Live blogging at ThinkProgress here (thanks Ladyhawke)
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Protesters outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds
Thank you Me4Obama
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Could any one tell me why CNN is hosting a ‘Tea Party’ debate, thereby attempting to give some respectability to an organization made up of racists, bigots and all-round nutjobs? What next? The KKK-sponsored debate?
Wonder when the CNN/KKK/Skinheads sponsored debate will be, or was this a combined effort seeing as the Te party is their “political” umbrella organization!!!
I watch some of it between football! I think CNN wants that Wacko money Fox is getting in advertising…..that’s the only thing that makes sense…….cause even after the debate and they were talking to the TeaParty people and candidates, Anderson Cooper and the other CNN people were looking at each other like, “you believe these wack jobs??!”
I’m going to tape this debate and mail Jacqueline, ML, luci and collegekay each a copy as a holiday gift. I’ll title the DVR “Nightmare of the Living Dead-CNN Edition” You’re all on Santa’s list this year!!
AAmom; Well Perry Bounces He doesn’t want all the Crap to come out all at once.When you are full of it that Cowboy Buckle on his pants can only hold some much in.
It is a tick that plagues the insecure!!! He tries to make himself “taller” by standing on tippy toes as he tries to impress and convince his audience!!!
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Angie Angel holds a sign reading, ‘Barack I got your back,’ outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Craig Glaser holds a sign reading, ‘Tax the Rich,’ outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Ryan Carpenter holds a sign reading,’Rick Perry! Don’t Kill me bro,’ outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Protesters hold signs outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
I clicked on the feed upthread and saw that the debate hasn’t started. The big screen was scrolling the sponsors of the debate. Has anyone made a list of those sponsors? It is too far away for me to see on my computer, but we should probably take note of them.
I am sad to say I used to like ‘Walker, Texas Ranger.’ I even bought a ‘Total Gym’…ever since I found out who Chuck Norris really is, I now regret my purchase!!!
Puddin’ maybe with your ‘total gyn’ bad ass body you could drop kick that douche all the way to Somalia. Anti-government Norris would be right at home there.
I would like to thank all of the Heroes here at TOD who risk their Lives to watch the teahardist debates so that the rest of us who can’t watch get the laughs and sadness we take for granted. Thank you on behalf of a grateful TOD family.
Me4obama you are very welcome and to show our appreciation, we are also having an (un)LUCKY DIP in honor of the teahardist debates. Simply dig in and grab any one of our lovely prizes listed here below.
1. An all-expense paid weekend at Econo-lodge with a nice Pizza dinner courtesy Cain’s Godfather Pizza.
2. An 17X34 bath-towel with embroidered words ” I HEART ROMNEY.”
3. Coupon for 10 Mankini hugs
4. Pair of Rick Perry Cowboy boots.
5. A CD with a recording of ALL Michelle Bachman’s speeches.
6. Stationary (notepad, sticky notes, writing pad) with Rick Santorum’s mug photo
7. A Jon Huntsman 7 oz bottle copper tanning lotion
8. A nice bundle of imported weed from Ron Paul’s cabinet.
why am I not surprised that Wolf Blitzer is the moderator, good grief CNN ought to actually have a little shame here tonight. Anyone still looking to them for news & real journalism is a fool.
SandiBehrns Sandi Behrns
RT @DavidCornDC: Wolf to crowd: “All of us will always remember this night.” #CNNTeaParty / it may be time to put the wolf down
Oh my goodness I just threw up in my mouth. CNN/Teaparty introduction of the candidates is gross. They just referred to the teaparty as a grassroots organization that want to kick Barack Obama out……. oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 🙄
HAHAHAHAHA @ those signs. I wasn’t gonna check it out, but now with those signs, I’m reminded what monumental clowns the teapublicans are and I may pop into the debate/clown show a few times. It’s easy for me to watch GOP shenanigans — I have no connection to any of these dummies.
…..so now I’m tuning into CNN and the Very Dramatic Intro is complete with soundtrack music and movie-type voiceovers — they’re doing a glitzy recap of each of the candidates: way too complimentary —
Romney “The Early Frontrunner,”
Perry “The Newcomer,”
Bachmann “The Firebrand,”
Huntsman “The DIplomat”,
Paul “The Libertarian,”
Santorium “The Fighter,”
Cain “The Businessman,”
Gingrich “The Thinker” <—– 😆 .
This is gonna be a hot ass flaming mess! CNN will be cheering all the way — I've never seen Wolf so animated….. pitiful 😆 😆 😆
Sure, they LOVE the United States . . . except for Democrats, and black people, and Mexicans, and Muslims, and gay parents, and union members, and scientists, and people who can read, and people with empathy.
Bachmann – said social security will be there for the current seniors but for folks coming into the system should recognized that it has to be reformed.
She also said President Obama stole money from Medicare and switched it over to pay for Obamacare.
Romney hit Perry and said Perry said in his book Social Security is unconstitutional and should not be a Federal program and should be returned to the States. lolol
Wolf Blitzer just made me projectile vomit with his phoniness. Perry wants to make Washington D.C. as inconsequential as possible. Until he needs FEMA and stimulus. Now Romney is attacking Perry for calling SS a ponzi scheme and wanting it to be a state program. Now Perry said that Romney also called SS criminal in his book.
What gets me is that the want government to be inconsequential for anything that stands in the way of business — raping the land, our safety, our water, our air, safe drugs and food.
But when it comes to what women do with their bodies, or what happens in the bedroom between consenting adults — they want constitutional amendments to police that.
Romney is forcing him to answer his Social Security question – is SS unconstitutional and should it be returned to the States.
Perry hit back – said they need to have a serious conversation on how to fix the program where it is not bankrupt. Perry said in Romney’s book he said SS is criminal.
This a freakin gong show……I told CNN today they had no business even having the opportunity to moderate this……they didn’t have the brains or the balls to ask tough questions and challenge stupid answers.
It really is a spectacle, I would hope I am not the only American that finds this offensive.
Gingrich said he isn’t worrying about Perry or Romney scaring the American people when Barack Obama is in the White House scaring the American people every day.
“Gingrich is on bashing Obama”…that’s his assignment. He and everybody and their mama knows Gingrich has “a snowball chance in hell” to even win the primary let alone the general, so his “job” is to say the nasty stupid lies about PBO that the far right crazies want to/need to hear. Does Newt even have a staff…how much money is he raising?
Eleroy, you are so right…I want to say some things (a whole lot of things) but I am trying really hard not to say negative things about (Clinton)…I am trying to be nice.
Sometimes, try as you may to be polite and civil, It’s very hard to avoid telling the TRUTH! The people I saw, in that audience, seem to be the most privileged angry people who are certainly not going hungry everyday.
Romney would like to take out waste out of the govt like he did in the private sector. Yeah that private sector where Bain Capital plunged several companies into bankruptcy.
Ron Paul wants to cut the Dept of Education, national security and stuff like that and the teabaggers cheered and applauded. Lord save us from ignorant fools.
anniebella, I’m with you, I have zero respect or care for these creeps, but I do want to know what lies they’re telling about POTUS. There are too many people who still believe CNN is a legitimate news station.. and may well be listening to this horror show.
Which doesn’t make any sense. Edwards supporters and PUMAs won’t determine who wins the Republican primary… I mean they can vote in Republican primaries, but at most they are what, 20-25% of Democrats?
The thing that will destroy his chances is that he’s said too many good things about President Obama. That’s why he’s at 1%, even behind Newt Gingrich, because he doesn’t bash his former boss.
