Posted on 01/26/2012 3:56:03 PM PST by kristinn
Hosted by Wolf Blitzer at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Candidates: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.
Word is the audience will be "allowed" to participate.
His trust fund?
The best debate tonight was right here on FReeRepublic!
Thanks to all of you!
Good: Quality Newt performance, most crowd reaction.
Bad: Romney has clearly learned the importance of cheers, and has stacked the crowd.
Good: Romney getting owned on ads, Romneycare, Reagan connection, et al.
Bad: Santorum doing well enough to convince himself to stay in and take votes from Newt.
Good: Newt appears to have a small national lead.
Bad: Romney has the edge in Florida, especially with Santorum in the race.
Good: Newt appears to OWN the South, where lots of delegates are.
Bad: Florida is a very different state demographically, and plays well to a moderate candidate.
Summation: No game-changing performances. The sad truth is, however, that Santorum staying in the race means Romney will certainly win the nomination.
You can tell the crowd was pro-Mitt by the extra oomph in the applause when he answered something.
DRUDGE has a poll that needs freepin
Romney - you saw the support in this audience.
Yeah, bussed in stacked audience by CNN.
Rick Santorum’s record is not as conservative as Newts. No one on that stage has as conservative a record as Newt. The audience was stacked. Many minds were made up before this debate. Sure, Santorum was calm tonight..he has been out of state and really not attacked as much as Newt. Romney is an absolute disgusting man. He does not deserve to be president..he is a liberal through and through. IF Newt loses in Fla..Romney gets all 50 delegates. God help the USA
Mitt lost. Santorum did well and took it to Romney. Newt did well, considering the obstacles placed in his way.
>>Newt’s closing “doing it for the children” was lame.
Why lame.
Gloria Borger massaged Mitt’s manhood.
Newt said thanks I am no shrinking violet.
Yep!
Romney mentions the AUDIENCE RESPONSE proving that he knows the audience was stacked.
Yes, it would have been better if he'd stuck with his ideas rather than attacking Newt and Romney again in his closing remarks.
I don’t think any of them gave a good response to the last question about why they will could be a better president than Obama. The first thing they should have said was because “I and my wife love and have always been proud of America. “ the applause would have been deafening.
“Newt’s closing was excellent.”
I wish I knew. CNN’s live streaming cut him off.
Santorum was an A.
Newt was a B.
Romney was a D+
I read here it was Norm Coleman. No link, but that detail might be enough for a google or other search of recent news.
Gov. Romeny’s blind trust = Mr. Magoo leading the way.
I'll stick with Newt.
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