If Rick Perry were the nominee, I’d be voting for him. I believe every single person on the stage in that last debate would do a better job than president Obama.Mitt Romney • Claiming, during an interview over the weekend, that he would vote for Rick Perry, the man he savaged during last week’s debate. But would Rick vote for Mitt? SUSPENSE! source (via • follow)
The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be re-elected President.Michele Bachmann, delivering her final remarks (which she had to interrupt Anderson Cooper to make).
You want somebody who’s actually created jobs, not somebody who’s just watched them be created.Mitt Romney, trading barbs with Rick Perry over employment. Romney also claimed 40% of Texas’ new jobs during Perry’s tenure went to “illegal immigrants,” which Perry called “a falsehood on its face.”
Are you all willing to condemn Ronald Reagan for trading weapons [to Iran] for hostages? We all know that was done.
Ron Paul, challenging Michele Bachmann’s assertion that America cannot negotiate for hostages with terrorists. Obviously, Iran is a state rather than an assemblage of terrorists, which was the retort his comment drew, but it does highlight the lack of nuance being expressed in this conversation.
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Rick Perry just called for defunding the United Nations, to a rather warm reception from the GOP crowd. Ron Paul followed up by declaring his intent to cut all foreign aid.
I would have a policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Now, then you need to look at the whole situation and examine the facts.Herman Cain, answering a question from Anderson Cooper as to whether he would, as he’d earlier intimated, be comfortable authorizing a hostage swap along the lines of what went down between the Israelis and Palestinians today — the hypothetical situation was an American soldier being held hostage, and his holder demanding the release of all Guantanamo detainees. Similar to Cain’s recent contradiction on his remark about an electrified border fence (he said it was a joke, but that he might still want an electric fence), he seems to want it both ways in an awkwardly compressed way. If you say you can’t negotiate with terrorists, isn’t that sort of the end of this question?
The concept that we select people based on the church or the synagogue you go to strikes me as a great departure.Mitt Romney, addressing the anti-Mormon remarks by Pastor Jeffress, who endorsed Rick Perry. Romney said he’d heard worse insults over his faith, and would’ve rathered Perry call out Jeffress for earlier comments in his endorsement that faith should be at play in the presidential selection process.
Mitt Romney was asked his opinion on Occupy Wall Street, on the heels of some slightly softer rhetoric he recently directed at the “99%.” However, on the heels of Herman Cain’s defiant response (which drew a big cheer from the Las Vegas crowd), perhaps Romney wasn’t feeling so bold; he avoided addressing OWS completely, opting instead to criticize President Obama’s economic policy, also insisting the President “doesn’t even have a jobs plan.”
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Yes I do still say that, and here’s why: they might be frustrated with Wall Street and the bankers, but they’re directing their anger the wrong place. Wall Street didn’t impose failed economic policies… they ought to be in front of the White House. So I do stand by that.Herman Cain, refusing to back down from his criticisms of Occupy Wall Street. He insisted he stands behind his earlier comments that it isn’t a person’s fault if they succeed, but it is if they fail. Ron Paul disagreed, saying that Cain was “blaming the victims” of a bad business cycle, and calling out the Federal Reserve.
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You want one state to say, ‘we’re gonna dump our garbage on your state!’Ron Paul, decrying the idea a majority of U.S. states could dispose of their nuclear waste in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. Mitt Romney and Rick Perry had a minor reconciliation on this, agreeing with Paul that such wouldn’t be right — not to be too cynical, but it’s worth remembering this debate is happening in Nevada.
You get to ask the questions, and I get to answer how I want to.Rick Perry, flatly refusing to answer moderator Anderson Cooper’s question, even when Cooper explicitly stressed he wanted him to respond to his question rather than go after Herman Cain. On top of his aggressive interruptions of Mitt Romney, it seems clear Perry’s strategy is to come out swinging with high-energy, but frankly, we think he’s coming off as massively rude and undisciplined.
Michele Bachmann pledges she’ll build a border across the entire U.S./Mexico border, and referenced President Obama’s aunt living in the U.S. illegally.
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The idea that you stand before us and tell us you care about illegal immigration is, on it’s face, the height of hypocrisy.Rick Perry, in the course of a wild sequence with Mitt Romney, in which the two were practically shouting at each other over who got to speak. Perry was referring to old reports that Mitt Romney had undocumented people working on his estate, a charge Romney claims was the fault of a contracting company that he was unaware of. The real story, though? Romney and Perry went at it, with Romney showing a rare flash of rhetorical aggression (at one point placing his hand on Perry as he vehemently declared “you’re just going to keep talking?”) that probably helps him more than the attack might help Perry.
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