the debate will now be able to do so. And I will view it again cuz I almost always miss something.

Mom

someone remind me ……..why is sawyer even on the air any more? Obviously pandering to Romney.

Fluffy ruffles reporter. Can’t believe I used to hang on her very word, but even then I thought “lightweight” and superfluous

qwer

Not really seeing this as “fighting” but more as actual debating. I think it’s refreshing that these candidates are finally able to debate with each other rather than stand on their individual soap boxes and give their views in an uncontested manner.

I’m sure the moderators would love to see more punches thrown so they can get a boost in their ratings (because I don’t believe any of the “moderators” care a bit about what the candidates are saying) but to the candidates’ credit, they are actually debating issues.

I was worried about a second that Perry would have another brain freeze, but he managed to get through that all right.

I’ll even pay for your trouble.

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LOOK UP

“Paul is the worse by far of course.” When I was evaluating each candidate on foreign policy. How on earth is this a pro-Paul agenda?

I have often told Paulies that Ron Paul is incredibly wrong on foreign policy and going back to the gold standard for that matter.

Ron Paul’s isolationism would cede the world to China.

I can’t be more clear. Please attack me for what I say not for what you make up in your mind.

My only “agenda” now is that I support Gingrich.

We need to establish a NFZ over Syria?

I thought that was a big gaffe.

I’m not picking on Perry but I just think Newt has superior foreign policy knowledge.

are you.

Just come out and say you hate Perry and get it out of your system.

Don’t like the pro-Perry posting here? Then go check out Hot Air, who have been very critical of Perry’s debate performances the last couple of months. They are very positive about Perry’s performance thus far.

Agree with gekster. You are letting your anti-Perry bias cloud your judgement. You don’t like Perry. Fine, we get it, but give credit where credit is due. He looks very comfortable tonight and has had excellent answers thus far.

he has done more than almost any on that stage, he served for one, and second he leads national guard in his state. Now he has also traveled to other countries to get jobs back here.

on this site

http://www.timothy-bladel.com/2011/12/perry-romney-gingrich-who-will-stop.html#more

I’ve seen Marcus Bachmann, Callista Gingrich, and Ann Romney, but NO Anita.

and I agree with your words 185%! Thank you!

that we’re getting close to the primaries, I think who ended up getting hurt tonight was Romney and Gingrich, who usually emerge unscathed. Gingrich handled himself well, for the most part, but that support for the individual mandate is clearly is something people are concerned with.

I can’t pick the winner.. but the loser was for all to see.

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Perry won hands-down, and I’m not just biased–he’s getting rave reviews for his performance. Bachmann won second. I really enjoyed most of what she said; she got a little under my skin for bringing up 999 over and over again, but she made NewtRomney squirm something awful. They were definitely the biggest losers, Romney especially–he looked like a fool more than once. Santorum and Paul were so-so, the usual. Had to facepalm a couple times with Paul. What a shame…if he didn’t have that foreign policy crazy button he’d be much better.

Perry won with all his answers. He did fantastic with Romney and went after President Zero full throttle. Also liked how he complimented Paul at the end.
SO glad he’s been using Paul’s material concerning the Fed!!! That’s Paul’s best point, IMO. All in all, I slept REALLY well last night. Secretariat Perry is on a roll!

The fact that Romney can’t get any higher support than he has now after 4 years of campaigning speaks volumes that the conservative base does not want him as the nominee – no matter what the GOP establishment thinks.

It wouldn’t surprise me that if either Newt or Perry ends up as the nominee, then they would pick each other for the VP spot. I do think they genuinely like and respect each other and gave each other props at the debate tonight when Perry agreed with Newt’s Palestine position and Newt referenced Perry’s staunch support for the 10th amendment.

Hope Perry gets the nod, but Perry as VP would also be pretty good as well.

nt

That would give me something to ponder because Romney is a non starter for me.

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That’s the point I was trying to make. All eyes were on Newt and he delivered. People forget voters don’t go into watching these debates in a vacuum. They know Newt is the new flavor of the month and this debate was going to validate his front runner status or he was going to melt down. Well I knew he wasn’t a wilting flower and would do well but that’s besides the point.

