The Election is Over Thread #2 For 10/3/12: The Romney First National Gaffe Fest Show (The 1st General Debate)

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It's going to be a long, painful 90 minutes for Mitt Romney in the heart of Denver tonight.

The reasons for this are his desperation, his terrible mentality when he is dealing with a much cooler performer on stage, and the overall fundamental problems with himself and his party.

Romney has various major headaches from his own humiliating campaign thus far, to the untenable nature of irrationality that is the modern day Republican Party.

With tonight focusing only on American issues in America, the domestic stuff was supposed to be in the minds of unfocused journalists and hopefully conservative partisans Romney chance to pull a miracle (with our centrist media's assistance of course).

Instead, with the economy as a whole collectively not awful, to go along with Romney's various taxes ailments, clandestine nature on describing his taxes and plan, his horrors at Bain, and "47 percent tape" to name only a few, he has lost any edge with even delusional or lowly informed people on the economy.

And that has not even gotten to the issue of the auto bailout coming back to the spotlight with Jim Leherer rumored to mention it, as well as the stimulus being successful when it wasn't about tax cuts.

For Romney's choice, there are only two viable personalities for him, no grey area.

He can either try to be calm and civil, which he is in no position to do, or he will be aggressive and assertive, a mandatory but nevertheless horrible idea considering he is never good at being angry (he's extremely awkward in that mentality) and Obama is as smooth a counter puncher as there comes in a debate.

When you are positioned at the far right stage as Romney has, that is indeed the case. And we haven't even gotten to RomneyObamaCare or social issues, especially the women's issues, which could really get ugly for the Massachusetts governor.

Again, Romney will be desperate, and it will not be aesthetically pleasing for his supporters how he, with maybe some assistance from Obama, will look utterly foolish.

It likely will lead to many embarrassing, Youtube moment gaffes of Rick Perry "Oops" propositions for Romney. And it could spell the early signs of a historic blowout and a major retooling (or else) for the Republican Party and America's conservatives.