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Fox News Panel Pans Rick Perry’s Debate Performance: He ‘Really Did Throw Up All Over Himself’

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On Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace and the panel talked about Rick Perry’s future chances to secure the GOP nomination after his less-than-impressive showing during last week’s debate. Brit Hume started out by arguing that Perry not only stumbled, he “really did throw up all over himself in the debate at a time when he needed to raise his game.”

A.B. Stoddard, reacting to Herman Cain‘s Florida straw poll victory, suggested this represented not just a disappointment over Perry within conservative circles, but a “dissatisfaction” with the current field amongst the base. Bill Kristol, who summed up the debate in an op-ed titled “Yikes,” defended his claim that Rick Perry was “weak” in the debate, and cited the Florida poll in agreement with the idea that GOP voters aren’t happy with the candidates they already have.

70 percent of the Republicans, having seen with their own eyes Romney and Perry up on the stage Thursday night… voted against the two frontrunners. It was a vote of no confidence in Perry, I think, because of his really poor debate performance, but also in Mitt Romney, who spent a lot of time in Florida over the last five years. To get 14 percent isn’t very strong, so I think these are very weak frontrunners.

Juan Williams saw this current primary season as a bad one for Republicans so far, despite the initial bump Rick Perry got when he entered the race a few weeks ago. Hume suggested it might have been a mistake for Perry to be framed as a true conservative when, on issues such as immigration, his position appears to be to the left of his opponents.

Wallace asked Kristol why the base isn’t really warming up to Mitt Romney when he seems like a more moderate alternative to Perry. Kristol admitted he liked Romney, but so far he hasn’t exhibited “presidential-level leadership.” Of course, since the topic was 2012, Kristol mentioned he would love to see Chris Christie get into the race.

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  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Ha Ha Ha. You got to love the dysfunction.  I take great satisfaction in watching Rick Perry’s collapse.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    P.S.

    So much for your “Texas Miracle”

  • Anonymous

    Fox and Politico are doing everything in their power to take Perry out because they believe he’ll lose to Obama.

  • Anonymous

    I bet you must also find satisfaction in…

    9.1% unemployment
    $4.14 trillion of debt in just 2.68 years
    Record 45.8 million people on food stamps
    $528 million wasted in Solyndra loan
    Fast and Furious operation killing American citizens
    Sinking stock market

    2012 can’t come soon enough.

    http://today.yougov.com/news/2011/09/23/problems-president-americans-give-him-lowest-appro/

  • Anonymous

    There’s a long way to go and comparatively this is just a small blip. He will be expected to adjust himself to improve steeply for the next one. He’ll probably go on the offensive against other candidates records himself.

    It looked as if he was genuinely surprised by the audience, panel and the candidates reaction to some of his recent Texas Legislation. Get used it Mr Perry, it goes with the job.

  • Pablo

    Meanwhile, the white kid from the white family in Hawaii tells civil rights legends like John Lewis that they need to stop complaining, get out of their bedroom slippers and get to marching behind him.

    http://tinyurl.com/3gedaon

    Chutzpah and desperation are a rather interesting mix.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RalphTension Ralph Drees

    I think that we can agree on that… Ron Paul 2012.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RalphTension Ralph Drees

    Ron Paul has leadership… he’s the one who predicted all of these bubbles, all of this debt, all of these illegal wars lasting years and costing trillions. WAKE UP!

  • Pablo

    A.B. Stoddard, reacting to Herman Cain‘s
    Florida straw poll victory, suggested this represented not just a
    disappointment over Perry within conservative circles, but a
    “dissatisfaction” with the current field amongst the base.

    Cain is part of the field, sweetie. The base came out and voted for him. He won. Deal with it.

    Herman 2012, FTW!

  • Pablo

    A.B. Stoddard, reacting to Herman Cain‘s
    Florida straw poll victory, suggested this represented not just a
    disappointment over Perry within conservative circles, but a
    “dissatisfaction” with the current field amongst the base.

    Cain is part of the field, sweetie. The base came out and voted for him. He won. Deal with it.

    Herman 2012, FTW!

  • Anonymous

    I keep getting the image of the GOP handing its beer can to Jimmy Bob and saying “Hey. watch this!”.

  • Anonymous

    I keep getting the image of the GOP handing its beer can to Jimmy Bob and saying “Hey. watch this!”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    I love how all these shit-for-brains “experts” constantly say that the GOP field is weak and that everyone hates them, yet prediction markets have Obama more likely than not losing the election to one of these “weak candidates who everyone hates”.

    So much for their fucking expertise.

