mitt romney committed himself to supposedly moderate platform ideas that are the exact opposite of everything he s been saying on tape for 18 months. so he s also sort of handed the obama campaign of easy to make campaign commercials. there s nothing that campaign people like better than campaign commercials that write themselves. all they have to do is take clip after clip after clip of mitt romney saying things during the debate that they can then play corresponding and a completely way before that. so that s the sort of unanticipated and unintended gift of the debate. but he s now going to have to defend, krystal, all of this going forward. right. and he now has a fresh tape debate and he s going to have to defend it so maybe it was, despite the fact that it was the night that the president was on, did not appear to be on the a-game. might have been smart not to deal with that particular issue