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Monday, January 23, 2012

Blog the GOP debate with me

72 Comments:

Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

hey elbaum, i just checked, the debate is at 8 on NBC, but it is not showing up in the program listing on TV, but it is on the schedule on the NBC site

5:18 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Yes--see everyone at 8pm

7:03 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

i'll "see you all in the moon and stars" haha

7:15 PM

 
Blogger CitizenU said...

Comcast schedule indicates that joe rogan will be questioning Ron Paul about fed policy on GOP Fear Factor tonight at 8 pm.

7:18 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

oh, while we're waiting, did you hear about the new Supreme Court ruling? about GPS tracking of suspects w/o a warrant?

7:29 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/police-use-of-gps-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html?pagewanted=2&hp

7:35 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

so i assume by who concurred on it that this is more of a liberal topic than conservative

7:58 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Debate prediction. Mitt goes hard after Newt. You may hear the words "Tax Return" a few times as well

8:01 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

probably. interesting about the freddie mac contract...

8:02 PM

 
Blogger Thomas McKenna said...

NEWWWWWWWWWT!

8:05 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

One on one for 5 minutes so far. Remember Santorum and Ron Paul?

8:07 PM

 
Anonymous Billy the Kid said...

Hey Mr. Elbaum---did you see that picture of Mitt Romney doing the Laundry? He had no idea how to do it...so disconnected from Americans

8:12 PM

 
Anonymous "big al" said...

Yep. Like Dukokis in the tank!

8:13 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

what happened to the little 10 seconds intro speech they each get to make about themselves? that actually helped me further pick out my candidate during the last debate i watched. their style of speaking and what they chose to say in that short amount of time was like a preview of their personality. Romney and Santorum talked about how long they've kept happy families, Newt talked about his time as Speaker of the House, and Ron Paul bragged about his OBGYN career

8:13 PM

 
Blogger Thomas McKenna said...

electability.... right from the good doctors mouth

8:16 PM

 
Anonymous Shaayed said...

Eitan, GOPers care about one thing- BEAT OBAMA. People know the bios by now. This is the 303240923434th debate

8:16 PM

 
Anonymous Shaayed said...

Mitt Romney pays less of a % on his butler does

8:19 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

agreed on the beat obama part, but it still kind of showed from the start their personal morals and values which i like to see

8:21 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

No policy questions yet from Brian Williams. Let's get to some substance

8:24 PM

 
Anonymous Con Law superstar said...

This crowd is a little tooooooo quiet. Where's the hooting and the like

8:27 PM

 
Anonymous Alex Tellez said...

Ugh, too much bashing

8:29 PM

 
Anonymous Elliot said...

Ron Paul, will you please go get some water for Mitt and Newt?

8:31 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

it's kind of amusing to see mitt and newt attacking each other but it's really stupid haha. i wish they would get to important stuff

8:31 PM

 
Anonymous Alex Tellez said...

99% Mitt and Newt, 1% Paul and Santorum

8:32 PM

 
Anonymous Thomas McKenna said...

yea where's the moderator... he's too quiet too

8:33 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Yeah McKenna, Brian Williams just sort of let them go there

8:33 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Newt is getting flustered---Playing into Mitt's hand

8:35 PM

 
Anonymous Mary Beth Popielewski said...

I have kind of a random question that doesn't have much to do with the debate but in class when you said that Obama was going to wear a red tie, is that because red is usually associated with republican and he wants to appeal to those in the other party? And also if thats true is there any significance to the fact that Romney and Paul are wearing blue ties?

8:38 PM

 
Blogger Jared said...

I'm here over the bulls game... This better be good Mr. Elbaum. Ron Paul looks the least bit interested in what Santorum has to say. Mitt is pretty creepy in my opinion. But in all seriousness, I like what Santorum has to say over anything the other three believe in. Paul looks like he's ready to croke

8:39 PM

 
Blogger CitizenU said...

SOTUesday in less than 24 hours!

8:39 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Mary Beth...it was just a random guess

8:39 PM

 
Anonymous Mary Beth Popielewski said...

I like my reasons better. I'm gonna stick with it.

8:40 PM

 
Blogger Jared said...

SOTUesday will be 20x better than this... Obama as an orator > anyone

8:44 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

First applause of the night---clapping for the prospect of a dead Fidel Castro

8:44 PM

 
Anonymous Jake said...

One of these guys will be our next President. Obama polling under 50 percent. Sorry liberals...he's a one termer

8:46 PM

 
Blogger Jared said...

oh my gosh Newt is so funny................... "Fidel isn't going to meet his maker, he's going to go to 'The Place.' " Are these the kinds of people we want running our country?! He can't even act serious. This is frustrating

8:46 PM

 
Anonymous Danny Laner said...

gotta say i like Ron Paul's tie the best.

8:47 PM

 
Anonymous Thomas McKenna said...

i do love me some good foreign policy! and i am watching the bulls game too... this is better bulls are rapping it up. going to be a win

8:50 PM

 
Blogger Jared said...

gotta love Amurika

8:50 PM

 
Blogger Thomas McKenna said...

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8:53 PM

 
Anonymous Thomas McKenna said...

hey, there is nothing wrong with beating up the little guy and asserting your dominance with a few aircraft carriers. amen!

8:54 PM

 
Anonymous Danny Laner said...

alright everyone...there's a commercial AND big scal's in the game

8:55 PM

 
Anonymous Alex Tellez said...

I agree with Paul. Respond to an act of war. We shouldn't have military standing around just for an intimidation factor.

8:56 PM

 
Blogger Tommy Barnes said...

The freedom of the seas is a decent topic.

Mitt seems a little more bloodthirsty than Newt... or Newt is just putting up a 'I support peace' front to attract voters by contradicting Mitt.

Ron Paul sides with Mitt... interesting.

I do enjoy his tie the most out of the gang.

8:56 PM

 
Blogger Jared said...

Scal > politics

8:57 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

SOTU tomorrow night. Comes from Section 3 of the US Constitution

"He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."

9:01 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

*Article 2 section 3

9:01 PM

 
Blogger Thomas McKenna said...

santorum.... good turn around on that bp question. well done

9:03 PM

 
Anonymous Elliot said...

Alex- If you and Ron Paul had it your way, Iran would go Nuclear and attack our allies, forcing us to act and leading to complete destruction

Long live preemption

9:04 PM

 
Blogger Jared said...

"could no speak english well" - mitt romney

9:05 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ron Paul looooves ill fitting suits

9:05 PM

 
Anonymous jack karras said...

mr. E! can i just take gov again so i can feel sane again?

9:06 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Newt separates himself on DREAM ACT

9:06 PM

 
Anonymous Mitch Morton said...

Thats a good deportation question. Romney is stumped.

9:07 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Santorum- running for VP?

9:09 PM

 
Blogger Mitch Morton said...

Romney isnt doing great on this question.

9:09 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Mitt throws new term into the political lexicon--- self-deportation

9:10 PM

 
Blogger Tommy Barnes said...

Jeez, Mitt's got some real beef with Obama alluding to the 9 holes of golf.

9:13 PM

 
Blogger Mitch Morton said...

yeah, Golf?

9:15 PM

 
Blogger Eric Hamilton said...

OH MANNN CONSTITUTION. Im in this for the next 10 minutes :D.

9:20 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Newt- What's 1st prize for getting to the moon? 239021 pocket constitutions

9:24 PM

 
Blogger Eric Hamilton said...

Im jealous, I want that many PC's, that way whenever i see you i'll get the extra credit :D.

Hi mitch :O

9:25 PM

 
Anonymous Alex Tellez said...

Isn't space a frontier too expensive for private industry to experiment with?

9:26 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Hammah Time---check out the Court's ruling on GPS tracking and the 4th amendment

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/police-use-of-gps-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html?pagewanted=2&hp

9:26 PM

 
Blogger Eric Hamilton said...

Wow, that's amazing, huge hit for the police! Wonder what else they'll have to come up with in order to catch those dang pot heads

9:28 PM

 
Blogger CitizenU said...

If these candidates don't say "drill for oil," they're not conservative enough!

9:32 PM

 
Blogger Eric Hamilton said...

I miss Palin's "Drill baby drill" :(. Anyways, i'm off to bed. Have fun deblogging.

9:36 PM

 
Blogger Thomas McKenna said...

santorum... the man can speak... but then do i want a guy who stands up for all the conservative values or the guy who can "logroll" and get something done

9:37 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Thomas- solid "logrolling" reference

9:38 PM

 
Blogger CitizenPatriot said...

Winner?

9:41 PM

 
Anonymous Eitan Troyansky said...

i miss rick perry for the comic relief he provided. herman cain was my original favorite and i was very upset after he dropped out but i like santorum. to be P.C, i "don't like" ron paul much. mitt and newt are funny when they're fighting, too. and now it's time for bed. good night all!

9:45 PM

 
Blogger Sal said...

How many full house standing Os tonight? There was 1 so far (Osama). Predictions? And what will they be for?

8:20 PM

 

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