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Gov. Mitt Romney has spent countless hours prepping for tonight's presidential debate -- reading briefing books, performing in mock debates, listening to trusted aides' advice, and reportedly memorizing zingers. But it's doubtful that the Republican presidential nominee has reached out to Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) spokesman Rick Tyler.
Tyler is perhaps most memorable for his rant against the press early in the Republican primary when he worked for GOP candidate Cheap Beats Newt Gingrich. Tyler wrote after Gingrich's drubbing on "Meet The Press": "The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding ... Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness." That opening salvo may have been more memorable than any line in Romney's convention speech.
Maybe Romney could use some of Tyler's fiery rhetoric. Maybe not. Either way Tyler is ready with the verbal ammo, and he was willing to share it in an interview with The Huffington Post. "[Romney] needs to be able to demonstrate how Obama's economic policies are like designing a lead airplane," Tyler offered. "They keep adding lead and it's not going to fly."
Tyler said he thinks Romney should bring up Obama's foreign policy -- one of the president's perceived strengths. Obama may have drawn down two wars, Tyler said, but he's "ignited six others."
"We've got one now in Libya that started with the death of the ambassador," Tyler said. "We got the Egyptian protest where they bridged our embassy. There's an uprising in Sudan. There's missiles being fired from Turkey into Syria."
That's only four.
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down Montana's campaign contribution limits as unconstitutional, a decision that comes less than a month before Election Day and marks the latest in a string of court rulings against the state's campaign laws.
Barring an appeal that stays the judge's order, the ruling means individuals and political parties can dump unlimited amounts of money into Beats By Dre Cheap the coffers of their preferred candidate at the very peak of the campaign season. The conservative group that brought the lawsuit to overturn the limits applauded the decision.
The state promised to file an emergency stay with 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals, hoping to block the judge's decision until it can be reviewed.
U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell, who issued the decision three weeks after a trial, said current limits prevent Montana candidates from amassing the money needed to run an effective campaign. It affects all races in the state from the governor on down, but does not affect federal races for the U.S. House and Senate that are covered under other laws.
Lovell issued only a short ruling Wednesday, promising more details later of the order, which blocks the state from enforcing its campaign contribution limits.
"This court will in due course issue complete and extensive findings of fact and conclusions of law that support this order," the judge wrote. "They will be filed separately, though, so that this order can be issued before voting begins in the upcoming election."
Conservative activists, corporations, and Republican groups argued that the contribution limits are unconstitutionally low and prevent effective campaigning. The effort was joined by American Tradition Partnership, a conservative group based in the Washington, D.C., area that has fought state efforts to force it to disclose its donors.
"The old contributions limits were so low candidates had no choice but to grovel before special interests to get elected," ATP Montana Director Doug Lair said in a statement. "The political establishment can't tell citizens to shut up because they've reached their speech limit."
Attorney General Steve Bullock promised to fight the decision.
"This is Cheap Dr Dre Beats a destructive ruling for Montana's citizen democracy, and disturbing for those of us who believe that democracy is not for sale and politics is about values and issues, not money," Bullock said in a statement. "In declaring our campaign contribution limits unconstitutional, a federal judge has effectively put Montana's elections up for auction to the highest bidder."
The limits that were struck down range from $630 for an individual contributing to a governor's race to $160 for a state House candidate. The amounts are adjusted each election cycle to account for inflation.
The law also limited aggregate donations from political parties. A candidate for governor, for instance, was limited to accepting a maximum of $22,600 from all political party committees.
Montana has seen many of its laws struck down in the wake the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that opened the door for more corporate spending in federal races, citing freedom of speech issues.
The Supreme Court subsequently tossed the state's century-old, voter-approved ban on independent corporate political spending in state races. That decision prompted a new ballot initiative that, if approved in November by voters, asks state leaders to seek a constitutional amendment undermining the high court's decision.
Last month, a federal appeals court struck down Montana's ban on partisan endorsements of judicial candidates, citing Citizens United.
Lovell earlier this year ruled as unconstitutional laws requiring attack ads to disclose voting records and a ban on knowingly false statements in such ads. Lovell also decided that Montana cannot ban corporations from making contributions to political committees that make independent expenditures – a similar issue to the one addressed in Citizens United.
Arguments can be valid, yet unsound. Conclusions can be sound, but untrue. Logically, what is it that makes an argument good?
In anticipation of all the scripted one-liners and predictable barbs to come in the presidential debates, HuffPost Live explored what makes any debate great, as well what to look for when deciding who and what to believe.
“The research shows that voters observe impressions much more than facts,” said Alfred Snider, Director of the World Debate Institute. Cheap Beats By Dre“And the way they determine who won the debate is not based on the kind of criteria that you would use in judging an academic debate.”
Host Josh Zepps and Snider delve into how debates are debated and how arguments are won with Lewis Gordon, a professor of philosophy at Temple University, Nina Kallen, an attorney, and Ilana Rice, champion debater with Columbia University’s Debating Society.
The one thing Tyler said Romney shouldn't mention is the now-infamous 47 percent video. "If I were him, I wouldn't bring it up," he admitted. "In debates, you try to play from a position of strength."
Mitt Romney's campaign is taking advantage of Vice President Joe Biden's comment on Tuesday that the middle class has "been buried the last four years" by offering supporters a T-shirt emblazoned with the statement.
The white shirt,Beats By Dre Cheap called "Honest Joe," features a portrait of Biden grinning above the text, "The Middle Class 'Has Been Buried The Last Four Years.'"
"You're right about that, Joe," reads the description on Romney's campaign website. "We couldn't have said it better ourselves."
The shirt is available to supporters who donate $30 or more to the Romney campaign.
At a campaign event in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Biden asked a crowd of supporters how Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), "can justify raising taxes on the middle class that's been buried the last four years? How in the Lord's name can they justify raising their taxes with these tax cuts?"
The Romney campaign jumped on Biden's comments, tweeting that Romney agrees and that's "why we need a change in November."
Ryan, for his part, repeated the message at a campaign event in Burlington, Iowa, telling supporters that "we need to stop digging by electing Mitt Romney the next president of the United States."
Although the Obama campaign said that Biden was saying that "the middle class was punished by the failed Bush policies," the vice president adjusted his statement in a later campaign event.
Read more about Biden's comment -- and what he said at the next campaign event -- from The Huffington Post's Luke Johnson and Jennifer Bendery.
As the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney draws close, the stakes are higher than ever. Will Wednesday's meeting in Denver provide an opportunity for Obama to land a knock out blow on a struggling Romney? Is it a chance for Romney to rebound and catapult Cheap Dr Dre Beats his slumping campaign back into the lead? Whatever happens, we know both candidates will be doing their best to avoid anything resembling any of the excruciating moments below.
Scroll through our list of painfully awkward debate mishaps and vote on which one makes you squirm the most.