So who won tonight?
I give props to Santorum because he finally went after Mitt and brought up the fact Mitt’s advisors met with Obama’s.
Cain held his ground on 9-9-9, but it’s obvious he won’t attack Romney. I’m sorry, but the whole “apples-oranges” confrontration with Romney looked staged. It really did.
Newt finally took a swipe at Romney when Romney tried to pin the idea of mandates on him. Yet, nobody fired back anything about mandates being wrong.
A couple of times, Bachmann was jumping in to want to say something I thought was going to be an attack on Romney. Instead, she kept repeating the same lines over and over. The message is good, but she’s still not getting to the substantive part. And she still won’t take a shot at Romney.
Perry should have read your FR post a few days ago for more ideas on what issues to go after Romney. Of ALL the things to go after, the issue he brought up was already tried by the McCain campaign in 2008 as a counter when Romney accused McCain of amnesty. His people had to know Romney would be prepped for it. Why not challenge him on climate change? Abortion in Romneycare? The Advisors to Romneycare? I’m sorry, but Perry sucks as a debater.
Romney can’t take advantage of the weak attacks by Perry, because Romney comes across as an a-hole. You could just tell Perry wanted to take him behind the woodshed and administer an old-fashioned “Code Red”. Romney’s smirk and his low-blow counters didn’t do him any favors. Santorum got the best hit on him, but I wish the other candidates would have jumped in. And WTF was the audience make-up of this debate? It seemed like 70% was pro-Romney, WTH?
Ron Paul was Ron Paul. NEXT
Looks like on FOX, Sarah was giving some hidden acceptances to Gingrich, saying he would “clobber” Obama. But which Newt would that be showing up? The Newt from 1994 or the one with Nancy Pelosi? She also seemed reserved to the idea that “he with the most money wins”. This was a little troubling to hear this coming from her.
CNN.