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To: Sam who wrote (201365)	9/14/2012 9:20:03 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 542058

If Romney gets into a "Truther" contest with Obama on live national TV, Obama will cut him to ribbons. That's what professors do. There won't be a fact or statistic that Obama's team hasn't expected and prepped him with.

To: Sam who wrote (201365)	9/14/2012 9:42:32 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542058

I detect the influence of Rove there. He was always really good at accusing the other side of doing what he was a master at. Or maybe Romney is just an utterly shameless piece of garbage, with all the self awareness of a slug. Nature or nurture, the eternal question.

To: Sam who wrote (201365)	9/14/2012 10:43:24 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542058

>>Romney also suggested that Obama might be untruthful during the debates.<< Strikes me as a fairly common debate tactic--accuse your opponent of your sins as a way to nullify the charge. If I were Romney, I would have saved that retort for the debates themselves. Once the implication was on the table, from Obama, that I had lied, I would try to get above the fray and simultaneously accuse Obama of lying with a few telling examples. But by doing it now, it nullifies the later effort and gives the Obama folk something else to prepare for. One of the memes about Romney is that he's a very smart guy. That guy hasn't shown up in the general election campaign yet.