Romney is actually a better communicator than Santorum. Santorum was flirting with some potentially good points, but totally missed the mark several times by not giving the right background information and not hitting home key points. If you’re an educated conservative, you could infer what he was getting at, but if you’re Joe Q. Public you’re not going to know what he was talking about and either zone out or just think he was BS’ing. The questioner who praised Santorum at the end actually inserted terms and explanations into Santorum’s answer that Santorum never said himself. The version of the answer he gave was better than Santorum’s but he gave Santorum credit for stuff he didn’t say.
Romney is getting better at BS’ing and becoming more Clintonian, which is dangerous. He’s becoming a better campaigner, and obviously more talented than Santorum, who has no chance to defeat Romney in the primary now. It was sickening how Romney multiple times referred to what the polls or the American people would say when justifying his policies, even on policies which should stand solely on moral ground like supporting the troops. It shows how dangerously Clintonian he is, that he will enact whatever policies are popular with the public on any given day.
Newt was solid as usual, with quality, substantive answers. He got some bad questions though. A couple times people clearly seemed to be reciting a prepared question, even though Newt’s earlier answers were so detailed that they already covered that ground. So his time was spent on some redundant points. What a dumb question asking him how he could say gas would be “exactly” $2.50, as if anyone with a clue couldn’t figure out that is just a ballpark figure.
These are the kind of people who would, if gas became $2.60 under a Newt administration, point fingers and wail that...waaaaahhhhhh...he broke his promise.
They don’t even give a rip what gas is now under Obama and what it is on it’s way to being.
They make so much money, or their company gives them free rides to and from work, that they don’t care.
No wonder they are for Romney.
Rick Perry said it, seems like ages ago now, in the first debate I believe, or second...somewhere near the start but people only saw and heard the glitches...THAT WE DON’T NEED OBAMA LITE.
That is who these people want.
Yes, the questions and question-askers were pretty disappointing. I got absolutely nothing out of the experience. But that’s how you kill a candidate with good ideas. You don’t give him the chance to shine.
Newt shines whenever he gets a chance to speak. Santorum is just unprepared. He wants to run the country but he can’t even run a campaign (see Virginia and Ohio).