...it is Newt’s astounding debate skill that most astonishes everyone.
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Yes, and I’m a Newt supporter, but, what the hell happened to him in the Debate before the Florida Primary? If he’d pulled that Debate off, he’d probably already be the designated nominee now. But, he was pathetic and got his butt handed to him in the Florida Primary. Now, we’re in a mell of a hess.
I don’t mean to disagree with you, but it wasn’t the debates. It was the 17-million dollars of negative, lying advertising, the 160,000 willard ads to Newt’s 20,000, and only half of Newt’s ads referenced Romney, the others were positive and promising. The final two weeks before the primary, there were 8-10 ugly romney ads lying on Newt playing every hour, tv and radio. In the run-up, he debate was barely a vague recollection.
Newt did average in the debates, lackluster, no big mistakes. But Newt could have been Churchill, Reagan and Mark Levin in that debate, and nobody could have remembered it in the midst of all the thigh-high mud. That’s not even mentioning what the GOP did to him in Florida or Bloody Thursday, or the local media.
I live in florida, you almost couldn’t breathe here the air was so thick with mud and bile... I will never forget it as long as I live. Guess what? NEWT SURVIVED. That’s the story of the Florida primary - NEWT SURVIVED.