This reinforces the strongest negatives against Romney: that he’s just some out of touch rich guy who reminds people of the guy who fired them. Obama would hammer that home non-stop.

However, I don’t think he’ll get the chance, because I’m increasingly convinced this is Newt’s nomination to lose, and I think he’s too sharp on his feet to lose it.

Mano a Mano and Rick Perry flinches.  Mitt might as well have snapped a towel on Rick Perry’s naked ass while Rick did nothing but say, “Thank you, sir, may I have another?”

Rick could have made 10 grand! Romney is after all a well documented flip flopper. He could really have used it too. Maybe to pay a contrarian to assure they don’t keep making such atrocious ads.

Rick Perry keeps referencing Romney’s book. Why doesn’t he photocopy the relevant pages and put them on his website so we everyone can judge for themselves, and even refer to the website in the debate.

Of course, we don’t need the book in order to know that Mitt supported the federal mandate since we have other references. Lying Son of a B………..

Yeah…what the fcuk? That was a slam dunk for Perry. 

“You wanna bet?” makes you sound immature.

“You wanna bet $10,000?” makes you lose Iowa.

As a writer, I couldn’t have scripted a line to more perfectly craft Romney’s negative narrative.

Who let the dogs out? Who? Whhhooo?

excessive wealth being thrown to our face!

its like romney is up 2 touchdowns and is playing prevent defense and now he cant stop the bleeding. comeback is coming and he is having trouble stopping it

At least Duke & Duke in Trading Places weren’t complete assholes and only bet a dollar …  Can’t say the same about this goof..

I though Mormons were forbidden to gamble…

Yes, they are. 

There’s an entire principled basis for it, essentially that it goes against God’s plan that riches be made without being earned.

It’s come to this: Mittens is actually going to lose the MORMON vote. 

What. a. putz.

What a weirdo…

Guess Romney just lost his Mormon base.

12 pack of 2-ply toilet paper for the Romney household. #What10kbuys

Did ABC just go through the whole post debate without mentioning Ron Paul once?  It’s insane.

Both of the Republican frontrunners supported the “socialist” health insurance mandate that Republican voters have been trained to fear over the last three years.

When I say all Republicans are systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth, I’m not kidding.  And I’ve proven it over and over and over…

Nobody’s going to remember anything Ron Paul said, or ANYONE said, at this debate – by the way, the closest thing to an actual debate of any of the GOP “debates” so far – regardless of whether or not Mediaite pays any attention to him.

This is going to go down in history as The Ten Thousand Dollar Bet Debate, and hooboy, is Mittens ever going to rue this one.

Funny thing about Perry: useless as a ‘debater’ otherwise, polling so low he may as well be in a tug of war with Huntsman, but he has some strange gift for getting under Mitten’s fur. Perry did it before with the ploddingly executed hit on Mitt’s use of immigrant lawn care workers, which led to that fabulous “I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake!” line, and here Perry again plods around like Peter Boyle playing Frankenstein’s monster in a tap dance routine, and out of it we get this quite incredibly tone-deaf Ten Thousand Dollar Bet.

Gingrick should be doing everything he can to keep Perry around and attempting these efforts at getting all feisty with Mittens. 

It’s what they do. I just can NOT stand Diane Sawyer. She should never be doing politics in my honest opinion. Her halting talking is quite distracting, and honestly, annoying. 

At a time when some of this nations poor are trying to live on that ammount for a year, it does seem insensitive and thoughtless.

Do you listen?  Do you ever really hear?  You’re so bent on your stupid talking points that you don’t hear squat.  

They did not support “socialist” anything.  They stated so.  

Ron Paul won that debate with flying colors.

Funny to say but don’t count Ron Paul out. He outshined the whole bunch in this one. Plus his support his getting stronger.

No offense, but this is too complicated for you.

Work harder and you can afford to wager ten grand. That not really a lot of money. That what we pay on Obama’s green fees. 

That was not a very wise comment. It was said in jest. People are not in a laughing mood. I take him up on the bet if it is open to all comers. I could use the extra ten grand.

With Obama our ten thousand is about the value of a duke dollar. 

You have proven that you are intellectually dishonest and not very bright. Your post are nonsense and full of hate and not a word of truth. You have to be a paid poster you can not believe this illogical nonsense that you post. 

