Or perhaps I should say, live-commenting. I’m watching it here, since I don’t get that channel on TV.
And here’s my first comment — I thought Romney did a good job of deflecting criticism of his Bain record, early on there. What did you think?
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Interesting that Santorum defended a right-to-work bill, in a GOP debate, in SC, citing MLK. How far we’ve come…
Wait, that was a voter-rights issue. Same deal, though… still remarkable…
Nikki Haley’s just so tickled! They mentioned her name! They mentioned her name! Oh, joy!
Rick Perry shouldn’t have said the federal government was at war with SC. Hey, when SC is at war with the US, you’ll know it. Believe me.
Um… did Santorum just compared people who, like me, have been unemployed to welfare recipients? Interesting…
“We actually think work is good,” unlike Obama, says Gingrich. Because, you know, he’s black and all…
Yeah, Ron Paul, we need to build more domestic military bases, rather than having them in the areas where they need to be. Wow.
… because, you know, we’re living in the year 1792…
I find it hard to imagine being so enthusiastic about Ron Paul that you actually whistle…
Romney’s response to being asked about his tax records: “Homina, homina, homina…”
Romney should get his new friend Nikki Haley to do his taxes. She’d love to, I’m sure…
I’m with Santorum on what he just said about values-free counseling…
“No,” says Gingrich, he doesn’t see how his comments might demean blacks. The crowd roars. Race relations in the US just got set back a mile and a half.
Gingrich says Obama feeding more poor people than any previous president. The beast! How dare he?
Did somebody use a time machine to transport this audience from the Roman Colosseum, circa 100 A.D.?
What does it say about us in SC that Gingrich’s over-the-top performance just now could help him on Saturday?
Just heard the Newt racial thing — what’s wrong with those people in the crowd?
Newt Gingrich is stooping to conquer us, and it just might work…
Thanks for joining in, Dan and Susan!
Newt is doing very, very well. So is Perry and so is Romney. Santorum has done well but I don’t think he’s done nearly as well as the other three mentioned.
Newt put it back on Jaun but then Jaum is a significant lightweight in the first place. The audience sure reacted to Jaun’s questions, too.
Good line by Gingrich: bin Laden is “not a Chinese dissident,” he explains to Ron Paul.
One of the things they will not touch, and Jaun’s editorial today avoids altogether, deals with single family homes, births out of wedlock and the percentage attributable to the minorities. Sure, there is a lot of that in the white community but it is in epidemic proportions in the minority segments.
Missed some stuff just then. Internet hiccup…
Great line about Andrew Jackson.
I missed that. Did Joe Biden actually say that the Taliban is not the enemy of the U.S.? Anyone?
Paul is losing SC ….rapidly. Not that he ever had it.
Yay! Kill America’s enemies! Boo not endlessly bombing people!
Feels like I’m watching Fight Club or something.
Yo, Susan! You must have forgotten the first rule of Fight Club…
Gov. Perry, I thought Obama’s foreign policy was essential Bush’s, with a harder edge. Which is why so many Dems are ticked off…
Yes, Biden did say that the Taliban was not our enemy….a couple of weeks ago.
Paul says Taliban just wants to be left alone. That, and impose extreme Sharia and harshly oppress women & everybody else…
Perry has done a really commendable job today. His comments right now are right on.
Yup, looks like he said it. Here’s a link. There goes ol’ Joe. Good topic for later…
He obviously read Congressman Allen West’s comments about those marines today. What they did was wrong. But our “outrage” is outsized. Let’s get outraged over Danny Pearl, decapitating others and hanging burned bodies over bridges. That is a real outrage.
This isn’t red meat we’re hearing tonight. It’s steak tartare, without the seasonings… It’s like roadkill…
That’s what I get for referencing a movie I never saw — Now I have to go look up the rules of Fight Club and see what I forgot.
Yeah, Perry, cut regulations of the housing market as a response to the crisis. Clueless.
All this talk about taxes and economics now has taken down the temperature by about 30 degrees…
Newt should stay on a stage such as this rather than run around on his own. He clearly is comfortable in this environment and obviously a good bit more sane! I would like to explore the Social Security plan he put forth.
They may be riding the wave but I do like Brett Baier’s demeanor. He’s apparently having a good time. Jaun is a real lightweight with that group and it shows.
I recommend bringing back the bell or perhaps one of those air horns the obnoxious fans use at ballgames.
Mitt Romney, Varmint Hunter. Whole new image in my mind…
Santorum is struggling to express himself and score points tonight. Or is it just me? Thoughts?
Sean, I think this crowd is pretty much getting the job done with their voices. And whistles. No need for air horns…
Mitt Romney is doing a pretty effective job of cross-examining Newt right now…
Mitt doesn’t like SuperPACs. Yay! What he’d like is no rules at all. Say what?!?!?
Santorum on poor people: It’s their own fault for not working, going to school, getting married.
Santorum just isn’t snarky enough for this crowd, especially compared to Gingerich and Paul.
Fiery debate, indeed. But I don’t think I’d have encouraged the crowd like that…
Did it influence your vote?
You’re right, Susan. I felt for the guy.
Vuvuzela? Hey, I was just glad they didn’t pull out any switchblades or chains…
Not mine, Susan. Y’all?
Not sure SC’s image was helped by that crowd tonight.
I hope Paul does well enough to shame all those people who cheer killing. These are evangelical Christians? Shameful.
Was great to see the post debate twitter stats on Fox showing Paul blew the rest of the field away on all topics when it came to addressing the topics truthfully.
Also good to hear him state the fact that Paul gets more contributions from military personnel than ALL other candidates plus Obama combined. They know something the neocons and chickenhawks don’t.
