Really seems like last chance to stop Romney, stop demolition of conservative movement, and save the country. Mitt will never make the tough decisions to fix the country. Any chance we can get Santorum to get out and endorse Newt? Michelle Malkin said yesterday on Fox Rickmight be dropping out.

Sigh.

Really missing a sober minded fiscal conservative right now.

He did a great job, including being the only person up there to mention Honduras. He presented a cogent Latin American policy. He also is the only one who has an understandable economic plan beyond “cutting taxes and regulations” (yawn).

Gingrich seemed churlish, Romney arrogant. And I was boosting Gingrich until last night.

Not a Ron Paul supporter but he won the debate for being the only adult in the room. It was like watching The Real Housewives of the GOP debates. I might say Santorum won but nothing he says now jives with his big government voting record. I’ve had enough of the two ladies in the middle or Newt Romney as Michele Bachmann (remember her?) called them. Space exploration? Yeah, I think I saw that one among the Top 10 issues concerning voters. What was it like number 999? The best answer was to the question about who would make the best first lady. Was it because 1) My wife wrote a cookbook; 2) My wife is the mother of my children and gave it all up for ME so I could be a contenduh; 2) My wife is a saint; 3) My wife has a debilitating condition; 4) My wife gave up her 2 careers. Which one? Which one actually answered the question? NONE. Missing answer: My wife slept with me while I was married to someone else.

Newt the “The Great Debater” was soundly dismantled by a focused and aggressive Romney, really, really putting to rest Newt’s electability argument, while solidly showing how Romney can handle his own negatives and that he is not as flawed as enthusiasts of McCain’s 200 page oppositional research file would have you believe.

His healthcare answer is actually sound too, due to differing conditions on the state vs federal leveral. Namely the fact that states are federally mandated to cover healthcare costs for the uninsured. It is a nuanced subject but Romney is on very solid ground in defending his record there, though Santorum using it as a contrast point is very solid campaigning and while doesn’t change the math certainly does increase his stock.

This debate was Romney’s notice to republicans that he is legit, formidable, and up to the challenge.

these past months. However, this past week (and debate last night) shows how Newt blunders when he has the lead. AND, this seems to match what critics are saying about his time as Speaker. Santorum won the debate. Paul looked better than Newt and Mitt last night!

…for Perry to “suspend” appear, only a week hence?

Paul was entertaining.
Newt (I’m a former supporter.) came in fifth with Perry in fourth.

Yesterday January 26th, 2012, Judge Malihi who ordered the president or his legal counsel to respond to an eligibility for president suit in Georgia held court without them. The main argument is the Supreme Court ruling in Minor vs. Happersett establishing the definition of ‘natural born Citizen’ as born in the United States of parents who are themselves United States citizens. Nowhere in the press was their any coverage of today’s court proceedings. No talking head or political pundit mentioned it.
Why some in the ruling class have called for Rubio or Jindal to run for president or be the vice presidential pick, it is because under Article 2 section1 of the constitution they are not eligible. The term “Natural born citizen” being a requirement to run for and be president is the reason why. The president and vice president positions in the federal government are the only positions where it is required that the person be a Natural born citizen.
In Minor vs. Happersett 1875 the supreme court of the federal government established the definition of ‘natural born Citizen’ as born in the United States of parents who are themselves United States citizens. The ruling is binding precedent as to the Constitutional definition of a Natural born Citizen. It just so happens that in this decision it defines Obama status as a person with one parent a citizen and the other not, but born in this country as a nationalized citizen.

What’s up with Newt’s foreign policy? He wants to start a moon-base with 13,000 people by his second term????

If Ron Paul falls of the reservation because of his foreign policy, where does that place Newt on foreign policy? Out of this planet?

No other candidate would have survived the onslaught Newt took in IA, nobody would have survived the onslaught he received from all sides in FL.

Newt was attacked repeatedly all day by the media, by Romney, by Romney PACs, by Ads, by Romney surrogates, by DC establishment surrogates, and finally, was targeted by the Blitz.

Total ambush, yet people are now saying Gingrich had a bad performance? sheesh. WHO wouldn’t have? Ronald Reagan would’ve looked like crap! It was a set up to make Newt fit the media narrative.