If you believe the nonsense you should be posting in a teen age chat room. This blog is for realist not people that live in a mental fog. 

If I ever post something you think is untrue, let me know.

As long as they are for ridding the nation of Obama Care, I do not care that they once failed for the liberal lies. 

The only reason you have a problem with “Obamacare” is because you’ve been systematically trained to have a problem with “Obamacare.” And like most Republicans, you have absolutely no idea what “Obamacare” is.

will these guys stop taking my ‘tag lines’…

damn…
ok i raise the bet to $100,000…
now lets see who will match that…

Just had a presidential candidate Romney and vice presidential candidate Gingrich vision. ‘Gravitas’ is back in play and is what Romney needs

& debates between the undisciplineds Biden/Gingrich and the flip-floppers Obama/Romney would be comedians wet dream now that Cain has burned and crashed

I think this was Ron Paul’s best debate yet.  If you watched the news coverage of the debate though you wouldn’t know he was there.

SUBJECT: Flip-flopping Obama vs. Romney

I think some will argue that there is a distinct difference between most of Obama’s policy position changes and those of Mitt Romney.

I am not saying that all Americans will accept the argument, but I do think some will argue that Obama changed his mind once he became president and realized how difficult it was to do such things as implement a single payer healthcare system and how hard it was to close Guantanamo Bay and how nearly impossible it became to draw down troop levels in Afghanistan as fast as he had campaigned for.

Whereas with Romney the general consensus is far too often he changes his position solely for political expediency.

Of course the way things are going with the Gingrich surge this may all be a moot point.

There are these special kinds of statements that are actually false.  They’re called “lies,” and that’s what anyone who says that Romney and Gingrich have never supported the so-called “socialist” healthcare mandate is telling you.

That’s called a fact, man.  And while as a conservative you may not believe in science, I sincerely hope you believe in facts.  Look it up yourself, and then you can’t pretend it’s anything other than a fact that they both have supported the mandate in the past.  There’s no claiming that their own words are liberals’ evil master plan to twist their own words, not even on Fox News.

I seriously can’t believe these guys are arguing about indisputable facts with you.  I mean, don’t Romney and Gingrich’s own words and actions count as facts with these people?  Those things are easy to check, but you can show these people unedited clips of their candidates’ positions in their words in video and in their books, and they still won’t accept reality as reality.

What do they rely on, if they won’t even believe primary sources and the evidence of their own senses?  What do they think happened, then?  What, was there an evil liberal master plan to go back in time and force them to support the mandate at gunpoint?  LOL

This is freaking unbelievable.  I lose more faith in conservatives every day — even on the days I don’t turn on Fox News.

Ronmey fell on his sword there.  That made him look so childish trying to bet large sums of money. They should’ve just bet a dinner or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

You don’t pay any green fees for Obama and it is a good thing you didn’t have to pay for Boehner’s $85,000 green fees he racked up last year.  I guess that explains why he looked like he was always in the sun or in a tanning bed.

When the moderators asked a question as to “describing a time when they were poor and the pain with not being able to pay rent, mortgage, buy food”, it was quite clear that Romney had absolutely no personal story at all.  I mean – wasn’t there even a time in college where he was stranded without his wallet or something?  Apparently not.  People like that who have not been in that situation have absolutely no feelings for the 99% and especially the ones who are struggling every day – losing sleep because they don’t know if they will be homeless soon.
For some reason, I just can’t imagine that anyone with a Tiffany’s revolving account or someone who inherited a silver spoon when they were born or even Michelle Bachman who got $251,000 just from a farm subsidy in one year – these people have no idea at all what it is like to go to the grocery store with your calculator to make sure you have enough money to pay the bill.

Romney’s advisers are the worst.

I was thinking that Paul would be more popular if he had a better name, and theme song. How about, Ronnie “Jingo”? Nobody can bullet point out his unteneble positions faster.

Who pays Obama’s green fees?  As a tax payer I pay for his wife elaborate vacations. If we paid the speaker fees that is wrong. I have to research and find out the truth on your claims. You being a liberal you can understand why I can not take your word. You defense of the liar in chief is commendable. You going down with a sinking ship but you stick with him. How about Holder should we impeach him or should Obama ask him to resign for his part in the murder of our agents in Mexico and the running of guns. It terrible how he can lie and try to cover up these criminals act.

