campaigns out here in spin alley in the post debate wake. you can see people under signs what we want to go to washington, d.c.. that is where charles krauthammer is live. charles, your thoughts tonight? i think romney won. he didn t just win tactically, but strategicly. he needed to draw and continue momentum he s had since the first debate. he had to go up there and show he s a competent man, a man who knows every area and give extra interesting details that gave the impression he knows what he s talking about. but there is a third level here, that is what happened in the debate. we can argue about small points and debating points. romney went large, obama went very, very small. romney made a strategic
news contributor charles krauthamer says governor romney came out on top. here is charles last night. i think it is unequivocal romney won. he just didn t win tactically but strategically. strategically all he needed to do was draw, needed to continue the momentum he had since the first debate and this will continue it. tactically he simply had to get out there and show he is competent man, a somebody who can trust as commander-in-chief. a man who knows every area of the globe. he gave interesting extra details like the haqqani network which gave the impression he knows what he is talking about. but there s a third level here and that is what actually happened in the debate. we can argue about the small points or that the debating points. romney went large. obama went very, very small. shockingly shawl. romney made a strategic decision not to go after the president on libya or syria or other areas where obama could accuse him of being a
campaigns out here in spin alley in the post debate wake. you can see people under signs what we want to go to washington, d.c.. that is where charles krauthammer is live. charles, your thoughts tonight? i think romney won. he didn t just win tactically, but strategicly. he needed to draw and continue momentum he s had since the first debate. he had to go up there and show he s a competent man, a man who knows every area and give extra interesting details that gave the impression he knows what he s talking about. but there is a third level here, that is what happened in the debate. we can argue about small points and debating points. romney went large, obama went very, very small. romney made a strategic
which is i think sometimes my arguments are okay, he needs to sound like the next president which means conservatives aren t going to get that much red meat, honestly, from mitt romney tonight, but since they probably want him to win the presidency more than they want him to win debating points, i think that s okay. jon: what about his comment to dmitry medvedev, that he ll have more flexibility after the election? i think that s a good thing for mitt romney to cite. and he, mitt romney, is going to be a steady hand. he has said what he would do in broad outlines, obviously, foreign policy is not like domestic policy, you don t have a checklist of little things you re going to do, it s a matter of dealing with crises as they arise, but basically the strength he will project standing with our allies like israel, not overruling the generals in terms of having a politicized withdrawal schedule, those sorts of things i think mitt romney can cite as a contrast between himself and presiden
here is my plan. megyn: he has the five points. his point is at its heart his plan is about helping the rich. ordinary people did not react that way last week. the cnninsta-poll said who do you think is better on the economy. last night it went to 58 to 30-some-odd. the president even in winning the debate on the debating points. president obama lost the argument. the issue is the economy. and governor romney is expanding his lead on which one of these guys is going to be better for the economy. this was a mistake to use that line. that s the kind of thing you can do at a fundraiser. but you do it in front of a national audience you have got to take into account what do people believe? they believe mitt romney has a common sense practical plan and last week he blew up the image of being a gordon gecko