Romney & the Republicans have fucked up with their debate expectations... [View all]

[Drunken Irishman]

I don't quite get it, but whatever.

Romney's biggest mistake was putting a timeline on his campaign by suggesting he'd turn things around at the debate. That right there was dumb. No campaign would ever give out a definitive point they need to turn things around to win. It's absolutely devastating because if that point passes, and they're still in the same position, they've pretty much just conceded defeat - a month, now, before the election.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

But even more stupid has been all these Republicans going on national television highlighting the importance of the debate and suggesting Romney is going to have some major zingers at his disposal. They're already inflating the expectations so much that it's going to be impossible for Romney to succeed. He just can't have a narrow win over Obama in the debates ... he can't even have a comfortable win. No, he's going to have to have a blowout win ... a knockout punch and that is just not likely.

If he doesn't get it, if we leave the first debate with the same narrative as we entered, well, he's just written the obituary on his campaign himself.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.