Face It, Bazooka Joe Won.

If you were Joe Biden, you’d be all smiles too.

To be perfectly fair, this was Paul Ryan’s first nationally televised event, compared to Joe Biden who is a seasoned pro at debates like this. It was like watching a minor league baseball team take on the New York Yankees. It was brutal as Joe Biden dished out some hits that we had hoped Obama had tossed last week (like the 47% comment) and won that debate easily. Ryan often looked paniced, drank from his glass of water at least a hundred times during the debate. I can’t remember seeing Joe reach for his glass once the entire time. He was calm, all smiles and willing to call bullshit whenever Ryan said something that wasn’t honest.

There were parts in the debate where Ryan just wasn’t able to come up with an answer, especially when the moderator asked him to detail what his plan to balance the budget where. His reason for not giving any detailed answering was simple, there is no plan. Joe jumped all over it, citing that past Republican administrations had no problem detailing their plans, why can’t he and Mitt? It was a sound rebuttal that Ryan simply had no answer for.

There was a moment when Ryan tried to win sympathy by telling a story about a family who had family members that were paralyzed in a car accident. This was a huge mistake as not even Sarah Palin at her nuttiest would have told a car crash story involving hurt kids while trying to debate a man who lost his wife and young daughter in just such a tragedy. It’s like trying to brag about a friend who has cancer while debating someone who already survived it. It was a terrible gaffe on Ryan’s part and the whole story which seemed scripted (as it was) just made him look desperate.

Another issue Ryan struggled on was abortion, an issue I am sure he wishd the moderator hasn’t brought up. Ryan seemed to back pedal a bit, stating that he and Mitt would support abortions in the cases of rape, incest and if the mother’s health were in jeapordy. By stating that he was in favor of overturning Roe vs. Wade, Ryan lost a lot of ground with the center and likely with women voters. Biden not only gave a good response to the abortion question, it was clearly the line of the night in my opinion. This was Biden’s response to abortion:

Not only is this answer awesome to people who supports a woman’s right to choose, but this answer also won a lot of points with Atheists as well. Biden’s remarks were profound as he basically said that even though he was a man of faith, that doesn’t mean he will use his office to impose those views on anyone else. So not only did Biden score big with people who are pro-choice, but he also won a lot of support from people who support the separation of church and state. In other words, Joe hit that answer out of the park.

Joe however made his far share of mistakes in the debate. He stated that he did not vote for the war in Iraq, which according to fact checkers he did. Now, this might be a small mistake because Biden didn’t vote to approve the original Gulf War. So there is a chance he mixed the two of them up, because he did vote for one but not the other. That could be an honest slip up.

When watching the debate, it was clearly one sided. Biden had the answers and wouldn’t give his opponent an inch if they tried to tell something that just wasn’t true. Biden came out swinging and took Ryan to the cleaners. He came across as storng, while Ryan came across as weak and inexperienced, which compared to Biden he is.

After the debate, CBS released a poll that said Biden won 50 percent to Ryan’s 31 percent, but that poll was conducted among a sample of uncommitted voters. There’s little doubt here, for the second time in a row Joe Biden won the Vice Presidental debate.

Peter