John McCain, commenting on the Romney-Obama debate, said that, if it was a boxing match, the referee would have stopped it in an early round. Obama was well and truly pummeled throughout, looking like he wished he was somewhere, anywhere else.
For me, the most revealing aspect of the after-debate result was the way the liberal media agreed on the success of Romney’s performance and the failure of Obama’s.
The New York Times front page had an article confirming that view and, inside, there was a weak defense of Obama as it tried to discredit Romney, claiming that he had abandoned his positions during the Republican primary debates, but failing to note that the audience then was, of course, Republicans!
Chris Matthew’s meltdown on MSNBC following the debate has already gone viral as the video makes the rounds of the Internet. From Michael Moore to James Carville the liberal outrage, anger at Obama, and sense of defeat was on full display.