No..no..he’s hoping that he will eventually win the GOP nomination because the media will campaign for him. He’s banking on the media’s help to improve his 1% poll and transform it to 51% come GOP election time.
Perry just lied about the stimulus not providing a single job when it saved and created close to 3 million jobs and no rebuttal from Wolf. CNN is 100% crap.
Romney says as President he would support a balanced budget amendment.
Well said UT! The so called Main Stream Media (MSM) are doing a great disservice to this country. For Perry to make such an assertion without any media push back to get at the truth tell us all we need to know about the MSM’s agenda. They are not interested in disseminating factual news to the American people.
Cheney takes the cake. Nobody is more vile than Cheney, I’m convinced. Bush would have been bad on his own, but I think Cheney took things to a whole other level.
At least Bush was funny when he made gaffes (“Food on your family, I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully, Rumors on the Internets”), Cheney is pure evil.
Well now Mr. Perry lying his ass off…. zero jobs from the stimulus… people actually laughed. He’s saying POTUS going to raise all their taxes. I honestly look forward to this sob on stage with President Obama and try this lying shit- while POTUS kicks out fact after fact after fact. Perry = Scum. Oh and Wolf Blitzer is a scam artist.
oh cripes. Did Bachman say that PO raised the debt ceiling to run up more debt? She really doesn’t get that the debt ceiling is to cover the bills from the previous administration. Then her other solutions on balancing the budget were to repeal obamacare, repeal dodd/frank repeal blah blah blah.
There is no way I am going to watch. It sure is fun following all your posts. I can’t believe you are actually watching. You have more strength than I do. Keep the laughs coming.
More interesting with Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter on LOD. And I can’t watch the ignorant debate, but I wonder if any will continue to reference Reagan as they are so fond of doing after she wrote a piece for Time slamming the Repub candidates for using his name. She said that they can reference his name till their tongues fall out but they will never come close to even being in his shadow. She said the most disgusting thing—-she wanted to call it blasphemy—-was the huge applause for Perry executing over 200 people. She asked, “Who are these people?” She expressed complete disgust with these Repub candidates.
Now Romney is trotting out his payphone vs smartphone stupid stupid stupid analogy that makes no damn sense. He says we live in a smartphone world and PBO lives in a payphone world where he shoves quarters into the economy. This dude is an idiot.
He said that Perry should get credit for creating jobs in Texas. No comment from Wolfe on the fact that employment was based on the stimulus and folks are underemployed.
Herman Cain, Michael Steele and the idiot congressman from Florida have family and for these black people, if they can be the token ones in a republican audience that despises them, if the price is right, they will take. And they have taken!!!
Paul said he has no idea where Perry is getting his numbers from because Perry raised his taxes several times and jobs created were Govt jobs. Said he won’t slam Perry too much because he may raise his taxes.
Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter is on Lawry bashing the GOP presidential field. Then she said, something like (paraphrasing): I don’t see my father in them, I don’t see him in our/this president. At one point I thought I did- ( I think somewhere in there she said that she was disappointed or maybe I am inferring from her affect and statement as saying she was disappointed PBO wasn’t like her daddy) then Lawry cut her off and redirected her back to bashing the GOP. She dislikes them intensely. What?! She thought PBO was Reagan reincarnated? Is she for real? She does know that regardless of what the right thinks, Reagan wasn’t a God right? He was a so-so actor who was a democrat before he got rich and decided that he should be a repug?
I’m not watching, but what I gather, she’s probably saying that President Obama is a transformative figure like her father Reagan was. As bad as Reagan’s policies were, people listened to him, and he energized people to vote. President Obama said he’s a tranformative figure dating back to when he was still a candidate…. I could be wrong, but just my take.
I agree with her about President Obama being like President Reagan. I was young when President Reagan was in office but he was the Great Communicator and now President Obama has become that to America. President Reagan was good looking and so is President Obama. Yes, I’m being superficial at the moment, that’s me.
she didn’t say they were alike. she said at one point she thought PBO was like him.—– Implying some sort of disappointment. Lawry quickly cut her off and got her going on the GOP again.
It’s just damn convenient to bash Obama isn’t it. Glad LOD reeled her in. Seems to me at the time her Dad was President she caused him alot of embarassment. Oh well….it’s so easy to be an expert in this country, if you have a monetary advantage.
How is it that Wolf isn’t refuting these lies? Perry says the stimulus provided zero jobs. LIE. It created and saved close to 3 million jobs. Bachmann said that by raising the debt ceiling, congress gave PBO $2.4T to spend, spend, spend. LIE. The debt ceiling deals with money congress has already appropriated. Bachmann said that PBO stole $500 million from Medicare and put it into Obamacare. LIE. Huntsman and the rest said Dodd-Frank is slwoing down business. LIE Wallstreet is sitting on over $2 trillion worth of cash. CNN is teabagger central.
C’mon ut. You know Wolfie is nothing but a script reader. He doesn’t know his ass from a crack in the sidewalk. Take his earphone and notes and he’ll start to babble.
As much as I disagree with Huntsman’s politics, he was right when he said that his party has become way too radical for the modern day. He knows he has no chance of winning the nomination, let alone the general IF he did, because he’d be forced to pick a radical Teapug as his running mate. 2012 is out the gate for him and so is 2016, because he can’t get any name recognition within his own party, let alone nationwide. He fucked up an excellent opportunity to be a meaningful candidate, he should have waited until 2016, when the Teapugs would have fizzled out. But hey, Huntsman is a Republican, and most Republicans are not known for their smarts.
He just proved how shortsighted he is and how he lacks judgement and feeds into baseless flattery!!!
the fact that a few people tell you you could make a good “leader’ does not mean it is true!!! and the fact that you drop everything and run with the flattery of a handful shows that you are an idiot!!!
Chipsticks I see you have the picture of Bachmann and Romney smooching. When I saw it live on tv… I gagged big time. Ewwww. Chipsticks the picture is as bad as the mankini picture and now you owe me humongous amounts of brain bleach. 😯
So funny. I have the debate recording, while I’m trying to force myself to watch it. At the top of the hour, the teevee machine automatically switched to Pawn Stars.
Too bad Bachmann is standing where she’s standing in that “God bless corporate America” photo, Chips. Otherwise, they’d all make the perfect little set of Russian nesting dolls.
Oh great. PBO providing fantastic women healthcare benefits in the ACA means he wants to force feed little girls the abortion pill. Bachmann is a complete and utter moron to the nth power.
Bachmann slammed Perry for trading legislation for money by passing laws that required little girls to get injections.
Perry said, I got a $5000 donation and if you think I can be bought for $5000 then I am offended.
Bachman said I am offended for the parents and for the children.
Santorum jumped in and said he is not sure what kids are learning in Texas schools but if it is similar to what is being taught in other schools Government has no right to force injections on children and his policy regardless of the reason behind it is wrong.
Santorum received his first genuine applause of the debate season.
A good follow-up question for Wolfie when Perry said ” … if you think I can be bought for $5000 then I am offended” would have been “Then, how much can you be bought for, Governor?”
I am lurking tonight and reading the comments re the debate. It sounds almost identical to the last one. I thank the person who has a stomach strong enough to watch this swill.
And I don’t think that number ( 30 mill) is including people who listened to the speech on the radio…which my best friend often does, especially when he is at work.
– Waiver from Obama care
– Repeal Obama care
– Repeal Obama Care
all ignoring the fact that each state has the right to create their own healthcare plan as long as it provides the same or better care for the citizens at a comparable rate or less. That repeal nonsense is silly.
