Greg Lewis has an excellent piece up at The New Media Journal on how Mitt Romney can seal the deal with the American people with the second presidential debate dealing with foreign policy.
Teaser:
Chicago’s William Daley, reacting to the Obama debate debacle, described Romney as having been “on the ropes” prior to the debate, while at the same time acknowledging that the contender did make a strong showing that amounted to a “restart.” Daley, like so many mainstream journalists and pundits, seemed to be ignoring, if not welcoming, the fact that the polls were juiced in Obama’s favor through the unjustified oversampling of Democrats and that the oversampling was largely the reason Obama was polling so well.
In fact, despite a largely tepid Romney campaign and despite the barrage of character-assassinating commercials against Romney in swing states, when you account for the oversampling, Romney has been never been out of the race.
Now, while many on both the left and the right are generally soft-pedaling the possible positive effects of Romney’s resounding debate victory on his chances of winning the election, it’s more likely that there are only a few things left for Romney to clean up in the coming debates before he wins the election in a landslide.
For starters, the first debate, on domestic policy, would have been the only one Obama could have hoped to win. He’s spent his whole presidency trying to remake America in the image of a socialist dictatorship, and this was his opportunity to tell his subjects -- er, citizens -- what a great job he’d been doing for them. The 47% number, the auto bailout, and the Obamacare takeover of U.S. medicine should have been positives for this president.
So if that was all the better the president could do on domestic policy, how is he even going to step on the stage for a debate that includes foreign policy, where the president has produced an unmitigated disaster?
Read the entire piece over at NMJ.