GOP Youtube Debate Thread

Mike Huckabee is a hell of a politician.

John McCain is the only one up there with a coherent ideology. Well, Ron Paul's is coherent to him, I suppose.

Giuliani answered every single question by talking about New York. I don't know if that will work for him.

Fred Thompson is a joke. Just a flat-out joke. He's Kuccinich with money.

 

That's only the second GOP debate I have watched, but Huckabee impressed me before, too.

 

Why isn't there a GOP Debate Thread?

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I remember when Mitt Romney ran against Ted Kennedy in the early '90s and he had an ad where he talked about the day he moved into the state, driving on the Mass. Pike in a UHaul with his wife. He tried to make it sound like he started with almost nothing, like he had such humble beginnings.
And everytime I saw that ad, I thought of the beginning of Head Office when Eddie Albert was flying over Chicago in a helicopter saying "Look at this, when I got here, I had just $50 million in my pocket and now this is all mine."

 

Huckabee was the only president on that stage. That slap at Mitt about how Huck paid for college was agreat moment.
Rudy looked terrible and sounded worse.
That said, the pandering to the audience on immigration scared the hell out of me.

 

Hillary plants question in Republican debate


UPDATE: In the final seconds of the post-debate coverage, Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.

 

I could swear I heard Rudy change positions in mid-answer on a gun control question.

 

The only thing he's ever done that I unabashedly support was his knucking the southern gun dealers for pumping weapons north along the I95 corridor, and he's running headlong away from it now.
As for General Kerr, well, is there something wrong with the question?

 

I just thought it was funny.

I'm finding it difficult to get worked up about the election this soon.

 

A perfectly reasonable attitude.
For political junkies, though, a wideopen primary race on both sides is like Halley's Comet.