The Gazillionth Republican Debate Open Thread

Filed in National by on January 19, 2012

I’m thinkin’ this is gonna get interesting.  Have at it.

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  1. pandora says:
    January 19, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    Does everyone have their popcorn?

  2. pandora says:
    January 19, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Newt comes out swinging… at CNN. But, come on, why did CNN use the open marriage as the first question?

  3. puck says:
    January 19, 2012 at 8:21 pm

    Is the interview with Newt’s ex really going to air during the debate? I guess I better pull out the manual and learn how to use my Picture-In-Picture feature.

    Update – no, actually it is on Nightline later tonight.

  4. socialistic ben says:
    January 19, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    I was able to tolerate 5 minutes. 30 Rock is pretty good this season.

  5. pandora says:
    January 19, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Is Newt’s “open marriage” thing really a big deal? Weren’t all his marriages… well… open?

  6. socialistic ben says:
    January 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    I think he can ride the “Polyamorous Racist” vote all the way to the White House

  7. pandora says:
    January 19, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    Oh snap! Newt releases his tax return during the debate!

  8. pandora says:
    January 19, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    Mitt Romney: “I didn’t inherit money from my parents.”

    Real estate?

  9. rusty dils says:
    January 19, 2012 at 10:33 pm

    Pandora, real estate?, maybe, but mostly strong values and strong work ethic.

  10. socialistic ben says:
    January 19, 2012 at 10:38 pm

    hahah. Rusty, you reveal yourself as a satirist.

  11. Jason330 says:
    January 19, 2012 at 10:39 pm

    Didn’t see the debate, but from reports, it looks like the Republicans are going to nominate the throughly unelectable Newt Gingrich.

    Down ticket D’s across the country are rejoicing.

  12. Jason330 says:
    January 19, 2012 at 10:56 pm

    Oh jesus. I just watched the clip of Newt beating up the media. Talk about working the refs. Now when any media reports any fact about Newt, it will be fit into the wingnut frame that the “elitist media” is protecting President Obama. Worse still – the lazy ass media will be cowed by that charge and will work overtime to beat up the President to prove how unbiased they are.

  13. Grin says:
    January 20, 2012 at 6:02 am

    I also could only stand a few minutes of it, C-span had the pipeline hearings on. A plethora of anti pipeline people gave 3 minute testimony, good stuff.

  14. puck says:
    January 20, 2012 at 8:14 am

    With these debates, we have been watching Republicans (including the eventual nominee) get hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising for months now.

    Looking back, it would have been almost worth it to have a bunch of Democratic tomato cans primary Obama for months, so he too could get that free advertising.

    Of course, the exposure hurt the Republicans more than it helped them. But that’s just because they are morons and it shows.

  15. socialistic ben says:
    January 20, 2012 at 8:46 am

    You gotta love the debate crowds. I kinda hope some of these yelping baboons show up at the presidential debates and yee-haw for Newt for media-bashing when asked about Iran.

    “these are the people who will vote for Gingrich… you arent one of them…. are you?

    The VERY small amount of the debate i DID watch, i saw Mitt Rmoney not answer a single question he was asked. not. a. one.
    Moderator. “please state your name”
    Rmoney “Barack Obama has held this country down for too long”

  16. Jason330 says:
    January 20, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Anyone want to see what the next 10 months looks like to an insane teabagger? Check out this editorial about last night from the Washington Times. It is truly through the looking-glass type stuff.

    NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — There is growing consternation in Republican circles and among conservatives over why Republicans keep allowing the various Communist, leftist and otherwise anti-American TV networks to host GOP debates.

    The ickiness of Diana Sawyer asking questions in her cloying voice is more than most can bear. The utter cluelessness of the questions these people think actual American voters care about is mystifying. The shameless and ham-handed pandering to conservatives by the networks is revolting.

    Indeed, the entire phoenix rising candidacy of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich can be attributed to America’s abject hatred of the left-wing media. He was destitute and written off by the press when he tapped into one of the most visceral political reactions coursing through the veins of regular Americans. And once be began beating up the media, America gathered around him.

    Last night, we saw once again why Republicans need to keep allowing fakers and Communists to moderate their GOP debates. Because without the leftist, elitist snobs to beat the ever-living crap out of every couple of weeks, the debates would be so much less fun.

    Now I realize that what we watched last night was not a simple beating and perhaps it was wrong of so many of us to enjoy it with such bloodlust. It was more a public evisceration. A man’s entrails were picked out and drawn far out from inside him and left for jackals to chew on before his living eyes.

    If John King of Communist News Network were not, in fact, a cardboard cutout of a blockheaded jock, it would have been much more gruesome. Because then human blood would have been spewing all over the stage and the fine people watching the debate live. Instead, it was just minced corrugated cardboard stuffing floating in the flood lights.

  17. socialistic ben says:
    January 20, 2012 at 10:34 am

    “All the teabaggers want i another civil war so they can kill their fellow Americans.” – me, a bunch of times in the last 3 years.

  18. Another Mike says:
    January 20, 2012 at 11:34 am

    What is the point of debate after debate? What could they possibly say that hasn’t been said before? Once again, I exercised my freedom of choice and tuned out.

  19. V says:
    January 20, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    John King was actually pretty terrible. How do you “forget” to call on Ron Paul (the OB/GYN for god’s sake) on the abortion question? to the point that the audience is yelling to get King to ask him questions? and the Open marriage opener just felt so tacky.

    way to make me feel bad for sucky people John King.

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