Short and Succinct Honest Observations from the Debate (Vanity)

10-11-2011 | Self (Vanity)

[katieanna]

Friends and fellow citizens,

If you'd be so kind as to give your honest assesment of the candidates tonight including who you can support and whom you cannot.

Please chime in. It'd be helpful to know what you all are thinking right about now. Kate

[rogue yam]

I couldn’t get away with it at my job or at home.

Our candidates do not work for the leftist moderators, nor do they sleep with them.

Thus they are free to ignore the questions at will.

[LesDowrey]

IMHO Tonight's Winners: Cain, Romney, Bachman (in that order) Tonight's Losers: Perry & Huntsman Everyone else was kinda' "meh." If you loved Herman Cain’s debate performance tonight…you’re gonna’ love this! It's the first ever conservative cartoon of it's kind!

[Jedidah]

chesty — of course it DOES matter who is in the White House!

Remember the aging Supreme Court justices. Congress can’t nominate replacements.

All those other appointments, too.

And executive orders, much overused but still an effective way to bypass the legislative branch.

Not to mention duties as Commander-in-Chief. It truly does matter who sits in the Oval Office in case of national emergency.

Let’s just work to take both houses AND the WH, OK?

[sgfan1212]

I disagree. The next president will probably nominate one or two Supreme Ct justices. I want a Conservative Republican doing that.

[FryingPan101]

I appreciate your notes.

[rogue yam]

I agree that all of our candidates are preferable to the Kenyan usurper but the point of tonight’s exercise is to choose from among them.

[skeeter]

The left will hand the nation its head - and do it with VERY sub-par politicians - while we conservatives wait for a superstar.

There will be no superstar. We'd better get used to that idea and set ourselves on electing someone conservatives can influence, at least. Most of those up on that stage fit this description imo.

Thats the best we can hope for I'm afraid.

[rogue yam]

It is nearly certain that our nominee was on that stage tonight. The question is which one is it?

[phi11yguy19]

Expanding on your own points:

Romney - Agree on all counts but likable. He's both the snake charmer and the snake. Don't trust him at all and can't see myself voting if he's the nominee, but I know he has the "likable" factor which worries me.

Bachmann - She's been amateurish with the repitition the past, but I think she's getting better. The 999 line was just good fun. But I also think we can find better in this group.

Cain - I've been looking, but I haven't seen anything that tells me "not ready" yet. He has grace under fire (like the recent O'Donnell interview) and I think it speaks volumes to his character. One of my tops right now.

Newt - I've done a 180 on Newt. I actually no longer "get" the baggage angle - he's answered well everything that's been asked. Probably head of the class. (I love that so many said he'd make a good VP in the other debate...I'm fine with that.)

Perry - Nothing special tonight, but he lost me in the past debates. Weak on border and I don't trust him on economics. I also thought the "if you don't agree with subsidizing illegals, then you don't have a heart" line spoke volumes to his character.

Santorum - Good man. Hope his stock keeps rising, if only to get in as VP or a cabinet spot.

I notice you missed a couple (perhaps rightfully so):

Ron Paul - lost me on the 9/11 is our fault and iran questions. if only they could've brought up the fbi story of iran and mexico tonight for him and perry to answer...

Jon Huntsman - needs to go. He'd make a great 1980s Democrat candidate, but he's not what we need right now. I wish the senate passing the China sanctions bill would've been raised tonight too...oh well, another day.

The other guy (Gary Johnson) - also needs to go. I thought he had already gone until the last debate, since he rarely bothers with these things.

Frankly, I see a lot a few good pairings out there. As a man alone, Newt. But for every weakness a strong candidate has, there seems to a pairing that compliments - e.g. take Cain and the knocks on foreign diplomacy and just add Santorum to offset it.

I can't wait until the field gets cut in half (at least) so these debates have more substance.

[jstaff]

You are so right. There was enough of this “I’m just gonna let the other guy win to teach my side a lesson” in the last pesidential election. Fight with all your strength in the primary for your favorite, but support whoever is the final nominee. We will not survive another four years of this.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Cain displayed his Hufflepuff colors.

In Potter Hufflepuff's qualifications are much like the "servant's heart" that Palin has often cited.

[Sea Parrot]

In this debate only, I found myself gravitating more and more towards Newt.

[skeeter]

ANY ONE except Romney or Huntsman.

I will almost include Perry in that list.

But in the end I'd pull the lever for anyone but Obama.

I know with some posters that makes me pond scum but we have JUST got to get that bastard out of the WH.

[Migraine]

I really don’t think Newt can win the GOP nomination, nor do I think he’d beat Obama if he did.

Contrariwise, I am of the opinion that the only Republican who could NOT beat brocko is Romney. NOTE: RonPaul, of course, is not a Republican.

[chesty_puller]

"The next president will probably nominate one or two Supreme Ct justices."

I thought about that after I hit enter, but the Senate still has some control on that. The other thing is war. Like it or not the President still start the damn wars.

[katieanna]

Yes sir, I did not mention Paul & Huntsman. LOL. Guess I wasn’t paying too much attention to them. Thank you for your thoughts. Appreciate them. Blessings, Kate

[VastRWCon]

Palin would have cleaned house on these wanna be presidents, that is a fact. Another fact is sad to say, Sarah isn’t running... yet... one can only hope...

[skeeter]

the Senate still has some control on that

I hope I live to see the day the GOP in the senate serves as something besides a friggen rubber stamp. They approve ANYBODY a democrat sends them no matter how wacko.

[Eva]

The headline on the debate in the Bellingham Herald was, Romney says that he can work with good Democrats.

Romney and Chris Christie did robo calls to independents today, my friend was called and let me listen in. Basically, they are saying that Romney and Christie are not so conservative, because they are both from blue states and can work with Democrats, except on spending issues. Bad, bad and worse.

Romney practically said that he is a RINO and tonight in the debate, he basically said that he would repeal Obamacare, change it and feed it right back to us.

Perry did very well, actually had a chance to answer some of the criticism of the Texas jobs plan that was thrown out there by Bachman.

Newt was great. He just keeps getting better.

Cain stumbled a little on Greenspan, but it was only little error.

Santorum was pretty good.

Huntsman and Ron Paul, who cares?

[katieanna]

You are welcome friend. Thank you for stopping by.