Blitzer attacks more indirectly, sneaky in his questioning of other candidates hoping they make Gingrich look bad. Blitz did it all night long. If a line of questioning was making hits on Gingrich, Blitz stuck with it and let the other candidates do on and on.

If Gingrich started making headway, Blitz quickly went on to a new topic. It was so obvious.

Blitz was bragging to Cooper after the debate. Blitzer is the WORST kind of liberal. He is shifty and vague and uses the spineless attack approach like “Some critics say…….” More like what he wants to say.

I appreciate the Keith Olbermann’s of the world for one thing. He is a raging liberal, but at least he lets you know it up front. Blitz is a lefty wolf in sheeps clothing.

It’s sad that the post debate spin, many people, including Erick, say CNN and the Blitz won the debate.

That right there should tell you something is VERY wrong. This should NOT be about the media and should NOT be about the moderator.
I’d like to know if the Blitz has ever voted for a Republican.

Erick, you are darn near talking as if Blitz was a freakin candidate. “holding his own” and that CNN won? Is Blitz or CNN running for office?

The mere fact that you said that shows that something is very very wrong with the process.

The media is wayyyy too self important. I’d think you’d pick up on this, for the sake of America’s future.

Erick,

You are right, you are biased. Yes, the CNN debate was better than the NBC debate, but last night’s debate was horrible. Take your pick: Wolf’s obvious anti-Newt stance in almost every question and the time spent on anti-Newt vs pro-Newt; or the total lack of focus on the ompirtant issues: Yes, who would be the better First Lady, Ron Paul’s health, a Moon colony — these are the issues facing America.

Erick, once again I have to agree with you: you are biased.

Jeopardy! performance.

Not fair, but there it is.

Dummies like that tearing apart people running for pres. Ahh, the power of the media.

Obama is going to be re-elected.I do wish the GOP would take some time to reform itself and come up with a new agenda. As someone wrote earlier,cut taxes and less regulations is the answer to everything (yawn). When we cut taxes under Bush, it didn’t prevent the meltdown. We eliminated Glass-Steagall and that led to the fnancial meltdown. As long as we have the same approaches, the same talking points, Obama will be able to say that the GOP wants to go back to the same policies that created the problem. You can say CRA all you want. Most people are not aware of the details. They just think Bush made a mess. That’s the level of thinking.

Newt did have a poor night, beginning with his attempt to push back at Wolf.
Romney did have a good night, much better than Newt.
Santorum did win on points.

I would add that the pushing of Newt’s wife to the forefront, just filled my head with the thought that she had an affair with Newt for 6 years while Newt was married, including dalliances in the bed of Newt and his wife. That could not have helped.

One has to keep in mind that polls show that in a general election, Santorum is above Newt. Santorum really needs to get a second look as the anti-Romney.

One also has to keep in mind that liberal groups are spending millions, including labor unions, to defeat Romney in Florida, with the hope that Newt wins. Newt is the least electable among the 4 candidates in a general election. And he is completely dependent on debate performances. If he has a bad debate, as tonight, or Obama gives few debates, Newt does not have much of an appeal to voters.

Romney had a “Popeye” moment and got big against Newt – but only when the bully putz Blitz set it up. CNN wants Romney, period. Newt screwed up when he started down this lane of personal attack on Romney instead of attacking BHO. Santorum should have pulled out, but since he didn’t he did a good job in front of his mother and now should pull out on a high note.

Romney will probably take Florida – unfortunately. He will go on and keep Obamneycare as a standard for the country and we as conservatives will lose out on our chance to bring this country back from the brink – because of a fuzzy faced wolf. Newt should have kicked ass and instead rolled in the mud with the pig.

Seemed to me he was bending over backwards to be respectful and not come off as attacking – pointing out they have had a good relationship for years.

He was simply pointing out that we don’t need to see a question about Romney’s tax returns raised in 3 different debates. He already said that with Mitt releasing his tax records that particular issue has been set aside. Blitzer bringing it up did seem trivial.

I actually thought Newt made his point that any remark he made in an interview doesn’t need to be turned into a debate topic.

