What's your reaction to last night's GOP debate?
Posted at 5:00 AM on September 8, 2011
by Eric Ringham
(28 Comments)
Filed under: Politics/Government
Republican presidential candidates held a televised debate last night. It was their first debate since Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the race for the Republican nomination. Today's Question: What's your reaction to last night's GOP debate?
Comments (28)
Ron Paul has been the obvious winner in all 3 "debates" in my opinion and I would also say he is extremely electable. Having been a democrat in the past , then waking up, and now I am unafiliated with either corrupt party. I suggest the same for most of you before Orwell's "1984" comes true 30 years later than the title suggests.
Watched & listened to Internet replay of debate.
I enjoyed listening to the responses of the pertinent questions in regards to "What you would do as President in regards to ...?" or "What is your view on ...?"
I did not enjoy nor appreciate that some of the moderator questions were twisted to get a reaction out of the candidates. What kind of reaction they expected? I don't know.
Even though I would not vote for either Romney or Perry, I disliked the moderators encouraging the Perry vs Romney "mud slinging", or any other "mud slinging" from one candidate to another.
I appreciated Gingrich's "I'm not going to play your game" answers to some of the moderator questions. It was noticable that the other candidates responding to the same topic after Gingrich followed suit to his "I'm not going to play your game".
All the candidates had comments that I thought were very good. I especially liked the responses of Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich.
Read my lips. No new Texans. I get very afraid when I realize that some people will vote for one of these idiots. If, by chance, one of these people actually gets elected say goodbye to what little is left of the middle class.
They had a debate? Who cares none are electable.
They had a debate? Who cares none are electable.
Too soon to be thinking about the wide field of candiwon'ts. Let's go outside to enjoy the beautiful weather while we still have it. We'll be hearing this wonk stuff for too long as it is. Ugh! We should change our elections to every 8 years with instant run-off voting.
I'm glad I had the chance to listen to the debate. I thought the moderators did a nice job of framing questions by bringing up examples of hypocrisy. Rick Perry did little to convince me that he knows how to create jobs with livable wages. Romny and Huntsman came across as the most informed and most reasonable candidates. I'm an Obama supporter, and I hope that the Republican candidate who receives the nomination will be one who will advance our national discussions in productive and responsible ways.
Didn't watch it, didn't waste my time and won't waste my time tonight watching a speach of words with no substance either ... I applaud the Wisonsin NBC station who has decided to broadcast the Green Bay -- New Orleans game over the President's speach ... they have their priorities straight ...
Didn't watch it, didn't waste my time and won't waste my time tonight watching a speach of words with no substance either ... I applaud the Wisonsin NBC station who has decided to broadcast the Green Bay -- New Orleans game over the President's speach ... they have their priorities straight ...
Yawn. I'm glad talking continues. However, if the topic came to the truth about Hemp in the United States a tangled web would become apparent. The Republicratic madness is insidious yet unnecessary if we are awake. Once Hemp has been reinstated as one of this nation's (and this world's) most respected and utilized plants, there would be no end to the availability of jobs and the spontaneous manifestation of supply needed to work every job with ease and gladness.
Lack is due to an artificially reinforced misperception skewed by ignorance, fear, greed, hatred.
Grow the economy: Legalize Hemp!
Debate? I guess I forgot to watch. I was just so glued to yet another 10 year, post 9/11 PBS show that gave me the same-old-same as the past five years. Just what makes events so damn important in their multiple of ten, years? Next year it will probably be, to most, just a five minute interruption to the never ending election coverage. Stop this madness. I just want my birthday back. Poor old me.
Apart from Huntsman, the whole GOP field appears, once again, to be the over-flow of the radical, right-wing cesspool that is poisoning this country.
I was relieved that Huntsman was there - a sane, rational voice for responsible government. I don't agree with a lot of what he said, but he has experience, intelligence, and gravitas. In any other year, he'd be the shoo-in Republican candidate. In 2012, not so much.
"Oh wait, we already HAVE a Muslim in the White House."
Oh, now I get it, CF. Here I thought I was disagreeing with you, and it turns out you were just writing satire all along. Good one!
