Is this one of those "It's so bad, it's good!" things? That's what it sounds like it might be. But I'm reluctant to watch.

Anyway, IIRC, word was put out that "the throne sniffers" should not raise their expectations.

And I've thought about this, especially today after I overheard someone at my local cafe ask his friend if his friend watched the debates; and basically repeated for his friend what "The Media" has said: Obama was listless, and basically lost the debate.

All I could think of was chess, or a game of capture the flag I used to play in UT. In chess, the king is in his castle. He doesn't go out, attempting to stomp on the board's players; like the real battlefield, where the king has the high ground and some ankle-biter tries to roll shit uphill into his house. He's not likely to armor up, and all gog-eyed and blithering, run out to engage that clown. Hell no; let the fool try to roll that ball of shit into his house; if he gets close, then stomp on him. Or maybe even let him, in this case, roll the ball of shit into the house and then point out that the guy who wants to be in charge just rolled a ball of shit into the house.

Or in CoF: get a good lead, and defend the flag. Don't send everyone out to run up the score: defend. Let the other guy's team sweat it.

Which brings me to what I think is a good point: imagine that Obama had punched (so to speak) Romney, repeatedly.

You can bet that group of ankle-biting talking heads (Romney's sock puppets, AKA the victim elite; remember them?) would be whining about Obama running up the score; and use almost that exact language: running up the score. Which, I suppose I should state overtly rather than imply, is a dog whistle to a specific group of Americans.

And here we all are, ISTM, watching "liberal democrats" (whatever or whoever they are) once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; remember that description of a certain group of Americans?