I just don’t think Mitt has it. First off, not to get all Regis about this, but that tie is hypnotizing me. And where’s his fucking flag pin?
Update. Why doesn’t Ron Paul put on a Texas accent? It wouldn’t be that hard. Also too, if I didn’t know in advance, and you asked me which one of the group was a big Beefheart fan, I would have gone with Ron Paul for sure.
Update. John Harris is weird and shouldn’t be allowed on tv. Sorry, it’s not the right medium for everyone.
Update. Perry doesn’t do well with the Social Security question, but it’s probably good enough for teahadists. He’s going to have a tough time with it in the general.
Update. Are we going to get the crazy Frank Luntz focus groups at the end?
Update. People may not want to hear this, but Cain seems the least phony/crazy to me.
Update. I like the Telemundo guy, he’s got a lot more panache than BriWi and Harris.
Update. I hate to keep harping on this, and obviously I don’t agree with him on anything, but Cain’s answers are more substantive than the others’.
Update. George Hamilton just gave Friedman starbursts I’m sure, but I think his voice is too high or something. I can’t put my finger on it.
Update. I feel an inexplicable urge to discuss the debate in loco_toko-speak. u r retard brian.
Update. This audience loves them some executions. Loudest applause of the night. Even BriWi is weirded out by it. Expect some death porn from Chuck Lane tomorrow at Kaplan.
wasabi gasp
Kids need jobs!
beltane
Frankly, I’m surprised they haven’t ditched the flag pins in favor of big, rhinestone studded crosses.
jeff
Apologies for the simplistic thought, but
I really hope none of these people is the next President.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
His flag pin is with Captain Koons pocketwatch, know what I mean?
Naive and Sentimental
So far it’s
Romney: A mandate is fantastic for Massachusetts but not for anyone else
Bachmann: I will ride a pegasus to the moon and tap the oil wells there to get gas prices to $2 a gallon
Perry: Texas sure wouldn’t be dead last in un-insured citizens if the damn government would get out of our way
Santorem: I need to say my name as many times as possible to hopefully fight google’s algorithm
Paul: the Economy is being held back because companies aren’t allowed to pay employees 3 dollars an hour.
Linda Featheringill
Very superficial analysis:
Romney looks like he has been ill, Huntsman looks like he stayed too long under the tanning lamp, Gingrich looks healthy but looks like a cherub compared to the rest of them, and Paul looks old and fragile.
Bachmann, of course, is well put together. Cain is always interesting and I like the way he talks even when he is spouting off nonsense.
Yeah, that’s not everybody. [yet]
Big Baby DougJ
@Linda Featheringill:
Huntsman is very George Hamilton, no?
PaulW
A FLAG PIN?! ON HIS UNIFORM?!?!
They’re all worthless and weak! NOW DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!
lamh32
um WTF Rick Perry, who the hell calls other white people “anglos”
btw, dont’ wanna hear another word about how Huntsman is the “reasonable” one. Summa-bitch is the first to use a freakin’ teleprompter joke!
Fuck him.
Baud
@Big Baby DougJ: Now I want to watch Zorro: The Gay Blade again.
Naive and Sentimental
It will be funny all night listening to Perry talk about what Texans want and need and desires when I’m working in Texas for a company that feels like it’s a moment away from every employee quitting in disgust together.
Linda Featheringill
@Big Baby DougJ:
George Hamilton:
Absolutely! We’ll have to get George to play that part when we make a movie of all this.
Big Baby DougJ
@lamh32:
Many Texas Republicans are surprisingly delicate and PC in their language about these things.
lamh32
@Big Baby DougJ: I noticed that too DougJ. Isn’t this thing in Cali? Maybe Hunstsman thought “when in Rome…” but he laid the self-tanner on a bit thick.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Linda Featheringill:
Two bits
four bits
six bits
a peso
all for Zorro
stand up and theyso!
dmsilev
@Linda Featheringill:
Now I’m visualizing Newt wearing the clothing that cherubs are typically portrayed as wearing.
I’m sending you a bill for three gallons of brain bleach.
Alex S.
The Democrats should have a FDR debate and show some of his speeches.
Naive and Sentimental
And now for this segment of the debate, all candidates will recite the poems they wrote for Nancy Reagan
Valdivia
yes John kills it on twitter best way to see this debate
The Dangerman
So, now follow up with a stem cell question.
Edit: And did they? Nope.
jeff
Oh man, I hope they ask next if southern secession was right.
Linda Featheringill
Would you by a used car from Perry?