These teabaggers and Ron Paul are sick, twisted, and evil. Ok so a young man is 30 years old, feels he’s healthy and doesn’t need health insurance. He falls deathly ill and is in the ICU for 6 months and desperately needs healthcare. What would you do? How would you pay for it? Ron Paul would rather leave the man to suffer and die because America is all about freedom and indiviudals. Wolf asked him so we should let the man die and the teabaggers cheered and yelled “yeah.. let him die.” They have no conscience.
I heard him say that. He’s a pig. The GOP is delusional if they think this is the way to win the Latino vote. Santorum said that to attract the latino vote, we should force them to learn and speaj english because America is a melting pot not a salad bowl. They’re all pigs. Their insensitivity and prejudice towards minorities is disgusting.
Mitt Romney Terminates Contract With Lawn Care Company for Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Mitt Romney has a “sanctuary mansion” no more.
The former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate has formally cut ties with the landscaping company that manicures his lawn, after it was reported that the company continued to employ illegal immigrants a year after the hiring practices were first revealed.
President Obama will brilliantly challenge the lies, himself. Have no fear.
Unless the people of this country who are watching this awful debate just come out tomorrow and say, “Let’s give President Obama four more years. Immediately.”
Keith, calm down. Remember how the media threw Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Acorn all at Obama in 2008?
And guess what… a majority of folks did NOT CARE!!!!
Whether it’s Wright, Ayers, Acorn, Obamacare (according to the right), President Obama WILL overcome. Remember, this is the same Obama who ordered an operation, against the odds, that killed Osama bin Laden.
Chipsticks persons like Keith are the type that like to start junk and run just be like our PRESIDENT NO DRAMA AND WE WILL GET THE JOB DONE,YES WE CAN DO IT AGAIN
You guys I am a diehard supporter and have worked TIREDLESSLY for President Obama for years. Bush got into office twice if you all hadn’t forgotten. I have Obama gear and literature strewn throughout my house. YES, THIS IS THE SITE/BLOG FOR ME. Since when is asking questions make you a TROLL or a NON BELIEVER? Don’t underestimate the ignorance of the electorate. I know our work will be curicial with spreading the truth, but we just have NO help from the media. So my question was LEGIT? 😕
Hi Keith, my only job here when it comes to comment-watching is to keep out the trolls. As I think you’ll accept, in light of recent contentious threads, I have no problem with genuine supporters of the President expressing their concerns here. What I do have a problem with are offensive comments about the first lady and GOPolitico-type propaganda panic-posts about the ‘strength’ of the opposition to the President. If you can cut them out, you’re more than welcome to keep posting here – if you’re not, then this isn’t the place for you.
Keith…the percentage of folks who actually believe these lies, is small very small…this is why the GOP is upset. This crazy talk, these lies will win a primary, but not a general. Besides, the MSM is not and has never been known to dispute the GOP lies…it is going to be up to us and the Obama campaign to get the truth to the masses.
At least one of them will say “It was all because of President Bush that Obama got bin Laden,” and I bet Ron Paul will probably say “It was the Navy SEALS, and not President Obama that killed Osama bin Laden,” or say that killing Osama bin Laden is a war crime and against the Constitution.
All I’ve heard tonight is fear, fear, and more fear and oh yes using 9/11 to scare the beejeezus out of the American people. Obama wants your money, Obama wants to force your innocent daughters to take the abortion pill, if Obamacare isn’t repealed then the world is over. If PBO isn’t kicked out of office in 2012, then the world will come to an end, terrorists are under your bed, Obama wants to give illegal immigrants all your benefits. Nothing about how to provide jobs for the American people. Just lies, lies, and more lies.
Hunstman is an ugly person on the inside and no amount of play acting will change that!!!
As he gets more and more desperate for points his mask will fall off!!!
The man has given nobody any reason to think he is decent so why has everyone bought into this whole “he’s a nice guy” crap!!!
Romney brings up the Churchill bust, originally loaned to Bush, that was sent back to England. They keep harping on this two-year-old story. Here’s what I found:
“A bust of Abraham Lincoln–Obama’s historical hero–now sits in its place. A White House spokesperson says the Churchill bust was removed before Obama’s inauguration as part of the usual changeover operations, adding that every president puts his own stamp on the Oval Office.”
Finally the freak show is over. Until the next one. Chips thanks for the forum and opportunity to liveblog. I’m now going to get drunk as hell and hope I don’t remember what just occurred from 8PM-10PM. 😉
Chips – delete if not appropriate. I cracked up when I saw it and thought it would bring levity to tonight’s debate. I thought it was a real campaign commercial and quickly realized this was real.
Apologies Chips – the clip was a bit risque and I don’t usually post this stuff but because it had Ron Paul in it I posted it because of the debate. I forgot this blog links the actual video and not just the weblink.
But, of course, everybody KNOWS that the tea parties run the country, jacqueline!!!! The republicans always say that they KNOW what Americans want, and the majority of us agree with THEM. /s/
That will be the first time David Gergen has spoken any truth in quite a long time!!!
I guess he is finding out like so many that their quest to replace the black guy in the WH with their own hand-picked great white hope, isn’t yielding quite the results they’d expected!!!
President Obama makes smart, dignified and hard work look so effortless and they all thought it would be a slam dunk to replace him!!!
Shudder…okay that pic of Bachmann almost kissing Romney needs to go the way of the Mankini pic and all pictures of Nightmare Barbie™ aka Newt’s wife. Horrifying.
Bachmann might have re-established herself a bit when she went hard at Perry for the HPV forced vaccinations and his Merck connections. I think this is an issue that will stick with Perry as long as he’s in the race.
Romney was a non-entity tonight. He seemed content in letting Bachmann and even Santorum land blows on Perry. But in doing so he comes off looking weak – he needs to be taking these swings at Perry.
I didn’t like that Perry didn’t flip flop on immigration – he could make some inroads there should he make the general as he has been reasonably good on immigration in Texas.
There is too many candidates – but they can’t whittle them down because Huntsman would be the first to go as he polls the worst and he’s a MSM favorite.
Huntsman referencing Kurt Cobain and them saying he’s bring his Harley to the White House just makes him look like the trying too hard to be cool dad.
Can you imagine how many times Huntsman disappears from the public when things get rough blaming his allergies for failing to show up!!! The man is a lazy, slime bastard!!!
The Obama Diary 
Now THAT was hysterical!
Yep, lol
Wonder when the CNN/KKK/Skinheads sponsored debate will be, or was this a combined effort seeing as the Te party is their “political” umbrella organization!!!
I watch some of it between football! I think CNN wants that Wacko money Fox is getting in advertising…..that’s the only thing that makes sense…….cause even after the debate and they were talking to the TeaParty people and candidates, Anderson Cooper and the other CNN people were looking at each other like, “you believe these wack jobs??!”
The fewer people that watch, the better.
I’ll pass… again.
The only time I’ll watch a GOP debate is when PBO is involved to crush them. Until then… I just can’t stomach it.
I’m going to tape this debate and mail Jacqueline, ML, luci and collegekay each a copy as a holiday gift. I’ll title the DVR “Nightmare of the Living Dead-CNN Edition” You’re all on Santa’s list this year!!
LOL, that’s like getting a lump of coal. I haven’t been THAT bad this year. 😀
I’ll take the lump of coal please!!!
Dontcha like us, hopefruit2?
🙂
Now that’s just abusive 😉 Cruel and unusual punishment!
Agree, collegekay! Will pass on the loonies.
I swear when that guy bounces on his tippy toes to make a point, I just want to vomit.
Who? King?
No, Perry. He bounces as he talks and last debate he stood on his tippy toes while making a point. YUCK!
