Romney can only HOPE to debate an empty chair in the "debates" ...

[zbdent]

1. It's the only way he'll stand a chance ... debating something that can't "fight back". If Obama fights back, Romney will lose.

2. He'd lose to the chair.

[livetohike]

1. President Obama is cool and collected. Romney will be so agitated and nervous that I expect

he will lose his temper on stage. He will wish he had an empty chair to debate once he gets flustered and I think that will be early in the debate.

[BlueStreak]

2. They have been doing the "epmty chair" thing on Faux for years

Faux "news" almost never has real opponents on their air -- people who are capable of articulating a credible case and given the time and courtesy to do so. It is so much easier to debate straw men (aka empty chairs). And heck, Faux even loses a lot of those arguments.

[RainbowOverTexas]

3. well...

Obama wants to debate GWB and Romney wants to debate a chair. So I say we have GWB debate a chair, my money is on the chair.

[mojo2012]

4. Up the ante?

Romney to make a $25,000 bet with Obama?

[zbdent]

7. $25K?

Trump change ...

or what is considered a good wage these days for a family of four, according to Republicans ...

[magical thyme]

5. I wonder if Romney will try to pull his Vulcan grip thingie

I expect he'll either lose his temper, or be so tied up in knots trying to control it that he'll look like a chunk of petrified wood.

There is one, single thing I have to give W credit for. Gore really messed up in the debates with the eye rolling and sighs, and when he tried to play his power game of (robotically) entering W's space, W handled it really, really well. It was a juvenile tactic and W really showed it for what it was.

[helpisontheway]

6. No, Romney will win the debates!

We need to keep expectations LOW for President Obama! We don't want Romney praised simply because he can put a few sentences together in a debate (ala Palin).

[tjdee]

8. Agree. I'm sure the MSM will tell me how Obama is a MASTER at debating.

Low expectations are always out there for Republicans, it would be funny if it didn't mean endless praise when they don't drool on the floor.

[zbdent]

15. Bush got praise when he didn't crap himself and drool in the 2004 debates.

Remember, the allegedly "liberally biased media" didn't dig up any copies of one of GWB's few post-9/11 press conferences in which he actually answered questions when Kerry referred to Bush43's statement about how he didn't really care about Osama bin Laden.

[titaniumsalute]

11. I hope you have enjoyed your very short stay here at DU. Enjoy the dessert.

[Robert Norwood]

13. It's been fun, really!

I'll understand if no one out here is up to the conversation.

[cstanleytech]

14. When you pull your head out of wherever it is and admit that the GOP in congress have made things

far worse then your opinions might actually matter, until then you might enjoy spending time over at fox news more where others like you still ignore things like actual facts.