Right on cue, Newsmax’s David Patten — a loyal right-wing apparatchik — quickly moved after the Oct. 22 presidential debate into full Romney-fluffing mode with an article headlined “Pundits Proclaim: Romney Passes ‘Commander-in-Chief Test’.” Patten began in a cheerleading fashion:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may have exchanged a tactical defeat for a strategic victory in Monday’s foreign policy debate, losing on points to the president by most accounts but scoring a solid performance that left major pundits declaring he had passed “the commander in chief test” in resounding fashion.
Of course, all of the “pundits” Patten quotes — Judith Miller, David Gergen and Doug Schoen — are conservative-leaning. Patten misleadingly describes Schoen as a “Democratic pollster” despite the fact that he’s making his living these days in part by bashing President Obama.