Posted on 09/08/2011 4:51:40 AM PDT by JSDude1
The winner of the debate last night was Sarah Palin! Merely for the fact of not showing up to a commie hack attack debate format. Now, peeps should understand why Sarah hasn’t declared as yet. Would you have participated in that commie msnbc clusterfark?
What I dont understand is how Brian Williams and all the other liberal media whores did not burst into flames upon entering the Reagan Library.
Normally, I try to watch a t least one replay to find what I may have missed on the first go-around, and before I will make a complete ass of myself in commenting on the proceedings.
This so-called debate was an exception. There was absolutely nothing worth watching, let alone listening. I refuse to dignify this waste of time with the word "debate". Moderators? Provocateurs would be a better description. The only part of the whole evenings load of crapola that I enjoyed was the setting, where I was fortunate to visit a couple months ago for the first (but not last) time.
NBC and Politico should be ashamed. The participants being (questioned) (lambasted) (Shat upon)...select one of the above....should be disgusted by being there for this shameful exhibition.
My choice for the winner of this thing (and the last one) is Newt. Why? Because he was the only one who spat back at the "moderators". The real winner would have been the first declared candidate who would tell them what he/she really thinks would have been the winner. Newt was closest.
I lost respect for every candidate that participated in that charlie foxtrot last night.
They would get much more relevant, pointed and meaningful questions from the likes of Rush and Malkin than they ever will from the lamestream liberal media talking heads.
We know what we want answers to, they (liberals) know what questions they want to avoid getting good answers to and thus tailor the debate to elicit the responses they want and cause infighting.
There’s no need for the repub candidates to go delving into the macabre stance of the left. Let them debate real issues that the people are interested in, get them on record!
Worth repeating...especially for all the PDS'ers who have been howling at her to announce so that she would have to participate in these travesties.
“.......MSNBC/Politico Reagan Library theater of the absurd.............”
Anticipated that MSNBC/Politico absurdity, and therefore didn’t watch.
If these candidates don’t have the leadership skills to even shape their own debates and moderators, they don’t have the skills I’m looking for in a future president.
The real problem is that these are not really “debates”.
They are an overt attempt at the ever present “gotcha” question in it’s full blown splendor.
As Michelle says, I go by their record.
Disclosure: I didn’t see the debate.
That would be a hoot. Limbaugh, Ingram, Hannity. Oh, and imagine Ann Coulter!
In fact, imagine a democrat debate with that lineup asking the questions.
I just made my own day, just thinking about it.
I disagree. Our eventual nominee is going to have to go through a lot of gauntlets to run against the MSM’s messiah Obama - they will be out in droves to get them.
All of the candidates that participated in the debate last night (with the exception of Huntsman) did great - I could vote for any of them against Obama. I disagree with your comment that Palin won the debate last night - the candidates that participated last night showed they were able to go into the lion’s den, and that is admirable on their part.
We’ve got a great group of candidates running this time.
I like Sarah Palin a lot, but frankly I am growing tired of waiting for her to declare (one way or the other) and I do think she has been badly damaged by the media, so I'm now looking at the others to see where they stand. I was impressed with Cain more than any other, but thought Newt & Perry did fairly well, even Mitt had a moment or two there. Bachmann & Santorum are in over their heads, Ron Paul is a wacko and Huntsman was a plant. Not totally on board with any of them, at this point.
Absolutely correct. The problem wasn’t with the fact that it was MSNBC, or the moderators, or the questioners. The problem was the quality of the people on the stage.
When you have no core, when you can’t articulate your principles (if you have any), when you’ve spent your whole life telling people one thing and then doing something else, ...
I’m looking for someone who can articulate conservative principles and someone who can respond to stupid questions with “We’re 200+ trillion in debt, we have 17% unemployment in this country and you’re asking me THAT? Mr. Williams, are you a moron or are you that biased that your main interest is try to make us look like fools?”
Just once. Please!
Newt got the closest, but we pretty much all know where his candidacy is going.
You do know that the presidential election is in November 2012 and NOT November 2011, right?
and I do think she has been badly damaged by the media...
So you're willing to concede victory to the Rats and vindication for their Alinsky tactics? You're willing to give up and let them win?
You know, whenever I see this whole "MSM has damaged her too badly" spiel, I just want to hurl. Instead of sadly shaking your head and giving up in the face of their attacks, why don't you get out and do something about it?
The Politico guy was a disaster——it was hard to watch his sophmoric efforts. As Judge Judy would say:”Stop fiddling with those papers.” If he couldn’t stand the intense debate heat, he should have declined the offer.
And tell me why the Telemundo guy agreed to be a political prop?
Did we have to be reminded once again that illegals are hijacking our political system........targeting our form of government for extinction to install a Third World on US soil?
The MSM uses them to marginalize the GOP candidates.
This Was An Inquisition Not A “Debate”
Being in a remote rural area I don’t get cable nor would I have watched it after learning who the panel of inquisition consisted of. Because from what state media is picking up and reporting as the result. It sounds like to me that is exactly what it was, an inquisition not a debate.
To advance the precepts of limited government you don’t assign clergy who believe the sun revolves around the earth to become the Cardinal inquisitors .Inquisitors who demand answers to their framed agenda driven questions and control the debate.
Then getting responses that would never satisfy the inquisitors from people who know the earth revolves around the sun.
For this to happen in The Reagan archives was an insult ti Reagan
I had to switch channels after about 15 minutes but I bet they never asked them specifically to explain their detailed positions on ‘immigration reform’. Better yet, ask Perry how he can be against amnesty and for the Dream Act, and Romney out-right lied about his position on it.
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