AAmom; Well Perry Bounces He doesn’t want all the Crap to come out all at once.When you are full of it that Cowboy Buckle on his pants can only hold some much in.
he reminds me of an angry squirrel.
An angry nutter
It is a tick that plagues the insecure!!! He tries to make himself “taller” by standing on tippy toes as he tries to impress and convince his audience!!!
I wonder of the DNC will run the America Jobs Act ads during the debate…
I hope so!
Nah… I can’t stand with the clowns!!!
I prefer to watch Monday Night Football Go Broncos!!!
Fortunately, Florida is three hours ahead of me and I am still at work for another hour and then it takes me an hour to drive home.
Go Raiders!!!!!!!!!!!
Outside of the CNN / Tea Party Debate – pics
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Angie Angel holds a sign reading, ‘Barack I got your back,’ outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Craig Glaser holds a sign reading, ‘Tax the Rich,’ outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Ryan Carpenter holds a sign reading,’Rick Perry! Don’t Kill me bro,’ outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
TAMPA, FL – SEPTEMBER 12: Protesters hold signs outside the building where the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express is being held at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. The debate will feature eight Republican candidates ten days before the Florida straw poll.
pics from daylife.com
I like that “Barack I got your back!”
Love them Me4Obama, thank you – just added them to the post 😉
i’m lovin it. But were is PBHO’s base? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Where and when is the next debate and how can we be there……..I am more than willing to stand up to these asshats!
I clicked on the feed upthread and saw that the debate hasn’t started. The big screen was scrolling the sponsors of the debate. Has anyone made a list of those sponsors? It is too far away for me to see on my computer, but we should probably take note of them.
@BarackObama on Twitter is following the debate. They want to know what the assclowns are saying so they can put out their next ad. Good for them.
Good for them. I’m also going to watch. Guess I love a freakshow Chips. 😉
I just saw on Twitter that Chuck Norris will be attending the Tea Party Debate as a guest of Rick Perry. Gheez.
Egad they’re really two peas in a pod, dumb and dumber.. and really odd too 😉
OMG. Is this all a big horrible joke? It all seems preposterous beyond words.
I’m suddenly glad I never liked ‘Walker, Texas Ranger.’
Yee Hawww! Saddle-up Rick. Get a box a shells and let’s go git some rustlers……
Stop it, you’re making my sides ache 😀
I am sad to say I used to like ‘Walker, Texas Ranger.’ I even bought a ‘Total Gym’…ever since I found out who Chuck Norris really is, I now regret my purchase!!!
Puddin’ maybe with your ‘total gyn’ bad ass body you could drop kick that douche all the way to Somalia. Anti-government Norris would be right at home there.
Sue I will do that, after I brush off the clothes and stuff that have been making their home on my ‘total gym’ and get back into shape 🙂
I would like to thank all of the Heroes here at TOD who risk their Lives to watch the teahardist debates so that the rest of us who can’t watch get the laughs and sadness we take for granted. Thank you on behalf of a grateful TOD family.
Me4obama you are very welcome and to show our appreciation, we are also having an (un)LUCKY DIP in honor of the teahardist debates. Simply dig in and grab any one of our lovely prizes listed here below.
1. An all-expense paid weekend at Econo-lodge with a nice Pizza dinner courtesy Cain’s Godfather Pizza.
2. An 17X34 bath-towel with embroidered words ” I HEART ROMNEY.”
3. Coupon for 10 Mankini hugs
4. Pair of Rick Perry Cowboy boots.
5. A CD with a recording of ALL Michelle Bachman’s speeches.
6. Stationary (notepad, sticky notes, writing pad) with Rick Santorum’s mug photo
7. A Jon Huntsman 7 oz bottle copper tanning lotion
8. A nice bundle of imported weed from Ron Paul’s cabinet.
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Bwhahahqhahahahahahahhah, 😆 😆 😆 😆 thanks hopefruit2 but I will gladly pass all the above.
Yeah I’ve tuned in- confounded already by the dumb. They’re all so phony- and I’m talking about the pre-debate speakers.
why am I not surprised that Wolf Blitzer is the moderator, good grief CNN ought to actually have a little shame here tonight. Anyone still looking to them for news & real journalism is a fool.
Ha! Wolf Blitzer says: The whole world is gonna be watching… haaaa! They cannot possibly believe their own BS.
Oh part of the intro: “to win the White House and Kick Barack Obama out” not kidding, this is your tea party with class.
hahahahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
of course he is.
comment was addressed to Jackie re: “Chuck Norris will be attending the Tea Party Debate as a guest of Rick Perry”
I have to share this tweet. I laughed out loud in my office!
Wodego Jack O’Brien
#cnnteaparty Question for candidates: Does Wolf Blitzer look more like Einstein or Dr. Zorba?
No, he looks more like a Leslie.
Sorry. Here is another tweet from Sandra Behrns.
SandiBehrns Sandi Behrns
RT @DavidCornDC: Wolf to crowd: “All of us will always remember this night.” #CNNTeaParty / it may be time to put the wolf down
I love twitter for just that reason, brings out some great humor in very few words ~
he’ll remember it as the night he finally lost what little was left of his so-called credibility.
Oh my goodness I just threw up in my mouth. CNN/Teaparty introduction of the candidates is gross. They just referred to the teaparty as a grassroots organization that want to kick Barack Obama out……. oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 🙄
Herman Cain received the loudest applause. lolol now you know this will be hysterical. hahahahahahahaha
It is important that they are not seen as the racists they are, hence the show of love and support for the bozo Herman Cain!!!
See, we really aren’t racists since we like that Herman Cain!!!
Hermab Cain would be their step-n-fetch…..they are racists period. Herman Cain may be willing to go along…. I couldn’t and wouldn’t.
Sue, you really hit the nail on the head!
HAHAHAHAHA @ those signs. I wasn’t gonna check it out, but now with those signs, I’m reminded what monumental clowns the teapublicans are and I may pop into the debate/clown show a few times. It’s easy for me to watch GOP shenanigans — I have no connection to any of these dummies.
…..so now I’m tuning into CNN and the Very Dramatic Intro is complete with soundtrack music and movie-type voiceovers — they’re doing a glitzy recap of each of the candidates: way too complimentary —
Romney “The Early Frontrunner,”
Perry “The Newcomer,”
Bachmann “The Firebrand,”
Huntsman “The DIplomat”,
Paul “The Libertarian,”
Santorium “The Fighter,”
Cain “The Businessman,”
Gingrich “The Thinker” <—– 😆 .
This is gonna be a hot ass flaming mess! CNN will be cheering all the way — I've never seen Wolf so animated….. pitiful 😆 😆 😆
it really is pitiful, slimy and stomach churning in it’s full on BS.
The atmosphere and on-stage introductions are more like “The Price is Right” than a debate. Wolf has his best booming Oprah voice going.
Oh Dear…that star spangled banner was more like the star mangled banner
lol I wrote something to this effect and decided to delete. lololol It certainly was mangled hopefruit2
They love them some Herman Cain, and have no love for Jon Huntsman……..
The National Anthem? I guess to show that teabaggers are more patriotic than the rest of us.
Lawd, Faux News would proud of this Real True Amurrican spectacle.
Somebody sit this singing billy goat down!
Omg, please tell me you’re kidding!! National anthem?
Sure, they LOVE the United States . . . except for Democrats, and black people, and Mexicans, and Muslims, and gay parents, and union members, and scientists, and people who can read, and people with empathy.
Bingo!
Wolfie has sold his soul to the debil.
Since Wolf is soooo thrilled to be here tonight, let us please never allow him to forget his awesome support for them 😉
Oh gawd — they’re introducing themselves, sounding idiotic……
Perry is a fool — and they love them some fools..
