Crushing Defeat or Rope-A-Dope?

For a number of reasons, I decided to skip actually watching the debate and track it secondhand.  It was kind of interesting that way.  The reaction was a majority opinion that Romney crushed Obama, and looked more Presidential.  Some others thought Romney came off as rude and domineering, but effective.  As much as it sounds like Obama got Romney to take the opposite side on positions from where he has been campaigning, does anyone think that maybe the plan was to be able to put together which Mitt is the real Mitt ads?  I'm not sure that that would explain the President's inability to effectively counter Romney's positions during the debate, especially considering it was exactly the style Romney used in the primary debates, but if it was the trap Obama's team thought would be effective, I think Romney took the bait.  I won't be surprised if there's an ad up today or tomorrow featuring Mitt recently saying the exact opposite of what he said in the debate, followed by the debate quote followed by "Which is it, Mitt?" or something along those lines.