I’d say Rick Santorum had the best night at the CNN Republican debate. We have a $16 trillion national debt, and thanks to Newt Gingrich’s grandiose plans, a good deal of time was spent talking about building space colonies on the moon. Seriously.
There was also a good deal of time spent on sniping between Gingrich and Romney. Wolf Blitzer happily stoked the flames.
These debates are getting tedious. Not to mention that the Romney haters are getting more and more angry, and demanding that Santorum drop out of the race so their boy Newt can take Romney down.
The Other McCain was there and live-blogged the event. Maggie live-blogged it, too. Politico has a run-down. I’ll probably post more tomorrow when the videos come out.
As for Romney and Gingrich, they were both mediocre. Romney had a few high points, but also a low point or two. Newt didn’t get the big bang from the audience he was looking for, and seemed kind of tired. Ron Paul had some good answers – especially on health care - but when I disagreed with his Cuba policy on twitter one of his fans got mad at me. Hey, I think that normalizing trade with Cuba would help the commie government abuse the citizens. The Paul fan said we normalized relations with China, so why not normalize relations with Cuba? Didn’t he pretty much make my point for me?
Anyway, stay tuned. It’s late and I’m tired and I still have about seven tabs open in my browser.
I agree, LC, that Santorum won the debate tonight. I was impressed with his knowledge of and involvement in Puerto Rican affairs. It would be my guess that none of the other candidates is that familiar with the plight of the Puerto Ricans and with the Governor of Puerto Rico, let alone Santorum actually knowing the problems that exist there. Statehood is always a tricky thing with Puerto Ricans themselves, so Santorum was wise in saying that it was they who had to decide the statehood issue.
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Not sure what you’ve been looking at to come to the conclusion that normalized relations would help the Cuban regime further abuse their citizens. Try looking at that situation and imagining the effects of normalizing relations in comparison to what’s really been happening in North Korea and Vietnam.
We’ve now had 15 years of diplomatic relations with Vietnam and though there are still concerns over some human rights abuses, the people there have experienced large gains in overall quality of life over the past decade.
North Koreans are simply still the most oppressed after 60 years of sanctions.
Freer trade and opening up tourism would help getting money down to the people on the street instead of allowing a repressive regime retain a stranglehold on the population.
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Thanks for linking LC. I also hear that Newt fans want Rick to drop out to help him. I want him to stay in. We need to move from the mindset that only Romney can win, even if it’s true. As Santorum says, America is worth fighting for.
The commie stuff with Paul, and that’s what it was – how would he feel if his grandchildren were were living under Castro or Chavez, wasn’t even shocking. Amazing that you can advocate for such with a big smile on your face.
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