He didn’t feel the need to question Romney about his campaign’s recent choice to try and present Newt as emotionally unstable — or about his continuing to attack Newt on ethics charges when Newt has been exonerated.

(skipping over that last point was a serious failure on Wolf’s part and really showed his bias)

In the post-debate punditry on AC360:
1) Gloria Borger got cut off when she started describing how Team Romney has a surrogate available for press availability at EVERY Gingrich FL campaign event. Gloria was shut down.
Same point common_cents made here at 7:48AM EST

2) David Gergen got cut off, and then was ‘disappeared’ when he tried to talk about Mitt the Nervous (Borger made same observation) It was my main impression from the entire debate – how nervous Romney gets when he speaks without a script. Gergen was highlighting this re: Who do you want in your living room for four years? NOT Romney, for me – he always makes me nervous.

3) In the question about “first lady”, ONLY Newt gave his wife a name. No one else said their wive’s names. Newt was also very gracious in first praising all of the other wives.

4) ok, I did not hear Newt’s entire explanation for his moon colony at the actual campaign event. But, he has consistently noted that Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic because there was a $25,000 prize as incentive. Gingrich knows that Lindbergh will register with Americans.

I assume he would prefer to be using the best story in modern history where a cash prize incentivized enormous scientific research and engineering. That story is told in the book (and movie) “Longitude” by Dava Sobel. In 1714, England’s Parliament offered a 20,000 pound sterling prize (equal to $1.2 million dollars today) to ANYONE whose method or device proved successful in solving the the ability for sailing ship navigators to measure Longitude, a quest that had already been ongoing for two hundred years.
It took forty years for someone to win that cash prize. John Harrison’s chronometer revolutionized ocean-going navigation, and the thousands of other efforts added so much to science and engineering that it was England who had the Industrial Revolution.

To allow Romney to “win” that debate point is actually a sign of how little Romney knows about much of anything – no history or connect-the-dots imagination, and complete failure to inspire any American to once again become a nation of tinkerers and scientists.

5) I thought Gingrich had the BEST answer to the last question – why are you the most electable. Romney put forward his resume? puhleeze.

I just hope the voters in Florida are not as ignorant as the pundits.

Romney is so NOT electable that I was actually glad that Ron Paul had his 99% moment where he did criticize the way Romney made his money.

The media fails America.

We have endured eleven straight years of failed presidencies, and the GOP is going to let Romney buy the nomination? (oh, I do not see much difference between DeLay and Pelosi method of strongarming their majorities, just Pelosi is not in jail.)

All the 19th debate proved is how important it is to 1) air the dirty laundry early, and 2) not constrain the candidates by the 60 second rule, and 3) try to stick to real issues. Does anyone NOT realize that Romney has embraced Bush43′s full Neocon position? Does the GOP want a number cruncher blowing up the world? I am no anti-war leftie. Still admire the First Gulf War, especially how Bush41 got others to pay the cost. 1992 was the last time the USA had a trade surplus, due to all that cash reimbursement.

The American experiment will not survive whatever results from the 2012 election. .

there will be no help from the media for our nominee, they will be all in for Obama. Romney looks so arrogant and looks at the others like you are so dumb and I am so smart and above you. I am no fan of Romney. I am afraid we are looking at 4 more years of Obama, it will be a landslide for Obama.
The candidates should have been talking about the state of union address.
What Is this also Romney having someone stalking Newt and heckling him and talking against him at his rally, using a Congressman from Utah and some others. Boy is this dirty politics!! This is why I don’t trust Romney, is there nothing he would not do if he thought someone is standing in his way of him being crowned with the nomination.
What a mess, it is disgusting to me!!

…that republicans are so uninformed that their opinion is swayed by a few minutes in debates, rather than the principles, beliefs, merits, and ideals of the candidates.

There is absolutely no doubt as to why our nation is in such a mess. People have become complacent and are willfully ignorant. And our leaders have no inclination to properly inform them of our peril, either out of their own ignorance or desire to not further expose the disaster they’ve created.

God help us.

Sheer poetry.

