Oh No They Didn’t: Candidates’ Slams from the Iowa Debate

Once again front runner Ron Paul gets screwed. He is a front runner that got very little chance to speak.

Not only did you give very little speaking time to Ron Paul – in the debate review, not once did anyone even mention his name. Each time he did get to speak – his points were very true – I believe Ron Paul has some of the best solutions for our country’s current issues.

I watched almost the entire debate and was dismayed at how much time Romney and Gingrich got.
Why can’t the same question be asked from one end to the other, the same amount of time given to each candidate, and if they go over their mike turns off. They have the light to let them know they are going over, so enforce it already!
What the debate look like to this admitted Dem:
Santorum is living in a never-neverland where government shouldn’t interfere with business with regulations or allowing businesses to be sued but somehow the government should help parents not want to get divorced.
Perry looks confused.
Romney looks nervous.
Gingrich is full of himself.
Ron Paul is correct and honest about a handful of issues but on the rest he is really, terribly wrong in a cruel, everybody-is-on-their-own and let’s all pretend our world is as simple as it was when our country was founded, way.
Bachmann gets first prize again for not answering questions. And praising herself way too much.

CONGRESS OVERHAUL I HAVE A DREAM!
HELP PLEASE! We need A REFERENDUM TO VOTE ON 2012 NATIONAL ELECTION.
1. TO LIMIT THE CONGRESS MEMBERS TO SERVE ONLY 2 TERMS OF 4 YRS.
2. TO PROHIBIT THE CONGRESS INCREASING THEIR OWN SALARY AND BENEFITS. IGUAL PAY FOR ALL. ONLY THREE WEEKS VACATIONS A YEAR. TO REDUCE IMMWEDIATELY THEIR SALARY 15%.
3. CONGRESS MEMBERS TO BE IMPECHABLE FOR USING INTERNAL TRADE PRIVATE INFORMATION TO INCREASE THEIR WEALTH.
4. TO ASSIGN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES THE NEGOCIATON OF MODEST ACCOMODATIONS OF THE CONGRESS, WHILE STAYING IN WASHIGTON. No privileges. Modest per diem for meals. Their expenses most be audited every year along with their income tax.
5. NO USE OF MILITARY PRIVATE AIRPLANES.
6. No traveling outside USA without approval of the President .
7. ALL POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS MUST HAVE THE SAME MAXIMUM AMOUNT ACCUMULATED. To avoid the wealthiest donors buying the elections. The money left from the campaign must donate to the General Political Funds.
8. ALL POLITICAL CAMPAING BIG CONTRIBBUTORS MUST BE DISPLAY IN THE WEB. WE NEED TO WHATCH TO WHOM THE PRESIDENT OWNS HIS POSITION.
9. To prohibit the mingling of Bill/Act with pork.

The abc debate is the most ridiculous forum yet. The mediators have asked silly, inflammatory, and irrelevant questions. A total waste of our time. ABC is simply trying to direct thought rather than encourage knowledge. What a ruse.

Ron Paul for president. Make sure everyone you know is registered to vote.

I think Bachmann was the unspoken winner of the debate tonight if not certainly tied for first place with Gingrich. Tying both Romney and Newt together, forcing them to go at each other in order to try to distance themselves, was a brilliant debate move by Bachmann. It was clever and inventive to consolidate the similarities of Gingrich and Romney into an imaginative phrase “Newt Romney” almost as if they were both two sides to the same person. It was like killing two political birds with one stone, raising doubts as to Newt and Romney’s “consistent conservatism” by exposing their positions on health care mandates, cap & trade, tarp, payroll tax, and immigration. Because of that, she was able to influence 74% of the Yahoo audience to ask for clarification from “Newt Romney.” Also, instead of rebutting Rick Santorum’s evaluation of her “fighting and losing,” it was a smart decision to spend her debate time to appeal to former Cain supporters especially at the end when candidates were asked the one thing they learned from each other at the debates.

Santorum’s statement about how he fought and won was disingenuous since he entered the Senate in 1994 during the Republican take over compared to Bachmann’s service under Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Santorum can’t really brag too much about his “consistent conservatism” can he when he supported a moderate, Arlen Spector, for Spector’s Presidential campaign in return for “key political staff” for his 1994 U.S. Senate campaign (See Wikepedia – “Specter provided him with key political staff for his successful run in 1994.”) One might say that because of that Santorum’s track record of “consistent conservatism” is “dinged” which would ratify Bachmann’s statement that she is the only “consistent conservative” in the race.

It seemed like Ron Paul won. He showed his honesty, straightforwardness, and common sense. I believe ABC’s ignonring of him in their coverage, highlights their lack of credibility. The establishment fears him.

Nice article. You forgot something though… RON PAUL WON THE DAMN DEBATE!!! Hands down, he had answers that NOBODY could deny. When talking about taking an oath in office he said “where does the fight come from?” You see, Everyone swears to uphold the constitution and really the only one that can 100% say that he has done that is RON PAUL. You failed to report the winner! You fail at journalism bud. :)

LOL! You Ron Paul supporters are hilarious. And delusional, if you believe he has a snowballs chance in hell of being chosen by the GOP as their candidate. He’s already run and lost twice before. Lost very badly, I might add. His libertarian ideology is not shared by mainstream America. Period. But please, feel free to write in his name on the ballot next November. A vote for Paul will help Obama defeat the GOP candidate, Willard Mitt Romney……

In the debate which she won hands down, MB’s courageous reference to our broken Federal income tax system underlines why she is truly the one Constitutional Conservative in the race.
47% of American families pay no Federal income tax. Everyone should pay their fair share, including the 47% who consume tax money and do not pay a dime. Everyone makes “enough money” to pay at least a nominal Federal income tax. Bachmann does not demagogue the issue, as does Team Obama media as well as the politicians seeking votes from the 47% who are tax consumers at the expense of the 53% who are tax payers.