The Point About the Debates Everyone is Missing

October 18, 2012 05:31


What matters is that the debates have made Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan look credible and allowed voters to give themselves permission to do what they have wanted to do for several years — fire Barack Obama.

 

By Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com

 

The cable news channel pundits, talk radio gurus, bloggers, and water cooler political experts are all are missing the most important point about the latest debate. The rancorous debate’s scorecard is irrelevant.

 

What matters is that the debates have made Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan look credible and allowed voters to give themselves permission to do what they have wanted to do for several years — fire Barack Obama.

 

Romney and Ryan looked, acted, and sounded qualified and presidential. Both Republican candidates sent voters a strong message that there is a credible and serious alternative to Obama and Biden.

 

This is terrible news for Obama and Biden — and I am predicting a strong Romney victory in the range of 5% to 7% or more of the popular vote.

 

One need only look back to the last failed Democratic presidency, that of Jimmy Carter, to see a similar dynamic at work. Once Reagan established himself as a credible alternative to Carter during their debate on October 28, very few of the undecided voters broke Carter’s way.

 

They already wanted to fire Carter for his disastrous stewardship of the economy and foreign policy debacles. When there was a credible alternative, most jumped to Reagan and he ultimately won the popular vote in a landslide 51% to 41%

 

The situation is similar today.

 

In recent years, Barack Obama has been stuck in the mid-forties in the polls because most Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction and that the massive growth of government he has brought about is a threat to our freedom.

 

These Americans see Obama and his policies as both failing and frightening.

 

Yet, until there was a credible alternative, especially while Obama continued to be well-liked on a personal level, the President maintained a lead in the polls.

 

To some extent, merely appearing on the same stage with a sitting President gives the opposing candidate some credibility. That’s one reason Lyndon Johnson refused to debate Barry Goldwater.

 

In the past two weeks, Mitt Romney has emerged as that credible alternative to Obama.

 

Even though the debates often got down in the weeds, Governor Romney has come across as presidential and, as Obama once said about Hillary Clinton, ‘likeable enough.’

 

Indeed, Romney is rising even among voters that may not be in 100% agreement with his positions as stated during the debates.

 

These voters may not buy every aspect of Romney’s agenda, but they don’t have to.

 

They know they want to fire Obama, and hire a new President, and Mitt Romney has impressed these voters as more than capable of handling the job.

 

While all the experts seem stuck on the horse race or boxing match angle of the debates, the point everyone is missing is that Mitt Romney has now done what Ronald Reagan did in 1980 — established himself as a credible alternative to a President that voters have long wanted to fire.”

 

NOTE TO EDITORS: Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation) and one of the “conservatives of the century” (Washington Times). He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.

 

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