Newt is not a great debater. He’s great at debate gimmickry. He says things then listens for an audience response desperately searching for a hot button to press. When he finds that button he hammers on it and uses the audience as a prop. Screams and howls from the crowd camouflage his lack of substance. Blitzer removed one of Newt’s greatest gimmicks last night and left him defenseless.

Moon base Gingrich is bereft of any ideas that capture the heart of the conservative movement.

I will support the nominee no matter who he is. I beleived that Perry was the best candidate. He got very bad advice and let the media define him as an idiot.

Newt Gingrich is a revolutionary figure. I will support him if he is nominated. However, the dem-lib media is not stupid. After watchiing him smash and bash them, after he got nominated, they would go dark on him and niot give him the free press he needs. Likewise the Dem-lib party would not allow mulitple debates betwen Mr. Gingrich and Pres. Obama. They know who would win and they would only agree to one debate, maybe two and the dem-lib media would complain about it.

No, what is going on needs to happen now. Mr. Romney is getting better. He is learning to defend himself and he is showing some fight and passion. Those of us in the right wing of the GOP and Conservatives in general want to see a fighter. Mr. Gingrich is a fighter. Until SC, Mr. Romney was not. I am hoping he can keep up thiis attitude in the general election if he gets nominated.

My last point is this, if you are a Conservative and are unhappy with the nominee then you need to do everything you can to elect conservates to the House and Senate. We will need these people to pull the next Pres. in the right direction if he is Romney or to stop the Socialist Agenda is he is Mr. Obama.

They’re going to be even more important now.

But, I appreciate your sentiment.

had threatened Mitt I might have given him a second thought, but the dear lady of D.C. threatened Newt, so guess he is the one they are afraid of in spend city.

GO NEWT!!!

I’d have to say that Romney did have one of his better debate performances in many ways, so I agree with you on that point. What surprises me is that you made no mention of one genuinely honest moment on Romney’s part with his response to Santorum about how elements of socialized health care, such as the individual mandate, aren’t “worth getting angry about”.

One of the primary concerns that many Conservatives have had is that Romney is still very much so a moderate at heart who likes, accepts, and approves of the same type of progressive policies that Liberals usually pursue. In a moment of genuine honesty, Romney did prove without any shadow of doubt that those concerns have been and probably will continue to be justifiable.

It almost seems that you’ve deliberately avoided making mention of it. Perhaps that is only how it seems??

IMO, if Romney wins the nomination, either way we go we will end up with a President who has a favorable opinion of progressive policy positions in the WH. The only difference will be that Romney doesn’t pursue them with a vengeance for the sake of “fundamentally transforming America”. Obama does.

Making mention of the viewpoint Romney expressed last night would at least keep Conservatives engaged enough to fight for any positions available in Congress. We’re going to need to fight to get as many elected into office as we can!!!

When the subject of space first came up, and Mitt ojected to the cost of putting a colony on the moon, he said that “he’d rather spend the money fixing housing in America.”

Even if he meant infrastructure, and not housing, I find that comment disturbing…it shows where his mind really is at..

This was reiterated, nearly to the point of ad nausea, at our DebateWatch TParty last night.

A summary of prevailing opinions include:
Anti-Mitts will NOT vote for Mitt – regardless

A “moon colony” ? No, THAT’s not “zany”
(typed in my best Ricky Ricardo impersonation)
“Neeeewty, you got some ‘splaining to do!”

Mrs. Palin will be either “King Maker” or “King”.
She will not endorse Newt, but continue to support him.
Consensus being She’s protecting her “cache of capital” until she can
get a true read on Newt’s viability over the next month. (see above)
She will only endorse Newt IF/WHEN she determines SHE will not
run as the “true conservative candidate”. If her “non-endorsement” goes
into the convention, to be spent on her or elsewhere, so be it.

Did I mention how set against casting a vote for Mitt, not-Mitts are?