That it was not a debate. Its a TV advertising en masse. I think future "debates" should run like the I-squared debates. Specify one issue for the debate. Poll the audience immediately before the debate, and then immediately after - poll exactly the same people. One addition I would add - prior to the pre-debate poll - have the audience complete a factual test of the issue - not as a in/out screen - but as a way to qualifying the knowledge of the audience on the topic - and include that in the polling results. For example - of those who little or nothing - they support candidate X. For those who knew quite a bit - they shifted their choice from candidate Z to candidate Y. .
Very boring. No new ideas, just the same old campaign slogans. Until Bachmann comes up with some intelligent solutions that would actually benefit average Americans and decrease the sky rocketing health care costs that are bankrupting small businesses and the middle class, she needs to shut up! Her continual ranting and raving about what's wrong with everything gets very old and is profoundly unproductive. Listening to her is a total waste of time. She needs to come up with some of her own ideas and quit complaining.
As a lifelong moderate republican, clearly Huntsman and Romney would be the most centrist, if they were elected. The bad news is like the looney left drives democratic candidates to the far left, the crazy right wing keeps driving republican candidates to make statements that will be tough to overcome in a general election.
I have found I am usually voting against a candidate in the general election more than I am voting for my preferred candidate.
Michele Bachmann: Will you puh-leeeez just answer the question! And while you're at it Ms Bachmann, stay on topic.
Ron Paul: Like you I'm a Libertarian but you are too old. You're a dinosaur just like McCain. Go play golf in Florida and let your grandson run for President.
Mitt Romney: I would never vote for a Mormon. That's like having a Muslim in the White House. Oh wait, we already HAVE a Muslim in the White House.
Rick Perry: Oh no not again. Another Texas governor for President. I only hope you know how to correctly pronounce the word "nuclear".
Newt Gingrich: If you picked Rush Limbaugh as your running mate, between the two of you, you'd have enough ex-wives to fill your Cabinet.
It was refreshing to hear Ron Paul actually speak the truth about Reagan. I hope Americans heard the contrast between the results of Romneycare (almost 100% coverage) and Perrycare (50% coverage.) Newsweek can be forgiven for their front page photo of Bachmann - she looked that scary last nigh too (she really needs to learn how to get rid of that "deer in the headlights" stare..) I'd forgotten Rick Santorum was still a candidate.
Ron Paul won hands down. Look at all of the post debate polls, landslide.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/07/7658608-who-do-you-think-won-the-republican-debate-at-the-reagan-library
He's the only one that wants the end the wars, federal reserve, IRS, FEMA, TSA, and bring our freedoms back through elimination of the Patriot act.
A bunch of slick willies.....full of misinformation and distortion.
The moderators clearly wanted to give prime time to whom they consider the front-runners: Romney and Perry. It was embarrassing how they short-changed Ron Paul. I felt that Newt Gingrich showed the best leadership qualities, even though he's not electable. Huntsman and Cain, I thought, provided good responses; the rest, . . . . yawn.
"Michele shined ..."
... a spotlight on her ineptitude.
Romney and Huntsman got the most out of this evening. The former was an adult and the latter sensible. Perry didn't seem presidential so much as he seemed like a character actor playing a president in a made-for-TV movie. And as for Bachmann, I hope she enjoyed the oxygen while it lasted because it's going away soon.
Scary!
Then happy! Michele shined and exhibited her true unique self! Maybe there is benefit to these expensive circuses passed off as important news, debates after all.
It's irrelevant to most Minnesotans. By the time we get to weigh in on the presidential nomination process, the decision will most likely be a foregone conclusion. The only Minnesotans that matter in choosing a nominee are those who contribute money to help sway opinion in states with earlier primaries and caucuses.
Debate??
I don't think so.
Destruction Derby??
Yeah- that's close!!
Glenn
Didn't watch it. Too far away.
I try to keep my head clean of campaign stuff until January. By the time the election actually happens I'm so sick of news coverage and commercials that I can't follow it until then.
It helps prevent against October burnout.
When TV/Radio starts talking about debates this early, it's time to change the station.
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