WHO WON LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE? DICK MORRIS TV: LUNCH ALERT!(Video)

Dick Morris ^ | 9/13/2011 | Dick Morris

[Signalman]

Dear Friend,

In this video commentary, I discuss how last night’s debate totally changed the GOP primary. A front runner was deflated, a second tier candidate came roaring back, and Newt did his thing. What will the effect be?

[Onelifetogive]

Why does a debate need a moderator asking questions? A MUCH better debate format would have the moderator giving each candidate a turn to ask another candidate a question. Stupid questions would then reflect poorly on the candidate asking them. Oh, now I see the problem, the media would not be able to frame the debate.

I just can't see:

Moderator: "Mr. Romney, you have 30 seconds to ask Mr. Cain a question."
Mr. Romney: "Mr. Cain, I have one question for you: 'Deep dish or Pan?'"

[comebacknewt]

Anybody else getting a sinking feeling that the establishment may win again and we may wind up with Willard Romney as our nominee? I know none of us will vote for him, but I know plenty of others outside of FR who would.

The only other currently declared candidate with a shot at taking him out is Perry, and the establishment is hammering away at him. They even managed to convince Bachmann to attack him from the left last night, and Palin was blasting away from the right.

For the first time, I am beginning to believe we are going to manage to screw this up and send the Kenyan back to office for a second term. If Romney manages to win the nomination, he hasn't a prayer in the general.

[hosepipe]

Right.. Newt is the hit man.. the only adult..
Newt KILLED.. as always... he cuts threw the fluff..
Even with the very little time he is given to sober up the drinking party..

The Kool Aid flows like wine, except it isn’t wine..
Wolf did his Jim Jones act but Newt wasn’t drinking..

[Retired Greyhound]

I disagree. I think Romney can beat Obama, assuming he attacks Barry so relentlessly that it fires up the GOP base.

Elections come down to the base, not the mushy middle, as the media tries to suggest.

[so_real]

Newt Gingrich won again (my opinion and I am by no means a Gingrich advocate). Ron Paul took a big hit defending, perhaps unintentionally, the attacks of our enemies. Perry and Romney, being two peas in the same pod, showed the most friction. Perry took the bigger hit of the two ... actually being boo'd at one point by the Tea Party host for his immigration stance. Bachmann might slip a bit by personalizing the Gardasil issue. Santorum should gain; he nailed his points and kept the Gardasil issue policy centered. Blitzer missed an opportunity to put the Tea Party FairTax question to Cain, and so once again Cain did well but did not excel.

Overall : Gingrich up, Paul way down, Perry and Bachmann down a little, Huntsman and Cain status quo, Santorum tiny gain (maybe), and Romney a tiny loss (maybe).

[Retired Greyhound]

I’m leaning towards Newt right now. He seems to hit the nail on the head every time.

[hosepipe]

TODAY Romney cut threw the fluff.. and accused Obama of Union payback.. in South Carolina..

He must be learning from NEWT!!..
Thats the first intelligent comment heard from Myth Romney..
I say ... “God bless him”... go on the attack Myth..

Newt, Perry and Romney(NOW) are in “the GAME”...
Michele Bachmann was in the game from the “git go”...

Even Ron Paul has “posed” some very good questions..
Even though those questions are IGNORED by the rubes and RINOs..
Its true however that Ron presents his arguments like a first grader..
The U.S,, SHOULD pull back some of its military presence on this globe.. not all but some of it..

If South Korea can’t itself deal with the Norks WHO CAN!..
The U.S.. with bases beyond an embassy... in Germany is OBSCENE... same in Japan..
Japan NEEDS to handle its own “SECURITY”...

[COBOL2Java]

My favorite moment of the night was when Wolf asked Newt about tax breaks for "Big Oil" and Newt came back with "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were going to ask me about General Electric and the special breaks they get from the Obama administration."

That was sweet. Would have loved to see the look on Wolf's face when he realized he stepped in it big time.

[badpacifist]

Overall : Gingrich up, Paul way down, Perry and Bachmann down a little, Huntsman and Cain status quo, Santorum tiny gain (maybe), and Romney a tiny loss (maybe).

I agree pretty much with that except Huntsman but I really don't like him so I am partial.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

WHO WON LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE?

The names, "Welker", "Brady" and "Belecik" come to mind.

[freekitty]

Bunch of PR junk where only selected few are allowed to talk. No real debate here.

[anonsquared]

Read my post again, the key word was KID. Children have a more finally tuned BS meter and will call out hypocrisy every time they see it.

You seem to have a vested interest in one of the candidates. Until the adults in the room quit choosing sides before the primaries start and instead hold ALL OF THE POWER SEEKERS to task for their past and their ideas, we are going to continue having RINOS and DONKEYS stomping all over the Constitution and our collective rights.

[A'elian' nation]

That was my favorite moment too.
I have posted before that I want to see Newt debating each of the Republican candidates one on one.

Would make great instructive theater, and every one of the candidates would be the better for it.

I also think it has been smart of Sarah Palin to stay out of the race for as long as she has. Perry is showing a few crony capitalism chinks (Palin’s theme ). Bachmann was good, but someone needs to show her which camera looks into the audience and viewer not the moderator.

[Ole Okie]

I disagree re: Blitzer. I thought he did a respectable job last night.

No matter how Blitzer handled it, I thought last night's "debate" more resembled an actual debate than anything I've seen lately.

It was actually interesting television. And Wolf didn't intrude on some of the more interesting discussions.

[cajungirl]

Kids know what they see around them and tell what the grown ups Santa hear. They have no special powers of observation. My guess is your cynicism rubbed off, and not in a good way.

[cajungirl]

Kids know what they see around them and tell what the grown ups wanta hear. They have no special powers of observation. My guess is your cynicism rubbed off, and not in a good way.

[MNJohnnie]

Yes, I will agree it was BETTER then the other debates but only because the others have been so woefully bad.

[jersey117]

I thought he did a respectable job last night. At least he gave the candidates plenty of time to answer the questions.

I thought so too. I was surprised at how fair and professionally it was done. The post-debate chatter, however, is another story. Immediately switched to Greta.

[justiceseeker93]

Dick Morris is correct in stating that Michele Bachmann did well last night. Aside from being the strongest of the candidates in her opposition to Obamacare, she tore into Perry for his executive order mandating (with parental opt-out) schoolgirls in Texas to receive Guardasil vaccine to reduce their risk of cervical cancer. Bachmann not only pointed out that this was inappropriate state intrusion into the girls' parents right to make medical decisions for their daughters, but that the executive order could have been linked to a Perry campaign contribution by a former chief of staff now working as a lobbyist for Merck, Guardasil's manufacturer. So Bachmann was saying that Perry's order was tyrannical and hinted strongly that it might have been corrupt as well. A good measure of revenge for Bachmann here against Perry, who had upstaged her when he entered the primary field on the same day she won the Iowa straw poll.

[Liz]

A good measure of revenge for Bachmann at the Tea Party Debate against Perry, who upstaged her when he threw his hat in the ring on the same day she won the Iowa straw poll

Perry calculatedly DID NOT enter Iowa——but manipulated the vote from afar. That strategy was supposed to put him over the top. Instead he got 700-800 votes....while Iowa winners who did the right thing-—spending time and money there-—— got 4000 votes each.

The Perrydactyl's were cued to "say" Ricky won Iowa.

And there Perry was----front and center---waving to Iowans, taking pics in front of prominent Iowa banners---manipulating people to make them think he was the winner.