If you’re going to report on a debate at least don’t let your bias show. I watched the debate also. Here’s what you just reported, ” The crowd heckled Blitzer. Gingrich drooled over the moderator he was about to consume. “Wanna try again,” he asked mischievously.” You made it look like Gingrich was taunting Blitzer. Gingrich actually turned toward Santorum, help his hands out and said TO SANTORUM, “Wanna try again?” That was in response to Santorum saying to GINGRICH, ROMNEY AND BLITZER to (paraphrase here) stop the stupid crappy questions and answers and let have some substance.
Now, I’ll tell you something I have learned. The Republican Leaders are no better than the Democrat Leaders in the way they try to corral the people to their view of “We know what’s best for you and you’re not smart enough to select the candidate that’s the most ELECTABLE”. The Republicans have been coming out in droves against Gingrich for fear we the “little people” might not have heard their message of “Romney is the only one electable”. We got their message with John McCain and we got Obama. Carl Rove was a little too blatant dissing Christine O’Donnell, was called on it and then lied about it. Carl Rove started pushing Romney before the first debate. Now they are trying to destroy Gingrich.
It’s time for we, the “little people” stand up and tell the Republican Leaders that seem to believe they channel the Almighty, to shut up and sit down.
Romney did a great job last night but I will NEVER vote for him simply became my nose is sore from being led around. I’ve lost all respect for the Republican Leaders. Frankly, I think they would rather have Obama reelected than to lose their power over the “little people”.

his wealth & capitalism, better late,etc? Big roll of the dice there, a real stand up guy, must have been some telling focus groups.

Mitt was a sleaze.

Rick was actually quite good. If only his record didn’t betray his campaign rhetoric.

Newt & Mitt were so bad Ron Paul actually looked reasonable.

I need another drink.

Last night was the last hope we had, as a party, to avoid getting stuck with Mitt Romney. Unfortunately, Newt fell down on the job and showed why he was never really a credible national candidate. Still, I wanted to see Newt win in Florida because I had convinced myself that would scare a new candidate into the race. That dream is dead now.

We’re going to nominate Mitt Romney and I just can’t believe it either. Mitt seems like a fine person and I suspect he’d do a reasonable job as president, but he’s going to lose in the Fall. It will be a close race, but he’ll lose none the less. Mitt’s got too many former comments and positions he just can’t get past. In short, Obama will eat him alive.

Obama is the most beatable incumbant since Hoover, but we’ve managed to find our own modern day version of Alf Landon. Landon was a moderate who lost 46 states to 2 states in 1932. Romney won’t get blown out, I don’t think, but we’ll have thrown away a golden opportunity to win the presidency and roll back government.

If this does happen, be sure and keep a list of the names of candidates who left us hanging in 2012 by not running. Remind yourselves in 2016 of the carnage they produced by not running when they pop up promising to lead Republicans out of desert and into the promised land. Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, and others should have no part in the 2016 process since they left us with this sorry state of affairs.

I was surprised in a pleasant way at the scope from pre debate coverage with Erin and the Paul supportes on the Fed Res shortcomings , John King clarifying Newt did not provide friends to refute Mariane. to the lively panel discussion after the debate. The panel did not trash and do hits on anyone as the Fox panels do. In other words I did not have the feeling the fix was in or the deck was stacked.

Every man on that stage did well overall. Every single one of them had moments that kept them alive for another day. No one goofed or gaffed. In fact Ron Paul and Rick Santorum will continue to work at caucuses for delegates ahead. Paul made some rock solid points some of which the others picked up and amplified. The need for trade abroad to win and hold friends was one major point I liked. (Cato is a strong proponent iof this policy and practice) But, it was Rick Santorum who soared highest. He grows stronger by the minute.

I thought to myself this may be the fairest debate they in media have had all season.
Wolf is seasoned as he showed last night. And he asked questions that worked with the candidates views and plans not against them for the most part. He did call out Newt on a ‘say it to his face’ ad as EE notes, That is standard practice in these debates and Newt should not have tried to deflect the negative ad question . It worked in SC however. To their credit the audience was involved but not a goon squad for any one man.

Now, in February with fewer or no media debates candidates will have to rely on their strengths and connect to the voters the traditonal ways through ground orgs, small gatherings, speeches that they control, ads, mailings, TV, press intervew and all that.

I have no idea which one won, but these are my positive overall impressions.
The night is still young!