Cat Lady
Ron Paul strikes me as more of a Junior Brown fan.
JPL
What Perry is not saying is we are going to use your social security money to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
Big Baby DougJ
@Valdivia:
I still don’t understand twitter.
dmsilev
Uh Oh. Perry is dissing Cheney. Hope that hair is birdshot-proof.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
So Newt says that it’s bullshit to examine a book that was written before Perry was a candidate. Then Perry says he stands by everything in the book!
SIA
Gasp. I was hoping you guys would be here…I saw some very scary zombies on my teevee. I’m skeered.
JPL
Romney .is now saying those who paid into retirement funds are needy.. god he looks weak
Valdivia
@Big Baby DougJ:
me and you both! I just plugged in his name on the google plus twitter and got his page. Otherwise I never use the thing. Also too I am not even on Facebook. The only social network thingy I do is Instagram
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
somebody broke the blog
4tehlulz
ITALICS ATTACK
dmsilev
Holy open tags, Batman. Let me try closing one:
Testing, testing.
Edit: Nope. Fail.
JPL
So we are now all Chileans and say thank you.
SIA
Can’t edit pls close italics comment 28!
cleek
annihilo italico!
Anne Laurie
@beltane:
This is a country-club Republican venue. Dress code is no rhinestones before sunset, and never visible religious jewelry.
You don’t see Nancy Reagan, precious relict of St. Ronnie, wearing J.C. Penney crap to appease the rubes, do you?
JPL
@4tehlulz: we are all right leaning..now..omg
Bondirotta
Awesomish. Perry is quadrupling down on the Ponzi scheme. Maybe quintupling?
Valdivia
@4tehlulz:
LOL
SIA
Mea culpa and WP won’t let me fix it
Dennis SGMM
Someone is actually watching this?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
“I hate cancer”
Cris (without an H)
That’s common practice in NM.
lamh32
Well damn look at Michael Steele trying to stand up for his “real” peeps on twitter
@Michael Steele
“the job disparity for blacks and hispanics deserves more than a passing question to one candidate #gopdebate”
Quarks
I feel all excited. And slanted! Tilted, even!
ETA: Course, as soon as my comment on it went up, problem was fixed.
Baud
@cleek: It worked. You did it.
JPL
good for Perry
cleek
@Dennis SGMM:
not me.
Anne Laurie
Hit refresh if you’re still leaning, everybody.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Santorum is offended. Shit eatin dog fucker.
lamh32
umm is Michelle Bachmann even in this thing or is Perry/Romney/Paul sucking all her air out?
JPL
omg..Santorum is offended…hahaha
JGabriel
I wanna hear Huntsman talk Capt. Beefheart. It’s gotta be less depressing that listening to these assholes discuss how they can best destroy the country.
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Linda Featheringill
Is that Santorum with the pink tie? Why would he wear that?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Dennis SGMM: Picture in picture with the Braves Phils on the big pic.
JPL
someone else can listen to asshole and let me know how he is important
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh32: Are her toes curled?
Cris (without an H)
@Anne Laurie: Leaning Republican?
lamh32
and from our very own ABL…tee hee!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
“Look at the way they maul people, airlines could do that”!
Cat Lady
Who’s winning now? What are tomorrow’s talking points today from our liberal media?
JGabriel
@Linda Featheringill:
Sometimes, I am just overwhelmed by the possibilities.
.
Bondirotta
What would replace TSA? Ron Paul: The airlines. government made the 911 happen by not arming the pilots.
Ron
My only question is this. Why am I watching this without a drink handy?
lamh32
@Cris (without an H): eww, but haha
new twitter name for Perry “Ponzi Perry” hope it sticks.
JPL
@Cat Lady: Romney looked sick and Huntsman was tan. Perry won.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Bondirotta: No, not the pilots, the passengers.
Naive and Sentimental
The market effect of FEMA….
Paul’s contention is people built homes in riskier areas they wouldn’t’ have if FEMA didn’t exist
IDTT
Is this a Presidential Debate or an interview to determine who will be Valedictorian of Summer School?
SIA
Thank you whoever (Cleek?) fixed the little italics problem.
Davis X. Machina
Well, we might yet get to see if getting that awful Negro out of the WH is more important to
Ponzi victimsSocial Security recipients than their continued ability to eat, and buy stuff.4tehlulz
@Naive and Sentimental: Like Galveston in 1900?
JPL
@SIA: what..you didn’t want to lean right..
dmsilev
That’s an awfully low bar to clear.
Anne Laurie
@SIA: You’re welcome.
