With 10 months to go, you can claim that, because you saw one hour and forty minutes of television.
I can make that claim because each of the GOP candidates exposed the hypocrisy of Conservatism from the Right.
omg Romney sounds like a spoiled brat that isn't getting his way. He sounds horrible IMO, he is imploding. Romney needs to get back to attempting to show Republicans how he can lead conservatively. Holy crap I can't believe it is degenerating into a ****fest. These guys need to stop its starting to look bad for all of them.
Interesting take you guys had.
My initial impression was that Gingrich had a bad night. He seemed old and a bit weak tonight. He was under attack, and never really got going.
Romney looked a lot stronger to me. He's not a great debater, so he's not going to pump a lot of people up, but this performance was night and day from last week. He looked like a leader.
Santorum had a good night, but he's still Rick Santorum. He's just not going to be the guy.
Oh, and Ron Paul was there too.
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Poor debate performance from the whole field, IMO.
Meh.
It appears the candidates are going to destroy any chance the GOP had of winning the presidency by tearing each other apart like harpies in debate after debate. Do they not realize that many undecided voters are watching these debates and deciding Obama isn't so bad after all? This debate was particularly damaging to Romney - and I still feel he was the only candidate that could have realistically beaten Obama, but after the last two debates I feel that chance is gone. Newt has too many skeletons that Obama will be able to bring out one at a time and dance before the public for months and months. Santorum is, well he is Santorum. And there is no way the GOP would let Paul win the nomination.
I seriously have heartfelt sympathy for the GOP.
So, let's spell out what we've learned from last night's debate.
Ron Paul. Definitely without a doubt the GOP outsider! He totally and utterly EXPOSED THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY not only by saying their policies have led us to where we are today, but also by stating that Republicans are not ready to govern, that the party is in a mess and needs to change. HE SAID THAT. Those were Ron Paul's words (or atleast in summary).
Newt Gingrinch. Talk about the consumate Washington insider! Not only has Newt followed in the footsteps of Conservatism since 1964 - HIS OWN ADMISSION - but he lead the charge for instituting conservative policies, as well as ushering in this latest montely crew of misfits Tea Parties that has John Boehner having nightmares! Again, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, Newt Gingrinch was intimately involved with those issues - policies that Ron Paul openly admitted have the country in the economic condition it's in NOW! Moreover, Newt was a lobbyist! No way he can deny this now. Mitt Romney effectively and totally exposed him! Talk about crony capitalism at its best! My God!! Unless you just went deft at that point, how do you ignore the obvious conflict of interest there? YOU CAN'T!!!
Mitt Romney. For all the finger pointing he did towards Newt, he didn't do himself any favors either. His tax policy was so damned stupid! How the hell are middle-class wage earners to take advantage of the tax policies he'd usher in, i.e., tax credit on savings, investing, etc. Does he really think the middle-class has the kind of "investment dollars" he has? Clearly not since his tax cut would start at the upper level = $200K. Not so sure his ideas are good ideas, but people will hear that and shift alittle to his side without really thinking it through because...well, it sounds nice.
Santorum. This guy is a piece of work. He'd isolate the U.S. from any other nation
he believes is "hostile" to America. That's half the world right there (atleast if you listen to Conservative Republicans tell it). Not working with Cuba, for example, at all until the Casto family line is completely gone! What an assinine foreign policy to have....just wait until the ruling family line dies off, then we'll talk. Thank God the Russians killed Hilter before he and Eva Brown could have kids. :roll: And let's not forget that HE IS THE MOST CONVERSTIVE CANDIDATE ON THE PANEL...following in lock-step with the Tea Party. YES! The same political group that once again has caused Speaker Boehner fits AND led to the first credit rating downgrade this country has ever experienced!! Come on, people! Wake up!!
Not one of these candidates is fit to lead this nation. NONE!!! Again, listen to what they say and put their words in their proper context where economic, domestic and foreign policy is concerned in relation to where our society is today and then it will all start to make sense. Obama couldn't have done better to expose the hypocrisy of the Republican Party than these guys did by themselves.