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gorgegirl wrote, in response to without_hate:
You don’t pay any green fees for Obama and it is a good thing you didn’t have to pay for Boehner’s $85,000 green fees he racked up last year.  I guess that explains why he looked like he was always in the sun or in a tanning bed. Link to comment

If that were the case, that brings into question Obama’s power of deduction and his judgement with a a litany of positions under his belt that he’d changed his mind on based on realities on the ground means that flawed initial positions were adopted without due diligence

Of course, that is all giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming that he was not engaging in demagoguery to appeal to the masses knowing full well his positions, sound though they may have sounded at the time, are unsupportable by realities on the ground

Rick Perry has been underestimated before and emerged victorious — even against an old fighter like Karl Rove. Perry just keeps getting steadily better as he calibrates his Texas persona for a national audience. I look forward to voting for him in 2012. He is the only candidate I truly want to vote for. If he runs with Marco Rubio, the Electoral College map will be a sea of red with a couple of tiny blue dots. Gov. Perry has an unmatched record of job creation and the most substantive reform platform of all the candidates. He is a true leader who inspires supporters with his bold ideas, unwavering principles and strong moral character. Perry 2012!

Perry was the winner of the debate. His best line was his comment on obama’s forign policy.

except Rick Perry. He knows how working people feel because he has gone through it himself.

Perry got a big score last nght. He was at his best.

Since Iowans are so freakin crazy, that the man best to take on Obama, Huntsman, wasn’t there, I’ll be throwing my support behind Ron Paul. The only one on that stage who dares to tell the truth. The rest of them are freakin idiots.

Good point below. Mitt Romneys willingness to place a bet violates a tenant of his religion. I bet he also drinks coffee, or at least Coca Cola, when no one is looking. It is all about lying for the Lord.

This is the wingnut wet dream – a debate in the general where their hee-row goes mano-a-mano against the black Kenyan Marxist-socialist dragon and slays it.

There’s a kajillion reasons why this is a phony vision, but right now this GOP contest is being played out over which candidate the GOP base – a base notorious for consistently getting facts & judgments wrong – thinks most likely can deliver this wingnut hand job.

Remember the question in this Iowa debate on who’s upbringing renders him most likely to be ‘empathetic’ with the middle class & poor? Obama was raised a single black child on food stamps, folks; he’s not about to lose that contest.

Do you want to play Who’s the Professor, Gingrich? Newt FAILED as an academic. Within 3 years of his starting his one and only college job as a lowest-level assistant sessional at a backwater Georgia glorified community college, he was already running for office to get out of that life, because he had no future in it. He was in fact TURNED DOWN for tenure the year before he finally got into the House. Meanwhile, Obama was summa cum laude at Harvard Law in this THIRD university degree, at the most prestigious and competitive law school in the world, made chief editor of the Harvard Law Review, the most prestigious law journal on the planet, and was PURSUED by a very strong law school at U of Chicago to teach one of its most prestigious & important courses, constitutional law – which he did for a decade, and he CHOSE not to pursue tenure though U of Chicago Law offered it to him repeatedly. And in every class there was a series of debates – that’s what law school IS, under the Socratic method – with Obama in the midst of it, for over 700 class sessions. 

You want to play sense of humor? Just remember how Obama eviscerated Trump at the WH Press Corp dinner earlier this year, and bear in mind Obama is an active participant in writing of his own speeches and jokes. Consider how cool he remains on the stump and at the speech podium in the face of just about anything happening.

You want to play command of the facts? Bear in mind that whereas Gingrich has written dozens of remarkably silly, inaccurate, turgid & downright boring books based on fictionalized self-aggrandizing views of history as he’d like it to have been and his own alleged importance in that, Obama has written two books notable for their insight and sensitivity, the first of which gained national prominence not because it was written by someone famous – he was not famous at that time at all – but because of how beautifully written it was, because of it’s quality as literature. It got reviewed in the New York Times book section and received a positive rating on its own merits, as a real book. This is why wingnuttia has been so assiduous in promoting the fiction that he never actually personally wrote it, that it’s so freaking good, it just MUST have been written for him. And yet, all evidence and comically exhaustice forensic examination of it has proven, time and again, that Obama himself wrote it.