C.J.
I gotta admit, I agree on Cain. He’s actually giving ideas. Ideas I don’t like, but actual ideas instead of vague nothings.
JPL
hahaha…thoughtful reductions to education…not to football
cleek
@Cat Lady:
MSNBC says, right now: “Perry and Romney Lock Horns”
i think that’s gonna be it: two big bucks fighting for control of the pack.
(sadly, no. i don’t think i fixed the italics. tried my best, tho)
GregB
Huntsman has one eyebrow in a state of perpetual puzzlement.
Bondirotta
Technically, Ron Paul is right. If we abolish FEMA and allow a few thousand people to drown, the rest of them will take a hint and stop building on flood plains.
Is this a sane solution? No – but it’s a good topic for libertarian wan king sessions.
lamh32
@Cat Lady: the early news was perry was leading, but in the last 15 min across the “liberal” media spectrum, Romney is coming out ahead just by not rising to the steam that is Perry et al.
I’ve seen more than one journo say that Romney is a “long distance runner” Perry is a sprinter who’s losing steam.
Since so many of the conventional GOP don’t like Perry, I expect establishment press to declare Romney the victor by default.
Tea partier will love Perry. I think Bachann will probably be out after first primary or maybe before if Perry doesn’t deflate.
Baud
@Naive and Sentimental: It’s true. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people on House Hunters mention FEMA as the main reason for their selection.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Predators!
JPL
@cleek: but..that was the headline before the debate..
Naive and Sentimental
and Perry mentions Predator drones which are Already flying.
This is a great system. Perry gets to criticize policies that don’t exist and talk about what great ideas he has for things that already exist
dmsilev
Also worth noting that the questions aimed at Perry seem more pointed (or, if you prefer, more “liberal media biased”) than the questions for the others.
cleek
RedState’s debate thread currently has 2 comments. and one of them is basically spam.
enthusiasm!
dmsilev
Mitt Romney: “Fucking immigrant magnets, how do they work?”
cleek
@JPL:
hah!
the narrative is strong with MSNBC.
Omnes Omnibus
So it turns out that the Baba au Rhum dessert I brought home is absolutely swimming in rum. Maybe I can pay attention to this debate thing
JGabriel
Here we go, the “Who Hates Furriner’s Most” portion of the evening. And Newt gets extra points for working Reagan into his answer!
ETA: Oops, Newt fails on the backmount — uses the word humane, a no-no in GOP circles!
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MikeJ
@Ron:
The movie Heathers answers this several times.
And I do not patronize bunny rabbits.
Linda Featheringill
I’m still analyzing Perry. Once in a while, he reminds me of Clinton when on the campaign trail. That is not good news. Other times, I feel that he is really trying to sell me a bill of goods.
Don’t know.
Roger Moore
@lamh32:
Lots of people in areas with large Hispanic/Latino populations. If you want to distinguish light skinned Hispanics from white non-Hispanics, you wind up calling the non-Hispanics “Anglos”. I won’t say I do it all the time, but I call myself an Anglo when it’s an important distinction to make. Of course I’ll also call myself a round eye on occasion, so I may not be the best example.
lamh32
ok, so who’s Ali and who’s Frazier in this debate or who’s Foreman in the debate so far?
JPL
santorum didn’t read in the garden of beasts..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Roger Moore: Hell, I call myself chuck, uncle charles, t-shirt, honkey-ass-motherfucker, ofay. . ..
JPL
okay..bachmann is crazy..i know we know this but …definitely over the edge
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
The Garlic Chicken at the Versailles is great!
stickler
@Linda Featheringill: Linda — I’ve noticed that Santorum wears pink a lot. Very confident in his masculinity, I guess, though I can’t imagine the thought process that goes through a man’s mind that would lead him to wear a pink tie tonight.
Best I can come up with:
Santorum: “Wow. I’ve got great name recognition, but for a spectacularly bad reason. I’m stuck at almost 0% in the Republican polls. The GOP base is a bunch of Real American Heartland Values who like guns, God, and tax cuts. And they hate urban elitists. I’m trying to catch up to a Texan. What to do? Hmmmm. HEY! How about a pink tie?”
Roger Moore
@Linda Featheringill:
To keep his foreskin from creeping up over his face?
JPL
the immigration law probably worked in the thirties also,too.. someone needs to inform bachmann
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Shit was great for those beaners back in the day
SIA
@JPL: The zombies got me rattled
fleeting expletive
I’d like to see a debate where there are multiple moderators, each with a buzzer and empowered to buzz any of the candidates when they say something untrue. Get Nate Silver and some other smart people, make the assholes agree that CBO numbers on any issue will be required, and bullshit won’t be let slide.
