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Are You the One? Republicans Debate in Florida
Jonah Goldberg, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, contributing editor to National Review and the author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Doubleday, 2008), and Collin Levy, Wall Street Journal senior editorial page writer based in Washington, D.C. and former speechwriter to President Bush, offer analysis of the Republican candidates debate in Florida.
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Why do you have a troglodyte like Doughy Pantload (aka Jonah Goldberg)? Really scarping the bottom of the barrell.
I listened to the debate on WNYC and I am really sick of these top-tier journalists who are so full of themselves. They ask questions no voter ever would. And they hog all the time. They can't ask one question and let each man answer. They have to ask a unique and often long question of each candidate so that by the end of the debate, the journalist inevitably talks more than each candidate, or so it seems.
And it is obvious that they have some pre-planned scheme so that Ron Paul or (Kucinich, etc.) get way less time than the so-called top tier candidates. Screw MSM - but Brian is awesome in striving for fairness.
Bwahahahah. "Romney's natural strength is economy." Righto. Bain was well known for firing workers. That outta stand Mittens in good stead in the prez race.
I watched this debate, and will now stop watching any of this debates. It is ridiculous how much air time john mccain and romney got. It just seemed to me that they were pushing romney more than anything. It seems like msnbc wants to determine who will beat hillary, therefore they give that person the most spotlight.
The msm media is now clearly biased, and i will no longer be obtaining my news from them. and did anybody here the whisper when tim russert asked romney the question about the reagan tax cuts?
I am not saying that there is a big conspiracy by the msm to get someone elected, but i wouldn't be surprised if this was the case.
# 3, yes i thought this was funny as well, they kept saying romney has a "business background" tehrefore his strength is the economy, I can see how this things correlate, but do we even know if romney was a good business man? Even if he was i do not think this makes him the best candidate on the subject.
and btw huckabee was not the only one talking about the economic downturn, ron paul was one of the first to talk about our economic downturn, while the others were proclaiming that the economy is good and strong, and resilient.
Leonardo - Yes I heard that. Romney was asked would he follow Reagan and save social security (and there was a whisper about raising taxes, I don't know where it came from, I was listening on the radio). Romney then answered no he would not do that because it involved raising taxes - namely the social security tax.
As a Dem, I agree, build more Amtrak lines!
Short debate: Because Rs have nothing to say.
Mitt Romney said expand I95 end to end??
What needs to be done is build 4 new Railroad tracks alongside I95, two for freight, two for passengers.
This way the Highway can take trucks from maine to florida VIA Rail (get on in Fla, get off in NY, save ENERGY and help the ECONOMY
feggit about amtrack.... and put the unemployed to work as a new "Works project administration"
Mark...
check the main blog (markbnj.blogspot.com) for a forthcoming piece on REBUILDING america
Ron Paul is asked in Florida days before an election, "Do you still want to abolish Social Security?" And the first word out of his mouth is "Yes." ("Yes but not overnight.")
I personally am for the Social Security program but I just love Paul's utter and extreme political in-correctness.
does anyone else find the "are you the one music" annoying?
ron paul would not take votes away from republicans? after at the moment he has had more votes than guialiani and thompson? I guess he wouldn't take the republican vote who is anti war? or the republican vote who is for smaller government? If ron paul runs third party, and michael bloomberg joins him as another third party candidate, then maybe we will have an interesting general election, because a clinton vs romney or vs mccain does not appeal to me, and i am pretty sure i am not the only one.
#9
It was cHucklebee, not Mittens who wants to pave over the entire East Coast.
Us Ds are so happy that the Rs will support the war right into party oblivion. Go for it!
1. If the Democrats don’t hit McCain hard for his support of the troop surge (and by implication the worst president in modern history), they will have let opportunity slip through his fingers. The trick will be to criticize the former naval aviator’s position on Iraq without seeming to belittle the man himself, for McCain still generates a great deal of sympathy support for his POW experience.
2. McCain spent five years in a POW camp, at times being subjected to torture. This has to have taken its toll on his mental state. In the Senate he is well-known for his short fuse and his almost-uncontrollable temper. Traits that may make him both feared and effective on Capitol Hill, I think, are not quite the qualities I would want in a man in the Oval Office. But for the Democrats, should McCain surge after Florida, the challenge will be to get this point across without having the wave flood their village.
3. There should be a position for him in the next Administration. However, until this issue is addressed in a non-partisan way and the Senator is given a clean bill of mental health, he should not head that Administration. But how can he be vetted psychologically without being turned into a sympathy candidate? The last thing I would want is for him to be the subject of a whisper campaign or, worse yet, the butt of jokes. But nonetheless, beneath that charm, self-effacement, humor and honesty may lurk a troubled man. And the time to find this out is now.