Bachmann – said social security will be there for the current seniors but for folks coming into the system should recognized that it has to be reformed.
She also said President Obama stole money from Medicare and switched it over to pay for Obamacare.
The Dem’s are going to have to hone a message for the young people. This is gaining traction — that SS will not be there for the young people.
Romney hit Perry and said Perry said in his book Social Security is unconstitutional and should not be a Federal program and should be returned to the States. lolol
Social security question: they’re pitiful — I don’t know how long I can hang in there with these buffoons. Wolf is useless.
Here is a Debate Watch Scoreboard from Obama 2012.
http://www.barackobama.com/gopdebatewatch-20110912
You’ve upped your game, sistah!! Bwwahaahaaa!!
I love that second poster “Barack, I got your back”
Hmmmm, decision, decision….to watch Football or…Nutball?????
Okay, the audience is stupid and clapping at bullshit. Good gravy. I’m losing brain cells……
Wolf Blitzer just made me projectile vomit with his phoniness. Perry wants to make Washington D.C. as inconsequential as possible. Until he needs FEMA and stimulus. Now Romney is attacking Perry for calling SS a ponzi scheme and wanting it to be a state program. Now Perry said that Romney also called SS criminal in his book.
“Wolf Blitzer just made me projectile vomit”
Me too UT, me too ….. what a useless fool.
What gets me is that the want government to be inconsequential for anything that stands in the way of business — raping the land, our safety, our water, our air, safe drugs and food.
But when it comes to what women do with their bodies, or what happens in the bedroom between consenting adults — they want constitutional amendments to police that.
Romney is forcing him to answer his Social Security question – is SS unconstitutional and should it be returned to the States.
Perry hit back – said they need to have a serious conversation on how to fix the program where it is not bankrupt. Perry said in Romney’s book he said SS is criminal.
Nope not watching.
Huntsman is an ass.
The End!
ROFLMAO!!!!!
Jon Huntsman referenced Kurt Cobain? O…..kay.
WTF? Huntsman just compared Romney’s words about SS being criminal/fraud to Kurt Cobain? This dude is 100% clueless.
Is that supposed to make him hip?
This a freakin gong show……I told CNN today they had no business even having the opportunity to moderate this……they didn’t have the brains or the balls to ask tough questions and challenge stupid answers.
It really is a spectacle, I would hope I am not the only American that finds this offensive.
Huntsman is still trying to impress his Clinton/No label benefactors including all the PL folks who are so taken with him!!!
Never has a man been so celebrated for saying he believed in evolution!!!
It is CRAZY time people!!!
Wow, Newt is still alive? Who knew?
He may be the only one on the stage who’s on Social Security, so the others should listen to him.
Ba da bing.
Gingrich said he isn’t worrying about Perry or Romney scaring the American people when Barack Obama is in the White House scaring the American people every day.
He recd. lots of applause for that .
Teabaggers simply want red meat. Dummies.
Exactly – no solutions, just OBAMASUX..OBAMASUX…
I’m not watching but just hearing that makes me want to throw up…seriously, I can’t do the loonies!
Bachmann said Pres Obama stole money from medicare to fund Obamacare and no rebuttal or demands for truth by Wolf.
Okay, Gingrich is on bashing Obama. I am so done with this circus.
“Gingrich is on bashing Obama”…that’s his assignment. He and everybody and their mama knows Gingrich has “a snowball chance in hell” to even win the primary let alone the general, so his “job” is to say the nasty stupid lies about PBO that the far right crazies want to/need to hear. Does Newt even have a staff…how much money is he raising?
Huntsman is creepy.
This fool is talking about teaming with Bill Clinton leading in Washington. He got NO as in ZERO applause.
referencing Rick Santorum
Clinton is now their hero!!! Alligned with these corporate rethugs in their anything to undermine and sabotage President Obama movement!!!
Eleroy, you are so right…I want to say some things (a whole lot of things) but I am trying really hard not to say negative things about (Clinton)…I am trying to be nice.
These people wouldn’t know the truth if they fell over it.
I doubt they care one iota for truth or FACTS – it’s all about the evilll Obama.
Bailing…..the stupid is too much. Thomas Friedman is being very smart over on Lawrence O’Donnell. My brain cells are rejoicing.
Gingrich said modernize the Federal government will save billions of dollars.
Totally ignores the fact that PO has already said that.
“modernize” is code for dismantle.
Wow Santorum is still in this race?
in his own mind.
utaustinliberal – they are not into him.
Jeez, for a minute I wondered who was the guy on my screen sucking lemons – it’s Rick!!!! He’s still there!!!
He has a rather ‘pinched’ quality to his face doesn’t he?
Would it be terribly unkind to say that the people in the audience look like over-nurished and permanently angry goats?
no. It would be a true statement.
I think they’re over-FED but mal-NOURISHED. Great Amurrican DIet of hot dogs and freedom fries. Yee-Haw!
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
No, and it would be funny too!!!
Thanks for the laugh …ba da bing!
Sometimes, try as you may to be polite and civil, It’s very hard to avoid telling the TRUTH! The people I saw, in that audience, seem to be the most privileged angry people who are certainly not going hungry everyday.
Cain is still touting his phantom Chilean SS plan. This dude is nuts.
I wonder if anyone challenged his Chilean SS plan….
http://www.davidlanger.com/article_s25.html – Cached
Did Romney say that he should cap spending for the Federal Govt at 20% GDP?
Romney would like to take out waste out of the govt like he did in the private sector. Yeah that private sector where Bain Capital plunged several companies into bankruptcy.
Ron Paul wants to cut the Dept of Education, national security and stuff like that and the teabaggers cheered and applauded. Lord save us from ignorant fools.
That means cnn does too. Anything the teabaggers are for..cnn and Kochs are behind them.
Hell Nope not watching. I have no respect for the Tea Party (KKK) or CNN. And for sure not any of those people on that stage.
anniebella, I’m with you, I have zero respect or care for these creeps, but I do want to know what lies they’re telling about POTUS. There are too many people who still believe CNN is a legitimate news station.. and may well be listening to this horror show.
The poll is snazzy, Ms. Chips — you fancy, huh?
Huntsman full of shit. The Great American Tragedy being played out” Eff you.
Great Huntsman wants to repeal Obamacare and Dodd Frank.
I tried to listen to Huntsman and all I heard was
blah blah blah blah blah! corporate welfare blah blah blah
Sounds no different from Adam Green, Jane Hamsher, Ed Shultz, Keith Olbermann, or any of the professional left clowns.
that’s exactly who he’s trying to appeal to: Former Edwards supporters and PUMAS.
Which doesn’t make any sense. Edwards supporters and PUMAs won’t determine who wins the Republican primary… I mean they can vote in Republican primaries, but at most they are what, 20-25% of Democrats?
The thing that will destroy his chances is that he’s said too many good things about President Obama. That’s why he’s at 1%, even behind Newt Gingrich, because he doesn’t bash his former boss.
No..no..he’s hoping that he will eventually win the GOP nomination because the media will campaign for him. He’s banking on the media’s help to improve his 1% poll and transform it to 51% come GOP election time.
They are his biggest fans!!!
Perry just lied about the stimulus not providing a single job when it saved and created close to 3 million jobs and no rebuttal from Wolf. CNN is 100% crap.
Romney says as President he would support a balanced budget amendment.
Well said UT! The so called Main Stream Media (MSM) are doing a great disservice to this country. For Perry to make such an assertion without any media push back to get at the truth tell us all we need to know about the MSM’s agenda. They are not interested in disseminating factual news to the American people.