I only listened to a few minutes and had to change channels when Willard said “everybody knows SS is broke”. Wish someone could have said hold on bub, t’ain’t true.
I can dream, can’t I?
JPL
Bachmann really pissed me off..immigration is an issue when employment is high. FDR did not do enough to open the borders because unemployment was high. I am so pissed……….
PurpleGirl
@Valdivia: Yes. I just watched a little bit of Bachmann… head/desk and I’m back to reading John’s tweets.
And to answer one of his earlier Tweets: She’s having her done by some stylist. It’s supposed to be a hot new style and it’s been compared to Jennifer Aniston. I thing it looks ugly.
JGabriel
Huntsman:
… he’d be shambling slowly and looking for brains to eat.
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lamh32
OMG, are we there yet???
Mommy how long is this thing going to go on?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Holy shit, that was amazing. The BERLIN WALL!
waratah
@Linda Featheringill: Please do not buy Perry snake oil
dmsilev
@lamh32: Commercial break. Take a deep breath, and then a deep drink of something strong.
JPL
What surprised me is the President although being blamed for all the immigrants, the economy, the health care and such has been mentioned by name seldom. Did the assholes give up on family values?
Geoduck
Sigh, I’ve gotten old. I look at a picture of that stage, and except for that patch of blue in the corner, it looks like something the Supreme Soviet would have thrown together.
mikefromArlington
NBC did an excellent job controlling this debate and keeping the focus of the candidates on each other forcing them to compare/contrast from each other.
I bet Repblican partisans are pissed it wasn’t a bash Obama 100% of the time debate.
lamh32
Truer words have never been spoken on twitter:
Anne Laurie
@Naive and Sentimental: There are legitimate questions about whether the National Flood Insurance Program, run by FEMA, encourages some people to use government money to re-build McMansions & vacation homes (hello, Haley Barbour) on flood plains that just aren’t suitable.
As libertarians will, Paul is conflating this costly (yet relatively minor) issue with all FEMA’s genuinely essential work, and using it as an excuse to attack creeping-nanny-state-guvmint-interference. “If a program is 2% wasteful, and 98% useful, we need to scrap the whole thing and outsource to cost-plus crony contractors! THE MATH DEMANDS IT!”
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@mikefromArlington: Yea but they shouldn’t have been silent when Newt bashed em.
MazeDancer
Watching the Red State live comments. Truly they have no thought of illegal immigrants as humans. Huntsman just reminded that discussing immigration is discussing human beings. Which, of course, makes him not evil enough for the GOP. (Predator Drones with bigger guns!)
They’re mostly making jokes about Telemundo journalist asking immigration quesiton. Like LOGO going to ask about gay marriage. And Hoffa asking about labor.
Sebastian Dangerfield
Jesus, I hate Twitter, but Cole has perhaps found his highest and best use. His feed is gold.
lamh32
why is Michelle Bachmanna hair so “big”? I’m just saying. If we can talk about both guv’nors Goodhair, then whynot Michelle’s
Linda Featheringill
@Geoduck:
Yeah. The stage is weird. And ugly. I wonder whose bright idea that was?
JGabriel
Jesus, Dead Reagan seems to be a really agreeable guy, huh?
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xian
I drink every time newt says “frankly.”
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh32: Maybe she went to my high school.
BruceFromOhio
Doug. Doug! DOOOUG!
Turn off the television.
Back the fuck away.
Put on some Perry Como’s Greatest Hits, and read the Laughter Is the Best Medicine feature in the latest Reader’s Digest.
For the love of Gaia. Please.
ETA:
Man, that guys a hoot, he agrees with me on *everything*. Right, Ronnie??
chopper
what a fuckin’ clown show. HPV vaccines? that’s the most discussible policy these fuckers have to go on?
RossInDetroit
I would actually consider watching this on TV if I could get Cole’s Twitfeed as a crawl at the bottom of the screen.
ETA: Did I just have a million dollar idea? Subscription comic narration of realtime TV events.
Alex S.
This debate is far more substantial than the previous ones. The campaign has really begun and the candidates have stepped up their game. Some can’t keep up and it shows now. My opinions so far: Bachmann can’t keep up, she’s done. Santorum’s platform is too weird. Gingrich phones it in, but probably has more natural talent than everyone else, except for Cain. Romney was frontrunner because of his money. Now he’s just one of the field. Perry still has the edge, his demeanor is just too presidential for the republican eye. Paul turns out to be the libertarian gravedigger. Huntsman can’t break through, he’s not loud enough and he doesn’t get enough time (well, he is a 1% candidate, after all).
