that his failure will cost the Republicans’ 1 to 2% points in popular support. These numbers would have been even greater had it been the Presidential Candidates slugging it out.
Now the spotlight returns to the 2 main Presidential events left – the Town Hall Session next week and the Debate on Foreign Affairs the week after that. The pressure will be on Romney to win both making it a 3-pete.
But as for last night – Obama owes Biden …Big Time.
As I see it…
‘K. D. Galagher’