…just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…..

Rather than asking Newt obvious no win questions Blitzer prevented questions that were good for Newt from getting to him or refocused the question to Newt.

Note how effectively Blitzer controlled the amount of time for the audience to respond varying it based on who was benefitting. He managed to take the crowd out of Newt’s game, while magnifying it for others on stage.

I think we were seeing what is to come in the debates with Obama. A much less obvious demonstration of media bias than we saw in the previous debates, and yet very effective in controlling the outcome.

Santorum looked good because he was given the opportunity to look good, and positive crowd reaction was not moderated away. – That is not to say he did not have a good night he did, but its impact was magnified by how his and the others time and crowd reaction was moderated. This also applies to the way questions were ordered and the order that candidates were asked or excluded.

None of the candidates were prepared for this. Since Newt “needed” this more than the others he suffered the most. This was clearly CNN’s goal.

Reading the various blogs and pundits on the debate it seems clear that the majority of watchers. missed what was happening. Unfortunately, that means that this method of moderation, left unaddressed by the candidates, will allow the moderator to control who wins.

Much as I despise Blitzer, I have to give him his due. He won the debate and pretty much set the apparent order of finish.

and I’m not a Santorum fan. Santorum …to use your words…ate Romney on his Romneycare and his mandate…in fact, he had Gingrich as an appetizer!

OK. It looks like we will have Mr.Romney as the hominy and Mr. Obama as the president. And you should blame nobody for this, but your-self. Instead of looking for who is best in expressing the conservative values, who has best conservative records, who has best chances to beat Obama, you spent months digging for the dirt, trying to prove why the opponent of your favorite conservative is worst of the worst and should not be a hominy. Instead talking about issues as Newt insisted, you talked about character. You allowed Mr. Romney to sink Mr.Gingrich in tons of dirty adds. You watched with curiosity if Mr.Gingrich will be able to survive. Nobody cried foul. Nobody said that it is immoral to substitute a real debate about real issues with flood of mud. You dreamed about an ideal candidate and lost a chance to elect a reasonable candidate and to save the country. Very sad.
But may be it is not too late. May be, just may be if all conservatives start remembering all good that Mr.Gingrich have done for the Republican party, the conservative movement and the country as whole, if they try to communicate this to all their not so conservative friends, may be the tide can be turned back. Please try.

For those Debate Lessons.

They seem to have paid off for Mitt.

And ditto for Wolf Blitzer.

1. Newt needs to direct that same energy he does at silly journalists at Romney. Instead, he just sat there yesterday and nodded his head. Santorum looked at Romney and said “Stop it!”. And that is what Newt needs to do. Look directly at him and scold him like a child. For example, Romney got caught and embarrassed with that “Oh, that is my ad?” nonsense. Newt should have pounced. “That’s your ad, Mitt? Didnt you approve it? Didnt you listen to it? You let others release attack ads that you havent listened to? What type of president will you be? Take responsibility for your ads?” Instead, he did nothing.

2. I am amazed that Newt does not also hammer on healthcare. Newt could have pointed out that the unemployed lady in the audience would be forced to pay for healthcare under the mandate under Romneycare.

3. Coulter and crowd attacking Newt. Who’s part of a mob now, Ann?

4. Perhaps, those of us in the tea party should run a third party candidate. It seems like we are not very appreciated in the Republican Party. Boehner and McConnell have given Obama carte blanche on debt spending. Will it hurt Republicans? In the short term. But it really is the only way to make Republicans not take it’s base for granted.

5. I’ll vote for Newt or Rick. I will never vote for Romney. Im tired of holding my nose.

Was the best match up of Candidates and Moderator thus far.

Newt has a lot of work to do between now and Tuesday at 8:00 PM

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Limbaugh-Reagan-Gingrich-Romney/2012/01/26/id/425666?PROMO_CODE=E06F-1

This is Michael Reagan…“It surprises me that Mitt Romney and his supporters would raise this issue — when Mitt by his own admission voted for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale who opposed my father, and later supported liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas for president.”

Now….WILLARD SUPPORTERS…HAVE WE A CLOSET SOCIALIST TRYING TO RUN A POTUS?