  • ceeza

    That’s exactly it.. The GOP establishment wants Romney to get the nomination plain and simple.. .. In the end the teabaggers will be forced to pinch their collective noses and support Willard …Even though Willard’s record is the anthesis of everything teabaggers supposedly “stand for”… This shall be interesting..

  • Anonymous

    A conspiracy theory. Good job Joel.

    Go back to the Daily Cuss.

  • Pablo

    Rather, in the 40 hours after the end of the debate, their minds were a little more open
    than they had been before.  And most were specifically a little more
    open to Cain, who impressed them during the debate and had made a number
    of impromptu appearances around the hotels adjacent to the Orange
    County Convention Center.

    But even on Saturday, Perry might still have recovered some support
    with an inspiring speech before the voting.  Instead, he headed off to
    Michigan, and it was Cain who delivered a barn-burner that brought at
    least seven standing ovations from the delegates.  Wavering Perry
    delegates became Cain voters.

    “I couldn’t make up my mind,” said Thelma, from Panama City, after
    the vote.  “It was the speech that made the hair stand up on my arms. 
    It wasn’t a tingle down my leg — it was an emotional excitement that
    this man knows how to get our country out of trouble.”

    “I went in with this on my shirt,” said Melissa from Panama City, pointing to her PERRY sticker.  “And I voted for Cain.”

    “I liked Cain, but I wasn’t sure he could win,” said Zena, from
    Washington County.  “But after I heard this, I thought it doesn’t matter
    if he wins or not — I am for this man. He was awesome.”

    http://tinyurl.com/3ufwzkh

    It’s going to be a bad cycle for the “Republican establishment”. It’s going to be a great cycle for Republicans, and for America.

  • Anonymous

    Obama wants to rile up his overseers and get that plantation back under firm control, gosh darnit!

  • Pablo

    Herman. Cain.

    That is all.

  • Anonymous

    I like his honesty and understanding of the economy and issues of liberty. But his foreign policy ideas are downright delusional and naive. Just the same, if he wins the Republican nomination I’ll vote for him.

    Won’t vote for him in a primary though.

  • Pablo

    What the heck do you think he’s been doing? Huntsman was probably right. Romney and Perry are going to bludgeon each other out of the race.

  • Anonymous

    Well put. I don’t give a crap about the Republican Party in the abstract. But they are our only hope and I will support whoever wins the nomination. And right now, Herman Cain is my man. I don’t care who says he doesn’t have a chance. If someone else wins the nomination, I’ll support them. But until than, I’ll vote in the primary and perhaps give some contributions to who I like best.

  • Anonymous

    Go Herman!

  • Anonymous

    So you’re a conspiracy theorist too?

    Go watch some Alex Jones on YouTube, you’ll like it.

  • Anonymous

    It is still between Romney and Perry. 

    If they ‘bludgeon each other out of the race,’ who exactly does that leave, who fits the Tea Party/Republican credentials and criteria?

    Dissatisfaction with candidates maybe widespread, but the Republicans pushing so hard for their Party purity base will certainly take them away from the electorate. 

    Despite all the protestations, you’ve seen it yourself.

    …Chris Christie is still far too rational for the Tea Party.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    At least your post is topical. That’s why the Tollbooth’s debate performance was so poor and why the Republican fields stinks.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Then Isay: Down with FOX and Politico. Tollbooth ’12! Show FOX and Politico.

  • Anonymous

    Bring him on. 

  • Pablo

    Because my post is topical? You might want to go take a nap, Kook.

  • Pablo

    Because my post is topical? You might want to go take a nap, Kook.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I wonder if Tollbooth Perry can make the Teapublican voters believe he is Luke Perry. If he could do that, I think he might win.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I wonder if Tollbooth Perry can make the Teapublican voters believe he is Luke Perry. If he could do that, I think he might win.

  • Pablo

    Probably the guy who’s been Tea Party since there was a Tea Party. Herman Cain.

  • Katty

    Perry needs to stop with the Romney bashing and tell us what else he is for…don’t like many of his positions…but I do like everything about Romney.
    It is a shame the liberal media is subtlety digging at Romney in hopes the people that won’t read or listen to the source will follow blindly and vote for their man Obama…such a shame and watch out for the nastiness to come.

  • Anonymous

    Lemmingrusdam  becomes another dimwit moron.

    What exactly is it with Republicans and plantation mentality.
    Does it ever stop or are you trying to make it common place language. I wonder if you’d ever actually say it to someone like Herman Cain or is it just for similarly minded idiots.