I also love the way the R callers are rationalizing thier prefs for people who are totally unqualified to be prez.
Bloomberg for President ****
I am a lifelong democrat.
I can't stand either 0bamma or CliNOTon
(edwards would work for me)
I actually think Bloomberg BUYING the presidency
(entering race after both of the candidates are decided (say in MAY or June), but BEFORE the primaries.
And for him to run commercials EVERY day.
Saying how he:
* has MANAGED (as opposed to Rudi's mismanagement) of NY
* won't be beholden to special antics/interests
* is for CAMPAIGN reform, as absolutely needed as per his purchase of presidency
*is also for:
** Immigration
** Nationalized Health care
** Resolution of the poverty problem
(just like Edwards?)
At any rate, I am running a bumper sticker contest shortly!
From what i got from this debate last night is that media is pushing a war loving republican candidate to run against hillary clinton. That is what they would love to see, which to me it means that hillary would win the presidential election, and it would mean that this coutnry has turned into a monarchy, the new form of democracy.
How can anyone like lying romney? it is well documented that he just like sounding presidential, and he will say anything to get elected, how people can't not see that is beyond me.
Why would you let a nauseating hack like johah goldberg into the WNYC studios??
what is there to gain from his perspective?
His latest goal is to link Hillary Clinton to Adolf Hiter.
give me a break already.
Can't get past McCain calling the Vietnamese "Gooks" during his 2000 campaign. Well perhaps that's understandable, psychologically, it's the running for prez part that scares me. Shudder to imagine another "revenge president." And this is coming from a former McCain supporter!
referenced incident (which east coast press decided to skip in coverage at the time, though Asia was obviously shocked): http://asianweek.com/2000_02_24/feature_mccainapology.html
#2
yeah his political incorrectness as in taking money from a white supremacist, his incorrectness as in his racist newsletter from the 90's, his criticisms of the civil rights act. It would be more honest if you just said you like his racism.
Every time Paul was allowed to open his mouth, I couldn't help but love how blind and hypocritical he made the rest of the R's seem - especially when it comes to the economy.
Absolutely nauseating to hear Jonah Goldberg on WNYC. This guy's only purpose in life is to smear liberals and democrats. He's on par with Ann Coulter. Let's see some guests with more substance please.
#21 Everytime somebody mentions ron paul on this boards, you bring up the racist newsletter issue and the donation issue, which both have been addressed by the campaign.
out of curiosity, since you seem to hate ron paul as a candidate, who are you supporting?
I love Ron Paul's political incorrectness! When asked would you stop all support to Israel, he says yes. When asked whether he would change the embargo of Cuba, he says yes. When asked if he would defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion or S. Korea from a N. Korean invasion, he says No (unless Congress declares war, which they probably would not).
I love it.
Then Chris O you would love living in China! There those policies are not politically incorrect -- they are mandatory.
I think everyone is missing the point of Rudy's strategy. He had to know he didn't have a chance to be the Republican presidential nominee, and that Hillary had a very good chance of being the Democratic nominee. Moreover, it's not hard to predict a Democratic win regardless of the candidate. And if it's Hillary there becomes, for him, a very winable New York Senate seat available...the job he sought and and had to withdraw from seven years ago.
The presidential run for Rudy, not much more committed to than a little show in Florida, gives him some visibility, the appearance of having a national as well as regional competence, and a show of electability.
jj - no i would hate living in china since freedom of speech and freedom of association and freedom of religion etc. are very important to me
i don't know why you pick china, i think those are the "policies" of most nations of the world
the are you the one music is designed to make nerds like lehrer think they're hip while it's repetitiveness and annoyance is lost on the self same nerds
Am I the only one who, hearing “Are You the One?,” thinks it was lifted from a 1970’s porno film? If you can locate Andrea True, get her reaction.
Yes, "are you the one" music is annoying. Brian, will we have to listen to this until the convention?
The levels are all wrong and sound weird. Not a full sound.
May I suggest "Are you the one?" by the Scorpions instead?
Are you the one that God had made for me
Are you the one whos always in my dreams
The one who keeps me goin
When I cant go on
The one that Ive been waiting for
For so long
Chris O --
My point is that you disagree with the US defending S. Korea from North, Taiwan from China, Israel from the haters.
In each of those cases the US is standing up for freedom of speech and freedom of association and freedom of religion etc. -- precisely the "issues" that you say you value too.
Tell me if I'm missing something?
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