Official January 7th Debate Thread

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Perry was right about Paul's hypocrisy on earmarks, but at the same time, a tool of TX special interests, presents himself as an outsider.

Ron Paul had a good point about using the Balanced Budget amendment as a shield for spending, but most of his individual points were lost to Santorum who I think won that exhange over Paul.

I think Romney did best in that exchange by appearing "above the fray".

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Right....Ron Paul just lost any goodwill I had for him by attacking the death penalty.

He didn't attack it. He just said it's carried out unfairly.

And if one is truly interested in preserving the death penalty, the best way to do so would be to resolve some of these concerns. Otherwise support will bleed away and it will be abolished across the US, in a decade or two.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Mitt was actually pretty funny right there, referring to Dr. Paul.

I thought, "it's working just fine, leave it alone" was better.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Right....Ron Paul just lost any goodwill I had for him by attacking the death penalty.

He didn't attack it. He just said it's carried out unfairly.

And if one is truly interested in preserving the death penalty, the best way to do so would be to resolve some of these concerns. Otherwise support will bleed away and it will be abolished across the US, in a decade or two.

What kind of a bastard do you have  to be to do that?

An evil, heartless beast of course.

OMG we are actually talking about economy now, who would have guessed that this deserved attention?