Hugh Hewitt:
It would be better for left- and left-leaning pundits to watch future debates in isolation rooms so that they do not produce among themselves the sorts of collective misjudgments that dominated the post-debate commentariat after the second, third and last night’s final debate.
Indeed, mass herd instinct led to hysteria and derangement after the first debate which took a terrible night for the president and made it a fatal one.  Now having proclaimed victory yet again, their followers wil yet again watch polls soldify around Romney (and perhaps even increase in his favor as happened with Rasmussen’s tracking poll today) and they will grow both dispirited and –towards the MSMers who told them their guy had won when he didn’t– bitter.
Debates quickly shrink to a few phrases and a couple of impressions.  Last night’s impression was of a confident, steady Mitt Romney, easily the “presidential” equal of a fuming Barack Obama.
Last night’s two takeaway lines: “Believe me, they noticed” from Mitt Romney as he wrapped up his review of the president’s apology tour, and Barack Obama’s riff on the Navy:
[Y]ou mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets — (laughter) — because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
And so the question is not a game of Battleship where we’re counting ships. It’s — it’s what are our capabilities.
This dismissiviness about the size fo the fleet, both in its details and in its tone, put Virginia and Florida beyond reclaiming for the president and probably won George Allen his Senate seat back. Â It also first astonished then ticked off every veteran who was a sailor or a marine, and their families. Â The president ducking responsibility for the sequestration –which he signed on to and which came about becuase he double crossed John Boehner in the first place– is just the latest episode of the soon-to-close “Not My Fault Presidency.”
It will also not help the president to have everyone, led again by Jen Rubin, revisit his infamous “apology tour,” which he simply cannot wish away.  It happened.  Jen Rubin has the audio and the video.  The Brief Against Obama has the expanded version and all the footnotes.
Again and again the president tried, with increasing desperation and evident frustration on his face, to get Mitt Romney to grow angry or flustered so that his Chicago Gang could then push out a “not ready” meme. Â Romney’s disciplined responses and his command of the answer –there is not one gaffe, not one flub on which the left can fasten– left the president and all his friends on sets everywhere to proclaim victory without any evidence save a snap polls that matter zip to the real polling that will continue to show Romney polling away.
That snide remark Obama made about the Navy might have just cost him the state of Virginia.
But snideness, sneering, inappropriate emotional mugging and such are the one thing all four debates had in common.
Obama barely could stand to be on the same stage as Romney in the 1st debate.
Biden, no need to say anything about HIS performance.
Obama’s last two debates had a snarkiness and emotionalism that were out of place.
It has been said that Liberals feel their emotions are as important as the facts of conservatives.
Looks to me like Obama bought into that myth.
He emoted.
A lot.
His mad dog stare at Romney was funny coming from a skinny little guy.
Maybe from a big tatted guy it might have been scary.
Not from Obama.
My take away from the debates. Obama played to and pandered his base. He looked trite. Like a nasty snarling pomeranian. I conclude this because my gfriend (bleeding heart liberal) wasn’t going to vote or was going to throw it away on a third party, but Obama won her in the end last night.
I don’t see how this is going to swing the middle, independents, and undecided. I was a little bit annoyed that Romney came out so sheepish. After taking a step back, it’s apparent that it’s the Romney’s camp that wanted him to be aggessive. As too Obama’s. But in after-thought I don’t think that’s the actual strategy to gain those swing middle, independents, and undecided votes. Calm, articulate, and collected – didnt really get dragged into mud swinging – I think Romney did what he had to do to reach those voters.
And heres my take of what’s going on with the media and pollsters, they honestly don’t realize how subjective they truly are.
SO, OBAMA, TELL US SOMETHING.
how come,with the FEWER SHIPS, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS WHERE PLANES LAND ON THEM,
AND THESES SHIPS THAT GO UNDERWATER, NUCLEAR SUBMARINES , and horses and bayonets still
being of use, you say
it’s what are our capability,
you know in 1916 and counting above , they had horses and bayonet and muskets, the BRAVES ALWAYS won the wars,
how come today they have not the CAPABILITY OF THE COMMANDER able to direct the war to a total win since you are in charge,
Ummmm obama, while our ships are more advanced then ever, we have more commitments then ever and the oceans haven’t shrunk.
Look, we know obama wants America taken down a peg or two. I hope people see thru his B.S.
Personally it looked as if Romney gave him enough rope to hang himself by NOT following the agenda he was supposed to follow. All of O’s well practiced zingers and comebacks had no foundation making him look and act even more pissed.