But it now looks as if Newt MUST be the candidate, because lately, as these debates progress and there’s less and less in the way of distractions on the rest of the stage, it’s become painfully clear that Romney is NOT the ‘smooth debater’ media was crediting him with when all he had to do was show up and look out beatifically while clowns like Cain & Perry & Bachmann put on exhibitions of idiocy. So it’s time to consider what it’s actually going to look like when Newt faces Obama – and it’s not going to be pretty for Newt or for the GOP.

And here’s the thing: Newt has thrown out this “7 session Lincoln-Douglas syule debate” as a double punchline: a show of supposed fearlessness on its own, plus an implied promise that the President’s declining it – as somehow it’s been assumed, on ZERO evidence, that he will – will then be available to used as a hammer thereafter. 

But no one, least of all Newt, actually anticipates what is most logical to happen, and that Newt actually cannot deliver on: that President Obama actually says – Fine; that’s great; this is a critical enough period in American history that it WOULD be appropriate to have such a series; I’m in.

Keep in mind that, on top of everything else, at the time of that series, Newt will be a 69 year old, fat, doughy, over-fed, under-fit, self-indulgence, waddling heart attack or stroke in waiting; whereas the President will be a 51 year old 4-year incumbent CEO of the largest most powerful government apparatus and army in world history, slim, fit & sharp.

As the saying goes, Be careful what you wish for.

The Romney bet was an odd moment in the debate… seemed a little immature on Romney’s part when he said “you want to bet, do you want to bet??”

10 grand also seemed a little excessive!!

Should the people of Utah be as outraged with this attempted bet by Romney, as they were when they learned John Huntsman drank alcohol as ambassador to China?

Romney forgot two words “FOR CHARITY”.  But ABC leaped on it anyway.  Sick = George Stephanoupolis.

So he should have said “for charity”.  Big deal.

So moderators are suppose to put words in people’s mouths?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints condemns gambling,
games of chance, and lotteries as moral evils and admonishes its members not to participate in them in any form.

NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Romney should fire his entire staff. Even if you accept the notion that he just forgot to say “for charity”, it is still one of the dumbest things I have ever heard a mainstream candidate say at a debate.

Perry should have accepted the bet and indicated the proceeds would go to charity.  Romney would have said “well, of course the money goes to charity, that is assumed when two candidates make bets over an issue”.

I would think so!!

Not disputing any of this, all fair points & one can think of a few others in favor or against either side. Just from a general outline 30,000 feet high view perspective, we know that wall street type would not vote Gingrich but would vote Romney and we know that Romney would suppress TP turn out whereas a Gingrich at the top of the ticket would galvanize them but would also galvanize and turn democrats out for Obama

A Romney-Gingrich ticket with Romnye at the top would thus make sense, it gets wall street and independent votes & while not energizing democrats as it would had it been a Gingrich vs Obama contest. Obama’s best shot is energizing dems against his opponent rather than for him as the later would not work under any circumstance

But you’ve proven the original point that this is uncharted territory. Look at how many paragraphs you’ve written describing possible scenarios just on the prospect of a Gingrich v Obama match. Imagine if all 4 were in the mix, Obama, Romney, Gingrich and Biden.. political porn for Chuck Todd

it is the same program that YOU and others have called SOCIALIST …except when it is a Democrat program….
so i agree–it is NOT socialist…

just remember that next time any of you buffoons call Obamacare socialism…
the current health care law actually has LESS government health care than Mitt, Newt or Rick has proposed in the past..
fyi

do you know what ‘obamacare’ is? do you know that it was a congressional health care? more likely should be called Pelosi care? so you know there is actually LESS government health care in the current healthcare law that of Newt, Mitt and Rick?
do you even know what socialism is?
yes we do have some socialist model programs in America..
the military is the best..
how do you like it?

I think it’s pretty cool Rick Perry’s mom posts on Mediaite.

you understand that NONE of these people follow the doctrine of their faiths right?
none of these people follow the words of Christ–i doubt that they have ever read them..

