Ok. I'll start. Bottom of the 4th. No score.

Thank you L.com Staff

Thank you, thank you. LCom is my second home. Let's rumble.

This to me is just going to be a side show to take our eyes off of 0bama for as long as the LSM can spin the debate later.

Just posted a nice piece from Peter Foster of the Telegraph:

"Obama’s election strategy has collapsed, says Romney camp as their man begins to believe"

It begins:

It is a freezing cold autumn night in Ohio, but as an expectant crowd gathers under one of the Buckeye state's famous big skies it is suddenly evident that Mitt Romney's new-found bounce isn't confined to the opinion polls.

I like the image conjured by Foster and suddenly realized how much better I've been sleeping lately!

Just reported on O'Reilly: Democrats declare that tonight is their night.
That remains to be seen.

The popcorn's almost ready!

I was too scared to watch the last one live...this one, however, I cannot wait.

Good Luck Mr.Ryan, please don't go the Midwestern "polite" route...take it to Old Joe.

I've said my prayer the The Holy Spirit to guide and inspire Paul Ryan.

Will be back later to check comments... could it really be less than a month before we get our country back???

Can't wait! I'll be monitoring this thread...just hope I can get it (it was too busy much of the time during the Romney/Obama one)

All right----who's going to say the blessing?

I say Biden is going to get carved up and served on toast.

If so, it closes the deal.

If not, won't matter.

There will be hope for our country.

Things will change.

I think Paul's best strategy would be to simply refute everything Biden says by reminding viewers that it's untrue.
The fact that Obama/Biden are lying about just about everything seems to have taken hold amongst the voting public.

#10 already did

Biden is going to take his gloves off. Hope Ryan knocks him out. This is street fight! No holds barred!

Popcorn and soda. Ready

FYI, I live 2 counties over from Danville. It is a conservative county and Centre is a conservative private college.

If I watch the debate, I will be up all night. Being here is better for me

Long time Lucianne member. This is my first roundtable.

Looking forward to the wit and wisdom of the Lucianne crowd. Go R/R!!!!

Prayers going up, been going up all week and will keep going up for our nation. Be with Mr. Ryan, O Lord, give him wisdom, clarity and powerful persuasive arguments for our side.

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7

Lord, hear our prayer.

Let's do this thing!! GO RYAN!! HIT 'EM A LICK, HIT 'EM A LICK!! HARDER!! HARDER!!!

I have 2 cousins & one of their sons who are Centre grads - all from Louisville.

Amen and amen, #21.

Libya, the first word out of her mouth. Good. Let's go Ryan.

The problem with Obama's response of saying "He didn't challenge Romney's lies" to his debate failure is that if it can be shown that Romney wasn't lying then by default, Obama was.

He should have said we have a difference of opinion on the best way to approach the problems the country faces. By not doing that Obama put himself in a logical box. If Romney and Ryan are shown to have been telling the truth(They have been despite what the hard left says)then the only response is to adopt their opponents position - or endorse them and drop out of the race.

Very poor strategy on Obama's part

Joe starts out with a lie.

I'm on pins and needles so I am not going to watch it live. I think all the pressure is on Biden to putt Obama's sorry butt out of the fire. I don't think Ryan could lose it tonight, but I do think Biden could end Obama's presidency tonight. At least I am hopeful of that!

It'd be nice to see Joe carved up, but I don't think this debate will do much. I also must add that every debate prognosticator has been wrong. Way wrong.

70 mil watched Sarah 4 years ago, but not tonight.

Biden is already off to a great start. Blah, blah, blah.

Too wound up even to watch. Anyone know who is playing on NFL tonite?

#22 that prayer has been on a sign in my yard for four years. I pray for eyes and ears to be opened to the truth. And that God will bless this amazing country of ours again.

Libya...one month after Ambassador Stevens was MURDERED by TERRORIST, now Biden says that they will go after the perps. Right.

Biden afraid to go to war? What happens when Israel & Iran finally mix it up?

1st point; Libya goes to R& R

I've got my popcorn and my vodka drink. Ready ready!

First question for Biden was Stevens murder? Amazing! So he gives the pap about "bringing to justice" and tries to attack Romney's statement. Ryan's answer is pure 100% truth. Trying blame the video and now us! Excellent!

