As I mentioned
in a previous
post, Saturday night’s GOP presidential debate was the first one I’ve been
able to watch live because I wasn’t working.
ABC, the
network that is finally
canning hermaphrodite Christiane Amanpour, trotted out Diane Sawyer and
little Georgie Stephanopoulos to be the moderators.
"Who is the most conservative of you
all?" asks little Georgie. Mitt
answers, "Speaker Gingrich and I have a lot of places where we
disagree..." “Why don't you name
them?” asked Stephanopoulos. "Er..."
Romney said and then proffered Gingrich’s idea about building bases on the
moon.
That set up one of the zingers of the night.
Gingrich looked askance at Mittens and said, “Let's be candid, the only reason
you didn't become a career politician is you lost to Teddy Kennedy in 1994.”
The wise thing for Mittens to have done would have
been to let that one-two punch go, but he didn’t. “With regards to the idea that I had beaten
Ted Kennedy I’d have been a career politician, that’s probably true.” Can you say tailor-made line for a “not
Romney ad”?
I was
impressed with Michele Bachmann’s brilliant creation of the moniker “Newt
Romney” implying that Newt backed the individual mandate in healthcare as far
back as 1993. Romney tried to shut down that image by quickly adding, “I know Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich is a
friend. He and I are not clones. This Newt Romney thing we've got to get it out
of our minds.”
Besides the two zingers I’ve mentioned here, the
part of the debate that will resonate for a long while was when Rick Perry
throttled Mitt by saying, "I read your first book, and it said in there
that your mandate in Massachusetts, which should be the model for the country
... I'm just saying, you were for individual mandates, my friend."
Romney brazenly erred when he shot back at Perry
saying, “You’ve raised that before, Rick, and you’re simply wrong. Rick, I’ll tell you what: 10,000 bucks?
$10,000 bet?” That was the “oops”
moment of the night. That one’s
gonna leave a mark.
There was a mini-debate about Gingrich’s comment
that the Palestinians are an “invented” people which was Romney’s strongest
exchange of the evening.
Larry Sabato tweeted,
“So it’s obvious: Newt wasn’t jostled
from frontrunner’s perch tonight. Only
negative TV ads or Newt himself can reverse his course.”
That bit of news is sure to make some pundits apoplectic.
That was a great line from Newt about Mitt and Kennedy. And then the momentary deer in the headlights look on Mitt's face was priceless!
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