You are dodging the issue lady!!  Are you in Utah?

perry would have lost…

too bad he will never be president..

yes he has more poor, underpaid and under educated in his state than most all others in the union..
you cannot be a Christian when you support anti-Christian policy ie TO DENY THE SICK AND THE HUNGRY..food and medicine..no exception..

oh ya–and have to give up all your wealth–so that ‘help the rich’ thing..ANTICHRISTIAN..

i have 10,000 big one that say it will never happen…

he would have been better to bet $1…
that is the problem with mitt–he does not get it..

i bet 10,000 because if anyone is foolish enough to bet me–i have lawyers and accountants i have to pay–and any dumbass can loose 5-10 dollars..
but you really have to have a lot of loot or really know your shit to lose 10k..
Mitt should have done $1 and that would have made the line work… 
or even better..BET HIM A TEXAS STEAK DINNER..
a Perry loss of a small bet would be better than $10k..

you paid for Bush’s family fun and golf trips too..

not to mention the Iraq war?
so –is that ok?
or is it just a Democrat president cannot pay golf?
and at least when this first lady goes places–people are more inclined to have ‘love’ for America..
and unless you hate the billions we spend in foreign aid for that ‘love’…Michelle’s charitable travels is a real bargain..

Perry should have slapped the crap out of Mitt’s mitt when he extended out there.  Now that would have been good TV

You could throw in another: Biden to Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton to VP.

I have, and will continue to, count Ron Paul out. Paulbots are just ideologues of a different shade. Thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere.

There literally isn’t 1 serious economist who thinks immediately cutting $1 trillion will do anything but devastate the economy.

All six (6) of the candidates gave very strong debate performances.  Mitt should argue that he was not talking about betting $10,000.00 in personal funds.  The $10,000.00 would have been a campaign contribuition from one campaign account to the other. The ABC reporters who were critical of the bet had to leave early to get to the racetrack!

Michele said that she and her husband clip coupons!  Also, I do not believe that the Bachmanns ever received $251,000 in farm subsidies for one year!  That is a liberal “hit job.”  Tony Soprono would be so proud of what the liberals learned from his show!

Are you taliking about money?  Women (and some men) get aroused when you talk about a “10,000 big one.”  You sound like Anthony Wiener!

If he had bet him a “Texas Steak Dinner” it might have cost him the vote of all the hog farmers in Iowa and offended the people in Massachusetts.  He should have bet him a New England Lobster Dinner!

I will bet you $100,000.00 that Michele Bachmann was the most feminine candidate on the stage behind the podiums (Diane Sawyer is not a candidate and was in front of the podiums)

Gosh, does this mean you are not voting for him?

Great suggestion!  Jack Daniels is produced in Tennessee!  Romney missed his chance to lock up the Tennessee vote!

One way to call out a blowhard and that’s what Romney did. Figured 10k and one of perrysfamous gold standard Texas handshakes would smokehimout. My guess perry will not be citing that portion of Romneys book. That dog won’t hunt.

hmmm…
now that is interesting…because newt can be pretty effeminate at times…
 
all the men look pretty feminine as they walk on stage…
let me think about that one–we may have to be a little more precise on what ‘feminine’ is..
because all of these men are pretty gay when they come on stage..

hell-i don’t care..
10,000 dollars, dildos, packs of cornbread, or shlong rings..
whatever floats your boat..
i may even throw in a cowboy hat for good faith~
:)

Did NOT….Did TOO….Did NOT…Betcha’ a million dollars….
LOL
Romney…..LMFAO
Newt/Santorum…….2012

Obama bet 800 billion with his stimulus and LOST!  Mitt’s joking bet was a winning point. 

God lord, Mitt is human! 

If Congressman Ron Paul wins the nomination, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are already planning to disclose a major sex scandal.  They will claim, on behalf of President Obama, that Dr. Ron Paul has delivered thousands of babies and has, therefore, seen more naked women that Bill Clinton and Herman Cain combined!

Maybe Mitt Romney can apply for “amnesty.”?

Ron Paul did well in the debate and I think Romney buried himself with the $10,000 bet. Paul is consistent and honest. Even though I don’t completely agree with his foreign policy I am voting for him because he sticks to the constitution. Gingrich is in love with himself and Perry can’t remember anything. Bachmann is a broken record and Santorum seems nice and all but doesn’t offer anything new. Ron Paul is fiscally responsible and that is what we need as a country!

