Pre Debate Predictions: Idiotic Town Hall Format Edition.
In the face of pretty unimpressive results from my previous predictive capabilities, ie not getting much right from the first two debates, I'm still going to give this whole Kreskin thing a try. Strike now that the proverbial iron is cold so to speak. That being said, while I was mostly off base for the first debate, I did still manage to predict the Romney win, just no where near the degree to which he would do so. My supposition was that he would win merely if he neglected to eat a small child in some sort of ritualistic sacrifice due to Team Zero spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to paint the straw man version of Mitt Romney as someone you'd expect to be sporting horns, a barbed tail, and carrying a pitch fork. The problem with straw man arguments being raised to the level that Team Zero raises them, is that when the card board cut out is replaced by a live personon the same stage as the person positing that theory, it is almost impossible to live down to those expectations. Any positive ground made during that debate would always be gravy for the defeat Barack Obama set up for himself. I was just amazed by the amount of gravy Mitt Romney dished up, and the addition to that gravy added by the Bamster's own attempts to portray a coma patient. Reading the revelations of those ubiquitous unanimous campaign insiders who ratted out the Bamster's own impressions that he actually felt he had won that debate until everyone told him he did not, gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling that I can only hope will be replicated during the early hours of November 7, 2012.
Without further ado, here we go with no less than five actual predictions. Based on the height at with my previous predictions have panned out, if I get 3 of these right, I'll be thrilled. If I manage four, I may have to take up playing the trumpet so that I may blow my own horn.
Prediction number one, there will be multiple cases of planted questions from democrat party apparatchiks, who will be billed as, "undecided voters," throughout the evening. The Clinton campaign managed to set these up for George H.W. Bush in 1992, and the Republican Party has not learned this lesson in the 20 years since. Mitt Romney is a much smarter man than most, and hopefully he will be prepared for the 90 minutes of slanted dishonesty that will be masquerading as a debate tomorrow evening. The Gallup organization will ostensibly be screening the debate audience and prescreening questions so as to end this particular bit of chicanery. This tells me that someone somewhere is at least cognizant of the practice. Why go through the motions of prescreening if this has never happened before? Now, just to highlight that this indeed has happened before, enjoy a video produced by Michelle Malkin from the 2008 election campaign in which she researched some of those, "undecided voters."
Prediction number two, Candy Crowley will suck as a moderator. The best moderators are those you can not remember at all. Their job is as a referee. Ask the questions, make certain that they have equal time to share their visions and make their case, and get out of the way of a substantive debate. As much as I am surprised by this, Jim Lehrer actually did a great job at this in the first debate. Martha Raddatz was lesson number one of what not to do. What does Candy feel her duties will be? Why to actually get into arguments with the candidates herself, if you believe what she has to say about it. She plans on, "asking follow up questions when she feels the candidates are not saying what she wants to hear." Guess which way Candy's political leanings point. She will do her utmost to make certain that Mitt Romney leaves the debate having left the impression upon those watching that he really is the caricature painted by Team Zero.
Prediction number three, Mitt Romney will deftly handle, for the most part, those attempts to paint him as the devil. He has been around the block a few times, and has shown so far the ability to not accept the premise when slanted, and to not allow hispositions to be mischaracterized. In effect, Mitt Romney will eat no greater number of small children on Tuesday evening than he did during the first debate. All of the planted questions will be met with carefully thought out preprepared answers thoroughly practiced during one of the debate preparatory sessions. Bain Capital, the 47%, War on Women, Hunting Big Bird, and all of the other moronic talking points will have been looked at, and a way found to explain just how asinine such questions in fact are, without coming right out and saying that's an asinine question, if one is such.
Prediction number four, look for the Bamster to throw bombs tomorrow night. He will not give the same impression of a man in a coma for another debate performance. When your team decides that the Vice President must go out there for his debate and rather than reinforce your campaign message, reinvigorate the base by acting like a complete ass for 90 minutes time, (to the point where at least one television shrink on a major network diagnosed the man with Bipolar disorder,) your campaign is not in a good place. The only result of the Biden Bozo Monkey Hour so far has been to see even further slides in the polls to date. How bad is it for Team Zero? In a D+9 poll conducted by ABC/Wapo, a sample by the way that has even MSNBC laughing, the two candidates are tied. Barack may not duplicate the same gibbering cackling buffoon as we saw Wednesday night, but expect to hear the bombs thrown out deftly and often during his time to speak. Barack will make full use of his 45 plus minutes to mention 47%, Bain, Tax Returns, dying cancer patients, Big Bird, at risk puppies, mediscare, old people losing Social Security, and any of the other talking points he can remember, on numerous occasions.
Prediction number five, no matter what happens, Barack Obama will be declared the winner by almost every media outlet in the land. The apparatchiks all know that the Bamster can not afford another loss. Even if he were to actually fall to the stage sobbing, "no mas, no mas," he will not be allowed to be portrayed as the loser in a second debate this year. If he says only one intelligible thing during the entire 90 minutes, then that one thing will be played in an unending loop all over the alphabet networks. If selective editing is necessary, you can bet your bottom dollar that something will be put together that Makes Mitt look bad. There will be no replays of answers given concerning Benghazi if they are asked, and the Bin Laden football will be spiked all over again. This narrative is so vital to what's left of the Obama campaign that my guess is that the, "Obama won," stories are already being written today. The good news is this, those attempts to prop up Barack Obama and maintain that empty suited image of a messianic figure that transcends we mere mortals are not only becoming noticed more and more, but are starting to appear even more ridiculous. These figures of false deities have appeared throughout history, and when their image starts to crash, it crashes fast and hard. No one is angrier than the false deity's most ardent supporters. Barack Obama will be no exception to this rule, as history will judge him unkindly, as it will those fools who helped to get this man elected, including each and every dolt who voted for him at all.
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