  • Charlie Kane

    With friends like the Fox panel, who needs enemies? Two weeks ago they were all declaring him the next President of the United States, now he’s a born loser throwing up on himself. Conservatives are such backstabbers and well poisoners.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I think Britt Hume had it all wrong, it was the Republicons who threw up on themselves after watching “Scary Perry’s” performance in the debate!!

  • Anonymous

    Oh Ya Ron Paul.  Ron (Let Em Die) Paul.  Good One.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Now’s the time to bring Chris Christie into the race. He’ll rush to the top.

    Now’s the time to bring Bobby Jindal into the race. He’ll rush to the top.

    Now’s the time to bring the Half-Baked Alaskan into the race, she’ll rush to the top.

    Now’s the time to bring Joe Walsh into the race. He’ll rush to the top.

    Now’s the time to bring the Fritos Bandido into the race. He’ll rush to the top.

    Now’s the time to bring Skippy Hitler into the race. He’ll rush to the top.

    The pattern is pretty clear. Candidate 82 (a) announces and rushes to the top. The pattern is pretty clear. And never wrong. Except for Cain, Gingrich, Huntsmann, Johnsonn, Paul, Sanitarium. When everyone has announced, risen to the top and fallen to the ground, it’s Willard.

  • Anonymous

    …So we’re no longer sweet on Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

    Come on Herman Cain!
    Save the Tea Party and the Republican from their current mutually assured self destruction. On the other hand, Michele Bachmann offers hard Tea Party ethics. 

    Repeal of Obamacare. Repeal of DADT. She can repeal and move the country to…the middle ages.

    There’s always the possibility of Sarah Palin getting in the race…but it’s been such a long drawn out tease.

  • Anonymous

    …So we’re no longer sweet on Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.

    Come on Herman Cain!
    Save the Tea Party and the Republican from their current mutually assured self destruction. On the other hand, Michele Bachmann offers hard Tea Party ethics. 

    Repeal of Obamacare. Repeal of DADT. She can repeal and move the country to…the middle ages.

    There’s always the possibility of Sarah Palin getting in the race…but it’s been such a long drawn out tease.

  • Anonymous

    It’s called democracy. People are free to listen, and then change their minds as they see fit until it’s time to vote. Nothing wrong with it.

  • Anonymous

    No Lapdog, I think it was lefties throwing up on themselves realizing that all the candidates have pretty similar views on most issues, and that is the future, since a Republican is going to win the Presidency and control congress and flush Obamanism down the toilet where it belongs.

  • Pablo

    Just ask Hillary!

    Oh…wait a minute…

  • Pablo

    Just ask Hillary!

    Oh…wait a minute…

  • Anonymous

    Shit happens. Do you expect people to never change their minds despite new facts to the contrary?

    Well, of course. You are a lefty.

  • Pablo

    I don’t know who this “we” is you speak of. Herman’s been my guy all along.

  • Anonymous

    Hollywad worship is a lefty trait. Wrong party.

  • Anonymous

    I think genuinely that’s the funniest thing that I’ve read written by you.

    I’m sure Republican excitement will return when someone performs well at the next debate. Depending on what’s asked of course…

    There’s a lot of recriminations flying around at the moment with no clear front runner..for now.

  • Anonymous

    Go Herman!

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain agrees with me, idiot!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So that’s the explanation for the Ronnie Raygun and Nancy Davis beatification and adoration.

  • Anonymous

    Grow up!

    This is your justification and so you actually think it acceptable language?

    Mr Cain may try to convince himself in seriousness, but its offensive. Go out there and try it in the real world and see exactly what place it takes you using it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, the FOX “News” panel is like every other Teapublican. We already knew that.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    But, but, but, he did so well against Kay Bailey Hutchinson!

  • Pablo

    I finally got around to seeing Waiting For Superman this morning. You want to see the plantation? Watch that.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I hesitate to ask, but you’re always say off topic I don’t want to assume anything. Which Herman? Munster or Goering?

  • Pablo

    Yes, it is offensive. It’s also destructive, generationally. The plantation, that is, not naming it.

  • Anonymous

    …And so the Republican race takes what may be a somewhat unpredictable turn… 

  • Pablo

    Is that what he said? No, not at all.

    If you have to lie, it’s because you can’t work with the truth.

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    This is the most important constituency in the Republican Party. You are in serious trouble as a Republican candidate when the Bush loving teabaggers at Fox News have turned on you. I would be seriously worried if I were in the Perry camp.

  • Pablo

    No, back then, nobody thought Reagan could win.

