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Debate Winner: Mitch Daniels [So Says Weekly Standard Editor, Bill Kristol]
Weekly Standard ^ | January 23, 2012 | WILLIAM KRISTOL

Posted on 01/23/2012 9:27:41 PM PST by Steelfish

Debate Winner: Mitch Daniels JAN 23, 2012

BY WILLIAM KRISTOL

I’ve got to think Monday night’s debate further swelled the groundswell of support for Mitch Daniels. The liveliest part of the debate was at the beginning, when Mitt went after Newt—and Republicans all over America watched with fascinated horror at the thought that these are the two GOP frontrunners.

The only spectacle in American politics more off-putting than Newt Gingrich in self-righteous defense mode is Mitt Romney in self-righteous attack mode. I thought Mitt’s attacks were somewhat more dishonest than Newt’s defenses were disingenuous, but it was good to move on to the rest of the debate, where little further damage was done.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billkrystol; flaprimary; kristol; mitchdaniels; newt; rinocoup; romney
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1 posted on 01/23/2012 9:27:48 PM PST by Steelfish
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“I’ve got to think Monday night’s debate further swelled the groundswell of support for Mitch Daniels.”

Um....groundswell? Really? Where?


2 posted on 01/23/2012 9:30:27 PM PST by Grunthor (I don't vote for Democrats, this includes Mitt Romney.)
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To: Steelfish

yep, Mitch will be so much better than Santorum and even better than Newt.


3 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:17 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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...and Republicans all over America watched with fascinated horror at the thought that these are the two GOP frontrunners.

William you just pulled that one out of your ass!

4 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:21 PM PST by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: Steelfish

Mitch Daniels?

Inane.


5 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:33 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Preparation ZOT, for prompt relief from annoying romnoids.)
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To: Grunthor
Um....groundswell? Really? Where?

In the mind of Kristol.

6 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:33 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Steelfish

Lol, what? I barely know who Mitch Daniels is, aside from him being some establishment hack.


7 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:44 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: Grunthor

You read my mind. “Groundswell,” only in Kristol’s mind


8 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:44 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Now we have the smartest people in the room making a mess of things... sheesh...


9 posted on 01/23/2012 9:32:57 PM PST by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: Steelfish
As I posted on the Twit----Oh Pluueezzzz..The wet dream of the Pubbie elites has to answer to his wife or the country-who do you think will win that 1?
10 posted on 01/23/2012 9:33:23 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy (It's not racism..... it's probability, actuarial tables, statistics. Facts are stubborn things.)
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To: Steelfish

The most damaging moment from tonight’s debate wasn’t the flurry of accusations by Romney against Gingrich, but the moment when Gingrich explained that the $1.6 million was the payment to the full company, and his pay was only about $35,000 a year. He then turned it around and asked Romney if all the millions that Bain Capital grossed when he ran it went into his pocket, and Romney snapped back, “That’s irrelevant.” Well, no, it isn’t. That was exactly the point they were talking about. It made it sound as if the guy who’s claiming he should be President because of his vast business experience doesn’t know the difference between gross and net. Romney’s answer was so obviously bad, the audience audibly laughed at it.

It’s one thing when part of the audience boos or doesn’t applaud you. That could happen to anyone expressing a strong opinion. But you’re in deep doo-doo when they start laughing at you.


11 posted on 01/23/2012 9:35:06 PM PST by HHFi
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Mitch Daniels? Seriously?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4T3tMkjRig


12 posted on 01/23/2012 9:35:06 PM PST by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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And again, the establishment pundits don’t have a clue.

Newt may not be pretty, but like Andrew Jackson, he’s a bull with a message, and Americans are listening.


13 posted on 01/23/2012 9:35:16 PM PST by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: Steelfish
WILLIAM KRISTOL

Hey, go check out that web site Mitch has up-Join my cause to have a brokered convention. I think he has 1,400 names signed up last night. Big Ground swell. Okay.

14 posted on 01/23/2012 9:35:34 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: Steelfish

Yeah, if by Mitch Daniels you mean Sarah Palin.


15 posted on 01/23/2012 9:35:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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He then turned it around and asked Romney if all the millions that Bain Capital grossed when he ran it went into his pocket, and Romney snapped back, “That’s irrelevant.”

When that happened my wife said "I thought Romney knew what he was talking about when it came to business stuff. Even I know the answer to that!"

16 posted on 01/23/2012 9:37:37 PM PST by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes


17 posted on 01/23/2012 9:39:08 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: Steelfish

Mitch Daniels, where do you stand on the Iran issue? Just a minute,let me check with my wife.


18 posted on 01/23/2012 9:39:56 PM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Oh, now isn't this convenient! Wow, what a surprise; an establishment media type just happens to have an epiphany that some moderate, go along, to get along RINO type like Mitch Daniels is the winner in tonight's debate. Sorry, but this is cute by half! We see right through this Bull Shite! Trying to pull a switch-a-roo from Mittens to Mitch!

Here's a clue for you Bill “I'm Constipated” Krystal; you and the rest of the establishment types can stick Mitch Daniels, and any other squishy, moderate type straight up your arses...how about that?

The days of the establishment shoving worthless RINOs down our throats is over. We've deemed you irrelevant!

19 posted on 01/23/2012 9:40:06 PM PST by Artcore
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—> a year. He then turned it around and asked Romney if all the millions that Bain Capital grossed when he ran it went into his pocket, and Romney snapped back, “That’s irrelevant

I was so ticked that Williams would not let them both continue on that subject. Romney only likes regulations when he can make profits or to dance around it. I don't like him. Not because he seem desperate today; he comes across as a fake and fishy businessman.

20 posted on 01/23/2012 9:42:00 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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