Posted on 01/20/2012 7:40:34 AM PST by RoosterRedux
If skill on the debate stage were the No. 1 qualification for president, Newt Gingrich would be measuring the drapes in the Oval Office right about now.
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Gingrich won two standing ovations from the North Charleston Coliseum crowd during the exchange.
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The Romney campaign has gone from looking like a juggernaut of inevitability to an enterprise with weaknesses – and perhaps not ready to do battle against President Obama. After struggling in Monday night’s debate over the issue of his tax returns, the wealthy Romney again looked defensive Thursday night.
When asked if he would follow his father’s example and release 12 years of returns, as George Romney did in 1968 when he ran for president, Mitt Romney offered just a one-word reply: “Maybe.” The audience booed.
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Odd. Glen Beck is declaring that Santorum won the debate.
Surely Glen Beck would not be gaming anyone? Would he?
;-)
Was Santorum there last night? I didn’t notice him.;-)
>> Surely Glen Beck would not be gaming anyone?
I doubt that joker has enough “strategeric skillz” to game anyone. ;-)
Was Santorum there last night? I didn’t notice him.;-)
He was the whiny guy on the left.
Beck wasn’t watching the same debate I was watching.
I think Santorum’s being voted off the island soon....
You’ll enjoy:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/20/hurt-why-use-despicable-clueless-left-wing-media-m/
For me that was the most outstanding moment in the debate. As I posted elsewhere, it should be put in a Newt ad. Romney said “maybe” in a cute way, indeed, and then emitted a goofy little chuckle and the crowd was NOT amused.
To me, a Republican getting booed at a Republican debate is devastating. Where is the media on this? It should be headlines everywhere, in addition to Newt bringing down the house. Remember the other day when Newt received a barely audible 1/2 second “boo” at the Huckabee forum and the media blared “Newt booed?” Romney was cleared booed.
Newty is dissembling again. Romney was never a juggernaut except in the minds of Marxist demrat-controlled RINOs and the demrat propagand organs.
Fact: Romney has won only one actual vote to date and that was a very weak win in a state (NH) he should have taken by over 50%. He has never, despite push polls and a persistent and carefully run PR effort by the national GOP, topped 40% in polling. I wonder, why can’t Newty at least be honest about that?
Hey, it’s not that I don’t like his attacks on the Usurping Marxist Onada. I do. I just don’t believe it is anything more than conservative rhetoric to facilitate his return to the public trough. I don’t believe him. He is Pelosi’s boy toy. His policies and the legislation he signs will be dictated by Pelosi.
Now I realize that what we watched last night was not a simple beating and perhaps it was wrong of so many of us to enjoy it with such bloodlust [I did]. It was more a public evisceration. A man’s entrails were picked out and drawn far out from inside him and left for jackals to chew on before his living eyes.If John King of Communist News Network were not, in fact, a cardboard cutout of a blockheaded jock, it would have been much more gruesome. Because then human blood would have been spewing all over the stage and the fine people watching the debate live.
Yep. After last night, I think Romney has lost his mojo. He’s toast!
I listened to Beck for a few minutes in between his huckstering crap you don’t need like a safe, (you can get some great ones at Walmart), emergency food rashins, (what happened to something call bottled water and canned goods?), I hear him calling Newt a “dirt bag”.
Did you hear that too? He’s laughing with his jerk friends there, calling Newt a “dirt bag”.
Funny too, that Newt gets wallopped in Iowa with the negative ads. He doesn’t respond to them, then when he does the same an evicerated Romney, Newt is a “dirt bag” and not playing fair.
I’m sick of having candidates who “play fair.”
And as far as Beck is concerned he can go screw himself along with that naive and stupid Ann Coulter.
Beck lost the plot several years ago.
At least his CNN show was funny at times.
Romney is the RNC’s “Solyndra”.
The more serious Glenn got, the more irrelevant he got. The CNN show was casual but effective. Once he started sitting down things went downhill.
The Romney camp is in serious panic mode. John Sununu Sr. was just on Fox with Martha McCallum and was nasty even by his standards, cutting her off and ‘correcting’ her that the only boos in the crowd last night were from a couple of Paul supporters. He then went through the four candidates and tries to make the case that Romney is the only one truly being transparent on the tax disclosures.
He then shifted to Gingrich’s ethics proposal and uses Pelosi’s records as reasons to reject Newt and support Romney. Sununu always reminds me of Bush 41 breaking the No New Taxes pledge, and giving us the gift of Supreme Court Justice Souter. His arrogance and rudeness is yet another anchor around Romney’s neck.
This has been posted before, but I’ll post again.
Sununu makes you want to NOT vote for Romney.
Isn’t interesting. Line up the people who are for Romney and listen to them, and then the ones for Newt. I like our line up much better.
Sununu can’t be objective.
Beck has lost his mind.
Cain was my guy. I liked Bachmann until I got a distinct impression that she was running interference for Romney.
On that stage, we had 2 progressives, a man who makes sense for a few seconds and then veers onto an off ramp to a dirt road, and a conservative who appeared to support SOPA last night—but on Beck this morning backed down from it.
We need Sarah back.
But, I will not vote for Romney. Ever.
I am, however, wondering if the generations that have been imbued with Progressivism go back to before Wilson. I think my folks were on board with the Wilsonian perspective, even though they thoroughly despised FDR.
Bottom line: I wonder when the last time we actually had a country that followed the principles of our Founders was. Maybe it goes back to the Civil War and the triumph of Federalism. IIRC, Lincoln did comment about ending the Republic or some such. If you think about it, the post-CW I (I think we’re in one now, but that’s another matter) Industrial Revolution inherently favored specialization and machination that follow a top-down management and policy model.
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