Live Thread: South Carolina GOP Presidential Debate on CNN 8 P.M. EST

Thursday, January 19, 2011 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

And then there were three and a half minds left campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.

Link to CNN livestream page.

Hosted by CNN's John King at the North Charleston Coliseum.

[ConfidentConservative]

I agree with you except to add...

Romney - Shaky, defensive, copy cat on some of his answers which made him look weak.

[af_vet_rr]

Santo committed suicide tonight. He tried a scorch earth approach and I guarantee you he will not have a seat at the table. He took it to the post debate interviews as well. He acted like a punk ass kid tonight.

Santorum taking his spat with Newt to the post-debate interviews to provide fodder for the talking heads...somebody in his campaign needs to take him aside and tell him that he's ruining his campaign.

He is either extremely desperate or extremely pissed that Rick Perry strongly endorsed Newt Gingrich. Either way, Santorum is imitating Bachmann and he will not win.

[mojitojoe]

I was never a fan of Santorum but after tonight, he’s my least favorite of the 4. He made faces, had a holier than thou attitude, was insipid and he really turned me off. That does NOT mean I like Romney or Paul as the nominee, I’m all in for Newt, but Santorum is at the bottom of my list... at least tonight he is. He just really rubbed me the wrong way and I don’t think he stands a snowballs chance in hell of beating the Marxist Kenyan.

[antceecee]

I agree... Hillary just might be waiting in the wings.

[Abby4116]

I have been a political junkie for at least 20 years and I had not heard these details about his marriages/affairs before.

Skip the late 90's?

It was as big a scandal in the media as Clinton's impeachment. Funny thing is though, most of it has been proven to be lies.

[mylife]

You can COUNT ON Perry to be a thorn in Obama’s side until at least 2014.

He’s going to Go Nuclear on Obama, the Justice dept and the EPA.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Did Newt thank Gov Perry tonight for dropping out and endorsing him? I may have missed it...

He just did that on Greta and called him "a great friend".

[mojitojoe]

I pretty much agree with everything you said and I did miss Perry being there. I like Perry and he is a good man. It’s a damn shame he got off to such a rocky start and never recovered.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

FYI, The toe sucker just tweeted that Newt lost, Rick one with very strong second out of Mitt.

They are really running scared.

[AGreatPer]

"His answers come from knowledge"

The only way we are going to get the DC crowd back to being productive the the US is to have DC experience. Mr. Speaker has that.

I have had the pleasure of many personal experiences with Newt from being a retired reporter.

OK, he's a little flakey sometimes. Who isn't. Great heart and a wonderful person.

Give me his experience any time.

[chuckee]

“I wish Romney would stop using reagan’s line about a “shining beacon on a hill”

The Mitt version of the famous Reagan line in reality is “the shining weather vane on the hill”

[Grunthor]

Yes Newt can debate however he is going to lose a lot of the womens vote as I believe a lot of them will not vote for a philandering husband.”

Three words;. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON!

[RetSignman]

I think Santorum did an inexcusable thing in closing remarks when attacked Romney and Gingrich when he knew there wasn’t any chance for a rebuttal.

He reminds me a petulant little boy.

[MissMagnolia]

I believe Gingrich wrote the foreword for Perry’s recent book.

[skinkinthegrass]

The OBozo's Media, the Pressitudes are screaming...
(APoop/NYT/WaPoop/ABCNNBcBS/pBS/FauxNcBc)
'MEANIE NEWT!'
'MEANIE NEWT!'
'MEANIE NEWT!'

I loved it! :^)
& CNN is most definitively Pro-O'Bozo.

[moehoward]

There’s a story running around that he’s going to work with Newt on States rights.

[alicewonders]

Today is a sad day for me.

Me too.

Perry’s dropping, out has altered the face of the debates.

I hope Newt wins SC & draws blood on Romney. It's sad to me that it took Perry dropping out for people to see what a decent and Christian man he is - one that puts love of his country over his self-interests. It's a loss for our country.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Tonight was make or break for Santorum. He failed to rise to the occasion. In some respect he validated Newt's statement that Santorum is not up to the enormity of the job.

[Hoodat]

Santorum: should be willing to LOSE the race to do what is right.

We all know that Newt isn't.

[mojitojoe]

I agree Onyx, it was boring. The only god parts were the first 5 minutes and the last 5 minutes when Newt called the Kenyan Marxist and an Alinsky radical and said if you think he was bad the first 4 years, you haven’t seen anything yet. I’m all in for Newt! He is the only one with the balls to take on Barry Soetoro the homo Islamic Marxist Kenyan.