Sorry. #21

Ryan draws first blood....ZING!!

Way inappropriate smiles from Joe..

Biden is a fool this is a serious subject and he thinks laughing at Ryan is alright?

Thwack!

The far shot shows Biden grinning like a Cheshire Cat at Ryan while Ryan speaks.

Looks like a lunatic.

Hell, he looks like a lunatic period.

And now he is interrupting - bad move.

I hope Biden keeps laughing and he's talking under his breath. He's being a mean boy! Whew!

Ryan's diction needs work.

Can someone tell me how to refresh/or update the posts as it goes along.
thanks..so nervous..

Ole plug head has real creepy smile(if that's what it is)

Biden is trying every trick to be snarky he can think of. However he is pathetic. Whacky smiles and yadayadda is no substitute for actual truth.

Why is Biden grinning like a chipmunk, did he get new teeth?

Biden's only making his second statement and I need hip boots.

This moderater chick ain't pitchin' mno softballs to ol' Joe...

That silly grin.

Grinning Biden looks like the Geico pig waving the pinwheels out the car window.
Wheeeeee...!!!!!

I've been praying all day for Paul Ryan and that the left's lies will be exposed for all to see. Please save our nation, Father God!

#45, Hit the F5 key to refresh the page.

Annie there is a refresh button on your browser by the URL address bar. Press that to reload

Mr. Ryan she says? It's Congressman Ryan you nitwit ?

Biden is wired.

Steelers and the Titans, #31. Hate the Steelers.

I am not a debater..however, is is not a tactic to keep your facial looks and sounds like poker close to the vest?

Ol' Pluggo is waiting to deliver his piece de resistance- a sandbag he has rehearsed thousands of times like Lloyd Bentsen did to Danny Quayle.

She isn't letting Ryan finish his answers and is letting plugs go on and on and on.

She just cut Ryan off his important points about apologizing for our values.

#57, according to Fox it was at Ryan's request.

Ryan let her cut him off. He's on a roll now though.

Joe's laugh is condescending and it a "tell" that Ryan is getting his goat.

thanks, you guys...I am sort of electronically challenged. know my LDotter friends would help me out!!!

Biden tosses the intelligence community under the bus. Biden is trying to defend the indefensible on Libya.

Same silly Biden smirk, same "my friend..." garbage. Moderator even tries to derail Ryan by bringing up the misdeeds of soldiers last year when the topic is about what happened last month. Ryan had an excellent opening to bring up Obama's partying in Vegas and schmoozing with Letterman instead of addressing the crisis, but it's good that he stayed on message.

I thought Obama said Iran was a tiny country

#49, must be. He really likes to show them off. Distracting and disrespectful.

Didn't anyone tell Biden not to smirk?

Biden knows that the move against Iran is going to be a strategic strike(s) and not a Iraq type "war". . . liar!

I can't believe this bimbo is defending Obama's ignoring Netanyahu. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Stand tough, Ryan. You can beat these two idiots.

Yes #68 he is trying a whole bunch of things at once, those included. Biden is also grasping for an opportunity to ape Romney in debate #1 saying "I don't know what you're talking about" - because that worked so well. Only problem is when Biden says that it's true!

And OMG the little girl "moderator" just showed her true colors - she just started debating Ryan! I call foul!

#52 you stole my thoughts.

Delaware dork claims that intelligence didn't tell him? Where did Axelrod chain him to? Didn't hear about Congress hearings?

Is Biden's plan to grin, smile and chuckle for the entire 90 minutes...

so far it's joe and martha against paul

Why doesn't this woman let Ryan finish? Why is Plugs grinning and interrupting like that?

The moderator is having an intrusive dialogue with Ryan. Bad form. the brazen Biden is, as expected, lying his ass off, unmolested.

Ryan starting to get some points about Obama foreign policy (policy of None !)

Iran is more isolated? With an unstable Iraq and free ticket to make nukes? What a liar Plugs is! He doesn't know that fissionable material makes nukes, either.

Urkel met with Netanyahu?? Talked with him on the phone?? FERTILIZER!!!

Plugs is RUDE!!! Why is he allowed to keep interrupting??? Why isn't she taking control and stopping him???