  • Anonymous

    I do get a kick out of the Republican’s trying to control the Tea Party people.  You guys had to know they were just using you. Thats the game.  Tell The Repubs to Kiss your Ass.

  • Pablo

    You sound as if you’ve never seen a primary play out before. We’re still more than 4 months from any actual voting.

  • Anonymous

    Which one of these upchucks is going to win?  Which one shines like the North Star for you, hmmm?

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    Words like faith and fidelity aren’t in your dictionary Pablo!!

  • notsofamous

    OBAM2012!

  • notsofamous

    OBAM2012!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t. But, the perception has held. He did.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve seen enough and read enough.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53405.html

    http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2011/08/magellan-poll-obama-in-trouble-but-no-republicans-alighting-florida.html

    It’s still too early to judge how the above it will play out, yes, there are months to go. It however is not good if voters in polls suggest they want more candidates to jump into the contest. There has to be some ‘satisfactory and strong brand recognition.’

    We shall see…

  • Dale Hogue

    Tony, you would have made more of an impression on the readers of your post if you had left your barnyard comments out of your post altogether.  I’ve been around for every presidential election since 1932.  Much of the time I never paid any attention to political elections of any kind, however, in the election 1948 I started to pay closer attention to what was being said by the candidates for the highest office in our government.  Much of what has been said in this election as been said many times before, both by the candidates and the so-called political experts.  In the election of 1952, I got out campaigned for Dwight D. Eisenhower because I thought he offered this country honesty, great administrative experience and the ability to get things done no matter how difficult the situation.  Ike won twice.  He did a good job as president.  Since Ike left office we have had some good men run for president who were not elected and some good men run for the office who were elected.  In my opinion, not many really bad people run for political offices of any kind, but some people who do get elected don’t turn out exacly the way the voters imagined they would.  That’s the chance the voter takes when he casts his or her vote for any political candidate for any political office.  In the election taking place in 2012, I do hope that enough voters see fit to vote Barack Hussein Obama out of his job as president.  He has not been a good president for this country.  His ability as an administrator is obviously weak because he had no adminstrative experience prior to being elected.  However, more importantly, he doesn’t think or act like the type of president this country needs.  His political ideas are just too far to the left for my taste.  And, maybe, more than anything else, his actions indicate that he has no class as a human being. And, for crying out loud, it has nothing to do with the color of his skin.  It does, however, have a great deal to do with his upbringing and the choices that he has made during his lifetime.  He doesn’t appear to think like a good American president should think.  Some American voters were willing to buy his pig in a poke ideas without really knowing who this man was and where he had been doing all of his life.  He covered his footprints well enought to fool a great many people and, because he paid to have his records hidden from public view, he fooled too many of the rest of us.  I suspect that a great many voters will still vote for him, regardless of what he has done or what he hasn’t done as president.  That is their right to do so, even if most of us now believe that he is not a good man nor a good president.  I believe that he will not be re-elected and that is a good thing for the future of this country.  Who should we vote to replace him?  That’s what we are now attempting to discover by listening to what these candidates have to say wherever they have the opportunity to speak.  The vetting process has not been as we would like it to be simply because the mainstream media has chosen to be in the corner of the Democratic Party’s candidate even before the election takes place.  And that is bad for the rest of us who are not members of the mainstream media.  It is difficult to make a careful and critical examination under the best of circumstances, but its almost impossible to do the task justice when part of the vetting job is not being done according to Hoyle.  We, the people of the United States of America, must do our job as good American citizens first and foremost.  And that will not be an easy task.  Shouting at each other will not get the job done.  Spouting nasty comments make us out to be childish and immature.  And we can’t act childish and make good decisions at the same time.  Spouting inanities at each other isn’t going to get this important job done! That is if we would want it to be done well.     

    Google:  Mr. Hogue’s Wisdom/Johnny Lee Clary

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    Exactly right. I bet most baggers who come on this site or Fox News site have few if any liberal friends who are politically conscious. But, for those of you who do I encourage you to poll them over their most feared Republican to challenge. It’s either Romney or Huntsman both of whom have serious potential for winning independents. If teabaggers were smart they should be willing to fall in line with a candidate who can win the general election not fall in love with a candidate who can only win the primary. 

  • TbagsRstupid

    Yeah, why should we stay out of our neighbors business.
    Pay for a war to kill foreigners, while our infrastructure crumbles.
    Pay for a war, instead of policing the borders.

    I like Ron Paul by the way.

  • Anonymous

    Cain is a big fan of the Chilean social scurity model. That “model” has a few problemos, nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?

