Republican Debate tonight in South Carolina

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

I'd link from RedState, but it's still mostly just pleas to make Rick Perry our President.

We'll see if, between Wall Street Journal and Fox News, anybody even mentions Dr. Martin Luther King tonight.

Something a bit more mainstream would be a welcome change

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Something a bit more mainstream would be a welcome change

Here you go. Newsweek? Andrew Sullivan? The Daily Beast? Surely that must please you. Four pages, but well worth the read.

Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics
Jan 16, 2012 12:00 AM EST

The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all.
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You hear it everywhere. Democrats are disappointed in the president. Independents have soured even more. Republicans have worked themselves up into an apocalyptic fervor. And, yes, this is not exactly unusual.

A president in the last year of his first term will always get attacked mercilessly by his partisan opponents, and also, often, by the feistier members of his base. And when unemployment is at remarkably high levels, and with the national debt setting records, the criticism will—and should be—even fiercer. But this time, with this president, something different has happened. It’s not that I don’t understand the critiques of Barack Obama from the enraged right and the demoralized left. It’s that I don’t even recognize their description of Obama’s first term in any way. The attacks from both the right and the left on the man and his policies aren’t out of bounds. They’re simply—empirically—wrong.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswee...s-critics.html

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Here you go. Newsweek? Andrew Sullivan? The Daily Beast? Surely that must please you. Four pages, but well worth the read.

Is this somehow related to the debate tonight?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Is this somehow related to the debate tonight?

Yes.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yes.

BTW Andrew Sullivan is a radical left winger and I dont mean a hockey player.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012...itics-so-dumb/

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

BTW Andrew Sullivan is a radical left winger and I dont mean a hockey player.

LOL. In whose dream? Andrew Sullivan doesn't have any reputation whatsoever other than as conservative.

"Radical left winger" BWAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA !

Yeah, he's friends with that anarchist George Will.

Andrew Sullivan a "radical left winger". BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

LOL. In whose dream? Andrew Sullivan doesn't have any reputation whatsoever other than as conservative.

"Radical left winger" BWAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA !

Yeah, he's friends with that anarchist George Will.

Andrew Sullivan a "radical left winger". BWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...h-times/16701/

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...-matters/6445/

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dis...ld-ctd/185859/

10.58 pm. I'm not sure what to say about this evening, except I want to take a shower. I've rarely been repulsed by the atmosphere of a debate as I was tonight. But this is the Republican core of South Carolina. One of the biggest applause lines was about waging war on the federal government. I suspect that if any Latinos or African-Americans were watching this, Obama's support just jumped.

From my perspective, Romney was cringe-inducing, shudder-worthy, and plastic beyond measure. I suspect he's going to try and rig this year's tax returns to hide his far lower rate of taxation and far, far, far higher income than 99.999 percent of the population. It was a weak answer.

We also had a strong endorsement of child labor, largely for African-Americans. I suspect that Santorum helped himself tonight, as did Perry a mite. Gingrich also showed his ability to reach the Southern vote, and Romney tried to fake it. Gingrich's diatribe about blacks getting paychecks rather than food stamps earned him a standing ovation

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast....-the-rich.html

I cant find anything by him that sounds remotely like a conservative.