First Republican debate tonight

[miraja2]

Rick Santorum might be a more serious contender for the nomination than I would have thought a month or two ago. He may have to battle Michelle Bachmann for the bat-sh!t crazy wing of the party, but he doesn't come across quite as openly stupid as Bachmann.
Romney and Pawlenty and maybe one or two others (Mitch Daniels? Newt?) will be battling among more mainstream conservatives and Paul will obviously carry the small (but bigger than it was 4 years ago) libertarian sect of the party.
It will be interesting to watch which clown they end up with, but I sure hope its someone in the Santorum/Bachmann mold. They would be much easier for Obama to defeat than someone like Romney....who might be tough in a general election.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Rick Santorum might be a more serious contender for the nomination than I would have thought a month or two ago. .

Did you see any of the debate? I though him horrible - he kept screeching at a loud volume, not saying anything in particular nor answering the questions. He is very obviously anti-woman, anti-Hispanic, and homophobic.

The national Dems couldn't even get their first "fact-check response" out until over 1/2 hour into the debate - as nobody was relaying any "facts"

The conservative sites post-debate said Herman Cain won. All these guys are clearly losers, and if Pawlenty is serious, he needs to disassociate himself from these looney toones. I know he participated here as he thought it would give him good early lead compared to these, but the overall level of excellence was so poor, I think it harmed him.

[Nascar1966]

Originally Posted by Riot

Did you see any of the debate? I though him horrible - he kept screeching at a loud volume, not saying anything in particular nor answering the questions. He is very obviously anti-woman, anti-Hispanic, and homophobic.

The national Dems couldn't even get their first "fact-check response" out until over 1/2 hour into the debate - as nobody was relaying any "facts"

The conservative sites post-debate said Herman Cain won. All these guys are clearly losers, and if Pawlenty is serious, he needs to disassociate himself from these looney toones. I know he participated here as he thought it would give him good early lead compared to these, but the overall level of excellence was so poor, I think it harmed him.

The Dems aren't any better.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Riot

Did you see any of the debate? I though him horrible - he kept screeching at a loud volume, not saying anything in particular nor answering the questions. He is very obviously anti-woman, anti-Hispanic, and homophobic.

Exactly.
So....like I said....he might be the perfect candidate for that party.