    Cain will not win in Florida. No way. Median age Floridians, approaching retirement age, that will get burned by the God Father’s “Chilefied” social security plan, will send this guy packing.

    “Jobs”, you ask? 

    What kind of “jobs”, and how many of them, will America see, if Herman “Who Knows How to Flip Them” Cain, is elected President? Millions maybe? At 7 bucks an hour? Won’t that be fun?

  • Lizton

    Herman Cain has established his Muslim hating credentials with the teabaggers so they have a soft spot for him. 

  • Anonymous

    You may be sincere in what you write, but Stone Age Neanderthal certainly wasn’t.

    …I will look out for the film.

  • Anonymous

    and you’ve established your ignorance of politics.

  • Anonymous

    I’m still sweet on Romney – even like Gingrich except he has little chance.  If Gingrich ever debated Obama, you would see what a “brainiac” really is capable of sounding like.  Obama would be under the bus and not in back.  

  • Anonymous

    Well you and flushed one sure think you know what you don’t know.  Lot of input from two who still haven’t figured out what happened to their chosen one.  Think we will bypass your opinions cause they haven’t worked out so well on your previous “winner”.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you could go back and edit your post into paragraphs.  Too long to read in one sitting there guy.  

  • Anonymous

    I’ll believe it when I see it.

    …As you say ‘If Gingrich ever debated Obama!’

    Although, currently I’d say Gingrich has enough problems trying to clarify his own credible position within his party about his expenditures and the circumstances of people leaving his team.

    Where exactly is he standing within the party right now. Does that mean he realistically has a genuine chance for the nomination?

    …I’m not sure if that moment has already passed him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Perry’s love for illegals and his love for mandating little girls to get vaccinated isn’t sitting well with the crazy train.

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    The Koch brothers and other wealthy Republicans organized and funded the Tea Party movement. They even went so far as to physically bus in the baggers during the Washington protests. This was probably common at every large bagger gathering. Knowing that the Koch brothers, Dick Armey, Sal Russo, and other longstanding, prominent Republicans who don’t give a dammm about working class people have run the Tea Party is something every bagger unfortunately fails to understand. Of course, Roger Ailes, a prominent establishment Republican himself, is never going to cover this on his so called news network.

  • Anonymous

    interested in Limbaugh’s reaction Monday Perry being his chosen pet in this race. He’s gone as far as he could supporting Perry without endorsing him and has gone as far as he could undermining Romney without badmouthing him. Will be interesting to watch

  • Anonymous

    Of course he’s tacking that way to preempt those who are ready to deem him and tag him as irrelevant as they did the last cycle with his un-endorsement of McCain yielding no success

  • Independent Voter

    Yes, the greedy trial lawyers love seeing Perry’s collapse as well. 

  • Independent Voter

    I don’t want Fox telling me who I should vote for. They are pushing Romney and he is a liberal republican. Isthat what we want ?  A couple of weak debates and they are ready to throw someone under the bus ???  At least Kristol did say it appears that support for Romney is pretty soft as well.

  • Anonymous

    In reply to your post about Herman Cain and Allen West agreeing with you, this is why Cain and Allen agree with you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQe9nUKzvQ

  • Anonymous

    Wow! What a bunch of BS that you can’t prove.

    How about some verifiable facts and evidence to back it up, dumbass!

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know who is going to win. I’m not a psychic. Right now, I like Cain the most.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently only lefties are allowed to use stark metaphors in your world. What a hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    Left, Right, Up, Down! It really doesn’t matter when confronted with intolerant bigots.

    You’re a dumb racial bigot who revels in his own far reaching moronic stupidity.

    …Congratulations on the success.

  • Dale Hogue

    What do you care who is selected by the Republicans?  You have no intention of voting for him or her, so what is the point of your nasty post?  You will vote for Barack Hussein Obama no matter who the Republicans nominate.  Thanks, however, for showing us how liberal democrats think.  It is worth the price of admission to read how liberals think when they are scared that their liberal president will not get enough votes to be re-elected. 

  • Dale Hogue

    We do have quite a few liberal democrats who are commenting on who might be selected by the Tea Party conservatives in the Republican Party to be the party’s candidate.  What’s the matter, nothing happening in the Democratic Socialist Party worth commenting on?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Insider RINOS. Even Juan is closer to a rino than a democrat

  • Anonymous

    Do I really need to list all the violent metaphors that are way worse that Obamanistas have used? Go ahead and condemn them, and at least you won’t be a total hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!

    Hey John J! Is this guy’s example offensive to you?

