Official CNN South Carolina Debate Thread

[Hash]

You kinda need to understand Frothy. His name is now a sexual neologism

[King]

The CNN debate lineup is basically Most to Least Fascist.

[Keystone Phil]

Rick has the best answer, as usual. The dumbs here, like usual, don't believe in common sense (copyrights).

[RI]

You kinda need to understand Frothy. His name is now a sexual neologism

Yeah...the internet pretty much screwed him over for life.

[Sam Spade]

Mitt should take a few lessons from Newt how to answer a question in a debate that you're not prepared for, because the SOPA question was a great example of that.

[Lief 🗽]

Uh, he came out against SOPA. What more do you guys want?

Not calling for restricting freedom on the internet.

[Phony Moderate]

Santorum: I oppose SOPA, but I support internet censorship.

[retromike22]

So Santorum wants MORE GOVERNMENT REGULATION on the internet?

[Likely Voter]

The only thing that makes Santorum a Republican is he wants low taxes.

Otherwise he wants the government way upside your grill. In your bedroom, your family, your computer, etc.

[Keystone Phil]

Santorum is on the wrong side of the majority in this country? Most of the country opposes copyright law? And he's disgusting despite opposing SOPA? Wow.

[Thomas D]

Less then 40 minutes left and nothing that will overshadow Newt's opening answer.

[Eraserhead]

Santorum's answer is predictably the worst.

And Ron Paul's is predictably the best.

[Keystone Phil]

Uh, he came out against SOPA. What more do you guys want?

These people are unreasonable.

[tpfkaw]

http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/AutismSpectrumQuotient/AutismSpectrumQuotient.aspx

Actually took the time to take that, and scored 11.  Of course, I probably was semi-consciously gaming my answers somewhat to score lower, but then again that just shows that I'm self-aware and therefore not autistic.  Sorry!  Find some other non-sequitur.

Opposing unions is incredibly un-libertarian.

It would be, if unions were actually free associations of collectively bargaining employees.  As they are, they're just petition-organizers who demand that companies be made centrally-planned as well as fundraising/GOTV entities for the Democratic Party.

[Phony Moderate]

He basically implied that SOPA doesn't go far enough.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Uh, he came out against SOPA. What more do you guys want?

I thought you were economically left-wing. Why are you supporting Santorum?

[angus]

Oh G-d, Mitt. Maybe? That's... bad. That could be very bad.

It could be, but I don't think so.  He is reluctant because he's rich. We all know this.  It is not news.  He didn't create those tax-shelter laws, but he'd be a fool not to exploit them.  You would, if you were in his size-13 shoes, and so would I.

As far as Daddy is concerned, we all inherit from Daddy.  I got my good looks from Daddy.  And my charming manner.  And the fact that I drink too much.  Didn't get no funds from Daddy, though, because he was poor.  Now, if I'm asked about what I inherited from Daddy, what do I say?  I say "nothing."  Mostly because I wouldn't remember, on the spot, that I probably inherited lots of things from Daddy.  This is the way it is.  Mitt probably inherited his good looks from Daddy, and his cockiness, and, unlike my Daddy, his Daddy might have had a few dollars in the bank.  That doesn't mean his Daddy was better than my Daddy, just had a different set of attributes to bequeath.  What are we, French?  Do we suddenly guillotine our rich people?  No, we're Yankees.  We don't have any aristocracy, and therefore we don't need to make a pretense of the need to revolt against it.  Let's stop pretending that we don't know that Mitt Romney is rich.  Of course he's rich.  FDR was rich.  Bush was rich.  Kennedy was rich.  We had lots of rich guys run for office, and most of 'em would say that they're self-made men.  They might have inherited a million or two from Daddy, but that million or two is chump change for them.  Most of the money in his bank account he earned.  Yes, he should pay a much higher percentage of it to the federal government--and no, I"m not a Libertarian, so my attitude should come as no surprise--but that's a matter for the congress to decide.  Don't hold the laws against Mitt.  He's just living within them, not writing them.

[Politico]

Less then 40 minutes left and nothing that will overshadow Newt's opening answer.

The question that is going to be on everybody's mind after Newt's opening answer, "what other skeletons does this guy have?"

They're also going to wonder if he has an "open marriage" right now when you consider that Gingrich was the Speaker that went after Clinton over Lewinsky. Apparently Gingrich was just envious of Clinton?

Ron Paul put it best: "Serial hypocrisy"

[useful idiot]

He basically implied that SOPA doesn't go far enough.

Uh no, he in fact literally said it went "too far"....

[Sam Spade]

In general, the copyright laws in the US are pretty much stronger now than they've ever been in world history.  And way too overbroad in protecting old copyrights.  If anything, we need better protection of new copyrights (but not prior restraint-type laws) and less protection of old ones.

Of course, SOPA doesn't really deal with much of that.

[RI]

Uh, he came out against SOPA. What more do you guys want?

I thought you were economically left-wing. Why are you supporting Santorum?

Santorum is the least economically right-wing.

[© tweed]

Opposing unions is incredibly un-libertarian.

in this context they'd be talking about federal recognition of unions for bargaining purposes

[All Along The Watchtower]

Big happy family moment against Obama.

[King]

Why did CNN cut to a guy angling to get a handjob?

[M]

Santorum reminds the audience that he lost his last race and that he has no money.