Linda Featheringill
@lamh32:
Bachmann’s hair:
It does look a little . . . augmented.
MazeDancer
@mikefromArlington:
Totally screaming about how libruls framing the questions. Red State commenters want Fox to host all debates to focus on conservative issues.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
mitt has a hand coach, those are some serious spirit fingers
PurpleGirl
@Naive and Sentimental: There have been disaster aid laws back to 1803. FEMA was established in 1979, consolidating federal agencies dealing with disasters.
People have been building homes on flood plains and at the shore from the beginning. Ron Paul is full of it.
JPL
If Romney knows how to bring us back, why is he stuttering?
L. Ron Obama
Propes?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Propes? Motherfucker tries to be hip and falls on his ass.
Linda Featheringill
@BruceFromOhio:
Actually . . . .
Cain and Bachmann come across as the most sincere.
I do think that Cain has put some thought into the issues but I doubt if any of his proposals would work.
Litlebritdifrnt
Thanks to Southern Beale I have been playing Tea Party Zombies, can anyone here please tell me how to get by the Glen Beck level cause I have tried a gazillion times and I keep getting t-bagged. KTHNXBAI.
lamh32
after the majority of this debate and especially after that immigration bullshit…some needs to tell me why would anyone black or brown ever vote GOP or ever sit out an election and even giving GOP a remote chance of winning.
I never understood it. My goal in life is alwasy to make sure my friends and family vote in elections, even if they are paranoid conspiracy theorist who thinks all elections are stolen.
RossInDetroit
@PurpleGirl:
One word rejoinder to Paul: Galveston.
SteveinSC
@Bondirotta:
conservative pee king duck is better. Ron Paul is showing signs of senility, no longer crisp with his batshit crazy ideas. And Cain, Jesus Christ he’s fucking crazier than that idiot Alvin Green who ran for senator here last year.
JPL
bachmann..is the loser..imo
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
“The United States maintained order in the world”!
theBuhjaysus
wasn’t Cole talkin bout Shock Doctrine a couple threads ago…?
Well Cain’s come out with a big up for Pinnochet’s Chile.
He’s a freshwater guy, I guess.
BruceFromOhio
@lamh32: True, dat.
Alex S.
@Linda Featheringill:
Hehe, same here. He will not collapse like Bachmann or Trump. He took some heavy blows but kept his cool. Luckily, he hates Social Security, but this is not going to be an easy fight.
BruceFromOhio
@RossInDetroit: Someone should’ve told the French about New Orleans before the Louisiana Purchase. I mean, c’mon, what were they thinking?
Alex S.
Oh, come on, Santorum must be gay. Wide receiver? Wizard of Oz?
SteveinSC
@PurpleGirl:
Fixed.
PurpleGirl
@Anne Laurie: The flood insurance program dates to 1968. (I checked the FEMA web site.)
C.J.
Jon Huntsman is on the wrong stage.
Anne Laurie
@cleek:
Ewwick Son of Ewwick hasn’t issued his official talking points yet. Probably because he’s too busy adjusting his undergarments to have a hand free for texting.
lamh32
wait, did Romney just imply that POUTS does not love America?
oh lord.
JPL
do the repubs not care about family values?
JGabriel
Huntsman Subtext: I can get independent voters! Make me your VP!
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JPL
the sciences are not settled yet..what sciences..
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
“Galileo got outvoted for a spell.”
SIA
@Anne Laurie: Thank you Anne Laurie!
JPL
omg..romney is looking at Perry like he is the idiot that he is..
ChrisNYC
They should make them debate for like, 6 or 8 hours. A marathon debate. No sitting. No water. It would be great to watch. The last person to start weeping would be the winner.
BruceFromOhio
@Linda Featheringill: I simply cannot watch such things. I bow to your strength to endure, and take you word for it. Sincerity is overrated.
lamh32
oops Huntsman refuses to say which candidate is the “crazies” he describes in regards to climate change. Stick a fork in this dude…
SteveinSC
Santorum said he’d work with Democrats. I don’t know, maybe I can come to like him, even if he keeps a baby in a jar on the mantlepiece. Also too, I love the references to “Clean Coal”. Your lobbyist money at work.
JPL
bernanke is inflationary… wtf..
Nerull
@Bondirotta:
No, it just means that the homes on flood planes will be sold to poor people.