RON PAUL 2012

http://www.whatthehellbook.com/the-book/

Well Maybe Romney  is catching amnesia from Perry he seems to forget a lot of things also.

Was not a very wise statement. He became to relaxed and was speaking as if two friends were talking.

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realjoe wrote, in response to without_hate:
he would have been better to bet $1…
that is the problem with mitt–he does not get it..

i bet 10,000 because if anyone is foolish enough to bet me–i have lawyers and accountants i have to pay–and any dumbass can loose 5-10 dollars.. but you really have to have a lot of loot or really know your shit to lose 10k.. Mitt should have done $1 and that would have made the line work…
or even better..BET HIM A TEXAS STEAK DINNER..
a Perry loss of a small bet would be better than $10k..
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You to not have the mental capacity to stand in the same room to debate me. Of course, unlike you I read the Obama Kill Bill and I understand what I read. By your infantile questions and your lack of knowledge you should be ashamed to post on an adult web site,. Read the bill, take some courses in economics and when you reach a high school level I shall endeavor to instruct you.

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realjoe wrote, in response to without_hate:
do you know what ‘obamacare’ is? do you know that it was a congressional health care? more likely should be called Pelosi care? so you know there is actually LESS government health care in the current healthcare law that of Newt, Mitt and Rick? do you even know what socialism is?
yes we do have some socialist model programs in America..
the military is the best..
how do you like it?
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Are you guys serious??? Wow, what a clueless bunch.  You want to know why Romney said 10k and not 1 or 5?  This is from the night before. You ever heard of tongue in cheek?http://www.mediaite.com/tv/did-bob-beckel-bet-eric-bolling-10000-that-obama-could-beat-either-romney-or-gingrich/    Beckel is a Liberal media pundit, no less.  How about The recent story of liberal Leon Panetta’s bet for a 10000 bottle of wine over Bin Laden? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/wine-panetta-bin-laden_n_1063390.html, or the head of Souther Povety Law Center asking O’Reilley to pay up on a bet for 10000?  The only reason these stories are obscure is that they do not fith the narrative.  

Somehow it sounds new and agregious for a Republican to do such a thing, but for the party of the people, it is common place and the media thinks so, too.  The hypocrisy is the real story, and that is what will come out after all of the feigned righteous indignation is deflated by it. This was no gaffe, and here is a clue, neither was was the recent Obama ad.    

Get this through your head:  Ron Paul is very old man and he looks even older and many of his ideas are even older than he is.  In fact, some of his ideas might be considered a little bit too extreme even for a Libertarian.  There is no way Ron Paul is going to be the nominee of the Republican Party, not now, not tomorrow, not next November 6th, not ever — never!  I’m sorry to break it to you in this way, but if the Republicans put Paul up on the stage with Obama, even the dumbest among us would know right away that Paul was out of his league.

He could help the Republican Party and the Tea Party by withdrawing from the race before some of the people start believing that the Republican Party really is the Stupid Party!

Who am I rooting for?  Ronald Reagan.  I do believe that he will be reincarnated as one of the remaining candidates.  I just haven’t got around to discovering which one of these men will get the job.  I know that Michele Backmann is still around, but, the last time I looked, not too many people were climbing on her bus, so she needs to withdraw from the race before the moderate independent voters realize that she doesn’t have much experience in running anything bigger than her mouth.  I’ll say this about her:  She is great deal better looking than Ron Paul and hell of a lot younger, whether that counts for anything worthwhile.

I haven’t figured out why Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like Mitt Romney.  I suppose one of these days he will get around to letting his listeners know what Romney has done in his life that turned Rush off.  If I remember correctly, Rush didn’t like John McCain in 2008 and let it be known that McCain was not one of his favorite candidates.  He did like Sarah Palin, though.

Quite frankly, Newt Gingrich, if he is the Republican Party nominee is going to hammered like no other candidate for president has ever been hammered in the history of this nation.
And I don’t think he going to handle this type hammering very well.  So, if the Republicans are smart they won’t nominate Newt for anything above what he is now, whatever that is.

What is the name of that guy who is the Governor of Texas?  He might get his act together long enough to impress some of the Tea Party members, but I wouldn’t count on it, most of them don’t like his ideas related to illegal immigrants and this migration thing that Mexicans have going for them in all the states bordering Mexico.  Perhaps if we give back Texas and California to them, they will promise not to takeover Arizona and New Mexico.  That type of bargaining as worked real well for that little Jewish country smack in the middle of the world’s biggest suppliers of Islamic Obama supporters. 

