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This is scathing live blogging about Romney from Ana Marie Cox, no serious person. (H/T to GOP Blue at GOP Progress. ) 8:23 PM Gilmore ALSO STANDING. Mitt Romney totally flummoxed, can’t remember what polling said about standing versus sitting. 8:31 PM Romney’s decided to stand. He’s not going to apologize about becoming pro-standing. He’s [...]
Mitt Romney seemed not present. Perhaps he will claim, like the second tier democrats, that he didn’t get enough questions. It seems that the NRO crowd is claiming that McCain won. I remember him and GIuliani. I don’t remember Romney at all. Again, Huckabee did well. Will think well.
Now, I think this whole issue is taken as a proxy for the question, "how much will be protect us?" And law and order is a big principle in the GOP. But wasn’t this weird? Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would support "enhanced interrogation techniques … but not torture." Isn’t that just equivocating? [...]
I think that Rudy Giuliani did well tonight. No one really nailed him on abortion, which surprises me. And he really nixed Ron Paul. John McCain did well too. I think that he really had some good lines. He made a great impression. Without the really extraordinary intervention of Giuliaini on the Ron Paul line, [...]
9:05: McCain gets lucky with the first question on his best issue. He is 9:06: Thompson (is that hair real?) is asked about pressure on Iraq to get out. That’s a different version of revenue sharing. Winning the peace is a good line. 9:08: Romney ducks the question about whether he would leave. Does he [...]
Palmetto Scoop … has the scoop: Also, we saw a very large man (we believe he works for Romney) pulling up McCain signs because they were “in the right of way.”. It is going to be a very interesting next few hours.
NYT’s Adam Nagourney had this to say: 1) Who will be the most effusive in paying tribute to the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority and a great power in the evangelical wing of the party? Will Mr. Falwell be to this debate what Ronald Reagan was to the Republican presidential candidates [...]
Given South Carolina’s social conservatism and Rudy Giuliani’s struggle in the last debate over abortion, you can expect that to be a significant focus of the debate tonight, or, at least, the press’s handling of it. Today in South Carolina, the State Senate will be voting on an ultrasound bill that I have discussed previously. [...]
Mitt Romney tried to dodge a question on embryonic stem-cell research, but Chris Matthews asked the tough questions. Again, Mitt flopped. Last night he said: MODERATOR: And you won’t take any from these fertility clinics to use either? ROMNEY: I’m happy to allow that to — or I shouldn’t say happy.It’s fine for that to [...]
I was going to write on this but Deal Hudson beat me to it, and more articulately. Romney’s record: As governor of Massachusetts, Romney ordered Catholic hospitals to administer emergency contraception to women who claim they had been raped. Romney’s words last night: I don’t say anything to Roman Catholic bishops. They can do whatever [...]