    If you are a typical lefty, it isn’t.

    Even though it is way worse than my metaphor.

  • Anonymous

    Oh Hey. One of your buddies (m – mayhem) just gave a common example above.

    That’s the kind of horseshit we’re tired of. How does it feel to have to eat your own shit?

  • Anonymous

    Where exactly does President Obama fit into your free willed stupid moronic bigotry.

  • Anonymous

    ‘My buddy!’

    You really are an idiotic fool.

    Whatever anyone chooses to write on these boards, now somehow gives you justification for being an idiotic bigot.

    Well, then carry on…

  • Anonymous

    I love it when FOX actually has intelligent analysts who tell the truth. . . .

  • Anonymous

    My God man how many IDs are you using here?

  • Anonymous

    An interesting read. 

    We shall see how things materialize. We shall see who the Republican’s choose for themselves in due course and how the arguments for all involved develop.

  • TbagsRstupid

    What are the middle names of the republican candidates?

  • TbagsRstupid
  • Michael T.

    Even some of the big guns in the GOP (especially the Fox News pundits and GOP strategists) keep insisting that this is a center-right country (no disagreement from me).

    So why all the outrage from the far right wing of the party about moderate Republicans – or as they are derisively called — RINOs?

    Let’s just take one issue.

    If 14 states allow the children of illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition, is Rick Perry’s position so extreme that he should be dismissed from ever running for national office? Even very conservative writers like the irascible Bill Kristol claim Perry’s position might be defensible given a well constructed argument.

    The idealogical purity in some quarters of the GOP must have many democrats thinking all is not lost for 2012 after all.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    He’s right. The working class republican has always voted against his interests, mainly because he’s living in the aspirational world of class fantasy.

  • Anonymous

    Dems Vote Self-Interest !!
    Repubs Vote Country-Interest !!

  • Anonymous

    Half-Baked Alaskan !!  Fritos Bandido !! Skippy Hitler !!  Sanitarium !!  Willard !!

  • Anonymous

     The money is on Romney.He will win the GOP ticket,

  • Anonymous

    Power to ya. Good luck with that.

  • Anonymous

    Power to ya. Good luck with that.

  • Anonymous

    Doncha mean Saint Ronald Raygun?

  • Anonymous

    Mitt !!
    Richard !!
    Leroy !!
    John !!
    Elson !!
    Marie !!
    Meade !!
    Ernest !!
    Earl !!
    Louise !!

  • Anonymous

    It is wishy washy willard the boring flip flop man.

  • Brincar

    Im more interested in how he spins about Cain on Monday

  • Brincar

    could this Cain “win”be THE NEW operation chaos

  • Brincar

    even Reagan isnt Reagan enough for Conservatives these days..tell Hannity to drop the shovel and leave the graveyard.

  • Anonymous

    They vote mostly on emotion, rather than with their head.  That’s their primary problem.  Many of them still want Palin to come in.  Ridiculous but true.

  • Anonymous

    The biggest problem with what he said was that you were heartless if you disagreed with him.

    If he had merely explained what he did, and why, gave some context, and than said reasonable people can disagree, he wouldn’t have had nearly the amount of shit blown at him.

  • Anonymous

    He’s wrong, and can’t back it up, and neither can you. That’s what living in a fantasy world is all about.

  • Anonymous

    The Emperor of flip flops is Obama. If he tried to make that an issue, it would come back and puke in his face.

  • Anonymous

    I’m using one.

    Nutjob supporters like you are Ron Paul’s biggest liability.

  • Anonymous

    John, you got nothin. You don’t even know what you’re arguing with me about.

    You don’t like my metaphors, but won’t condemn way more offensive ones on your side. What a dolt you are.

  • ganymede

    Quick Ganymede political analysis: The Republicans have problems. They don’t have a candidate who can beat even the weakened Obama. They’re all too far from the mainstream, maybe, except for Romney, and Christie would probably split the Republican Party. He’s not a flip-flopper and reflects some of the liberal/progressive values that are the norm in New Jersey.  
    People aren’t going to vote for politicans who are not going to promise to keep Social Security and Medicaire pretty much as they are. And people are not going to vote for politicians who don’t have a viable program for economic growth. And people are not going to vote for politicians who are basically obstructionists with even fewer ideas of what must be done to get out of this mess, except repeat exactly the measures that got us into deep doo. And the party of Lincoln is no longer a progressive party. They’re now the backward reactionary Party, as many Democrats were a long time ago before the southern racists who called themselves Democrats switched to the Republicans, after the passage of the Civil Rights Acts. Also,demographics are working against the Republicans. Most of the burgeoning minorities will vote for Democrats because, for some strange reason, they don’t think the white, selfish, and irrational white rightwingers care for them very much!

