The 2012 Bloomberg/Washington Post Republican Presidential Debate

[Marx]

Apparently, there is some sort of debate tonight at 8pm in New Hampshire. I cannot find coverage of it anywhere on tv, but here is a thread for discussion nonetheless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...n-debate-live-updates_n_1005571.html#liveblog

 

[bell110]

Were any site streaming the debate live? I couldn't find one.

 

[Marx]

The Huffpo link above is keeping a "live" blog, but I haven't found anything else.

 

[Paradoxium]

It wasn't on Bloomberg TV stream?

Margaret Brennan

 

[hippie_hunter]

I watched the first half hour of it on Bloomberg.

 

[Lighthouse]

Amazing how much more watchable a debate is without a yelling audience.

 

[Paradoxium]

Watched some clips of it - and wow - they made an effort to talk mostly about the economy and fiscal issues. You know the most important issue right now. I think at least 90% of the discussion was that. GJ Bloomberg. None of that ******ed CNN ********.

 

[Lighthouse]

They all ducked the question after the Reagan clip.

Holy crap, did Rick Perry bomb tonight.

 

[Yurka]

Is there anywhere I can watch this? I couldn't find it anywhere on TV and didn't even try streaming.

 

[enterthemadness]

Couldn't find anything either, didn't matter had stuff to get off DVR.

Perry did bad? Good for Paul.

 

[Lighthouse]

Is there anywhere I can watch this? I couldn't find it anywhere on TV and didn't even try streaming.

As far as I know, streaming was the only way to watch it. They had a repeat a couple hours ago, but I don't see it in their broadcast schedule again.

Couldn't find anything either, didn't matter had stuff to get off DVR.

Perry did bad? Good for Paul.

Paul did ok, but it was Romney who did best. He was extremely alert and prepared for each question. Bachmann stuck to her talking points and Perry did downright awful. Huntsman kept trying to make jokes that bombed.

 

[enterthemadness]

Was the Gary Johnson there?

 

[Lighthouse]

Was the Gary Johnson there?

No.

 

[Marx]

I just saw a clip on tv from the debate last night where Bachmann said if you flip Cain's 9-9-9 plan upside down "the devil is in the details".

 

[Marx]

UPDATE: CNN FACT-CHECKS LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/12/truth-squad-takes-on-gop-debate/

 

[The Squirrel]

I just saw a clip on tv from the debate last night where Bachmann said if you flip Cain's 9-9-9 plan upside down "the devil is in the details".

Where can I see this?

 

[Marx]

When you take the 9-9-9 plan and turn it upside down, the devil is in the details.

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[The Squirrel]

Eh, just another bad metaphor. I thought it was going to be serious, not just a bookend to a statement.

 

[Marx]

Cutesy laughter aside, I think she probably was serious. Leave it to Michele Bachmann to make that type of comment.

 

[The Squirrel]

It's a crazy comment, but saying it was completely serious I think is a little too far. I think it was mostly just a bad joke aimed at the religious crowd. Which is really the only crowd she's playing for. She was serious in that she thinks it's a bad plan. 666 = bad, cue awkward laughter.

 

[Pink Ranger]

They should just combine Cain and Bachmann's plans, and call it the 69-69-69 plan. Boom chick-a-bow-wow ...

 

[Paradoxium]

Huntsman's jokes were lamer. There was basically only one small mention of social issues from Captain Social Conservative Santorum for a couple seconds. Most of it was economic. Though Romney was lame in his dodging questions. Really man, European crisis affecting America is a hypothetical *dodge dodge*? **** you could say the entire campaign of what you would do as president is ****ing hypothetical.

 

[SentinelMind]

if you didn't get to watch it...here it is...
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/77336950/

 

[SentinelMind]

I didn't watch all of it, but for first half all Rick Perry could say was drill baby drill. Drilling is fine, but not the entire solution to our economic problems.

 

[bell110]

But people who are really religious do try to find religious iconography in anything. And Bachmann is a really religious person as are her followers. So it's not much of a stretch to think that people would think that the 9-9-9 plan would literally bring about the apocalypse. It's an eye rolling laugh line now because the chances of 9-9-9 ever becoming a reality is slim, but if it ever does gain traction, I'm pretty sure Bachmann and others will be completely serious about it.