I also think Romney falls further and this could be a slight opportunity for Perry to rise. But unless I see real movement in the polls, the race is what it is, between Romney and Newt.

what was helping Newt a lot was many of the people poll this last week had no idea the extent of his baggage, now they are going to have to go look at it, and think real hard. Newt has real soft supprt right now.

Most of my comments are defending Newt or pro Newt.

Please there is allot more Newt haters here but if you don’t genuflect to Perry you are dubbed a Perry hater.

It was a huge shot at him23. I guess he knew well it was on the way.

You have to actually win, lead, and win again…

Newts baggage will not get glanced over by the media once Obama facing him, the left wuld love to run against Newt so they are just talking about it in limited terms just to soften the target upNewt would probably lose at least 40 states, and I think much of the people in the party know that. Newt can lie while the Republicans are the opponents, but when its Obama it will not be the same, All Newt does is answer questions with another questions and then adds some historic context to what he is saying.

…or at least tied for strongest (along with the fact that he’s spent most of his career in the private sector).

He totally left out his strong point of executive management.

I realize that’s relatively dull, and not as exciting as ideology, but he can present it as part of a package along with ideology.

Romney should say something like:

“This country has enormous challenges. Complex challenges. And we need a major change of course in a new direction to avoid very serious problems. Achieving that change of course will require a president who has not only the right ideas and philosophy and instincts, and not only the ability to communicate and persuade and lead, but also solid, effective management ability. I have that experience managing companies in business very successfully, taking over and successfully turning around the Olympics when it was in trouble, and as governor. That kind of management ability is going to be a key to achieving the kind of change we need. And it’s very different from being Speaker of the House or running a small practice consulting and selling one’s influence in Washington as Newt Gingrich has done. I am the only candidate who can bring the key combination of private sector insight for job creation, management ability from both the public and private sector, and the right ideas for the nation and the ability to communicate them effectively to the American people. If the next Republican president lacks any one of those strengths, we put at risk the change this nation needs so much.”

and the best thing is it was Perry who did it too Romney again, just like the whole not employing illegals because he was running for office thing. I think tonight Perry may have just ruined any chance that Romney will ever beat Obama. THe worst part is that team ROmney thinks it is a plus, and at one point it looked like Romney was goin got make it a bigger bet, he asked Perry about the number, Perry handled that well , and I think tha tmoment will have a larger affect than the Romney camp thinks.

I would ignore what he says.

but this is why he is losing support, because people just have to go look at the book for themselves. This is nothing new for the meida to stick up for Romney, but on ABC.com they have the truth tha Romney would have lost the bet, and they have it on politico. This is false logic for anybody to say Romney did not say it would be a national model.

because think it is Newt, but I do not think so, if you can twist the truth but then add some historic context to it, that does not make it a win, it make it a loss for the voters because they are sick of electing people who turn out to be something other than they say they are, Bush did this to the party and some did not think we would be back for years to come, but we got lucky because the American people elected Obama, but if we do it again I am not so sure we can come back as quick.

on Twitter that’s what Bret said. I was suprised and excited to hear that. Don’t forget Perry will be on with Chris Wallace tomorrow. Wonder what he will say about the debate.

after I spent an hour searching for the tv warranty info and endless hold when calling them I found out it went out of warranty 1 month ago. The crazy thing came back on about an hour ago. I am tempted to never turn it off again. It seems to have a problem turning on, works fine once it’s on. Sigh… it’s Christmas and I didn’t want to buy a tv this year. I want my oven! I guess the good Lord is telling me to be happy with the oven I have that I don’t need a new fancy one because every time I have the money saved up I have to spend it on something else I guess the blessing is I have the savings even it I meant it for my oven. Look forward to your posting the video. May look for a repeat on tv and try to record it as it is late.

I of course missed it all! I don’t have a TV down here in Brazil. So I will be waiting for your posts. Thanks for doing that!

I thought I had the debate ready to be recorded. Much to my surprise, I didn’t!!!

So, I missed the whole thing. I did the usual frantic search for any YouTube vids. Will be looking forward to whatever you can post.

From the remarks, I missed a doosey of a debate from my guy! Darn! Double darn!

Jumping in at #1 had about 15 million reasons in its’ favor.

(Perry raised a lot of money before his big fade…and can – if he can keep performing at this level – buy himself a shot at redemption)

Mew