I’m seriously struggling to think of any politician in my lifetime who has repulsed me more than Perry. The man is beyond vile.
Lord Voldemort Cheney?
Cheney takes the cake. Nobody is more vile than Cheney, I’m convinced. Bush would have been bad on his own, but I think Cheney took things to a whole other level.
At least Bush was funny when he made gaffes (“Food on your family, I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully, Rumors on the Internets”), Cheney is pure evil.
Hands down….its Dick “Darth Vadar” Cheney. I would love to see that sumg look on his face disappear when he is frog marched to jail one day.
For me it is toss up between Palin, and Perry. Cheney has a category all to himself…the devil’s spawn!
Well now Mr. Perry lying his ass off…. zero jobs from the stimulus… people actually laughed. He’s saying POTUS going to raise all their taxes. I honestly look forward to this sob on stage with President Obama and try this lying shit- while POTUS kicks out fact after fact after fact. Perry = Scum. Oh and Wolf Blitzer is a scam artist.
Yes that was a bold face lie, reputable economists have endorsed the President’s current jobs plan.
Leslie is an ass.
Shut up Michele, you ****ing idiot.
Bwwahahaaa!!
Bachmann wants a 0% corporate tax rate and the $1.2T that corporations have squirreled away will magically re-patriate back into America.
Oh my goodness Cain is touting his 999 plan. 9% flat tax 9% corporate tax. 100% bullshit.
oh cripes. Did Bachman say that PO raised the debt ceiling to run up more debt? She really doesn’t get that the debt ceiling is to cover the bills from the previous administration. Then her other solutions on balancing the budget were to repeal obamacare, repeal dodd/frank repeal blah blah blah.
seriously? Who are the people who vote for that Dipstick?
There is no way I am going to watch. It sure is fun following all your posts. I can’t believe you are actually watching. You have more strength than I do. Keep the laughs coming.
More interesting with Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter on LOD. And I can’t watch the ignorant debate, but I wonder if any will continue to reference Reagan as they are so fond of doing after she wrote a piece for Time slamming the Repub candidates for using his name. She said that they can reference his name till their tongues fall out but they will never come close to even being in his shadow. She said the most disgusting thing—-she wanted to call it blasphemy—-was the huge applause for Perry executing over 200 people. She asked, “Who are these people?” She expressed complete disgust with these Repub candidates.
Yeah, that was a very interesting interview.
She tried to bash President Obama with the same PL talking points her brother spouts, but for some reason Lawrence cut her off!!!
Now Romney is trotting out his payphone vs smartphone stupid stupid stupid analogy that makes no damn sense. He says we live in a smartphone world and PBO lives in a payphone world where he shoves quarters into the economy. This dude is an idiot.
speaking of shove………. can’t wait for PBO to shove his foot up Mitt’s slack, saggy and fat bum.
Hee hee hee.
I read that quickly, I thought you said his pantyhose vs smartphone I am like WTF?
I better leave the speed readin to Evelyn Woods 😉
He said that Perry should get credit for creating jobs in Texas. No comment from Wolfe on the fact that employment was based on the stimulus and folks are underemployed.
In fairness, Mitt IS an expert on unemployment – he ‘unemployed’ thousands of men and women with his work at Bain Capital.
That was exactly what I was thinking when he was spouting rubbish.
Not to mention that he is currently unemployed too.
The cameramen have received instructions to every so often, make sure to zoom in on the 4-5 Blacks in the audience.
I wonder how much they are getting paid? Better yet, they are probably related to Herman Munster.
Herman Cain, Michael Steele and the idiot congressman from Florida have family and for these black people, if they can be the token ones in a republican audience that despises them, if the price is right, they will take. And they have taken!!!
Probably the same 4-5 that were at the last Republican convention. I remember counting.
Lol
Paul said he has no idea where Perry is getting his numbers from because Perry raised his taxes several times and jobs created were Govt jobs. Said he won’t slam Perry too much because he may raise his taxes.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! Paul is hilarious 🙂
Bwahahahahahahahahahha.
Ok…… everyone take a shot ot whiskey, tequila, wine, beer or whatever. New just mentioned Reagan.
Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter is on Lawry bashing the GOP presidential field. Then she said, something like (paraphrasing): I don’t see my father in them, I don’t see him in our/this president. At one point I thought I did- ( I think somewhere in there she said that she was disappointed or maybe I am inferring from her affect and statement as saying she was disappointed PBO wasn’t like her daddy) then Lawry cut her off and redirected her back to bashing the GOP. She dislikes them intensely. What?! She thought PBO was Reagan reincarnated? Is she for real? She does know that regardless of what the right thinks, Reagan wasn’t a God right? He was a so-so actor who was a democrat before he got rich and decided that he should be a repug?
I’m not watching, but what I gather, she’s probably saying that President Obama is a transformative figure like her father Reagan was. As bad as Reagan’s policies were, people listened to him, and he energized people to vote. President Obama said he’s a tranformative figure dating back to when he was still a candidate…. I could be wrong, but just my take.
So sick of Reagan fetishists. He ruined California and screwed America.
meta, I agree with you !000% concerning Ronald Reagen.
I agree with her about President Obama being like President Reagan. I was young when President Reagan was in office but he was the Great Communicator and now President Obama has become that to America. President Reagan was good looking and so is President Obama. Yes, I’m being superficial at the moment, that’s me.
she didn’t say they were alike. she said at one point she thought PBO was like him.—– Implying some sort of disappointment. Lawry quickly cut her off and got her going on the GOP again.
It’s just damn convenient to bash Obama isn’t it. Glad LOD reeled her in. Seems to me at the time her Dad was President she caused him alot of embarassment. Oh well….it’s so easy to be an expert in this country, if you have a monetary advantage.
She was an embarassment to Papa, so was Little Ron…
Just noticed two sponsors during the commercial: Cadillac, ExxonMobil.
@Shoq: DEAR USA: This #CNNTeaparty brought to u by Cadillac, a division of General Motors which the candidates tried to kill. #p2
Like it!
LOL!!!
Sweet.
How is it that Wolf isn’t refuting these lies? Perry says the stimulus provided zero jobs. LIE. It created and saved close to 3 million jobs. Bachmann said that by raising the debt ceiling, congress gave PBO $2.4T to spend, spend, spend. LIE. The debt ceiling deals with money congress has already appropriated. Bachmann said that PBO stole $500 million from Medicare and put it into Obamacare. LIE. Huntsman and the rest said Dodd-Frank is slwoing down business. LIE Wallstreet is sitting on over $2 trillion worth of cash. CNN is teabagger central.
Because Wolf is a Teapug apologist. He’ll sit there and let the whole lot of them lie through their teeth unchallenged.
Koch Brothers probably feathered his nest ….I wouldn’t doubt it, these people are all so easily bought and sold.
Kochies probably told him they would publish his birth certificate with his real name on it……… How d’ya like them apples, Leslie?
C’mon ut. You know Wolfie is nothing but a script reader. He doesn’t know his ass from a crack in the sidewalk. Take his earphone and notes and he’ll start to babble.
Huntsman is looking scared. He’s getting nervous….
I think it’s just his 12-year-old’s high-pitched voice. He’ll be okay.
As much as I disagree with Huntsman’s politics, he was right when he said that his party has become way too radical for the modern day. He knows he has no chance of winning the nomination, let alone the general IF he did, because he’d be forced to pick a radical Teapug as his running mate. 2012 is out the gate for him and so is 2016, because he can’t get any name recognition within his own party, let alone nationwide. He fucked up an excellent opportunity to be a meaningful candidate, he should have waited until 2016, when the Teapugs would have fizzled out. But hey, Huntsman is a Republican, and most Republicans are not known for their smarts.