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    The Mormon will win the nomination, and Obama’s machine will cut him up to pieces. I guarantee it.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    That’s the oxmoron of the century. 

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Good luck with that. 

  • laurits

    im about as conservative as you can get and i am NOT a perry fan. 

  • Glutton

    Guess what you Republican morons, if Fox News is even bashing Rick Parry, it means he’s a complete idiot who has NO CHANCE of beating Obama in a Republican debate.  It’s obvious that Mitt Romney is the ONLY candidate that could beat Obama, but you IDIOTS haven’t realized that yet.  If Barack Obama could pick a candidate to oppose him in the general election, it would be Rick Parry because he’s a COMPLETE MORON who will get DESTROYED in a general election.  If you IDIOTS don’t nominate Romney, you are assuring an OBAMA RE-ELECTION.

  • Glutton

    Okay, go ahead and nominate Rick Parry.  Enjoy the Obama reign for another 4 years.

  • Glutton

    Cain is not going to win.  It’s either Romney, Parry, or possibly Palin.  Which one do you want to see going up against Obama in the general election?  I’ll tell you who the Democrats want, anyone but Romney.

  • Glutton

    Hillary was the most QUALIFIED person to be president but the Democrats knew that it doesn’t matter who you nominate because the Republicans had no chance of winning.  Why would you want some moron like Rick Parry, Sarah Palin, or Michele Bachmann, when you have a candidate like Mitt Romney?  Do you want Obama to get re-elected or are you a complete moron?  That’s the question you have to ask yourself.  Have a good night.

  • Glutton

    Rick Parry has no positions that he stands for.  Rick Parry is actually a complete moron who only has credibility because he ASSURES an Obama re-election.  If Republicans weren’t too STUPID to realize this, they would nominate Mitt Romney with no hesitation.  Unfortunately, Republicans are a bunch of IGNORANT REDNECK RETARDS and can’t figure this out.

  • Glutton

    Herman Cain has no chance of winning anything.  Stop kidding yourself.  REPUBLICANS HATE BLACK PEOPLE.  That’s just a fact.

  • Glutton

    That’s why you’re a complete MORON who will vote for an IDIOT like Rick Parry who has NO CHANCE to beat Barack Obama while Ron Paul actually does.

  • Glutton

    Actually, Rick Parry is likely to bludgeon HIMSELF while Mitt Romney just stands by and LAUGHS.

  • Glutton

    Actually, Ron Paul is the guy who was the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.  Herman Cain didn’t come around until AFTER there was a Tea Party.  Nice try though.

  • Glutton

    Yeah, they’ll cut Romney up for being Mormon.  Too bad that will only work for right wing evangelical BIGOTS such as yourself.

  • Glutton

    FACT: Fox is only bashing Rick Parry because they KNOW FOR A FACT THAT HE CAN’T WIN.

  • NeverWrong

    Let’s see…we have a big, racist bigot in Brit Hume, a warmongering blowhard draft dodger with a stupid chit eatin’ grin all the time in Bill Kristol and next to Chrissy ‘Tingles & Thrills’ Matthews of LSDnbc fame the biggest idiot host on TV, Chrissy Wallace. And we’re supposed to buy into their crap? But, mainly Kristol and Hume….two of the most worthless people you’ll find. I mean c’mon, Kristol brought us Sarah the Quitter. All these idiotic talking heads on TV and the radio should just shut the hell up with their stupid opinions on all the candidates and let us tax paying American citizens decide for ourselves. You could combine the IQ’s (or lack thereof) of all the talking imbeciles on both network and cable TV and you’d still be hard pressed to come up with a grand total of more than 75.

  • Roadworrier22

    Well, here comes Sarah Palin then.  It can only get more interesting.

    Gov Christie is certainly an alternative to these freaks.

  • Anonymous

    If there are Perry supporters out there who still push their guy even after it’s clear that he wouldn’t beat OBAMO, then I guess we’d call those supporters ‘RINOs.’

  • Valkyrie101

    Seems odd, with polls showing over 60% of republicans having not chosen a candidate yet, for Perry to withdraw this early. Most tea partiers are not fond of Mitt. Are you aware of that? In fact he is considered by most tea partiers to be a RINO, not Perry. Perry’s debate failure was more a function of his staff not properly preparing him, then anything else. That can be fixed. Heck, the primaries have not even started yet.

