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GOP debate’s winners and losers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/bl…The Big Loser was Rick Perry. He appeared stolid and thick and as nimble as molasses. He called Social Security “a Ponzi scheme,” which it isn’t, when he should have said it needs to be fixed — raise the retirement age, etc. He once again belittled the scientific consensus on global warming, not supporting his argument, but just repeating it over and over again in a schoolyard manner — na-nanny-boo-boo. And, as if to clinch the argument that he does not belong in the White House, he virtually called President Obama “a liar,” which is not only over the top but shows a pattern of reckless speech: Obama’s a liar and Ben Bernanke is almost a traitor. Perry lost the debate big time, but if he didn’t then the real losers are the American people.
The winner was Mitt Romney. He looked and sounded presidential, and he showed once again that he will not, as have great statesmen before him, let fidelity to the truth stand between him and political opportunism. He mischaracterized Obama’s heath-care plan by wildly exaggerating its reach in an effort to show that the one he enacted in Massachusetts was the very soul of (conservative) moderation. But importantly, he stood his ground and remembered some punch lines I would guess were fed to him earlier by someone with a sense of humor. By likening Perry’s job claims for Texas to “Al Gore saying he invented the Internet” — Gore never said that — he showed a hitherto unknown taste for the cheap shot.
- I agree, Romney clearly won that and I think he knows he's going to get the nod. It's early, but Perry comes across as too********
- much of a yahoo. Too similar to Bush and no one wants that these days. Times change, even in conservative circles********
- i agreelocustsloth
- I think Perry will win the nomination.... Romney scares the Tea Party and the Religions Freaksvaxorcist
- you say that like there are 300M religious zealots, when the amount that are zealots is probably in the thousands********
- we finally agree on somethingutopian
- I agree, Romney clearly won that and I think he knows he's going to get the nod. It's early, but Perry comes across as too