He just proved how shortsighted he is and how he lacks judgement and feeds into baseless flattery!!!
the fact that a few people tell you you could make a good “leader’ does not mean it is true!!! and the fact that you drop everything and run with the flattery of a handful shows that you are an idiot!!!
Chipsticks I see you have the picture of Bachmann and Romney smooching. When I saw it live on tv… I gagged big time. Ewwww. Chipsticks the picture is as bad as the mankini picture and now you owe me humongous amounts of brain bleach. 😯
😆 It is NOT pretty!!!!! Sorry UT!
She’s a desperate woman….Marcus just isn’t man enough. She loved to kiss on her “Dubya” too.
She must like them alittle luke warm…Romey doesn’t seem too manly either IMO!
OOOooofff. That’s looks like VP flopsweat.
she probably just passed on the crazy cooties. Be prepared Tea Party Zombie: WIlbur Mittens Romneypoo.
So funny. I have the debate recording, while I’m trying to force myself to watch it. At the top of the hour, the teevee machine automatically switched to Pawn Stars.
Huntsman again — I hear the teacher on charlie brown every time he speaks.
didn’t realize that in pasting a link, it pulls the actual video. my apologies.
LOL! Hilarious nospin.
Wolf is asking Newt a question (even those names are hysterical). Newt is lookin’ like he’s thinkin’, “Say what?”
Yeah Newt is opposed to raising taxes. Guess he forgot when he worked with Clinton who raised taxes. Now he calls this the Obama depression.
Newt got the first applause of his public career. Anybody know why?
he gets a lot of applause during the debates. The tosses jabs at PO all the time and slaps down the msm. Not presidential at all.
Romney said the Middle Class is hurt by the Obama economy.
Yeah, Mitt would know all about the middle class, living in million dollar mansions and wearing fancy clothes and whatnot… 😯
Exactly, what does he know about being middle class? Pretender
Too bad Bachmann is standing where she’s standing in that “God bless corporate America” photo, Chips. Otherwise, they’d all make the perfect little set of Russian nesting dolls.
Or is it me?
Oh great. PBO providing fantastic women healthcare benefits in the ACA means he wants to force feed little girls the abortion pill. Bachmann is a complete and utter moron to the nth power.
Did Bachmann just say she is the mother of “three” children? I thought she had four. Or five?
20?
she has 5 kids, 2 boys, 3 girls and her 23 foster chicks…I guess for periods ranging from 3months to 2 years, all girls.
I think “mother” is a loose term in her vocab, especially if you get a hit of Mr. Bachmann.
Ewwwwwww that picture.
Bachmann slammed Perry for trading legislation for money by passing laws that required little girls to get injections.
Perry said, I got a $5000 donation and if you think I can be bought for $5000 then I am offended.
Bachman said I am offended for the parents and for the children.
Santorum jumped in and said he is not sure what kids are learning in Texas schools but if it is similar to what is being taught in other schools Government has no right to force injections on children and his policy regardless of the reason behind it is wrong.
Santorum received his first genuine applause of the debate season.
A good follow-up question for Wolfie when Perry said ” … if you think I can be bought for $5000 then I am offended” would have been “Then, how much can you be bought for, Governor?”
that is what came to my mind immediately.
I think it even came to Perry’s mind, since he paused (looking stupid, as to where to go next, you could see his mind trying to work).
I am lurking tonight and reading the comments re the debate. It sounds almost identical to the last one. I thank the person who has a stomach strong enough to watch this swill.
Yeah, and we’re not giving them any ratings,either.
The last teabagger debate was around 5 million and President Obama’s speech was 31 Million..the NFL opener 27 Million as you might know.
Is the 31 million referring to just those who viewed it on TV, or does it include those who streamed it over the Internet?
And I don’t think that number ( 30 mill) is including people who listened to the speech on the radio…which my best friend often does, especially when he is at work.
on Healthcare
– Waiver from Obama care
– Repeal Obama care
– Repeal Obama Care
all ignoring the fact that each state has the right to create their own healthcare plan as long as it provides the same or better care for the citizens at a comparable rate or less. That repeal nonsense is silly.
some of them also want to secede from the union, which is also silly
Romney is a frakkin liar on the Obama Health Care plan.
The end!
You could have ended right after you posted “Romney is a frakkin liar.”
lol
Yep, gonna lay that bullshit on thick to try and retake the lead in the polls. I swear, the inside looks like an AARP meeting.
These teabaggers and Ron Paul are sick, twisted, and evil. Ok so a young man is 30 years old, feels he’s healthy and doesn’t need health insurance. He falls deathly ill and is in the ICU for 6 months and desperately needs healthcare. What would you do? How would you pay for it? Ron Paul would rather leave the man to suffer and die because America is all about freedom and indiviudals. Wolf asked him so we should let the man die and the teabaggers cheered and yelled “yeah.. let him die.” They have no conscience.
Reminds me of Ebeneezer Scrooge, “But if he is to die then let him die, and decrease the surplus population.”
At least Ebeneezer Scrooge turned from the Dark Side.
They really yelled “let him die”? These people have no heart!!!!
And this is the same side that bitched about “Death panels” in ObamaCares. Can you say IRONY and PROJECTION?
It’s very very sad!
I am 48 years old and watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Making more sense than this debacle!
What channel?
(I used to be Snow White but I drifted. Sorry – old Mae West line – I keep getting distracted during this debate.)
Disne Channel.
Another sponsor of the debate noted: FedEx.
Time to buy a book of postage stamps!
That ends my close relationship with Kinkos. And I’m buying two rolls of stamps tomorrow. Also if you shop online and have an option use the USPS.
Oh, good, their red meat topic – illegal immigration – is coming up.
Wasn’t Romney busted for hiring illegal immigrants at one of his mansions?
I just happened to think. Perfect locale for this circus: the Florida State Fairgrounds!
They definitely need the Spirit of Christmas Present at the debate tonight.
Santorum said you need to make English the required language of this country. Said the US was a melting pot and not a salad bowl.
&*%$#@*&
Oh dear 😯
Seriously, these Teapugs only seem to recite Rush Limbaughisms and bumper sticker slogans… nothing of substance.
Maybe he could talk to Palin….word salad is the only language she knows.
Huntsman said that the fact that Perry said you can’t support the borders is a treasonous statement.
Romney said on Immigration — if Latinos came here for a handout, they should vote for democrats.
I heard him say that. He’s a pig. The GOP is delusional if they think this is the way to win the Latino vote. Santorum said that to attract the latino vote, we should force them to learn and speaj english because America is a melting pot not a salad bowl. They’re all pigs. Their insensitivity and prejudice towards minorities is disgusting.
THEY ARE RACIST UT!!
That’s a really stupid thing to say. You can count on mitt.
Found it!
Mitt Romney Terminates Contract With Lawn Care Company for Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Mitt Romney has a “sanctuary mansion” no more.
The former Massachusetts governor and GOP presidential candidate has formally cut ties with the landscaping company that manicures his lawn, after it was reported that the company continued to employ illegal immigrants a year after the hiring practices were first revealed.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315129,00.html#ixzz1XnBpBj7I
HOW IS PRESIDENT OBAMA GOING TO DEFEAT ROMNEY OR PERRY IN THE GENERAL ELECTION WHEN THE MSM ALLOWS LIES TO GO UNCHALLENGED?!?!? THIS IS SCARY!! 😯
President Obama will brilliantly challenge the lies, himself. Have no fear.
Unless the people of this country who are watching this awful debate just come out tomorrow and say, “Let’s give President Obama four more years. Immediately.”