  • Roderick

    The base is all over the place. It seems as if everytime a new candidate enters he rises to the top.

    I guess you forget how Trump was the top candidate for a while. As soon as Perry entered the race he was the top contender.

    Now Cain is the new flavor of the week. OTOH I wonder if Cain’s campaign does gain traction it will be interesting to see what dirty tactic Karl Rove and the GOP establishment pull to take him out.

  • Valkyrie101

    Maybe they shouldn’t bother with the primaries and just annoint Mitt by divine right? That way, he won’t get roughed up before the real battle with Obama. Is that about it, GRB?

  • Anonymous

    ‘…You got nuthin’

    It sounds like a line picked from a movie, for someone unable think for them self.

    It’s not about what I’ve either got or don’t have, but rather the racist and offensive language you willingly choose to use.

    You use it with a breathtaking ease and stupidity, as if it were somehow commonplace and respectfully normal..it isn’t.

    metaphors are useful and very insightful.

    Yours, however prove you are are racially bigoted idiot of the lowest kind, but keep scrambling for shabby excuses. It’s no less than what people expect from bigots.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    You have no clue as to my politics.

  • Anonymous

    …That’s cruel!

  • Valkyrie101

    Yep. Someone big may jump in late. Not Sarah. She wants no part of the republicans. If it is Mitt, she is a likely third party. The new “Family Tea Party”, with Trump, Guiliani, maybe Bachman. Her people do not like Mitt. Because Mitt has no coat tails for tea party candidates. He is perceived to be flawed on health care because of his successful but politically incorrect model in Mass (which is partly a reason why they have only 5% of their population out there uninsured, compared to 25% in Texas). So that undercuts a common tea party attack point against Obama because it will also impeach Romney. Is Mitt pro-choice? And to be sure, Mitt has not had his religion vetted. And that will certainly happen eventually.  

  • Anonymous

    If ignorance was a disability, you would qualify for a full pension. You obviously support the pathological liar that is in the WH. He pretends to be black, married black, and 20 years with a radical anti-semitic and anti-American church, pals with terrorists, a complete socialist that wants to destroy capitaism. He trained well in the crrupt politics of Chicago.  Democrats are nothing more than pigs at the feeding trough of government freebies.

  • Anonymous

    You are as big of a liar as Obama. Back up what you say or shut your pie hole.

  • Anonymous

    Ya, as a liberal, I wouldn’t slit my wrists or head for Canada if Romney won.  I would LOVE for Cain to run against President Obama.  That would be classic!  Palin scares the shit out of me, I admit it.  I don’t think she has a chance, but she is so twisted, even the thought of her running makes me shudder.  You never know what she might be able to accomplish with her voodoo magic. 

  • Anonymous

    Romney’s baggage is ‘RomneyCare,’ so I agree with you: He has RINO tendencies. I also agree about Perry, but you know what they say about ‘first impressions.’ You don’t get a second chance at them!

  • Valkyrie101

    Sure, but only last impressions matter.

  • Anonymous

    100% agreed. This is all posturing at the moment.

  • A De Santos

     A DE SANTOS
     
    Really I do not know too much about politics but , one thing I do know is, if we do not wake up and realize
    that this world is coming to an end and we have very little time. So please like Mr. Hogue said, instead of
    competting with each other and being self fish. We should remember that there is a GOD upstairs who is
    watching every step we take. That is why our world is in this economical crisis and we are all pointing fingers
    to each other, and not realizing that we are the ones who are actually putting ourselves in these circumstances and not taking action. If each person would help one another and not think only about their selves than this world we live in would be much better. For example we, all complain about this about that, and we do not remember that we live like kings compare to other countries, like Africa or Central America. Have you ever sat down for a moment? and think of what and where those people eat from, they are also human beings and not animals. Have you once? got in their shoes and try to live with no electricity or clean water for more than 2 months at a time, no I didnt think so. Some times I look at the news and just walk away because GOD has a purpose for everything and every step we take. Some of us just forgot or frozed our morals, and actually this all started when the prayers were banned from the schools and father against son and a long list of broken laws that we have commited and we have to pay for them. I will pray for all who are blinde by this wicked viscous cycle and please remember GOD loves each and every one of yall. Who ever wins the election please pray for them so that our World would united each other and stop the War against us .

  • Mengistu

    I hope when the Mugabe contingent jumps off the plane you eat your words. This guy is dangerous and incompetent.

  • Mugabe

    I think Rick and Anita are deliberately throwing this for some reason – maybe because they are being put under a microscope.

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