I find Gingrich disgusting but agree with him.on one topic: replace social security with a savings account that is owned by an individual.
When Ron Paul actually gets asked a question, he holds on to it and doesn’t let go. Who knows when he’ll get another chance.
Thanks, y’all…
Last call on comments… I’m going to go get ready for bed, then come back one more time to see if there are more comments to approve…
Last call…
Mine, either, Brad.
I agree with that, Teresa.
I would have liked to see one of them call the crowd down on that nonsense. That was disappointing.
Most telling moment for me? The crowd hoping Paul’s mentioning the Golden Rule. What a bunch of pious hypocrites.
I picked up nine new Twitter followers during that debate! Welcome, y’all…
So this was on tonight, guess I missed it. That’s what they get for trying to compete with American Pickers and Pawn Stars.
I think the candidates and the audience have taken the reins of this debate. Moderators just trying to ride the wave.
Change hoping to booing … stupid auto correct and lack of edit…
Waiting for somebody in the audience to pull out a vuvuzela.
If Rick Perry had performed in the first and second debates as he did tonight, he would probably be neck and neck with Romney.
Ron Paul goes off the rails when the discussion goes beyond the water’s edge, but he’s right about a great many things domestically. He’s dead right that the gun liability law should be within the exclusive purview of the states.
Newt Gingrich dropped M-80s all over the place, and the crowd loved it. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
Romney will win the SC primary.
That is all.
Did it influence my vote? Trying to take stock again after the exit of Huntsman. That Stephen Colbert is looking more and more appealing.
Couldn’t stomach watching the whole debate but did find some of the comments revealing. Romney fell flat in his response concerning his tax returns. He tried to come across as though this is no big deal but given his wealth it’s important for those of us who actually struggle for a living to know just how much this rich elitist pays in taxes.
As for Ron Paul, seriously not sure what Doug and the other disciples see in him. He continues with the same tired, discredited rhetoric over and over again. And what’s with that silly comment about building more military bases in the U.S.? Come on Ron. You know good and well that Libertarian philosophy is geared toward reducing military personnel everywhere, not just overseas. Not a good answer.
Overall Romney had a pretty mediocre night but it wasn’t a disaster. Probably changes little.
I agree with everyone who found the crowd disrespectful. Maybe we should hold these debates in a smaller venue with few if any people in attendance.
I know! Don’t let in anybody who identifies with a political party. That should give you a mature, well-behaved audience.
Rick Santorum defended voting rights for felons and spoke against indefinitely detaining American citizens who have been accused of being enemy combatants.
For that I must cede to him a little bit of respect. Was there anything else positive to take out of that at all? I agree with Doug that the crowd was pretty repulsive.
regarding the end of show Twitters – thought it was really irresponsible reporting. Paul will have the younger followers and that segment will spend its life on Twitter, Facebook, etc. It’s not a factual report or reflection.
Personally, Paul said some interesting things but he still comes off as a kook and he will not be able to shake it.
@bud
So explain why more military personnel support Paul… more than all the other candidates plus Obama combined?
Libertarians are for national defense, not nation building. We have more weaponry to address any actual threat to our nation than all the other countries combined. We don’t need boots on the ground around the world when we have bombs that can reach any spot on earth in an hour. All our military might couldn’t prevent 20 fanatics with box cutters from taking down the Twin Towers. You think all our troops can stop terrorism around the world in every tiny corner?
It’s all about spending tax dollars on well connected defense contractors. If there isn’t an enemy (real or created), the money dries up… Peace is not profitable.
Once again South Carolina was it’s own worst enemy.
The next time there is a GOP primary debate in the state, it should be held in a TV studio. Nice work everyone; as Doug mentioned, booing the golden rule may be an all time low for audience behavior. Rupert Murdoch may have been pleased, however.
So much for civility. Thoughtfulness has long since fled.
Doug, I agree with Paul on military issues. What I’m critical of is his idiotic response during the debate. Ron Paul has consistently favored big reductions in the size of our armed forces. Why not just say that instead of pandering to the GOP audience? Paul usually doesn’t do that. It was not his finest hour.
I want to hear a debate in which all the candidates are required to address how the findings in the recent American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on Early Childhood Adversity should affect public policy. I am not holding my breath.
Lynn, you might as well ask them to conduct the debate in Mandarin — which Huntsman would have been happy to do, but not these guys…
@bud
If you listened to what Paul said, he said that he would cut overseas defense spending – like the $1 billion spent on an embassy in Iraq which is considered part of the defense budget. Imagine bringing all those dollars home to the U.S. and into our economy. Paul wants a strong military but one that does not pursue wars around the globe against small bands of terrorists.
The dumbest part of the debate is when the moderator asked what the highest tax rate the candidates would support.
Do they understand that the President has no power to implement any tax code? All these tax plans that candidates propose are a waste of time. None of them will ever see the light of day until Congress see massive turnover.
Well what I learned is that Romney is the only one I could maybe ever vote for, though I’m haunted by what I heard Paul Krugman say about that on Sunday when I consider it. Newt and Santorum and the crowd rubbed me the wrong way with their condescending rascist classist remarks and crass responses. Paul seems honest and respectable as a human being and has some pockets of sanity but just doesn’t work in the real world as the whole package for me. I’d like Santorum to address how the impacts of being raised in the culture of poverty would affect the likeliehood that one would be employed, married, or able to graduate high school. The roots of these problems are far more complex than he chooses to believe. Don’t guess he understands the concept of correlation vs. Causation. Man, Huntsman, why couldn’t you just have stayed in until Sunday.