GOP Debate Live Thread, Concord NH (NBC 9AM ET)

msnbc/nbc ^ | January 8, 2012 | NBC

[NautiNurse]

Mere hours following the antagonistic ABC interrogations, David Gregory gets his turn, hoping for verbal pyrotechnics Sunday morning.

[ez]

Santorum has hit a wall, and you will see his big MO going south.

Someone saying all the internals show Santorum fading after hid bad media day Thursday. I think that's why they are pushing Hunstman, to keep Newt from getting Santorum's lost votes.

[greeneyes]

I missed it. When and where is the replay?

[FreeReign]

Perry again commenting about a part time congress receiving part time pay. Meanwhile Perry campaigns around the country full time collecting a full time pay check as governor.

A country (or a state) needs day-to-day leadership, but what it DOESN'T need is a bunch of day-to-day spenders!

Which is why a governor shouldn't be traveling the country for 14 months campaigning for president, while not supplying "day-to-day leadership" back in his state, and while receiving a full time pay check.

I would also add that given the high level of "mandatory" spending that we have in Washington that we do need a full time congress in Washington, to defund those high levels of mandatory spending.

[mamelukesabre]

wrong

NH is huntsman’s only shot. That’s all it is.

[thouworm]

debate repeats at 2pm (est) on MSNBC

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well I was glad to see Rick Perry finally showed up for the dance this morning. Too bad he perform like this a couple of months ago. He and Newt were the two obvious guys to go up agains’t Soetoro.

[varina davis]

I am a loyal Perry supporter, but I do indeed love to listen to Newt. Always succinct and never boring.

[alicewonders]

I don’t live in Texas, so I don’t know - but I would think that as long as he has been Governor of Texas, he is able to lead the state while doing what he is doing. I’m sure he has people in place - that’s the whole thing about leadership - is the ability to do that. I’m sure if a crisis were to arise in Texas, he would be right there.

I disagree about the need for a full-time congress - the less they are there, the better it is for us.

[greyfoxx39]

Why Romney over Santorum, if you're a Catholic woman?

Why Romney over Santorum or any of the others if you are a woman, period?

Mitt's mormon religion to this day discriminates against women. In fact, the only way a mormon woman can enter mormon "heaven" is if her husband "calls" her.

Santorum, Newt, Perry...any of these would be a better president than Mitt for women.

Note the complete absence of women in this photo of Mitt's coterie at Bain.

[RetSignman]

There was a moment in the debate when Romney stated (paraphrase) ‘ I’ve become more Conservative as time has passed’.

I was praying...PRAYING that Newt would come back with “Yes, and the closer we get the 2012 election, the MORE Conservative you get”

But the focus was steered away from Newt for obvious reasons...he’s a great debater.

[FreeReign]

Perry makes a good comment about the 10th amendment and the defunding of the centralized, socialized federal government, followed by Santorum being called on the carpet about his vote for the socialized Precription Drug Benefit.

[The Sparrow]

Women like to be courted. Women prefer someone who looks like a Man, not a Boy. Romney has been courting the country (and therefore women) for years. Santorum is new to the party. Most people have never heard of Santorum. Romney is familiar, he's more mature-looking (think Father figure), and probably a lot of women think he's an attractive man. (My female friends don't think so, but they say he's got that standard look that lots of women think is attractive. So does Perry, and by the way, that's why Perry has some over-the-top fans on FR -- they are women who get giddy when they look at Perry.)

Give me a break. We're not idiots capable of only thinking with our reproductive organs. We see the facts just like men do, only we tend to be less crazy.

[matthew fuller]

from about the 10 minute mark until the 41 minute mark, I think R. Paul got two questions. M. Romney got to chime in on the vast majority, being mentioned by Gregory.

[Jim Noble]

“GW Bush overcame it quite well”

GW Bush is entirely responsible for the catastrophe of Obama, and the very idea of re-invoking his image for our superficial voting majority is sheer insanity.

[advertising guy]

there was a game changer late this week when Obama had his illegal recess appointments....That lowered support for Obummer and made the media take the republican front runner down immediately

[onyx]

I recorded it, but MSNBC will replay the entire debate at 1:00PM EST, (I think).

Check your listings to make certain.

[advertising guy]

I’m gonna reloook at last nites political stuff as I was more Adult Beverage involved in the football games by choice last nite

[EternalVigilance]

It all makes about as much sense as if Eisenhower would have been dumb enough to depend on Berlin Betty to “get his message out” before D-Day.

[Brandonmark]

NBC's David Gregory keeps the audience raptured during his "brilliant" questioning of GOP presidential candidate/sarc

[not2worry]

If you can justify murder being the same as lying then that is yours to live with.

Newt has put at least two families thru hell with his divorces. And yes, I know one of his daughters works for him. That is her choice.

Evidently you have not had a man cheat on you with many women and then leave you for someone 20 years your junior.

It leaves a lot of questions about moral character. The man took a vow under the eyes of God. Twice! God may forgive him, but I can't. Too many folks have been hurt in his immediate sphere of influence.