WILL MITT ROMNEY'S ZINGERS GET UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SKIN ?............

By disclosing in advance of the first Presidential Debate, that since August Mitt Romney has been rehearsing so called, "zingers", to lob at Barack Obama in their face-off at the University of Denver, in the swing State of Colorado; what is the Romney-Ryan attempting to accomplish ?  Zingers are normally most effective when they occur spontaneously and unexpectedly; not when they are telegraphed as being fully rehearsed in advance.  So what is the reason to disclose the challenger will be throwing out such lines as he debates the incumbent ?   Is it to irritate the President and put him on the defensive in defending his record or the rationale for re-electing him; or is it as I believe it could be an attempt to throw the Barack Obama off his stride and divert his focus from zeroing in effectively on Romney's proposals ?  It could also be a fallback positioning for explaining after the fact should Romney not convincingly prevail over Obama in tonight's Debate.  Since the inception of the Presidential Debates in 1960, the challenger has customarily won the first debate among the two party candidates.  However, the major national polls released this week show a solid majority of Americans think President Obama will win the Debate tonight, thus by telegraphing their candidate's intention to zing the President, gives them the option afterwards of claiming the zingers got in the way of the Governor's wider message, as a unqualified loss in tonight's Debate all but end Romney's possibility of winning the Election.  How well prepared and able Barack Obama is to absorb the zingers and other attacks on his record and reasons for re-election, whether he stays calm, or gets provoked, will also play a pivotal role as much as the substance of their differing visions, and ideas, in determining who in the minds of the viewers who the winner of Presidential Debate 2012 will be............tdp