I googled this and it shows up on several sites. If this is true..my contention that there is NO DAYLIGHT between Romney and Obama is true. Carter was the precursor to Obama…If we vote for Romney…who has been lying in the debates…why are we electing him???????????????

only 7% said McCain won. But McCain won easily when it came time to vote.

Obviously, these little text polls weren’t scientific (and were routinely gamed by Ron Paul supporters) but I also seem to remember the media being in agreement that Romney had won handily and 41% to 7% is a pretty marked gap.

They went into that debate generally statistically tied. Some polls had Romney ahead.

Romney was overwhelmingly thought to have won the debate.

Then he lost by a decent margin and was soon out of the race.

This looks like this is a Hollywood movie. People don’t tell the truth and the moderator let’s it go by. We are talking about subjects that nobody gives a flip about and has nothing to do with national discussion.

Romney has repeatedly lied in the debates and…I will never forget this one, putting his hand on Governor Perry. God Guys…we are being played…played big time…by the media…who is in the tank for Romney and by Romney…who misquotes and misleads

All of the candidates will let the pigs feed at the trough. The point is…which one will let them eat less?

Here’s one for Newt…forget the Moon Newt…charge those scientists with (1) addressing global warming/climate change (2) can man change it (3) is this a scam and if it is not, then how do we fix it without hurting capitalism. My first question to the scientists would be…how did the dinosaurs become extinct? If it were due to climate change…then I guess we have no control over it…seeing how man was not around to our knowledge.

I know..you think that I am out of my mind…but “task” these people, these minds with problems that we are facing and let them give us solutions….AND DO AWAY WITH THE GD EPA. How can we use energy more efficiently, etc. Right now “space” would be confined to the USA…and we would be the leader in innovations concerning energy that these scientists would provide.

Get a group of economists together that give us a way up and out of this mess AND THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDER TRADING. I know…I am shouting…sorry.

This campaign and the debates have been horrible. They are misleading and they are all about the “Hollywood” impression. Sick…sick…sick. I want solutions. We’re out of time.

This entire Congress should be let go, less the Conservative members…and that little PITA Chavetz who has been heckling Gringrich FOR ROMNEY…should be GONE. He should be in Congress, voting on bills…not PIMPING for Romney and a position in his administration. Can you see the pigs now….they all feed at the trough for their benefit…NOT OURS.

End of Rant.

Oddly enough the GOP establishment supported Bush and weren’t saying the kind of things about him as they are Newt. Weird how that works.

Bush wants lunar stepping stone to Mars – January 9, 2004

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush’s announcement would come in the middle of next week. They would not say when a moonshot would take place, but one said it could be soon. A
mission to Mars would not happen before 2014, officials said. Experts have placed 2018 as an ideal time, based on the positioning of the planets.

Then again we’re talking about a Republican establishment that is saying Romney is more conservative than Newt. Talk about being out of touch with reality. Perhaps they and Romney are worried Newt wants to attack the incoming aliens from planet Kolob when they return? http://tinyurl.com/843zon4

EX CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER ON BUSHES MOON BASE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElRr5NIIgU

Oddly enough its the GOP establishment that is living in outer space by believing the Republican nominee don’t need to motivate the base because the Democrat will because it worked so well for Dole and McCain.

Dole doesn’t even get the joke about the empty bucket ie Bob Dole’s chances of winning the Presidency are like a man standing in a bucket trying to pick himself up by the handle.

Erick, what the heck is that amazing-looking background behind your head on CNN. Is it the Redstate Internet spellbinding contraption?

and from the get go that worked against Gingrich. The funny thing is, I am left not with Newts mistakes, but with Romney telling me there is nothing to get angry about when it comes to Obamney Care. I think this is the very reason that I quickly decided that I could no longer support Romney, and even though Newt is likely to lose, he will lose in a way that at least advances conservatism much in the way Goldwater did.

I simply cannot stand the way the establishment of this party treats the voters they expect to place them into power positions. If only the voters were able to see what is going on here. It sickens me, and I am pretty sure it sickens many others.

After one poor debate, where are all Newt’s supporters? Given up?

