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Anyone see the GOP debate?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2011, 03:15 AM (129 Views)
jon-nyc
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No game changers, IMO. My impressions -

Newt handled the flak he got reaaonably well. Especially the fidelity question.

Bachmann had a strong showing, I thought. I'll bet her clearly-rehearsed 'Newt Romney' routine will make the highlight reels.

Mitt didn't do badly but didn't distinguish himself. The 10k bet offer was a mistake.

Ron Paul gets applause after everything he says. I can imagine him doing quite well in Iowa

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i actually wanted to watch but was waaaaay too tired to keep my eyes open having gotten up at 4 AM

thanks for your analysis jon.
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Axtremus
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Meant to ... but forgot. Might try to watch it online later.
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George K
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Should voters consider marital fidelity when making their choice for president? And Governor Perry, in South Carolina this week, you said this is an important issue. Why?
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The question is about its relevance to the presidential race. Let me just follow up quickly. Do you think a candidate who breaks his marital vows is more likely to break faith with voters?

Congressman Paul, what's your view on this? [...]

Governor Romney, you chose to make your family and your faith a feature of your first ad here in Iowa this week. Why? [...]

I want to get Congresswoman Bachmann and then Speaker Gingrich, you wrap this up. [...]

Speaker Gingrich, what do voters need to know about this issue from your perspective?


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Stephanopoulos was, along with David Wilhelm and James Carville, a leading member of Clinton's 1992 U.S. presidential campaign. His role on the campaign is portrayed in the documentary film The War Room (1993).

At the outset of Clinton's presidency, Stephanopoulos served as the de facto press secretary, briefing the press even though Dee Dee Myers was officially the White House Press Secretary. Later, he was moved to Senior Advisor on Policy and Strategy, when Myers began personally conducting the briefings (following several verbal missteps by Stephanopoulos) and David Gergen was brought in as the new White House Communications Director. The move was largely viewed as a rebuke to Stephanopoulos's handling of public relations during the first six months of the Clinton administration.

On February 25, 1994, Stephanopoulos and Harold Ickes had a conference call with Roger Altman to discuss the Resolution Trust Corporation's choice of Republican lawyer Jay Stephens to head the Madison Guaranty investigation, that later turned into the Whitewater controversy.[6]

Stephanopoulos resigned from the Clinton administration shortly after Clinton was re-elected in 1996.

Do you think that he would have been a little outraged over a question like that back in 1992?
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jon-nyc
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I doubt it.

But anyway the question is either reasonable, or not, but that answer would be independent of who's asking it. Most if not all of the panelists thought it was a reasonable question, not least Speaker Gingrich.
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No, I was hosting a neighborhood party last night but Jon's take on it matched up pretty close to an article I read on it. Good job.
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Dec 11 2011, 06:47 AM
Do you think a candidate who breaks his marital vows is more likely to break faith with voters?
One rather obvious answer to this question would be to look at the general trustworthiness of apparently sexually faithful presidents. Nixon and Obama spring to mind.
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