with those crazy eyes of her. scary.
Watched 5 minutes, saw this part, and turned it off.1. Moderator Anderson Cooper asks him about the high number of uninsured children in Texas and he turns it into a charge that Romney hired illegal aliens to do his yard work, ignoring the question.
not that there's anything necessarily wrong with drinking a little vino
El Che felt awkward watching this debate. Like watching a bizarre incident in the twilight zone.
all these "debates" are doing is burying the tea party and making the Rep Party look like a bunch of reptilian aliens tbh
the cure for every vice and virtue is excessive participation
lmao @ those who watched this and the play-by-play analysis.
why? you'll be voting for one of them.
which one will it be?
lmao @ the supposed cherry (grenade) on top, added the next morning by a virtual nonparticipant in the conversation.
go read other threads if this one doesn't suit you, Darrin. you don't really read em anyway, why pick on this one?
well I wasn't watching watching. Doing a ton of and had the debate in the background.
Sometimes I got a laugh of it and sometimes I thought "My God, one of these nutjobs is close to being president of the USA"
i don't think mitt is a nutjob......but he's easily baited.
yeah. Mitt is Democratic candidate #2. It's cool democrats will have a representative in the GOP.
Also Gingrich seems like he has both feet on the ground. But the restbat crazy
the idea that perry has been gov. for 10 years is mindblowing.
awesome summary by a commenter:
David Walker
The Republican "debates" just keep getting scarier. In a sane world, President Obama would stop raising money, tell his campaign staff to go home, and prepare for another inauguration. This is not a sane world.
The Republican candidates had no intention of "debating". They flatly refused to answer questions. What we got was fifth-grade taunts, hackneyed talking points, and a display of world-class ignorance. Nonetheless, after the scrapping, name-calling, and other nonsense, it is now clear the Republican Presidential nomination is Romney's to lose.
You don't recap this bunch moving from left to right. You move from far right to extreme right. Bachmann is gasping. She is now making her pitch to women, feeling their pain, and promising help. How she's going to do that while refusing to cut the defense budget is something she didn't explain. She made the evening's biggest gaffe noting that President Obama now has us in four wars. One in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, one in Libya, and now he has forces in Africa. In Bachmann's world, Libya is NOT in Africa.
Santorum wants desperately for us to believe that America is all about family values. That's what built America. Not indentured servants, not slaves, not devoted family guys like Daniel Boone, not the savory folks in Oglethorpe's Colony. Nope, it's families. You know it's those rock-solid American families, more than half of which are rent asunder by divorce. Beaver Santorum lacked only an angelic choir's backup to his "vision". Perry and Romney beat him like a drum.
Gingrich again pretended to be the elder statesman. He'd just love to be someone's Vice-President. By the way, these debates would have some substance, he let us know, if the media would only have a more sensible format. He is ready to challenge the Democratic nominee to a series of seven three-hour debates. That may happen, but it certainly won't be Gingrich facing off against President Obama.
You have to like Ron Paul. He is not playing for the audience - most of the time. He truly believes what he is saying, and the audience loves him. The answer is isolationism. The answer is the free market. Let states get into bidding wars to be the lucky recipient of the nation's nuclear waste. One thing he certainly has in common with Herman Cain: He sure knows how to lose the Jewish vote. Those darned Israelis are just too dependent on us.
Herman Cain was the nail. The other candidates were the hammers. His 9-9-9 plan got the deep 6-6-6, but the audience loves him. He brought the red meat to the soiree. Fry them damned illegals. Anyone who can't see serious homicidal tendencies in the Republican Party is blind as a bat. Herman Cain is done, and for the most part, Romney and Perry treated him like a lawn statue.
Speaking of Perry, why is it Texas Governors can't pronounce nuclear correctly? I thought Romney absolutely destroyed him. Perry's big gotcha was the fact that Romney had illegal aliens mowing his lawn. Weak! Coming from Texas, my guess is Perry's steaks are cut in a slaughter house that employs scads of illegals.
Romney came the closest to looking Presidential. He was very well-prepared. He delivered his remarks in some cases with a stiletto. He carved both Cain and Perry into little pieces. The rest? Well, noblesse oblige forbade his cutting them up too much. He is the best they have to offer, and he knows it.
In general, for a group that insists government is incompetent and can't create jobs, most promised to do exactly that - create jobs. Only Cain has the guts - certainly not the brains - to offer a plan, albeit the absurd 9-9-9 debacle. Not one of them offered a concrete proposal of any kind that will fly in the real world.
The pundits who discussed the debate afterwards are so out of touch with rank-and-file Americans it was stunning. David Gergen observed that beating on others doesn't play well with the audience. Really? Those guys are out for blood. (Crowd motto: "To with liberty, give us death.....someone else's.") Most thought Perry had improved - even Donna Brazile. Good grief, how low is that bar?
The thought of any one of those people as President, as the representative who meets with other heads of state, as the man who leads this country, is almost paralyzing. It should be inconceivable.
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Well said.
It takes a certain personality to want the kind of responsibility these guys are fighting over. But more importantly, it takes money. One would think that in the internet age, with more inexpensive ways to get your word out to the public, that other candidates could get an opportunity. But it's just as bad as ever, because the media perpetuates the idea that we only have two options for presidency (both of which are usually garbage), and most people don't take time to do any research. I bet at least 98% of the voters wouldn't be able to name any other candidates besides the Democrat and Republican. Nothing is going to change for a long time.
It's all about the Benjamins.
Agreed, I cannot understand this. How is this possible!
Gullible rednecks, Texas is full of 'em.
Mention how much you love God, guns, and Texas......BOOM 10 years.
And when he loses the nomination, he's gonna be the guv for awhile. There's a better chance of some other redneck Republican unseatting him than a Democrat. That's how bad it is for you Texans.
I immediately thought the same thing when I saw the question. It's in Texas...of course a guy like Rick Bush is going to have a long rule as governor there
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