Debates hardly matter as much with today's electorate.
Tell that to Rick Perry; if not for his vocal missteps, he probably would have been the Republican nominee, not Romney.
Primaries and general elections are not the same. Obama could slug Romney in the face and these extreme lefties will still vote for him anyway. Surely they don't care what is actually said in the debate.
To claim that all of us are extreme leftists (compared to most Americans, I am, but that's not the point), and to call that all of us would still vote for Obama if he physically attacked someone is pretty offensive, and very talking points-worthy. Care to take that back?