What did Ritchie say after the debate?

[Berk420xx]

You thrilled them?
You killed me?
It's over?

I've heard all those suggested. Anyone know?

[MadMichael]

I heard "It's over."
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[Tonia Moore]

I heard "It's over."

To which Bartlett replies "You'll be back."

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[Userb3]

"You magnificent stud, you."

"Back at you, handsome."

[Dayna V.]

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I heard "You told them", as in, "you win".

[Bryan Karas]

I had my closed captioning on and it was "It's over." To which Bartlett
replied "You'll be back."

It reminded me of the classic Reagan response to age being an issue in the
campaign. I think Ritchie meant "It's over" as "See, I kicked your butt,"
but Bartlett flipped it and replied, "You'll be back."

-b-

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[Oak 1900]

"Bryan Karas" bryan...@hotmail.com wrote:

>I had my closed captioning on and it was "It's over." To which Bartlett
>replied "You'll be back."
>
>It reminded me of the classic Reagan response to age being an issue in the
>campaign. I think Ritchie meant "It's over" as "See, I kicked your butt,"
>but Bartlett flipped it and replied, "You'll be back."

At the moment I'm thinking Ritchie's "It's over" was a sigh of relief that he
wanted to share with the only other person who could understand all the labor
that goes into preparing and standing through such an event, said in part to be
amiable and country gentlemanly.

Bartlet's response "You'll be back" might have been a kick in the pants
translated as "It's not over. If you hated this, you're going to hate it more
the next time."

Alternatively, and as others here have suggested: Given all the (fairy tale)
cheers punctuating Bartlet's statements during the debate, Ritchie might have
been acknowledging there was no way he could beat Bartlet in the election.
Bartlet in turn was being gentlemanly and telling him he'd be back to fight in
another election, a la Richard Nixon's loss in a governor election IIRC (where
he chastized the press and said he'd be back?) and subsequent rebound. This
scenario would be somewhat consistent with Bartlet's polite IMO counsel to
Ritchie at the theatre some months ago about how Bartlet's staffers started
"Bartlet College" in his living room to get him up to speed on all issues a
President should understand. It was a hint to Ritchie to do the same... The
final words Bartlet had for Ritchie on debate evening seemed to be in the same
spirit.

[Stephen Grant]

I didn't hear "it's over". I clearly heard "You killed me."
Bartlett replied, somewhat conciliatory, "You'll be back"

Stephen

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[Stephen Fuld]

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Just a small correction. Nixon said (in 1962) that he would NOT be back.
"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore, for this is my last press
conference." Of course, he later changed his mind :-)

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[Kenneth Crudup]

In article <20021031033827...@mb-cd.aol.com>,
berk...@aol.com (Berk420xx) says:

>Anyone know?

"Rosebud".

-Kenny

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