But they don’t matter, so who cares?
PurpleGirl
@RossInDetroit: Right. What they have to do is use the proper name for Galveston… Galveston ISLAND. The book Isaac’s Storm (and the TV documentary on it) explains and keeps saying that Galveston is an island.
lamh32
funny, perry’s denying climate change just as parts of this state is burning and having full months of 100 degree weather and no rain.
Ironic?
Anne Laurie
@RossInDetroit:
Somebody who actually pays for cable needs to send this to Stewart / Colbert.
MazeDancer
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Perry using Gallileo was repulsive. Actually thought Perry was doing a pretty good job of hiding his evil until then.
Huntsman defending evolution and climate change was pretty amazing, though. Thank heavens the Repubs think he’s a traitor.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh32: moronic
JGabriel
Bernanke is inflationary?
Hey, 1+1 = 37.
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dmsilev
@lamh32:
That has nothing to do with climate change. That’s because God hates Rick Perry.
Emma
@Geoduck: Fine. You owe me for the laptop because I just snorted a light, fruity red all over it.
RossInDetroit
@PurpleGirl:
That, and “6,000 killed by a hurricane.”
Ron Paul’s turf, of course.
BillinGlendaleCA(aka 10amla)
John’s taking a shot every time Reagan’s mentioned, this won’t end well.
Cat Lady
@RossInDetroit:
I watched one of the Obama/McCain debates on CurrentTV in 2008 and they scrolled tweets across the bottom of the screen the whole time. Cole should contract with Al Gore to team up with Olbermann for the 2012 elections. Have Charlie Sheen and Nate Silver team up for the morning roundtable – the opposite of Morning Hos.
JPL
omg…romney…you don’t pay taxes you don’t support our troops.. no tax on interest..yeah..17 dollars a year.
TooManyJens
@JGabriel:
What, personally? Like, he’s getting fat or something?
MazeDancer
@Anne Laurie:
Actually, Red State is using Cover-it-Live to amass tweets from their peeps as comments. Won’t link. But it’s pretty active. And as yuck as you would imagine.
lamh32
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): completely
@dmsilev: I concur all evidence points to God hating Ricky P.l
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Cat Lady: I watched Jay from Jay and Silent Bob do the Royal Wedding, he’d be great.
RossInDetroit
@Anne Laurie:
Thank you. I banned TV from my life in the ’70s but with the right CC text I might go back to it.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@SteveinSC:
liberate a texas in alaska for mineral exploration, newt’s no slouch.
JGabriel
C’mon, BriWi, just ask Perry already, “Would you execute Ben Bernanke?”
You know you’re dying to.
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MikeJ
Has anybody asked Perry about the Astros moving to the AL West?
Poopyman
I think Brian Williams is appalled at Perry & Co.
So there’s at least that.
dmsilev
Bloodthirsty bunch in that audience.
JPL
I think the applause answers questions that were raised on this blog about Perry and the death penalty … sick..
lamh32
Perry really is a dumb jock. Bush just played one on tv.
btw, I really hate that damn big ass ring Perry wears all the damn time. what the hell is that? a class ring, a wedding band, a promise ring from his boyfriend (allegedly)?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@lamh32: Some Aggie cheerleader shit I bet.
GregB
Raucous applause for the death penalty.
Small government!
AT
Sully is thinkg Hunstman is crushing it “in terms of electability. He’s riding a wave tonight.”
He does realise that Republicans vote in the primaries and they don’t want sense and sensibility.
Completely delusional, he’ll be acting all surprised when Huntsman goes down in the polls, though hard to go down when already at 1%
Linda Featheringill
@lamh32:
Perry denying climate change:
I’m not sure Perry understands the complex nature of climate change.
lamh32
@JPL: @dmsilev:
ughh. despicable.
even if ur pro-debt penalty applauding 200 deaths is just disgusting. who would be proud to belong to a party like that?
JGabriel
Ron Paul: I wanna repeal all the Man Dates!
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JPL
I really want all these people to be hit with a tornado and to need fema..
also, too..if they did not survive ..that would be unfortunate
fleeting expletive
Interesting….in the post debate live footage Cain offered his hand to Newt to shake and Newt turned away, not shaking his hand. How about that?
Alex S.
My personal highlight: Perry said that he isn’t responsible for Karl Rove anymore. It shows the rift between the old Bush-controlled GOP and the Tea Party GOP. Perry can probably not be stopped anymore. Not with Romney.
