I’ve gone through 1400 replies and learned quite a bit more than I learned by watching the debate itself. Thank you all. Thread almost got hijacked on the illegals issue.
My impressions after watching last night and reading the thread so far are that Perry got very muddled on that answer re Romney’s flipflopping. He’s been running around NYC fund-raising and campaigning and he must be exhausted. Also, I’ve noticed that once you begin to lose it onstage you find it difficult to recover. Too bad it was so close to the end of the debate, because that is the answer that people will remember best about Perry’s performance. His overall performance was OK, I thought. Very good in some parts.
Gingrich is already a figure of American history and so has a built-in advantage. He has stature and gravitas. It’s almost unfair to compare him with the others.
Romney: the slick operator he always has been.
Bachmann: tenacious on her strong points but she lost it at a few points.
Cain: delightful
I would actually say Perry won the debate. There was a lot of misinformation fired at him, as discussed in this thread, and the moderators were Romney bots so that did not help him. In my mind, he is still the top contender.
Now that Christie is thinking of jumping in, things may change.
Will read the rest of the thread tomorrow.
Christie Creme Doughnut is ok if you don’t like the Second Amendment.
No more RINOs. Conservatives only.