Republican debate live thread Dec 10

[Avorysuds]

Mitt is owning Newt IMO.

 

[ladyliberal]

Gingrich cites the statements of Hamas to support his factual claims about the Ottoman Empire. It's not any more intellectually dishonest than the usual fare, but it's pretty funny transposed into a context of historical scholarship.

 

[Avorysuds]

Mitt Romney is Ron Paul lite.

Only because he3 wants to attack Newt atm, but Mitt wants war with Iran and has said it.

 

[ladyliberal]

Michelle Bachmann has a tendency to claim that in private meetings with people who aren't there she proved them wrong. I'm skeptical, since she almost always seems to come off the worse when arguing with people in public.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Ya know, if you put a sloppy old fashioned dress on newt, you'd have Dana Carvey's "churchwoman".

"Isn't that spess-shul?"

 

[rdean]

Breaking News: The problems in the Middle East have been caused by Obama.

 

[Salt Jones]

Perry is an idiot.

 

[LibertyForAll]

Mitt Romney is Ron Paul lite.

Mitt Romney is Ron Paul NOTHING. There's no comparison that can be made.

my point was he takes just enough of Ron Pauls ideas to sound conservative when it suits him.

 

[Salt Jones]

Michelle Bachmann has a tendency to claim that in private meetings with people who aren't there she proved them wrong. I'm skeptical, since she almost always seems to come off the worse when arguing with people in public.

DO the Palestinians use english language textbooks?

 

[ladyliberal]

Perry just went on an absurd tirade. Firstly, his claim that Obama's foreign policy was "muddled" was pretty bold considering that Perry gives muddled responses when forced to articulate such difficult concepts as the name of the judge he was attacking or the age when you could vote for him.

More importantly, his characterization of the Iranian drone episode was absurd. He claimed that Obama chose not to detonate or retrieve the drone and instead *chose* to allow the Iranians to claim the drone. Does anyone believe this?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Breaking News: The problems in the Middle East have been caused by Obama.

Yeah, and there has never been an illegal immigrant before Obama was elected.

No matter what, never give Obama credit for all he has accomplished.

 

[Paulie]

Mitt Romney is Ron Paul lite.

Mitt Romney is Ron Paul NOTHING. There's no comparison that can be made.

my point was he takes just enough of Ron Pauls ideas to sound conservative when it suits him.

He had a lot of practice at that in 07/08.

 

[SwingVoter]

painful to listen to the talking heads at the ABC News roundtable

perhaps this is a jobs plan...pay people to sit around a desk as they go on TV and give you conventional wisdom about politics

 

[Avorysuds]

painful to listen to the talking heads at the ABC News roundtable

perhaps this is a jobs plan...pay people to sit around a desk as they go on TV and give you conventional wisdom about politics

I agree, and they really want Newt to be doing better lol.

 

[Salt Jones]

Predator drone

RQ-170 Sentinel drone

Perry is an idiot.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

As a group, they're sounding a bit better than in the past but - still no presidential material.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Perry was born in a log cabin?

or a manger ................

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Mittens had a job growing up ....

..... hosing down terrified dogs.

 

[Avorysuds]

Lol, Paul grew up during the depression... lolz.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Just tuning in now. TCM was showing "The Caine Mutiny" which is always good, unlike these debates.