Come on…..there are so many things we can do…like exposing Elliot Abrams misleading about Newt’s relationship with Ronald Reagan….

Rush laziness in not listening to the entire tape….

Goldman Sach’s being Romney’s Top donor….

Romney’s supporters crashing Newt’s events…..

Come on get your behind off the mat and start pounding the asphalt pavements or in this case your keyboard!

- Romney was arrogant (“don’t hate me because I’m beautiful” response to his wealth,) dismissive and childish while attempting to be above the fray (calling Santorum angry about RomneyCare, as if that’s a bad thing).

- Gingrich was unprepared (he should have seen the rebut to his Fannie/Freddie stock attack), weak (a million opportunities to go after Romney about his complete inability to connect with people…I mean,”what the heck is a blind trust” American’s across the country were asking),

- Santorum once again used his apt skills as a litigator to pummel Romney on healthcare. He didn’t let up. He attacked Romney with facts and made it impossible for Romney to respond any other way but turn his head and cry fowl like a little boy.

-The true “loser” last night as well as in every debate, is the American People. I mean, am I the only one that sees the problem with the equation, Good debate, Nominee wins; Poor debate, Nominee loses. What is that, Really?

The Democrats are absolutely salivating over this ridiculous primary.

Santorum and Paul did well in the CNN debate because they were authentic; they weren’t playing to the audience. Newt fell flat because he was playing to the audience rather than saying what is real, true for Newt. When Newt is speaking authentically, he shines as he did in South Carolina. Romney did well for Romney, he wasn’t real or authentic, but he was clearly practiced.. Romney needs to keep practicing with his debate coach, Newt needs to be real not politically shrewd.

- since I’d like not to be lost in this long, useful review:

- noting your great 11:47 AM EST riff on all the nonsense last night!

My take on Wolf’s Blitz on all things relevant to constructive politics:

Romney doesn’t play any better as a junkyard dog, Newt looked all the better for reigning in his “grandiosity” this time around,Santorum appeared to be growing up and Paul made fun of the show.

One for the money, two for show, three to get somebody ready to blow BO out of the water . . .

It makes me feel that you have gone over to the dark side.

Just because Wolf had good comebacks and controlled the candidates does not make it a good debate. The questions were horrible. Wolf went on and on about non-substantive subjects…enough already about the taxes and even the moon.

How about BO’s speech, the debt, jobs, whether to let people refi without an appraisal or credit check with debt forgiven, Is BO going to drill for real? the pipeline, the stupidity of the EPA, where everybody REALLY stands on cap n trade, the shrinking military and…not the least, Norm Coleman, Romney advisor, stating two days ago that they did not/could not repeal Ocare??

I think these questions would have made a real debate that would have helped Fla decide. Not everything is about immigration.

My two cents.

is this a CNN policy thing now or something Wolf and his team decided to do on their own? One “fact checking” instance involved Newt saying he didn’t think his team put out a particular ad. And then a few minutes later while they were working on another question Wolf came back and said oh by the way we checked and that was your ad.

As to mods, use to be a moderator asked a question then got out of the way or tinkled a bell to call time, since its suppose to be about candidates answering the questions. But this year the mods have injected themselves into the debates more and more. If they don’t like an answer given they go back and ask again, then in a different way. its almost like they want to do a full on witness interrogation or make a snide comment, like “I take that as maybe”. This is not a critique of cnn because I’ve noticed it with the other debates and networks as well.

With the bitter fighting going on now in the Repubican ranks we are only hurting our chances of beating Obama. We are wasting our money attacking each other. These funds will be needed for the fight that is ahead. We need to preserve our financial resources and dedicate them to the defeat of Obama who is destroying our nation.The issue is the state of the American economy,the lack of jobs and opportunity for young people, and the growing power of government.It is obvious that Mitt Romney is the strongest candidate to face our failed President.Lets bury the hacthets and support Mitt.

To quote our host, “Mitt Romney won the debate.”

I am not a Santorum fan, but at least I am objective enough to acknowledge that Santorum DEVOURED Willard.

Once you get passed your hatred for Newt, perhaps you will see clearer.