[GOP_Lady]

All I can say is this — For someone of John McCain’s stature, he didn’t act the proper way. On the other hand, Mr. Romney was the gentleman that he always is.

[Yosemitest]

Starting building a current speech on this, addressing today's issues, with today's facts.

'Ronald Reagan "A TIME FOR CHOOSING"'

[txlurker]

The only person I saw acting poorly was McCain. His arrogance and ego were breathtaking to behold. Huckabee whined repeatedly about not getting his turn. And Paul was...well Paul.

Romney was dignified, well spoken and way more classy than any of the other three. I heard clear answers from Romney. I heard McCain dodge answers, drop names and invoke Reagan on occasion. And most of all, McCain kept insisting on lying about "timetables" even after the question was dropped. He also dodged the immigration question by refusing to answer.

[La Enchiladita]

Give me a break, NOOB.

[psjones]

If I were Romney, I would have done the same thing. McCain distorted what Romney said and then refused to back down even when confronted with the fact that he was wrong in what he said about Romney. Then he tried to throw into the discussion Romney not immediately being public with his support for the surge.

[claudiustg]

-—So I say let it be a Huckabee/Paul ticket. I like McCain—don’t get me wrong...-—

I think we get the picture.

[Aliska]

Romney needs to be a little more succinct. When asked about the economy, he talked about leadership and gave no overview in dollars and sense, like I mean specifics and not minutiae. He talks a little too much trying to pack it all in. He HAD to defend McCain's lie about him; hence his testiness. Nobody else was going to do it where it would matter. Then somebody in the background found the exact quote, and McCain was twisting the truth and caught out IIRC. At least he wasn't scripted. You wonder how well he could work with others especially little people. He seems a little aloof but approachable and might listen before running off without taking counsel in decisionmaking. Hard to tell. He sure laid it out on immigration very specifically, more than any other candidate. Whether it will help or hurt him, hard to say, but it's what a lot of people want to hear.

I suppose the electorate would see McCain better on defense but t'aint necessarily so. He would continue the Bush policies, maybe even more hawkish, that has inflamed the left so much. It's hard to see how anybody could stand to work for him as he would grab the credit for everything. McCain ducked a lot of questions, said he'd build a fence and then hung himself on it, wouldn't go past it.

I missed the first part of it, as usual. As somebody said on another thread, the striped tie was too much. Picky perhaps.

Huckabee talked better than I expected, seemed a little personable actually. Probably too late for him, and in the general would go down.

[GOPyouth]

The title of this thread suggests that the opinion is going to be around Romney and McCain acting poorly at the debate. I think maybe 3 sentences discussed that. The rest were about Ron Paul (and his supposed support from the military), Huckabee, and Anderson Cooper.

[Pistolshot]

You joined yesterday to post this drivel?

McCain is a bully, and he showed it last night. Mitt defended himself eloquently.

RP sounded like a whiney liitle kid.

Ron Pauls isolationist stance has no business even being considered in this global economy. Which, by the way, the United States of America has promoted to the rest of the world as the best path toward democratic freedoms.