Mr. Webb is no rhetorical barnburner, but generally he does a pretty good job of getting his ideas across.  Sound bites from him would probably sound too rehearsed and trite, just as they already do from Allen.  You could almost see Allen touching on his cues from his debate prep -- "sound bite, sincere smile at the camera, look relaxed, another sound bite about about Webb doing the bidding of Hillary, Kerry, and Kennedy -- do it accusatorily, George, make it sound sincere ..."  The only part Allen and company hadn't rehearsed, the Senkaku Islands, left him utterly flatfooted. 

Mr. Webb has spent his entire civilian life as a writer.  He's a thinker, but there is a certain glibness which must be developed to make a really good public speaker or debater.  One has to snatch the thread of the idea out of the air and weave an answer around it, all while adjusting to the audience.  It takes a lot of practice. Allen is often described as an experienced debater, but I sense no originality or spontaneity in him.  He's not a real debater.  He can't handle questions coming out of left field and he often does not address the question but instead plugs in the closest canned answer.  Most baby lawyers would probably be able to kick his butt in a courtroom.