Comments about ‘Letter: Response to Gerson about Biden's debate form’

Well said, Mr. Weber.

Willard has behaved like an arrogant, obnoxious bully from the start. He acts like he thinks he's entitled to receive anything he wants, and will do anything and say anything to get it. That's not what we need in the White House.

Very good letter, thank you

I may be wrong, because he has projected so many different postures and positions, but I believe Mitt Romney is probably a nice guy who, because of his wealth and ambition, is simply out of touch with the vast majority of ordinary Americans. He had to adopt a tough, arrogant, radically right persona to gain the nomination and satisfy the tea party elements of the Republican party. Now he has to maintain that image somewhat to retain his base and create political distance from President Obama, while at the same time appealing to more moderate voters. It is a difficult balancing act, to be sure. The problem is that most people, including me, cannot tell who the real Mitt Romney is, because he tries to fit so many different molds.

Re: "Somewhere along the way, he's become so very arrogant that he doesn't even address our [P]resident by his title."

Maybe you watched different debates, but Mr. Romney invariably addresses the President as "Mr. President."

Maybe you were hoping for a more regal honorific, like "your excellency" or "your majesty," but "Mr. President" has been the traditional form of address for the entire history of our Nation. And, if Mr. President was good enough for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it ought to be good enough for Mr. Obama.

In reality, of course, the smirking, interrupting, disingenuous boor was across the aisle from Mr. Ryan -- and from Mr. Romney, as well.

Liberals inevitably accuse opponents of their own sins. They think it lessens the impact of the actual truth.

But, we all saw it. We know the truth. It didn't lessen the impact.

Gerson was correct
Biden was a pretentious boar
(that observation is completely independent of any flaw Mitt Romney, or even Mr Weber, might possess - there is no inverse relationship)

Not only was Biden pretentious and rude, he lied. One example, lied about being in the oval office with eight others and President Reagan. And I'm sorry, but how anyone can not sense the arrogance and dismissiveness of Obama is beyond me. In the last debate, his smirks and stares all transmitted a message of "how dare you contradict me." I'm tired of the condescending grins, interruptions and brow beating of both democratic candidates. If there has been a gentleman through all this, it's Romney. Even democratic commentators have commented on this comparison of their demeanors.

Joe is the best democrat to ever play the republican game. They should have let Biden be Biden, given the debate an R rating, ran it after midnight and let Joe mop the floor with Batman's Robin.

Hey Ivan, care to cite any examples or are you just into name calling like so many of your friends? Biden's behavior was rude and uncivil. It would have been rude at a neighborhood dinner, a business meeting, a family gathering, and yes, even a presidential debate.

I can see it now...

My self-absorbed 16 year old daughter gets an "F" in school... When I ask her about it, she claims the teacher is a meanie, the dog ate her homework, her alarm clock broke the morning of the test, her girlfriend distracted her, her new shampoo makes her dizzy...

And when I smile and chuckle at the obvious childish dissembling and mendacity, she glares at me, jabs her fists into her waist, and defiantly declares that I'm being "rude and uncivil!"

The parallel is exact.

To Blue 8:07 p.m. Oct. 23, 2012

Exactly right. My husband and I thought the same thing. If Ryan were our child (he's of an age to be our child) and behaved the way he did during the debate, we would have laughed at him and then grounded him.

@Blue Furry1993

If that is truly how you view your children: I am thankful that I am not your child

to Counter Intelligence 4:30 p.m. Oct. 24, 2012

@Blue Furry1993

If that is truly how you view your children: I am thankful that I am not your child

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My husband and I raised our sons to be honest, upright, productive, God-fearing men, and they are doing the same with ther next generation in our family. In part, that is because we expected them to act with honor and maturity, and not with the unacceptable behavior like Ryan was showing (and which deserved the ridicule direted at him). It's sad that you have a problem with chidren being raised to act like adults.

It was a debate not a Hannity conservative spin fest.