POTUS is listening to the live stream of this debate.
Given how viciously these Republicans are attacking each other, it wouldn’t surprise us.
Must admit we were proud of this tweet.
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Rick Santorum just launched a thorough denunciation of Newt Gingrich’s qualities as a leader, questioning the credit he takes for the 1994 Republican revolution, and decrying his leadership as Speaker of the House: “I served with Newt, I knew the problems that were happening in the House of Representatives. Four years into his term as Speaker he was kicked out by the conservatives.” He derided Newt’s tenure as producing a plethora of ideas, but completely lacking in discipline.
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“I will give Newt Gingrich his dues on grandiose ideas and grandiose projects. I will not give him his due on executing those projects.” Santorum proceeded to absolutely tear into Gingrich’s leadership abilities as House Speaker. That was brutal.
Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich. He handles it very well… I don’t want a nominee where I have to open the paper every day and worry what he’s gonna say next.
Rick Santorum, rebuking a claim by Newt Gingrich that he lacked the knowledge to achieve anything on the scale of a presidency. He concluded, essentially, by ridiculing Gingrich’s suggestion that he should drop out an allow conservatives to consolidate around him. “I came in first in Iowa, and I should drop out?”
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“Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich.” Zing!
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We will get rid of all this government program, unfortunately because we’re going bankrupt, and gonna have runaway inflation, and our checks are gonna bounce.
Ron Paul.
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You’re defending a plan that is top down. It is not a free market health care system. It is not bottom up. it is prescriptive government. It was the basis for ObamaCare, and you do not draw a distinction that’s going to be effective for us just because it was the state level, not the federal level.
Rick Santorum, laying into Mitt Romney over the Massachusetts health care system. Santorum has come out swinging, and his self-assurance is pretty undeniable.
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“I’ll let [Obama] use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge.”
Rick Santorum just delivered an impassioned statement about why he feels his conservative bonafides are the only the contrast strongly with President Obama’s vision. He specifically criticized Romney’s health care policy in Massachusetts, which he claimed was impossible to overcome in a general election, and he reminded the viewing audience that none other than Newt Gingrich supported an individual mandate in recent years. Santorum’s assessment? “Playing footsie with the left.”
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“Why is President Obama for young people being able to stay on their parents until 26? Because he can’t get them any jobs to get them to go out and buy their own insurance!”
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Mitt Romney insisted that under his administration, he’d work for a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, if you will), though he had an additional promise: “We have to go after a complete repeal. That’s gonna have to happen with the House and the Senate. …but we’ll replace it. We’ll replace it with something that protects people with pre-existing conditions.”
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In case you missed it: The video of the whole Newt Gingrich/CNN debate drama. (via Buzzfeed)
We have an epidemic now of suicide in our military, coming back. They need a lot of help.
Ron Paul, expressing his concern over the poor state of affairs that often afflicts veterans coming home. Paul emphasized that he had the most support among members of the armed forces, and made it clear he feels they’ve been failed for lack of care.
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