A selection from my live-Tweets last night, as part of the Cato team, in reverse chronological order. For the entire team coverage, go here or here.
One more Scalia, or nine, would not “ban” abortion. I’m guessing Biden knows that and quickly regretted misspeaking. #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
Ryan feels it’s impossible to separate his private religious views from his public opinions. Advantage Biden. #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
Can’t cut Medicare, can’t cut defense spending, can’t disengage abroad… #WishGaryWereHere #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
And once again I suppose the mortgage interest deduction is going to pass for sacrosanct #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
Phrase “tax expenditures” comes rather too readily to Biden’s lips #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
“Obama *did* ‘let Detroit go bankrupt'” overlawyered.com/2012/09/obama-… #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
The “would let Detroit go bankrupt” canard, again. Both Obama & Romney supported bankruptcy, and that’s what happened. #VPDebate
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
#VPDebate Biden smiles at the oddest moments.
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) October 12, 2012
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Biden has the demeanor of an Internet troll. Fortunately trolls can’t interrupt you. That’s why the Internet is the best medium for debate.
Biden came off like that angry uncle at Thanksgiving dinner who gets louder the less he knows about a given topic. The laughing and smirking were out of control — hard to imagine he wasn’t coached on that.
Ryan came off cool and professional, focused and sincere. Very well informed.
Win goes to Ryan.
Kept waiting for Biden to call Ryan a ‘whippersnapper’ or equal colloquialism.
But, in all fairness, Ryan looks just like Alfred E. Nueman (sans diastema), but the ears, that one eye lower than the other, and the ‘what – me worry?’ grin are all there. Any comparisons to both fronting ‘mad’ organizations reflecting fun house mirror images of the sentimental staples of American culture is purely a product of the liberal media. Plus, wasn’t Al Jaffee also the 1936 Republican presidential candidate?