Sep 7, 2011 – Proposed Questions for the GOP Debate: Time for Specifics 3. Mitt Romney beclowns the Netroots on job growth. 4. … Proposed Questions for the GOP Debate: Time for Specifics Although a debate stage with eight candidates is inherently conducive to … Moreover, the liberal moderators from Politico and NBC should remember that they are overseeing a Republican debate.…

Sep 2, 2011 – between GOP presidential hopefuls. … (The zero-gravity White House spokesman, Jay Carney, pointedly compared the GOP debate to a “cooking show” or a “wildlife show.”) … When Obama deliberately trolls a GOP debate it is a “bad ass move”. It was Obama making a “go big maneuver.”…

Sep 2, 2011 – The first debate he was in he made the “prayer” crack about Perry and did not come across well in exchanges. … In head to head matches within the GOP, Romney loses to both Bachmann and Perry. … He is perceived as the establishment candidate in a year when the GOP wants nothing to do with the establishment.…

Sep 2, 2011 – Shock National Journal Poll: Romney Staffers Think Romney Should be GOP Nominee 4. The Euphocrats 5. Nebraska Gov. … many GOP insiders think Romney is a much better candidate than Rick Perry. … GOP sample — currently work for Romney or worked for his 2008 presidential campaign.…

Sep 1, 2011 – The President wanted Wednesday during the GOP debate, but John Boehner said no. … But the man who suddenly tops the Republican presidential polls is no libertarian.…

Aug 29, 2011 – The Politico and NBC are doing the next GOP Debate. … Why the GOP would want to do a debate with the Politico and NBC — both of which have a well documented history of being mouthpieces … In any event, they set the criteria to get into the debate as “4 percent in one of eight national prominent polls of Republicans taken…

Sep 14, 2011 – The GOP picked off a district that had been a Democratic fiefdom since 1923. … But no…we also had a GOP debate Monday night that was a debacle. … She pulled this issue out and used it as a club to beat Texas Governor, Rick Perry with at the Florida GOP Primary debate.…

Sep 14, 2011 – The seat, last held by Anthony Weiner, flipped back to the GOP tonight in a stunning rebuke to Barack Obama.In every special election … for the past few years, even in 2009/2010, the Democrats pointed their finger at each one and declare it spelled disaster for the GOP … and the CNN debate.…

Sep 13, 2011 – She not only lost it for consideration as a presidential nominee, she lost it period. Full stop. … There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. … It was a senseless attack on Perry that played well with a segment of the debate studio audience.…

Sep 12, 2011 – Presidential nominee. … is shameful and unbecoming of a GOP candidate for President. … It will also serve to diminish the national standing of the GOP in the event that Perry is the ultimate winner of the GOP nomination…

Sep 12, 2011 – LIVE FROM FLORIDA — No One Except Ron Paul I’m in Tampa, FL for the CNN-Tea Party Express Republican Presidential Debate. … The debate begins at 8pm on CNN. … Obama Vindicates Rick Perry on Social Security The major controversy right now in the GOP presidential primaries is over Rick Perry…

Sep 8, 2011 – I guess I was in the minority who thought that Huntsman acquitted himself pretty well in the debate last night. … fake folksy act he tried at the beginning was only slightly better than the oleaginous answer delivery he adopted later in the debate … (Mitt Romney, Remarks At Reagan Library Presidential Debate, Simi Valley, CA, 9/7/11) In His Book No Apology, Romney Called Social…

Sep 8, 2011 – Let me offer my takes on last night’s GOP primary debate (I saw all but the very end). -Short answer? … -Two notes on MSNBC, which really should not be hosting a GOP debate (Ben Domenech aptly compared this to having Derek Jeter questioned … -Perry’s goal in the debate, it being his maiden voyage in this race, had to be not so much to win the debate as to win by not losing…

Sep 3, 2012 – Observer, “As DNC begins, Romney Gains in N.C.”The headline is a reference to the new Elon University/Charlotte Observer Poll shows the GOP … presidential candidate leading President Barack Obama 47 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in North Carolina.The poll found … question posed by then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan at the end of his debate with Jimmy Carter on October 28, 1980: “Next…

Sep 26, 2012 – The GOP has no reason to continue on. … Romney-Ryan Presidential Campaign still holds true. Obama has a slight advantage. … If Romney can bread-truck him either debate, this election could swing like The Happy Hooker.…

Sep 22, 2012 – We had just been through the 2008 Presidential campaign where the press steadfastly refused to vet their man-god, and fellatists like … “There’s been some debate around the office about whether we should report on this at all,” Washington Post senior reporter Bill Tracy … GOP lawmakers were incensed to find many of the details they tried to learn Thursday were in a front-page article in The Times the…

Oct 2, 2012 – Wednesday’s Obama-Romney debate. … Advice for Romney I’ve watched Romney debate a lot (although this will be the first presidential debate where I’ll be rooting for … up mattering a lot more than what they say (absent a colossal gaffe; the only debate gaffe that may arguably have swung a presidential…

Oct 12, 2012 – Biden’s appalling petulant behavior, in conjunction with the moderator’s refusal to moderate the debate instead of debate the debate … Paul Ryan barely got to speak uninterrupted during the debate, yet most of the post-debate polls show a narrow victory for Ryan. … The only consequence of this debate is that Biden will never be viewed as a viable presidential candidate in 2016.…

Oct 11, 2012 – Chris Matthews, in his epic post-debate meltdown after the Romney-Obama debate, had the most telling line: “this was not an MSNBC … debate.” … The debate was again short on social issues.…

Oct 8, 2012 – The next debate is the town hall style debate. … Aaron: Clearly this debate made its mark. … Maybe The View wasn’t such great debate prep after all.…

Jan 9, 2012 – Let us set aside for a moment the many crazy things that Ron Paul says and the ways in which they might damage the GOP brand. … I mean, I’m not thrilled to have the guy up there on national television representing the GOP in any form or fashion, but on the merits … presidential nomination.…

Jan 9, 2012 – The Biggest Mistake of the Worst Debate 6. … The Biggest Mistake of the Worst Debate Let’s face it: the ABC News New Hampshire debate was the worst debate of the entire election … Romney was able to sit pretty throughout the entire debate, except for one monologue from Santorum at the end of the debate.…

Jan 8, 2012 – As Politico noted on Sunday, GOP Chairman Reince Priebus made an attempt to put some controls around the debate schedule. … We need to have some order in our debate process.” … Virtually every major media outlet: CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, Bloomberg, C-SPAN – have all sponsored and/or co-sponsored a GOP debate…

Jan 17, 2012 – The great GOP debate of 1933-1956 or so was how to react to the New Deal: try to moderate its excesses, or assault its premises. … GOP from its current accomodationist leadership. … The White House The presidential race, of course, has been a great disappointment.…

Jan 16, 2012 – Well, it looks like Iowa and New Hampshire both get to claim one official victim in the 2012 GOP Presidential sweepstakes as Jon Huntsman … a giant middle finger to the GOP conservative base. … but it is not going to happen in a Presidential primary.…