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I missed the GOP debate last night. I had a few beers and a nice dinner and crashed out. But I'm up this morning and ready to watch them on Meet the Press. I did see the response from Ron Paul last night about how the drug war and how blacks are prosecuted at a much higher rate than whites.
Bold and honest statement to make. :tu
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...washingtonpost
The transcript is here though.
Huntsman had a nice comeback against Romney about putting Country first.
Perry pleased with himself that he remembered the 3 federal depts he wanted to eliminate.
Newt: "primary pain should be on changing the bureaucracy," not creating pain by spending cuts."
Huntsman - (Romney) was out raising money while he criticized me for serving my country...my sons don't ask who the president is.
Perry getting tough. Stated it was the big spending GOP congress under GWB that got us into this mess and that Obama has continued the spending.
Romney saying we don't need to solve problems of poverty. Easy coming from him.
Romney: "This ain't the beanbag." Gingrich: "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
Romney says has never seen the antiNewt Super Pac ads, but he can tell us what they say...point by point.
http://thehayride.com/2012/01/suffol...tracking-poll/Quote:
For the fourth day in a row, Mitt Romney has fallen in overnight tracking, and Rick Santorum has dropped into fifth place among likely voters in the Jan. 10 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, according to the latest Suffolk University/7News two-day tracking poll.
Ron Paul is gaining on Romney, while Jon Huntsman has rallied into third place.
Romney dropped 4 percentage points overnight to 35 percent. The former Massachusetts governor still holds a 15 point lead, but his margin has declined by 8 percentage points since last Tuesday, when 43 percent of likely Republican voters backed Romney.
Romney is followed by Paul (20 percent), Huntsman (11 percent), Newt Gingrich (9 percent) and Santorum, who dropped another point to 8 percent overnight. Rick Perry and Buddy Roemer each had 1 percent with 15 percent undecided.
I thought Huntsman did well today. Ron Paul is gonna have to fight him off. Paul could go after him in foreign policy since Huntsman also believes in going after the Iranian boogeyman.
He's saying it's not the responsibility of the federal government, not that we don't need to solve it. He's callin it a state issue because the level of poverty varies from state to state.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeChalupa
Nice mischaracterization though.
So Romney is still in first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
I thought Newt cam across as petty early on when he told Romney to drop the pius act.
trends matter, 15% undecidedQuote:
Originally Posted by AFBlue
Willard Gecko has no serious challenger, and is/will be the beneficiary of the richest, nastiest, most slanderous SuperPACs, as we saw in Iowa where Willard's SuperPACs destroyed Noot.
RP has the war chest to hang in there awhile:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57353011-503544/ron-paul-raises-$13-million-in-fourth-quarter/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Ron Pauls radical isolationism is hardly a strength to be exploited in the campaign. it's definitely not a poll driven position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hornets78
I thought Huntsman did well today, also. But let's face it...he has no chance whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hornets78
I liked his comeback to Romney about why he was ambassador to China, but the problem was that he should have said it last night instead of this morning.
Romney is slick as grease up there.
Ron Paul, god love him, is just as sincere as he can be but he gets so far ahead of himself when he gets going that he can become incoherent pretty quickly.
Santorum appeared poised. I don't think that he is electable in the general election, but he may take the nomination.
Gingrich is manifestly intelligent...but one has to worry that he might 'go off' on the wrong guy as president and end us all up in a big hurt.
Perry said he would send U.S. troops right back into Iraq right now.
What is it with Texas governors wanting to fight in Iraq?
Agree with the bolded statements of this post.Quote:
Originally Posted by EVAY
Good insights. I concur. :tu
hate-filled "Catholic" InSanetorum WILL never get the nomination, nor will Gingrich.
Noot is professor in love with his own mouth, but if Noot were intelligent, he wouldn't say the shit that gets him in such trouble with so many people.
That either of these stinkin assholes are even considered is inarguable proof of how shitty the Repugs and right-wing are.
Disagree that Santorum isn't a player for the nomination. He's the only believable social conservative left in the game and there's a large segment of the base that votes on the social platform. He's also an intelligent and informed person with some speaking/debating ability.
Having said all that, I think this is Mitt's race to lose.
I thought that the post debate coverage was worthless. Why would you have the democrat chairwoman and writers from the Huffington Post as your "political analysts" for a republican debate? One would think they would bring party affiliates in for commentary.