Sebastian Dangerfield
I propose a 6-9 plan to solve all our woes. We will still die a horrible death in a world of penury and lawlessness, but at least we’ll have a few moments of pleasure first.
AkaDad
After watching the debate, I can say this is good news for Obama.
RossInDetroit
@Linda Featheringill:
I hope Climate Change takes over from the older term Global Warming. Then I won’t have to deal with smug Tea Partiers every time it’s unseasonably cool. Or snows.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Linda Featheringill:
perry doesn’t understand the complex nature of a thermos, it keeps hot stuff hot, and cold stuff cold, how does it know?
Ocotillo
@lamh32:
Almost all Aggies have these ginormous class rings they wear. Most are dumb as the rock in the ring as well.
lamh32
ugh thank God it’s over.
Darkrose
All this talk about Cain and BriWi makes me think I’m watching a Giants game. I’d rather, actually, which says a lot about how awful the debate is.
JGabriel
The Winner of Tonight’s Republican Debate: China.
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And Another Thing...
@Alex S.: win.win.win
RossInDetroit
@Alex S.:
Might also just be about Perry VS Bush. No love lost there.
Samara Morgan
that is chanese. it would be good to learn it now. you might need it later. :)
in the post-apocalyptic Road Warrior world of the future you can be my bitch, and translator.
this was great.
Perry can hardly talk coherently, yet he said the Ponzi scheme thing again.
Anne Laurie
@lamh32:
Texas Monthly said Aggie class ring, but I personally think it’s the satellite tracker his wife uses to keep tabs on him. Take a look at her public pics & tell me that woman ain’t one paparazzi ‘get’ away from the full Tammy Fay Bakker breakdown.
Mike in NC
At what point does Mitt boast that he’ll “quadruple Gitmo”?
Roger Moore
@JGabriel:
I don’t think that’s going to be very popular among the Republican elite. Unless they’re allowed to rename them something like “visiting my rent-boy” or “adopting a wide stance”.
lamh32
Wow, how is it that Barack Obama always manages to win these GOP debates and he isn’t even on stage?
Seriously though, winner tonight: Romney by default cause Perry is just beaucoup crazy. Still I think it’s Perry’s nomination to lose.
JPL
I was an independent… I never voted for Phil Gramm who was a dem.. and because of that I am so sick of the trolls that bitch about Cole… Hey I voted for a repub rather that Phil so I guess I’m a traitor or something..
Whatever..tonight was an embarrassment. Clapping because he killed more folks than he did is not the repub party.
also,too..the old repub party
jwb
@Alex S.: It all depends on whether Rove actually has the goods on Perry and if he does whether the establishment GOP decides they don’t want Perry as standard bearer. I still think the hope is that Perry will fade enough for Romney to slip through so Perry can be the VP. But if Perry floats too much higher, establishment GOP will have to decide, probably around the end of the year, whether they destroy him or go with him.
Chris
@Alex S.:
I think all it shows is that they realize the Bush administration is so toxic they need to distance themselves from it in order to stay credible.
Cat Lady
So, Obama gives his grown up speech tomorrow night about jobs. Maybe it was smart to let the clown show rodeo go first.
Anne Laurie
@AT:
Sullivan, BoBo Brooks, and Doubthat, still searching for the Holy Grail of the Sensible Republican candidate. They could do a six-part miniseries on PBS, except Monty Python might sue them for copyright violation.
Larkspur
Looking at the candidates, and looking at everyone on TV ever, I really want to know the extent to which banning hair spray would help abate climate change.
SteveinSC
@Mike in NC:
@dmsilev:
Preacher Perry: “If they come to Texas.” Respondents: “Kill!” Preacher Perry: “If they commit a crime.” Respondents: “Kill, Kill.” “If they steal or murder” “Kill, Kill and Kill again.” “If they turn out to be innocent?” “Aw shucks, they shouldn’t have come to Texas.”
Chris
@RossInDetroit:
No… then it’ll be smug teabaggers going “but the climate changes every five minutes!”
Big Baby DougJ
@Anne Laurie:
What would the three questions be?
Kilkee
Shorter Newt: I’m f’d here, nowhere to go, I’ll be the guy who floats above it, seems more The Thinker. Really, of course, The Grifter.
Perry: as the Irish song says, “’tis the divil’s own invention.”
JCT
@AkaDad: Or we are hopelessly fucked.
Alex S.
@jwb:
True, if they want to stop him they better have something good.
@RossInDetroit:
That might be how it started, and now one thing leads to another.
