MSNBC: Try The Decaf

MSNBC's star commentators need to chill out!   By the end of the first Presidential debate, I thought the intense preparation had served Mitt Romney well enough to maintain some traction in his uphill battle to take the White House away from Barack Obama.     I found him changing his tune yet again, forgetting about his party's out of control far right while short on specifics.   He certainly did not hurt his candidacy in this performance.    The President also made his points in a straightforward way.   Neither side delivered any zingers or knockout punches, which is why I was shocked to see how livid the liberal panel was with President Obama for not aggressively ripping apart Romney's twisted logic on Medicare and Obamacare.    You would think Obama had just blown any chance of being reelected. I heard a caller to the liberal Alan Colmes radio show refer to the MSNBC reaction as "alternate reality."    My own political views are much closer to MSNBC than Fox News, but these guys (Rachel Maddow was the adult in the room) need to understand what both candidates already have had to acknowledge.      "Acting Presidential" means trying to stay above the "my way or the highway" fray by showing those undecided centrists they can reach across the aisle and be President of all the people.    While the MSNBC lefties are boiling over Obama not throwing the 47% comment on Romney's face, Obama's failure to aggressively pounce on Romney's shifting vagaries leaves Joe Biden to be the attack dog in the VP debate against a well-rehearsed Paul Ryan.       The debates confirm what we already suspected: it ain't over.    That's more than we can say about the Red Sox.    Go Yanks!