"They're going to be pouring Jolt Cola down his throat. He'll have a bayonet in his teeth."

Following Mitt Romney’s strong debate performance Wednesday, Murphy contended on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Biden will head into his face-off against Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) with the Obama campaign looking to make up ground and in “attack mode.”

“They’re going to be pouring Jolt Cola down his throat. He’ll have a bayonet in his teeth,” he said, before warning that it could present a “high wire act” for the gaffe-prone Biden…

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) assigned Obama’s disappointing debate performance not to a Romney about face, but a presidential lack of preparation.

“If he had done his homework, if he had actually prepared…why didn’t he take Romney head on?” he asked.