*** LIVE THREAD MSNBC GOP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, 24 JANUARY 2008 ***

MSNBC | 24 JANUARY 2008 | EEE SUBSTITUTING FOR COUNTERCOUNTERCULTRE

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Debate among the GOP presidential contenders. Live at 9:00pm EST/8:00 CST

[Quicksilver]

I give Mitt the edge in the first segment.

[tflabo]

On the Iraq question I wished one of them would have mentioned Iran being the greater threat.

[tiredoflaundry]

;0)

[Inspectorette]

Applause is not allowed?

Good idea - sounds like the audience is stacked with Paulbots.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Romney is the only one coming across as presidential. McCain is obviously working it hard.....but he just seems OLD.

Hank

[jveritas]

The people who applauded this are liberals or Ron Paul supporters.

[tillacum]

Isn’t he an awful toad? I am having a hard time watching this with pretty boy brian and toady timmy. They’re using democrat talking points to talk into a question.

[AliVeritas]

You said illegals, I said those less fortunate. re: Huck

Pol translation. LOL

[Taffini]

crap, i muted it....did i miss something..off mike talk?

[FreedBird]

Sounded like Russert was being sarcastic and didn’t know the mike was on.

[magritte]

Good edit...I can smell the flop-sweat from Missouri...magritte

[Recovering_Democrat]

You’re right, Rudy is doing okay tonight.

I’m still rooting for Mitt....although so far there seems to be little change in anything....no one has gone for the jugular.

Yet.

[NYC Republican]

Loser troll, doing the Dems dirty work. Nice.

[PJ-Comix]

Russert’s head is just weird looking!

Mr. Potato Head.

[Fox_Mulder77]

i think they all sucked answering the question on iraq. they all sounded squeamish

[MomwithHope]

break time, so far so good, Romney making some good points and hitting back at Hillary too. Loved it “General Hillary” Bet Rush will be talking about that tomorrow. That last question was so stupid - was it worth it. Was WWII worth it to get rid of Hitler and the Nazi’s. If he asked the troops over there fighting the fight my guess most of them would say hell yes it is worth it.

[Tennessee Nana]

This debate is better than I thought it would ...

But the five of them are still

The Siamese RINO quintuplets

[TornadoAlley3]

They will all ask Romney a question, hope they go after McCain.

[DoughtyOne]

Notice the applause takes place when a democrat point is seemingly made? Gee, I wonder if it might have been a good idea to make sure Republicans were the only ones let in. Do ya think?

[whatisthetruth]

The crowd should ignore them. What are they just a bunch of robots, why even have an audience at all then?