The OFFICIAL (10/11/11) Debate Thread! - Bloomberg / WaPo @ Dartmouth

[Bobcat]

If you don't like how they are not giving Ron Paul the same time to talk as other candidates, please support the BLACK THIS OUT money bomb! If we raise 6+ million dollars, we can buy our own coverage!

 

[Kords21]

Granted, we still have a long way to go electionwise, but this is the pefect debate topic for Dr. Paul to jsut dominate and show America why he should be POTUS, the gloves need to come off

 

[Original_Intent]

WOW FREAKING WOW.

Romney can repeat his points three times and spend 5 minutes saying nothing, and they let him blather on, Ron Paul spends 60 seconds building a case and saying something of substance and they interrupt him "OK, OK, that's enough, thank you!"

Head is going to freaking explode!

 

[crhoades]

Ron: Last election cycle at the Michigan debate Mitt said there was no problem. Cain said there was no problem a week before. I was on the house floor warning of the housing bubble in 2003. What we need is leadership. Not business people. We need people who understand politics and economics and economics cannot be summarized in a slogan like 9-9-9. You need to understand the Federal Reserve. Cain should understand it since he was the chairman of it but it seems he is an apologist...

 

[libertybrewcity]

Ronald Reagan looks like he just came back from the dead to make that statement.

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

Newt whispered to Ron something...I imagine he said "you nailed it dude"

He is very friendly to Ron I have noticed.

 

[Kords21]

Perry is not doing himself any favors in this debate

 

[lucky_bg]

Watch debate on Washington Post stream, and vote in many polls at the same time. Ron is at 33% as is Cain, as answer to question who won first 30 min of debate.

http://washingtonpostlive.com/conferences/2012-republican-presidential-debate

 

[libertybrewcity]

CRASH AND BURN!!!! BOOOOOOoOOOOOOOM

 

[wgadget]

Rick Perry...WUT?

 

[musicmax]

Didn't he first say Cleveland OHIO and then later Cleveland TEXAS? I thought that is what he said....

Yes he said Ohio first, then when pressed to name more advisers he fumbled and named the same guy and said Texas.

 

[Matthew Zak]

I just realized Ron Paul's biggest flaw, and why a lot of what he says falls on deaf ears.

He speaks as if the audience is educated to a certain level. Yes, to you or I, he makes perfect sense. Either because we understood it in the first place, or we took the time to figure it out. But Americans general don't do that. They look for buzz words and buzz phrases. They look for vague generalities that have virtually no specific points. Americans like to think they're as intelligent as the people talking, and so in some perverted way they admire the dumbest fucker up there because they aren't talking over their heads. "He's obviously smart: Because I understand what he's saying, and I'm smart." Ron Paul often cuts himself off to save himself time and get to another point, because he incorrectly thinks his audience already knows the rest of his sentence. Perhaps that is because he has heard himself say it and think it so many times, it nauseates him to have to think it, or say it yet again? Whatever the case may be, it is painfully clear that he is not speaking to all Americans... he's speaking to those who understand him, or want to. He needs to speak to the American people the way Romney does: As if they're mentally inept.

 

[Matt Collins]

"Mitt Romney Unfit" - a blog by Jack Hunter: http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/10/11/mitt-romney-unfit/

 

[libertybrewcity]

Perry should go back stage and do a couple lines.

 

[mac_hine]

Mitt perry must've munched a perc during the commercial break. He's high again

 

[wgadget]

I think Cain's secret economic advisors are secret. LOL

 

[IterTemporis]

Romney is a good speaker, he knows how to squeeze his way out of answering a difficult question and turning it in his favor.

 

[speciallyblend]

Ron: Last election cycle at the Michigan debate Mitt said there was no problem. Cain said there was no problem a week before. I was on the house floor warning of the housing bubble in 2003. What we need is leadership. Not business people. We need people who understand politics and economics and economics cannot be summarized in a slogan like 9-9-9. You need to understand the Federal Reserve. Cain should understand it since he was the chairman of it but it seems he is an apologist...

nice answer boom boom boom can i get wayooooo!!

 

[wgadget]

mitt perry must've munched a perc during the commercial break. He's high again

dewd.

 

[devil21]

Did Santorum go home?