Opinion roundup on Mitt Romney’s carefully written, well-rehearsed debate “zingers”

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General consensus: Are you fcking kidding me?!

New York Times: “Mr. Romney’s team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.”

Good to know that even Mitt’s humor is as pre-programmed and spurious as everything else about him.

NMMNB worries that Romney will get his sound bite: “I’m sure Fox and Drudge and the New York Post already have the list of zingers, and already have a plan, coordinated with the Romney campaign, to declare one of them the line of the evening, the one that embodied Romney’s decisive victory, with the backup choices rank-ordered in case Romney never manages to deliver Choice #1, or in case it falls flat.”

Daily Intel notes the goal of the zing: “Said zingers are set for deployment once Romney has “lured the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy.” Understandably, the campaign did not offer any hints as to the nature of the zingers — that would take the zing out of them, after all — but we’re looking forward to watching Mitt attempt to work with the “there you go again” model.”

Bob Cesca: “First, due to the fact that he’s a stiff, awkward, ungainly robot, he’s going to need a lot more time than just six weeks to master the art of “zingers.” Second, this is how he intends to change his fortunes and attain the presidency? With zingers? If that doesn’t work, what’ll he do in the second debate? Juggling?”

Charles Johnson: “The funniest zingers are spontaneous responses to a situation — witty ripostes that happen off the cuff. So naturally, Romneybot2012 is being hard-coded with a series of memorized zingers, written in FORTRAN by the best zinger-programmers in the GOP.”

Digby: “I think we can all agree that the one personality trait that defines Mitt Romney is his sense of humor. Like that time he held down the kid and cut his hair. I’m sure the far right would love it if he did that to Obama, but I have a sneaking suspicion his verbal skills aren’t quite sharp enough. He’s more of a “get the crowd together to gang up on the weak kid” kind of guy. I don’t think that’s going to work one-on-one.”

#MittZingers

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