Keith, they did the very same thing last time with Gramps McCain. We can get this as long as we can stay focus.
Keith, calm down. Remember how the media threw Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Acorn all at Obama in 2008?
And guess what… a majority of folks did NOT CARE!!!!
Whether it’s Wright, Ayers, Acorn, Obamacare (according to the right), President Obama WILL overcome. Remember, this is the same Obama who ordered an operation, against the odds, that killed Osama bin Laden.
Again I ask, CALM DOWN.
Somebody get Keith’s freak-out meds, please.
Seriously, our Keith is channeling the other Keith (Olbermann), minus the “Have you no shame sir!” and “Obama is selling us out!” theatrics.
President Obama, you and I and thousands of others are going to call their lies what they are. Just think last time, we did not even have twitter.
The truth will bear us out.
Have faith!!
Keith you forgot to put “hope” at the end of your scary comment.
easy – Presidential debates.
You can’t spin that. in the meanwhile, I am enjoying the Republican debates.
Seriously Keith, do you think this is the blog for you? Maybe not?
Co-sign!
Chipsticks persons like Keith are the type that like to start junk and run just be like our PRESIDENT NO DRAMA AND WE WILL GET THE JOB DONE,YES WE CAN DO IT AGAIN
You guys I am a diehard supporter and have worked TIREDLESSLY for President Obama for years. Bush got into office twice if you all hadn’t forgotten. I have Obama gear and literature strewn throughout my house. YES, THIS IS THE SITE/BLOG FOR ME. Since when is asking questions make you a TROLL or a NON BELIEVER? Don’t underestimate the ignorance of the electorate. I know our work will be curicial with spreading the truth, but we just have NO help from the media. So my question was LEGIT? 😕
Hi Keith, my only job here when it comes to comment-watching is to keep out the trolls. As I think you’ll accept, in light of recent contentious threads, I have no problem with genuine supporters of the President expressing their concerns here. What I do have a problem with are offensive comments about the first lady and GOPolitico-type propaganda panic-posts about the ‘strength’ of the opposition to the President. If you can cut them out, you’re more than welcome to keep posting here – if you’re not, then this isn’t the place for you.
CAKE.
Keith…the percentage of folks who actually believe these lies, is small very small…this is why the GOP is upset. This crazy talk, these lies will win a primary, but not a general. Besides, the MSM is not and has never been known to dispute the GOP lies…it is going to be up to us and the Obama campaign to get the truth to the masses.
Santorum takes on Paul, mentioning bin Laden.
Hey, guys, President Obama took down bin Laden. Maybe you didn’t get the word, dolts.
Paul just quoted bin Laden, or maybe the Ghost of bin Laden.
At least one of them will say “It was all because of President Bush that Obama got bin Laden,” and I bet Ron Paul will probably say “It was the Navy SEALS, and not President Obama that killed Osama bin Laden,” or say that killing Osama bin Laden is a war crime and against the Constitution.
Right!
All I’ve heard tonight is fear, fear, and more fear and oh yes using 9/11 to scare the beejeezus out of the American people. Obama wants your money, Obama wants to force your innocent daughters to take the abortion pill, if Obamacare isn’t repealed then the world is over. If PBO isn’t kicked out of office in 2012, then the world will come to an end, terrorists are under your bed, Obama wants to give illegal immigrants all your benefits. Nothing about how to provide jobs for the American people. Just lies, lies, and more lies.
Woman asked what are you going to do to protect women and children in Afghanistan.
Huntsman said – not another damn thing. We gave our all. you have to take responsibility for your damn selves. lolololol
You can’t make this isht up. Chips, you gotta get his reply
Huntsman was pretty ugly on that one. I thought he was very ugly. I have no respect for him at all.
Hunstman is an ugly person on the inside and no amount of play acting will change that!!!
As he gets more and more desperate for points his mask will fall off!!!
The man has given nobody any reason to think he is decent so why has everyone bought into this whole “he’s a nice guy” crap!!!
It’s his Wally Cleaver looks.
Latest sponsor of debate noted during commercial: Clean Coal, Edward Jones, Aflac. And UPS – buy a book of postage stamps this week.
What would you bring to the White House?
Santorum – He’d add a bedroom – they have seven kids.
The only time Rick or any of these doofuses will be in the White House is if the Obamas invite them over for the grand tour.
And keeps them on the other side of the gold ropes.
Romney brings up the Churchill bust, originally loaned to Bush, that was sent back to England. They keep harping on this two-year-old story. Here’s what I found:
“A bust of Abraham Lincoln–Obama’s historical hero–now sits in its place. A White House spokesperson says the Churchill bust was removed before Obama’s inauguration as part of the usual changeover operations, adding that every president puts his own stamp on the Oval Office.”
I’m a tax payer, not on my dime…tell your kids to bunk-up 😉
Cain – a sense of humor because Americans are too uptight
Finally the freak show is over. Until the next one. Chips thanks for the forum and opportunity to liveblog. I’m now going to get drunk as hell and hope I don’t remember what just occurred from 8PM-10PM. 😉
Hic! 😆 I know how you feel UT!
did you all see this skit with Ron Paul when he got punked by Bruno? I happened to switch to HBO and caught the scene. Googled to try to find it.
Chips – delete if not appropriate. I cracked up when I saw it and thought it would bring levity to tonight’s debate. I thought it was a real campaign commercial and quickly realized this was real.
no more video links from me. .
Apologies Chips – the clip was a bit risque and I don’t usually post this stuff but because it had Ron Paul in it I posted it because of the debate. I forgot this blog links the actual video and not just the weblink.
Please delete.
David Gergen says the tea partiers in the room loved this debate. But that the people on Twitter were horrified.
Thank you, David, for speaking the truth!
But, of course, everybody KNOWS that the tea parties run the country, jacqueline!!!! The republicans always say that they KNOW what Americans want, and the majority of us agree with THEM. /s/
Thank goodness for Twitter!
That will be the first time David Gergen has spoken any truth in quite a long time!!!
I guess he is finding out like so many that their quest to replace the black guy in the WH with their own hand-picked great white hope, isn’t yielding quite the results they’d expected!!!
President Obama makes smart, dignified and hard work look so effortless and they all thought it would be a slam dunk to replace him!!!
They awakening is just begining!!!
People, we can only hope as time goes on these debates will just get nastier and nastier…lol.
Shudder…okay that pic of Bachmann almost kissing Romney needs to go the way of the Mankini pic and all pictures of Nightmare Barbie™ aka Newt’s wife. Horrifying.
Bachmann might have re-established herself a bit when she went hard at Perry for the HPV forced vaccinations and his Merck connections. I think this is an issue that will stick with Perry as long as he’s in the race.
Romney was a non-entity tonight. He seemed content in letting Bachmann and even Santorum land blows on Perry. But in doing so he comes off looking weak – he needs to be taking these swings at Perry.
I didn’t like that Perry didn’t flip flop on immigration – he could make some inroads there should he make the general as he has been reasonably good on immigration in Texas.
There is too many candidates – but they can’t whittle them down because Huntsman would be the first to go as he polls the worst and he’s a MSM favorite.
Huntsman referencing Kurt Cobain and them saying he’s bring his Harley to the White House just makes him look like the trying too hard to be cool dad.
And he got ZERO applause for that last line about the Harley.
Oh and in that last picture, he looks like he’s about to pass out.
Maybe his sinuses are bothering him 😀
LOL Sue!!!
Can you imagine how many times Huntsman disappears from the public when things get rough blaming his allergies for failing to show up!!! The man is a lazy, slime bastard!!!