I’m solidly in the Newtist camp but he struck out last night.
He’s in FL for heaven’s sake, doesn’t he know that many older voters — and many ARE older — don’t use computers? They just watch the tv. Referring them to his website is worse than useless. He had the audience right there, that was the time to answer the question and trounce Romney for saying “resigned in disgrace” over and over and over again. :(
Many younger voters too, insofar as they bother to vote, are too busy to check out his website and explore the tedious cuneiform records of the 1990’s.
Nobody, but nobody, tuned in to obtain a link to a website.
And what answers he gave on the spot were spotty.
I disagree, LL. I think he did exactly what needed to be done.
There were some 7 dozen charges, and it’s impossible to deal with all that in one sound bite EXCEPT to say that Romney lies, which he said, and here’s the truth of a complicated subject at newt.org
If he had tried to get down in the weeds on those multitude of charges, it would have been impossible in a 60 second soundbite. He handled it correctly.
Hadn’t thought about that, LL.
Good point.
We should contact the Newt people when stuff like this happens. I’ll try to put this on the Contact Us email section on Newt.org.
I am an older voter and I spend a lot of time on the computer, Much of it right here.
I would bet that many here in Free Republic are retired and spending a lot of time here.
You miss the point. My Father is 82 and is a computer nerd. Dont classify most retired as computer bafoons.
Most people that dont have computers and dont understand the issues are not watching the debates either.
and many ARE older — don’t use computers? .......................... LOL LOL!!! You obviously don’t know the seniors down here. My son is out the door to fix a mid 80’s guy’s computer. I’m a senior and we have 3 computers going here. Almost all of the seniors here have email addresses. Go to the senior centers and hear the conversations about what they saw on their computers. After all, it was the seniors that brought the computers into existence. ;^)
I think older voters will find reasons to fault Romney. They are not going to vote for a Mormon to begin with, and will find him last night petty, shrill, cagey and slick looking.
Newt on the other hand looks distinguished, Churchillian and confident.
IMHO
You are right about Florida being full of Seniors, but most of them are computer literate. In fact, there are Computer Classes in nearly all the Senior Centers, Assisted Living Facilities, and Elder Housing (over 55)Complexes.
Nearly 80% of my Spam email comes from Senior Citizens! Sometimes I get 10 “Forwards” a day from the same person! LOL. Once Seniors learn how to cut, paste, and Forward, you never hear the end of it! LOL.
Most of the jokes circulating are about getting “old”. And they are sent by seniors.
BTW, I am a Senior, a FReeper, a Tea Party Conservative, a Biker, and VERY computer literate. :-)