CNN Jacksonville, FL Debate (1/26/12) 8p ET - Official Thread!

[bluesc]

Softball to Santorum.

 

[bunklocoempire]

Reagan -DRINK!

 

[Tyler_Durden]

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have turned this into a bullshit Kardashian quality level of conversation.

Keeping up with the MittNewshians

 

[ohgodno]

Santorum admits he's a progressive.

 

[donnay]

Santorum says he is honest...watch out lightning will strike!

 

[VCU for Ron Paul]

I absolutely can not stand how you can say something with no real substance and just babble on senselessly, but if you say it powerfully and with skilled rhetoric then you will get applause almost every time....

 

[eduardo89]

28% is good? What's wrong with 0% top rate?

 

[WD-NY]

From Andrew Sullivan - http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/live-blogging-the-jacksonville-debate.html

8.40 pm. Then Santorum jumps on the Paul note and demands an end to all this personal Newt-Mitt bickering. Disingenuous, of course. But the right move for him. Rick and Ron won the crowd on this one in the end, but Romney's early brutalization of Newt will remain in voters' minds. He took the alpha dog position from the get-go; and Newt's attempt to go after him backfired.That's the worst combo for a fighter like Newt. If you throw a rhetorical grenade, make sure your opponent doesn't have the time and opportunity to throw it back. This means Newt has got to have a strong counter-attack now that sticks. But the dynamic is going against him.
8.39 pm. And then Ron Paul, with a dose of humor and integrity, breaks the ice with a lovely riff on the Newt-Mitt death match and then moves onto the real issue of GSEs.

Ron needs to hit a homerun on this tax question

 

[MozoVote]

Getting really tired of this puppet fight between NewtMitt.

Good grief they just keep dragging each other down.

Romney is petulant and snippy when he's mad. He would not look good on stage with Mr "cool" Obama.

 

[jax]

Newt takin' some 'boos' tonight.

the boos are at wolf for asking the questions. atleast thats what i gathered

 

[Giuliani was there on 911]

"If it's good enough for Ronald Reagan it's good enough for me"

 

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

Santorum proving again that he's not a conservative.

 

[bunklocoempire]

How do you pay for that force you deny using Rick?

 

[ZanZibar]

Abolish the 16th!

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

I love when Ron Paul talks monetary policy.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Ron bringing up the most controversial topics as possible. Ugh...

 

[Tyler_Durden]

Mitt looks confused.

 

[Aratus]

he's making excellent points, finally

 

[IterTemporis]

That was a great answer..

 

[JVParkour]

age...omg