I can see that this road I’m on is not going in the direction I had hoped.  Maybe I’ll get off at the next town that has a bus stop big enough to support a McDonald’s and a KFC quick fix eatery.  At least I will be able to eat my lunch or dinner since I haven’t been able to choke down some of the political stuff that is being fed to the American voters during the last three years by both political parties.   

I agree,  just saying he looked and sounded better than the rest of the phonies up there.

Oh sure . . . and now all he needs to do is “figger out” the number of Supreme Court justices ‘n what their names are, and he’ll be right up to speed! Yesssir!

You’ve got it Bill.  They went eyeball to eyeball and Perry flinched.  The only argument anyone can make against Romney on this one is the “class warfare” argument.  That would be the one made so famous by Barack Obama. 

Are you now working for the Obama campaign full time?

Heh.

Instead, Perry decided to back down on national TV because he knew he was wrong.

Look it up!  Romney was in a car acident when doing mission work in France. His car was struck by a Catholic priest crossing on the wrong side of the road. A good friend died that day and Romney was pronouced dead by French police. They we wrong, he didn’t die, but he is not without tragic problems.His wife Ann has a MS and he doesn’t play her to crowd to get points. He is quite hard working man, with a large family. 
A few weeks back Romney went to Mc Donalds ( complain about the cost hamburgers to an observer)  and rented a move when he was  traveling with his family. They represent what is the best in the American dream.Family and Love!l
He not a showy show off! That his personality and I like that.

Want to make a bet that Obama gets elected again. When you run less qualify candidates  like Newt or Perry! I’ll betcha it won’t be so funny? Romney is the best candidate to run against Obama!

It’s just the election he can’t win !

Only if Hillary is tired of traveling, which might be true. 

Thanks for the laugh.  However, don’t you think Ron Paul has the John McCain problem -his age?

The largest socialist program in the last 50 years was actually introduced by George w Bush and passed by a majority republican congress ALL ON BORROWED MONEY.

The prescription drug plan, otherwise known as Medicare Part D.

Didn’t the taxpayers pay for Laura Bush and her daughters trips?  I recall one specifically to Africa and another to South America. 

Or, is it because the First Lady is a democrat? She sure is loved all over the world. The military and their wives love her too. Doesn’t that upset you a bit?

Are you saying she lied on her “Financial Disclosure Form”????????? 

“Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a critic of federal spending, received between $5,000 and $15,000 in income last year from a family farm that has received more than $250,000 in federal subsidies, according to her most recent House financial-disclosure form. ”
The farm in Independence, Wisconsin, received $259,332 in federal subsidies from 1995 to 2008, according to U.S. government data compiled by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research and advocacy organization focusing on public health and environmental issues

Since Bachman’s father-in-law died in 2009, they have not received farm subsidies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-16/bachmann-has-income-from-subsidized-farm.html

I do not want to pay for any of Obama travel or any other President travel. This first lady travels like a queen not a first lady.

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gorgegirl wrote, in response to without_hate:
Didn’t the taxpayers pay for Laura Bush and her daughters trips?  I recall one specifically to Africa and another to South America.
Or, is it just a partisan thing?
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Your claim was that she received $251,000.00 for a farm subsidy for one year.  “Bachmann who got $251,000.00 just from a farm subsidy in one year, . . ” was your statement.  Now you admit her family
received federal subsidies from 1995 to 2008 which total $251,000.00.  Nothing has been paid since the death of her father-in-law.  This is a big difference from your original comment. Thank you for correcting the record.

Is this the same Mitt Romney who went on a cross country trip with his family and put his dog in a crate and strapped it to the top of his car?  The poor dog was scared to death!  Mitt is not only a gambler, but he is cruel to animals.  Newt should suggest in the next debate that he is willing to drive his car cross country with Mitt strapped to the top of his car

georgegirl, are you any relation to “Boy George”?

You are as young as you feel!  Since Ron Paul is a doctor, he will argue that he knows how to take care of himself.

Bill would never allow her to stop travelling!  If President Obama wants her to continue serving, watch for Bill fo force the issue.