Live Thread - NBC News/Tampa Bay Times GOP debate tonight on NBC

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[TexasFreeper2009]

All four remaining GOP candidates have been confirmed for tonight's debate sponsored by NBC News, the Tampa Bay Times, The National Journal and the Florida Council of 100. The debate will take place at the University of South Florida in Tampa. This will be the first of 2 debates this week focusing on the Florida GOP primary on Tuesday, January 31st. Note the air times on the east and west coast.

Television Air Time: Monday, January 23rd at 9pm ET, 8pm CT and 9pm PT on NBC

Live Streams: (airing 9pm ET) NBCPolitics.com, National Journal, and TampaBay.com

Participants: Gingrich, Romney, Santorum, Paul

[RitaOK]

NBC steering away from any issues that matter because they know what is where Newt shines.<<<<<<<

Perfectly said. Just turn loose Mittens. Even Santorum seems bored. He must have gotten the message, as you said above, exactly in that way.

[Bronzy]

Yeah, didn't Romney say that Dodd-Frank was good?

[fml]

NBC not MSNBC

[Windflier]

This just in ***Fidel Castro has died.

Again? What's that - like the third time he's died in the last year?

[Raebie]

And the audiance is openly rebelling by applauding now. Lol.

What a tool of a debate.

[Irish Eyes]

Can’t believe I’m saying it...but Ron Paul is the most likeable tonight. Wow.

Paul is the only one having a good night.

[katiedidit1]

he was a flight surgeon. Never saw combat but he served during the cold war

[Grunthor]

Ron Paul: “I don’t even know why the Cuban people feel so intimidated”

I believe him.

[imchris]

This just in ***Bill and Monica have official endorsed Cuban cigars. Long live Castro!!!

[AFPhys]

That whole Cuba exchange just laid the groundwork for a huge move by Cuba immigrant community to swing toward Newt.

[RobinWWJD]

Next Brian will ask If six californians were walking forty miles, how fast would the train go to Colorado?

Brian Williams is a tool and a time waster, not to mention he’s oozing Romney’s grecian formula..... blah

[ReneeLynn]

Newt’s answer was kickass.

[bgill]

This debate seems pretty worthless.

The cakes on The Cake Boss are nice tonight and more earth shattering and relevant than the debate...

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Newt got a nice Castro remark in.

Paul going off the rails about Cuba. But he gets a smattering of appLause.

Santorum wants to continue Sanctions til Castro are gone. He points that that southern border and Cuba look good to Jihadists. Nice linking there by Santorum.

[Cato in PA]

It looks like Romney’s strategy was to unleash an avalanche on Newt and then shift gears to try and appear “presidential” again.

[American Quilter]

Fidel Castro has died.

Again?

[TexasFreeper2009]

Romney sounds like Elmer Fudd

[Solson]

LOL!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

GO SANTORUM. GREAT on Latin American threat spreading. A good smackdown of Paul’s ostrich syndrome. The marriage of communism with islamofascism in our hemisphere, threating the United States. This guy is SOLID on this issue.

[writer33]

Santorum is solid on foreign policy.