CNN Republican You-Tube Debate -- Wednesday, November 28, 2007

[Joe Biden 2020]

90 seconds, huh?

[Know Your Rights!]

McCain started off weak, but there's some applause at the end.

But wow...the amount of time?

[angus]

Thompson's trying out "coy"  Not a good look on him.  It's like the former head cheerleader, now a secretary at a marketing agency, who comes in to the bathroom and notices the catfight, but decides she's so much above them that she'll just pass insults over their heads.  As she daubs just enough cologne on her wrists to hide the funk of Marlboros on her clothing. 

Man, this is like a sensitivity class all gone wrong.  Who did the GOP hire?  Maybe that Candace Bergen character that Mister Weed hires on Family Guy to do "sensitivity training" for Peter. 

McCain's sober.  And a bit patronizing.  I think you guys just thing he's going long because he lacks inflection or emotion.  He can be funny, though.  Maybe he'll get a chance to try out his "tied up at the time" line again tonight.

Tancredo is actually expounding a little more.  And he seems particularly spirited tonight.

Hunter's on message as well.

Oh, now "ashley" is asking a question.  Ashley?!  When did mamas and daddies start naming their little girls after septegenarian English butlers?  Ashley, could you be a lamb and fetch us another scotch?  Yes, sir.  Will that be all, sir?

Oh, Now Huckabee's setting her straight.  I'm telling ya, I'm liking him more and more.  All that stuff about "likely Iowa caucus voters" turning to Mike?  That's me.   

[Joe Biden 2020]

Thankfully, I have this on DVR.  I've been dealing with a sinus infection the past five days, so I'm going to bed.

[StateBoiler]

Mitt Romney:

"Every bill with pork and earmarks needs a veto."

He said it. Everyone remember that if he becomes President.

[Lincoln Republican]

Mitt Romney:

"Every bill with pork and earmarks needs a veto."

He said it. Everyone remember that if he becomes President.

Romney is a man of his word.  As President, he will keep his word.

[Aizen]

The audience likes Paul

[Aizen]

McCain vs Paul? Aww yeah.

[Хahar 🤔]

Mitt Romney:

"Every bill with pork and earmarks needs a veto."

He said it. Everyone remember that if he becomes President.

Romney is a man of his word.  As President, he will keep his word.

That's hilarious.

[MarkWarner08]

McCain just slammed Ron Paul's isolationist talk. Troops to Paul: Let us win.

Nice line, John.

[Aizen]

Mitt Romney:

"Every bill with pork and earmarks needs a veto."

He said it. Everyone remember that if he becomes President.

Romney is a man of his word.  As President, he will keep his word.

Romney is a man of every word. He would have to keep at least one of them.

[StateBoiler]

McCain just slammed Ron Paul's isolationist talk. Troops to Paul: Let us win.

Nice line, John.

Paul to McCain: Then why do I receive more money from them than you?

I've never seen Grover Norquist before.

[Aizen]

Yeah, McCain got his ass kicked by Paul. Paul does receive the most money from troops.

[StateBoiler]

Mitt Romney:

"Every bill with pork and earmarks needs a veto."

He said it. Everyone remember that if he becomes President.

Romney is a man of his word.  As President, he will keep his word.

He went back on his word just ten minutes later by supporting agricultural pork and earmarks.

[StateBoiler]

Ouch. Good Fred Thompson commercial. He bashes Huckabee and Romney.

[Aizen]

haha at Fred's video. Romney looked scared replying to it.

[StateBoiler]

haha at Fred's video. Romney looked scared replying to it.

Huckabee is a lot smoother replying to it than Romney too.

[MarkWarner08]

Thompson vid accuses Huckabee and Romeny of apostasy.

[MarkWarner08]

haha at Fred's video. Romney looked scared replying to it.

Huckabee is a lot smoother replying to it than Romney too.

Huckabee's just as slick as another famous man from Hope.

[Bacon King]

Romney's coming across as especially fake tonight.

[ilikeverin]

Yeah, McCain got his ass kicked by Paul. Paul does receive the most money from troops.

1) Paul's support is mostly Internet-based.
2) Paul's donations come primarily from the Internet.
3) Soldiers are able to access the Internet but not other methods of fundraising (gala dinners, mail-in, credit card, etc.) and don't get anything but Internet solicitations (as their addresses and phone numbers are subject to change)

Ergo, Paul gets the most donations from troops, because more traditional-minded troops cannot give funds in a more traditional manner.  More useful might be donations from Iraq War veterans.

[angus]

LeAnn from Pennsylvania just asked the most important question I have yet heard.  I also heard a similar question asked in the Democrat debate.  Unfortunately, Anderson Cooper let only Tancredo and Hunter speak about it.  And Hunter actually managed to change the subject.

I'm generally a Ron Paul Republican, and will probably caucus for him, but I have been thinking more and more about what "free trade" should mean.

I'm in the supermarket two blocks north of my house a couple of weeks ago, and I happened to glance down at the stack of Chicago Tribunes as I was waiting in line, and I saw a little black-and-white photo of a block toy my son has.  It's a Baby Einstein Plush Block, with a duck on one side, a mirror on another, and some words, etc., and it comes with a set of several other big plush blocks, plasticky and soft and fuzzy, and a big kangaroo puppet that teaches you about climate when you push a button.  So I picked up the article--and long story short--learned that a lab in Illinois found that this particular toy had 12000 parts per million lead in its plastic.  Way over the limit that the state of Illinois considers safe.  Now, 12000 ppm is 12 ppt, or 1.2 percent.  Unless I'm reading it wrong.  One point two fukking percent lead in the plastic!!!  We dutifully packed those particular blocks away, but he's been playing with them for three years.  And this isn't a cheapie WalMart toy.  It's a gift from a close personal friend bought at a nice department store.  And That's a particularly eggregious example, but it is one of many. 

Well, anyway, this is an important issue I'm watching closely, but apparently Anderson Cooper doesn't think it's very important.  Schmuck.  This part of why I can't stand that bastard.

Well, anyway, I'll be watching this issue closely. 

[MarkWarner08]

McCain copies Tancredo video; Hillary still bogeywoman of the right.

[MarkWarner08]

Two Republicans on that stage do not have guns at home, name both. Answer: John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.

[Reluctant Republican]

Romney's answer is sort of simplistic. He kind of fumbled on this one, IMHO.