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10-22-2007, 12:55 AM
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I just caught a few minutes of the debate, so I cannot comment on the substance, but did anybody else think Ron Paul looked younger, tanner, and had more hair? Maybe he had a professional make up artist do a little touch up before the debate. Not a bad idea, if true. [/ QUOTE ] LOL I thought the opposite. He looked tired and ashen. Between him Thompson and McCain I was having trouble figuring out who to put in the death pool first. 
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#42
10-22-2007, 01:00 AM
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Re: debate thread
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[ QUOTE ] I just caught a few minutes of the debate, so I cannot comment on the substance, but did anybody else think Ron Paul looked younger, tanner, and had more hair? Maybe he had a professional make up artist do a little touch up before the debate. Not a bad idea, if true. [/ QUOTE ] LOL I thought the opposite. He looked tired and ashen. Between him Thompson and McCain I was having trouble figuring out who to put in the death pool first. [/ QUOTE ] Looks like you need a shot of Vitamin Putin. 
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#43
10-22-2007, 01:07 AM
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Re: debate thread
BTW, does anyone know what Alan Colmes is about? I never watch Fox News, so I have no idea. It seems like after the debate, he took pro-Paul position, and even grilled Thompson with Paul's point about foreign policy costing us a lot of money. Thompson did his best to be patronizing and avoiding the question.
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#44
10-22-2007, 01:08 AM
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LOL Fox New Ron Paul bashing...."How many in here thought Ron Paul won?" No hands raised from the room full of old, mean-looking, eye darting hicks.
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#45
10-22-2007, 01:12 AM
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LOL Fox New Ron Paul bashing...."How many in here thought Ron Paul won?" No hands raised from the room full of old, mean-looking, eye darting hicks. [/ QUOTE ] LOL -- I also liked the next line. "I think that says a lot about THAT particular poll."
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#46
10-22-2007, 01:30 AM
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Re: debate thread
Notice how when introducing Ron Paul at the beginning they make sure to say: "1988 Libertarian Party candidate for President..."
Gotta build up that not-one-of-us feeling.
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#47
10-22-2007, 02:02 AM
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I do think that there are a couple of positives to take from that debate. For the first time, he was placed behind the proper podium, rather than off to the end. I also believe the NASCAR adage, it's better to be met with boos than to be met with silence. Those are signs that he's finally being taken seriously as a candidate.
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#48
10-22-2007, 02:05 AM
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McCain re the Woodstock Concert Museum "I was tied up at the time". Paul winning the text pool after this debate is proof that its just flooding. He was awful, barely coherent, showed a lack of concentration early on. The positions he take are marginal to the majority of the GOP. I think Huckabee and Romney showed the best, but Giuliani didn't hurt himself and he is still the most electable of the candidates. Thompson is totally unimpressive. I don't see why everyone is surprised at the Hillary mentions. They were appropriate to the questions, and she is clearly the Dem candidate. [/ QUOTE ] How did you think Romney came off well? Maybe I'm a little biased because I actually listen to try to find out their positions instead of just what sounds good, but it seemed to me like he was completely exposed as a "liberal in conservative's clothing and had no answers to any of the criticisms launched at him except to mention Ronald Reagan as much as possible. I went from being somewhat neutral on Romney before the debate to being very strongly negative afterward and his dodging of questions and general insincerity was a big reason why. Thompson on the other hand I thought came off better than anyone. He articulated his positions clearly, responded to all the criticisms strongly, and even gave off an impression of honesty/integrity. Going into the debate, I was pretty much writing him off as another cookie-cutter politico, but now, I'd say he's the mainstream candidate that I'd be most likely to vote for. (Not that I'm likely to vote for a mainstream candidate anyway, but if I did, he'd be the one.)
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10-22-2007, 02:11 AM
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[ QUOTE ] LOL Fox New Ron Paul bashing...."How many in here thought Ron Paul won?" No hands raised from the room full of old, mean-looking, eye darting hicks. [/ QUOTE ] LOL -- I also liked the next line. "I think that says a lot about THAT particular poll." [/ QUOTE ] [censored] Frank Luntz
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#50
10-22-2007, 02:11 AM
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Re: funniest line/text poll
Also, I don't think Ron Paul came off bad at all. His first response was a little garbled, but he was very strong and well-spoken on health care and the Fed, and his foreign policy remarks were probably the most memorable of the whole debate.
He did get booed by the live audience, but really, that's no more representative of the party as a whole than the text message voters are. The people that get tickets for that sort of debate are about the most hawkish neo-conservative party politics as usual group that you can find. Among most Republican voters, I think that wanting to end the war in Iraq is a point that resonates well, and the fact that the Republican party cannot win the election supporting the war is a point that should resonate even more.
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