RossInDetroit
@Chris:
It would truly be pathetic if this fight was lost over people’s inability to differentiate between weather and climate.
But that could happen.
Anne Laurie
@fleeting expletive:
Wow, I hope that clip turns up on YouTube. Guess Newton’s a little sensitive about Cain stealing the “actual, if impractical ideas” spotlight, when Herman doesn’t even need the grift funds. Those People, stealin’ jobs from hard-grifting white men… it’s gonna take a swing thru Tiffanys and another week-long Hawaiian ‘campaign visit’ to salve that wound.
Samara Morgan
hmmm
Perry was awful. Romney/Palin?
@Big Baby DougJ:
chumad?
im sry, i just had to crush freddie again. he is terribly weak for a frontpager.
SteveinSC
@lamh32:”Still I think it’s Perry’s nomination to lose.” Maybe that is why they quoted Rove and Cheney against him on the Ponzi scheme bullshit. They are trying to blow out a tire on that asshole before he picks up too much speed. This may be the only thing I have ever agreed on with Cheney and Rove: Perry is a typical southern governor opportunist with a long history of changing his spots. As ole’ George Wallace said after losing a race in Alabama in which he ran as a moderate on race: “I’ll never git out seged again.” They don’t trust him any more than I do.
Anne Laurie
@Big Baby DougJ: Dunno, but I’m sure mention of an African swallow will bring the high-larity among the Redstaters…
Cat Lady
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I watched the royal wedding with Clinton from “What Not To Wear”, and Randy from “Say Yes to the Dress” on TLC. It was fabulous!
Alex S.
@Samara Morgan:
Palin is dead (in a political sense). Who needs Palin when you’ve got Perry?
Omnes Omnibus
@Cat Lady: I watched old Metric videos on YouTube. I stand by my decision.
MazeDancer
@Alex S.:
Mr. Pro Perry Erik of RedState wrote a post today on how he was tired of the tease. He’s left Palin. Rick’s the one for him. And not just because the Red State confab was where Gov Shoot ‘Em From the Air at The Border announced his candidacy.
Palin’s going to run into some trouble if she doesn’t agree to become Fundraiser in Chief for the nominee. It’ll be hard for her to see that will help her long-term grift as she watches the dollars seep away to someone else.
Geoduck
@Chris:
If only our side had the ability to come up with the catchy phrases. I think “Climate crash” might work better..
4jkb4ia
The NYT livebloggers have politely pointed out that Bachmann absolutely made shit up twice.
This election isn’t going to be any fun. That should be illegal. In fact, if it is a matter of Romney and Perry by the time it gets to Missouri and I should be having fun watching the festival of democracy that is candidate appearances, I may throw up. Of course these appearances will be in St. Charles and other places I cannot get to on the bus.
Cat Lady
When did Brian Williams become BriWi? Is everything happening in 140 characters or less now? If Brian Williams is weirded out, when does he turn into Peter Finch in Network? Wake me up when the Republicans lose Dancin’ Dave.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@MazeDancer:
Remember when Erikkk, Son of Erikkk, put together a web site after the 2008 election for people to report violations of his ‘do not attack Dear Sarah or else!’ RedState Rule for Conservatives? I may still have the link buried in my bookmarks but some of us went over there and added some of our own “reports” on Sarah offenders. I remember checking it about a year ago and all the funny comments were still up.
Erikkk’s loves are fleeting but intense, it’s the Southern Gentleman in him. Passion is his life. That, a short attention span and thinking while most of his blood is in the wrong head.
kazheel
my wrap-up:
Rick Perry: Climate change science deniers are the new Galileo.
Herman Cain: Why can’ t America be more like Chile?
Mitt Romney: Sure, I’m down with the Tea Party. Tell me what they’re about again, I forgot.
Michele Bachmann: It was stupid to go into Libya, especially because now it looks like we’re getting no oil out of the deal. Also, I’m the female Reagan.
Rick Santorum: I love black children more than anyone. In fact it’s the toughest love anyone’s ever seen.
Newt Gingrich: I hate you sneaky liberal media types, asking us questions that makes it look like Republicans disagree on things. Matter of fact, just ask me the rest of the questions, I’ll be speaking for everyone now.
Ron Paul: I’m not crazy, YOU’RE the one who’s crazy!
Jinchi
@kazheel:
I realize that most people believe that Galileo was persecuted by fellow scientists.
Of course, like today’s climatologists, he was actually persecuted by the church and by politicians who didn’t want to hear his inconvenient truth.
Mike D.
This sequence is pure win and 100% correct.