Romney in South Carolina
January 10th, 2008 Posted in 2008, Debate, Iran, Mitt Romney, economy
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January 10th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
My first response is Romney did well! He did not get as much time to speak back in this format. However I noticed the camera pan to him more often when others were speaking. His immigration response was presidential.
Fred Thompson looked desperate tonight, even though I enjoyed his tirade on Mike Huckabee.
John McCain looked down when Wendel Goler asked him the Immigration question. My training in interpreting body language sais he was extremely nervous and projected that. He did poorly on that question.
Ron Paul was Ron Paul!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Huckabee preached way to much from the pulpit and the voters in other states outisde of South Carolina will recognize that. We are voting for a President, I think Ed Rollins has not informed Pastor Huckabee of that yet!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I am very happy that Mitt mentioned Michigan and the Auto Industry!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Mitt did well. I think Fred won, which is good for Mitt because if Fred can upset the balance a bit in SC it will help Romney down the road.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I was happy to hear Fred declared the victor. We need him to get stronger to undermine the Huckster in SC and elsewhere (Michigan would be nice).
January 11th, 2008 at 12:02 am
I think Fred did well in South Carolina focus group when put into the proper perspective. Nationally I do not think he was appealing! He came off a little rough on the edges not presidential material in my opinion!
January 11th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Did anyone think Chris Wallace was unfair to Romney????
January 11th, 2008 at 12:39 am
No, the dynamics of the race have changed because of Mitt not pulling off a win in Iowa or New Hampshire. They tried to tangle Huckabee and Thompson tonight and a little of McCain and Mitt. Mitt did well but seemed a little subdued tonight. I notice that Foxs panel of experts did not even mention him or Guilliannia in their post debate round table as of this point.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Wha.. wha.. drool.. what it’s over? Good. now I can wake up and play sudoku.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am
I felt sorry for Mitt. All dressed up and nowhere to go. He was shunted off to the side in the background, and only mustered one or two decent comments. BUT NO COMPELLING IMAGE, NO COMPELLING STATEMENT.
How can he let McCain get away with his “crap” about illegal immigration. When McCain says our immigration policy needs to show “compassion”, why can’t MITT say,
“How about showing some compassion to those whose jobs are being taken”.
“How about showing compassion to those whose taxes can’t even pay for their own kids education but who have to pay for the kids of illegals?
How about showing compassion for those whose hospitals are going bankrupt and closing down because of the burden of free health care for illegals?
How about showing compassion for those here and abroad who believe in fairness and the rule of law, and see our government doesn’t have the will to impose our own laws.
I don’t want to hear anymore about Mr. McCains “compassion”.
We’ve all tried to find out where he stands and doesn’t stand on this “amnesty” business, and we might never find out from him. But we do know one thing for sure, the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, whatever he says now or says he said then, was a massive, shocking betrayal of the American people, and everything we believe in and stand for. Enough is Enough, Mr. McCain. And the American people have had enough. Enough false compassion. Enough betrayal. Enough.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:33 am
The debate was worth it just to hear Thompson wake up from his long winter’s nap and finally call Huckabee what he truly is: a liberal. It was wonderful. And Fred won the debate, hands down. Good for him. Maybe Fred will do well in SC and take some of those evangelical votes away from Huck. It will scramble the race even further, which contrary to the original theory, would actually really help Romney now, along with Giuliani. How about a Romney/Thompson ticket?
January 11th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Do you think Thompson likes Romney?
January 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I hope Thompson likes Romney. That’s a ticket I could not only get behind, but actively go out and campaign for!
January 11th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Andrew, do you support romney now. Can you actively campaign for him now?
January 11th, 2008 at 2:31 am
It really doesn’t matter if they like each other. The question is can one do something for the other, and they certainly can. Fred can do a lot to help Romney as his VP. He can bring in the whole south and also those “true-blue conservatives”, who feel Romney hasn’t proven himself yet. On the other hand, Romney can help Fred as his VP by bringing lots of $$$ to the table through his business and Mormon contacts, and incredible organizational ability. Even though I dislike Huck, I think Romney would be a good VP for Huck and Vice Versa. Mormons will hate Huck if he gets the nod, due to his Devil and Jesus comments, and playing the religion card, and he could lose the whole southwest if they don’t turn out in November. He would need Romney to squelch the Mormon antagonism. Romney, on the other hand, would obviously need Huck to bring in the evangelical vote.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:50 am
I don’t know if I could vote for a Huck/Romney ticket. I do not want Mike Huckabee calling the shots for America…Romney/Thompson or Romney/Hunter would be a conservative dream ticket. I don’t know how likely they are though. I think overall Fred won the debate, mostly due to showing some fire (and saying what Romney usually says in most debates) while Mitt took a respectable second for good answers the few times he was asked a question, and for showing he’s knowledgeable on foreign policy, contrary to McCain’s commercials. I think this debate helped Fred in South Carolina and Mitt in Michigan and nobody else really benefited.
January 11th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Indeed Linda i think all republicans have lost in this race because some of the rivalries have cost America some otherwise excellent combinations. However if you look at the last few decades you’ll see VP on the winning ticket tend to be older and experienced to help offset the youth and inexperience of the nominee. (great article on townhall talked about this months ago) The reasoning on it was maybe America was more comfortable with the seasoned veteran ready to stand in during a moment of emergency.
“Romney can help Fred as his VP by bringing lots of $$$ to the table through his business and Mormon contacts”
Innocent surely but a slippery slope, most common antisemitic propoganda involves some version of the “jews have all the money” theres a reason it does its because it works to stir up resentment among the poor and blue collars types. I’ve known lots of Mormons most of them middle income or working poor types with big families. A few upper class sorts but they are a small exception. I base this observation on the states I’ve lived in south Carolina, Illinois, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, utah, and alaska. And the literally dozens upon dozens of wards I’ve been in during my life.
Huckabees religious pinnate is literally thousands of times the size of mitts. But Mitts business contacts have paid off for him. Maybe too well, with less money he may have taken more of a rifle approach to his ads rather then the shotgun approach that has been a proportional failure. Sure he has more money then the other republicans but hes not even close to the 100million each Obama and Hillary had even before Iowa.
anywho ill shut up now.