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Everyones candidate seemed to do well tonite, according to their supporters
Had Daffy Duck appeared in the debates, Daffy Duck supporters would have said he done well
Of course, the source of this is the Romney Campaign. I notice they don’t mention the local sheriff who nailed Romney right between the eyes.
He did good. Problem is that there are too many candidates on stage and he never gets a chance to say more than a few sentences.
Bump! Go Fred Go!
PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL.... for sure!
Every supporter thinks their candidate won...its the nature of the beast.
oh yea,
Paul supporters ...internet voting does not a president make.
Wasn't that the artifice used to justify legalized abortions in this country?
Rudy slayed Mitt.
Mike also did better.
I guess I must have been watching another debate. I thought Romney lost this one. Mc Cain slammed him down with his comments about the Surge when Romney was trying to hedge his remarks.
LLS
Ron Paul did have the most fascinating line of the debate last night: the only pro-Communist soundbite from any GOP candidate.
(1) Giuliani did all right on defense issues, but his deep policy flaws on other issues like immigration were thrown into sharp relief.
(2) McCain did a good job fighting Romney on Iraq.
(3) Romney did all right - but McCain, as I said, got some good and well-deserved licks in.
(4) Gilmore, Huckabee and Brownback did credibly but didn't do anything to stand out from the pack.
(5) Hunter did great on defense, but then got bogged down in the whining over Ramos and Compean.
(6) Tancredo came across as a small and bitter man.
(7) Ron Paul said his usual crazy stuff. And, true to form, he soft-pedaled pro-life rhetoric, he spewed leftist rhetoric on the Middle East and demonstrated how little he knows about just war theory and history.
The beginning of the end for the ill-fated Romney candidacy.
As a committed conservative activist, I tuned out the debates, and switched to music.
It doesn’t much matter how well you do in a debate that is not watched.
Why am I not engaged? I don’t hear an exciting, thorough, conservative voice I can trust. All the major guys have major flaws: Amnesty, Leftist Social Positions, and Socialized Medicine.
GO MITT! Great performance.
Mitt and Rudy held their own last night. No gains no losses. I thought the night belonged to the second tier candidates although no one changed their standing in the polls. Mitt was the obvious target since he has the upward momentum. The sheriff’s remark was a cheap shot meant to humiliate Mitt who has already apologized. The whole debate was designed to attack the candidates and provided little benefit to the viewer.
Mitt was slow out of the gate and seemed preoccupied. He was a little reserved but got back in form later. His post debate interview with Hannity was much better. I was puzzled, especially by a couple of answers where he appeared to move to the center. IMO, it’s too early, but I figured the Dems are watching him closely now to use everything against him later on.
Then I remembered the article yesterday revealing the Dems had a file on Mitt. Remember Mitt’s debate answer on abortion where he made it a point to say how much he cares about the mother too? Remember that story a few months back where someone alleged he (as a Mormon bishop) tried to talk a woman out of a health-related abortion? Once I put that together it all clicked. I will bet that incident is in that file and the Dems are ready to pull that woman out to prove Mitt is a right wing monster who is willing to let women die rather than have a health-related abortion.
That explains Mitt’s demeanor last night. He looked like he knew something that bothered him. While some here on FR think he’s a RINO, the rest of the liberal planet views him as a right wing conservative. He must temper that view and now he is on defense.
The winning candidate must have crossover appeal. So far Mitt and Obama are the only ones who can pick up independent and opposition votes. St. Fred can’t, Hunter and the others can’t, except for Rudy.
Mitt’s in a difficult position now but I have every confidence he can overcome. The election is won day to day, person to person. Mitt is superior in that regard.
~”Not his best performance of the five debates but a good one.”~
I agree. Romney didn’t fail in this debate, but he didn’t shine, either. If he’s to overcome the obstacles in his way, though, he needs to shine, and merely “good” performances such as last night’s won’t cut it.
Still a long row left to hoe.
It is quite interesting that Mitt Romney threads are gaining so much interest on FR. It only takes a couple of hours to get several hundred replies. :)