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Guy Benson at Townhall.com posted an excellent dissection of Romney's incredible response and counterpunch to Obama's calling him a liar and a felon. Looks like it's game on. The dissection includes lots of links, including a link to the full Romney speech. Reaganesque!!!! Bravo! excerpt: (Guy Benson) I dissected Obama's "worst speech yet" back in April (he hasn't topped it since, though he's come close), so why not write the uplifting companion piece? Romney does most of the heavy lifting for me, taking a rhetorical battering ram to the president's insulting and demeaning "you didn't build that" remarks in Virginia over the weekend. The presumptive Republican nominee hit the trail in Irwin, Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon and just unloaded on his opponent, savaging the president's ubiquitous strawmen and mounting a spirited defense of merit, individual accomplishment and American entrepreneurship. Working from loose notes, Romney appeared to warm to his task, connecting with the gathered crowd in a way that he's struggled to pull off throughout much of the campaign. If yesterday's Mitt Romney continues to show up on the stump, he'll win: