frommycolddeadhands
Regular Member
A lot of good questions and answers at the debate earlier this week. Some very interesting first impressions of a lot of these candidates.
Newt Gingrich came off very strong, I thought, even though he didn't talk much. He pushed the fact that he's been in politics for 30 years, and used to run the house, and he didn't seem nervous at all- unlike most of the other candidates on stage. At one point he even 'stuck it to the panel' for asking "gotcha" questions. He recommended auditing the Fed, and stopping these closed door sessions of congress, and stopping a few of the other 'stupid' things the senate is doing. I really hadn't paid much attention to him up to this point, but from now on I think I'll start watching him pretty close. I'm not 100% throwing my vote his way yet, but he made a pretty good impression on me.
Ron Paul is awesome any time he gets up in front of a crowd. I love the strict constitutionalism that he brings to the table every single time. I don't know if half of his ideas would work though. Going back to the gold standard sounds great- but I dunno if we can even to that with our current economy and the way global economics works these days. Would the gold standard help us pay thirteen-trillion dollars in debt? Do we even HAVE thirteen trillion dollars in gold? I don't know. I don't even know if that's how it works. His policy on Isolationism sounds good. It'd be nice to mind our own business for a while and get things here on track, but since we're the last superpower I really don't know if we can do that. We're prettymuch plugged into global politics whether we want to be or not. His assertion that a nuclear Iran isnt a threat to us was sort of shocking, but he backed it up pretty well. I have a hard time picturing him as the President though. He rants and raves at the podium with vigor and flourish talking about our constitution- which is great, but it's hard to see this cantankerous fellow trying to negotiate treaties with Russia, or address the nation in a time of crisis.
Rick Santorum caught my attention. I havent seen much coverage of him on the news, but he really stood out during the debates. I like his passion about pro-life issues, and the fact that he considers Israel our best ally in the mideast (Something Barry has constantly forgotten) and he gave a very good debate to Paul about why Iran shouldn't get their hands on a nuke anytime in the near future. He's an underdog, but I plan to keep an eye on him in the upcoming race.
Mitt Romney looks good on the economic portion of things, but not much else. I don't think he'd be a very effective C&C for our military, and there is something fundamentally 'phony' about him that I just dont like.
Herman Cain- there just isn't anything special about this guy that I can see. Why should I believe that this is the guy that will be able to fix our economy, stop 2 wars (plus whatever the hell this Libya thing is), and get Congress back on track where they should be, plus deal with all the other unforseen issues that will come up in the future? He seems like a nice guy, but really I think he should be running for Mayor of some small town, not the office of the president.
Bachmann looked like a deer caught in headlights for most of the debate, and I felt sorry for her because of how shaky and nervous she seemed. When the reporters tossed the question about "will you be submissive to your husband" she just smiled for an eternity (possibly pausing for the crowd to boo the question) and then tossed some weak answer about submission and respect being the same, and gave her husband a shout out. She seems like a super nice lady, but not what I'm looking for in the Leader of the Free World.
Everyone else was very forgettable, and mostly just seemed to repeat the same line over and over again.
What'd ya'll think?
Newt Gingrich came off very strong, I thought, even though he didn't talk much. He pushed the fact that he's been in politics for 30 years, and used to run the house, and he didn't seem nervous at all- unlike most of the other candidates on stage. At one point he even 'stuck it to the panel' for asking "gotcha" questions. He recommended auditing the Fed, and stopping these closed door sessions of congress, and stopping a few of the other 'stupid' things the senate is doing. I really hadn't paid much attention to him up to this point, but from now on I think I'll start watching him pretty close. I'm not 100% throwing my vote his way yet, but he made a pretty good impression on me.
Ron Paul is awesome any time he gets up in front of a crowd. I love the strict constitutionalism that he brings to the table every single time. I don't know if half of his ideas would work though. Going back to the gold standard sounds great- but I dunno if we can even to that with our current economy and the way global economics works these days. Would the gold standard help us pay thirteen-trillion dollars in debt? Do we even HAVE thirteen trillion dollars in gold? I don't know. I don't even know if that's how it works. His policy on Isolationism sounds good. It'd be nice to mind our own business for a while and get things here on track, but since we're the last superpower I really don't know if we can do that. We're prettymuch plugged into global politics whether we want to be or not. His assertion that a nuclear Iran isnt a threat to us was sort of shocking, but he backed it up pretty well. I have a hard time picturing him as the President though. He rants and raves at the podium with vigor and flourish talking about our constitution- which is great, but it's hard to see this cantankerous fellow trying to negotiate treaties with Russia, or address the nation in a time of crisis.
Rick Santorum caught my attention. I havent seen much coverage of him on the news, but he really stood out during the debates. I like his passion about pro-life issues, and the fact that he considers Israel our best ally in the mideast (Something Barry has constantly forgotten) and he gave a very good debate to Paul about why Iran shouldn't get their hands on a nuke anytime in the near future. He's an underdog, but I plan to keep an eye on him in the upcoming race.
Mitt Romney looks good on the economic portion of things, but not much else. I don't think he'd be a very effective C&C for our military, and there is something fundamentally 'phony' about him that I just dont like.
Herman Cain- there just isn't anything special about this guy that I can see. Why should I believe that this is the guy that will be able to fix our economy, stop 2 wars (plus whatever the hell this Libya thing is), and get Congress back on track where they should be, plus deal with all the other unforseen issues that will come up in the future? He seems like a nice guy, but really I think he should be running for Mayor of some small town, not the office of the president.
Bachmann looked like a deer caught in headlights for most of the debate, and I felt sorry for her because of how shaky and nervous she seemed. When the reporters tossed the question about "will you be submissive to your husband" she just smiled for an eternity (possibly pausing for the crowd to boo the question) and then tossed some weak answer about submission and respect being the same, and gave her husband a shout out. She seems like a super nice lady, but not what I'm looking for in the Leader of the Free World.
Everyone else was very forgettable, and mostly just seemed to repeat the same line over and over again.
What'd ya'll think?