Hey where are those relief referees when we need them? Radiate needs to be relieved NOW

Hey where are those relief referees when we need them? Raddatz needs to be relieved NOW.

I can't believe Radditz is allowing Biden to interrupt Ryan. It is rude and disrespectful. Biden's laughing and smirking is juvenile and undignified. He's such a jerk!!! Ryan is cool and unruffled and he has the facts. I don't know if I can take the whole debate. Biden just sickens me. I'm having difficulty getting this posted. The site is very very slow and IE can't display the page. It's frustrating.

Finally.

About Biden's goofy expression. I think that is a left over from when our girl Sarah did a ''Bobbit'' on him in his last debate with her.

This was painful to my ears as wearing ear plugs. Radditz kept interrupting Ryan 20-30 seconds into an answer to explain more. She had no control, only the BIAS we know is ABC. This debate sucked.

Biden did nothing but outright LIE, and Ryan could have taken him every time to the mat if only he was a frequent poster here and knew daily events. It would have been a real smackdown if Ryan could have thrown Biden off, with explaining GM got stimulus money to bail out the UNION, not the company. Romney was right to say it should have gone under and let the bankruptcy courts bring it back...or not.

If smirks were votes, Biden won by a landslide.

What a train wreck! With all of the whining, screeching and interrupting that Biden did, Ryan was never able to answer a question. And if he got close to answering, the moderator interrupted.

Ryan did the best that he could have done under the circumstances. Ryan didnt advance the ball........and I dont think that Biden helped his team.

Ryan did great debating both Radditz and Biden.

Am I the only one who couldn't access this website tonight? Same thing happened last debate.

When are Republicans going to remind people that both GM and Chrysler did go bankrupt?
Biden was a rude boor. He lost, but Ryan didn't win.

Biden was grinning like a mule eating briars! I tried--really tried to watch it. Couldn't. Ulcers.

Worse than all the jack-donkey braying will be the snide snark from the vintage media.

After the first few comments here when I refreshed I could not get back in for the rest of the debate. I could not even get into the main page so I could read stories. After a half dozen refreshes it was nothing but total lockout.

Maybe these wrt for debates should be on another URL so as not to block the main site.

Seeing only 88 comments just now as I finally got in tells, sorry about it, this was a failure.

But let's be honest on the other side. So many people wanted to be here that the site just crashed. Ah well, maybe next time.

#92 - same here. Couldn't access l.com until after 11 PM

Biden's smile (often at inappropriate times) reminds me of Alice in Wonderland:

Alice: My Daddy told me to beware of those who smile a lot.
Cheshire Cat: Why?
Alice: Because they are either very jolly all the time, which is unlikely, or have something to hide.
Cheshire Cat: But I’m not smiling.
Alice: What’s that on your face then?
Cheshire Cat: It’s a grin.
Alice: I don’t know if it’s better or worse, because a grin is a sort of giant smile.
Cheshire Cat: Smile or grin, maybe there’s another possible reason for it.
Alice: What’s that?
Cheshire Cat: Maybe it’s because I’m mad?

WE THE PEOPLE don't like jerks and Biden's picture is in two places in the dictionary next to the word jerk and next to the word idiot. Also, the people knew Biden was an idiot and now they know he is a jerk!

Ryan presented the facts with clarity, wisdom and respect for both the rude and typically obnoxious Biden AND the yappy moderator. Martha, the obviously biased, 'molderator,' also repeatedly interrupted Ryan making it 2-to-one against Paul Ryan. I prefer the self disciplined, knowledgable & therefore merited Paul Ryan as VP than the current smart aleck, rude and shifty guy at that table!

Paul Ryan looked great - all policy and rationale. Joe Bitme looked like typical Dem leadership - deranged.

Yahoo has a poll: Biden 38%
Ryan 62%

Immediate aftermath. Yahoo not a conservative site.

Biden's smug arrogance came through.

Could not post or even see thread comments due to high traffic tonight butam so hoping that US citizens see the Smiling JackA$$ on tv tonight!

It's obvious who the adult was. Biden made himself look bad to even the liberals. The weird smile and laughter were both very offputting. Not appropriate when one is talking about serious matters.

Finally got in, same as last week, very hard to access. But I do appreciate all that L.com does.

This was an ambush debate by Biden's act and the moderator's behavior. She was lousy.