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LIVE BLOG: Florida GOP Primary 2012 or “Can $16 Million in Negative Ads Buy an Election?”

Newt’s speech…..fantasyland…..presuming all kinds of powers that the executive does not have….tyrannical sugar plums dancing in his giant head….glad he lost today….

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 6:21 pm

Smart people there who know the truth. I love the statement that Newt is what a stupid person thinks a smart person act like.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 6:13 pm

AD LIB….Newt’s hubris is his worst enemy, but there is a powerful visceral anger between Newt and Mitt and I do not think it is going to diminish. As you may recall, I am from Missouri and Newt is not on the Beauty Contest Ballot (our delegates are chosen in a GOP “Convention”) so this will be non-binding. AND there is all kind of talk here about a Gingrich “write in” (i.e. making it known that Gingrich is the real choice). Romney is despised here as a Mormon, as a moderate/liberal, as an eastern elitist, as a tycoon. SO…..

Yes, Money Talks…….

And yes, he’s got his war bonnet on.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 6:11 pm

His Obama Simulcrum is the one his base imagines. Fighting ghosts and demons.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 6:05 pm

I got it wrong too. Seeing was believing.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 6:04 pm

I get your classmates now. I thought you might have been some teenage prodigy on our chat space. A sort of Alex P. Keaton.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 6:03 pm

Just saw Crist on MSNBC. Romney hired HIS manager! Not Rubio’s! SO…..

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:49 pm

Yes. I agree that backing away from his strongest attack line left him with too little narrative.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:47 pm

Yes…the Newt crowd from SC, But Mitt hit Newt and not Obama. Wonder how that worked? Showing he could take on Obama too?

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:46 pm

Will Mitt Get the 50 Delegates?

He may or may not get 50…….depends on whether the RNC holds to their judgment and insists on proportional allotment (a penalty for changing their primary date). The Florida RC says it will award the delegates as a block.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:42 pm

He may or may not get 50…depends on whether the RNC holds to their judgment and insists on proportional allotment (a penalty for changing their primary date). The Florida RC says it will award the delegates as a block.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:39 pm

kalima…Sharply focused snap shot of the GOP electorate. Thanks.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:35 pm

Collateral, not mortgage…subtle but real difference.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:33 pm

Classmates? How so?

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:32 pm

Carpet bombing, Dresden in Miami and Tampa.

Money really does talk.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:31 pm

I think you are very correct. Yes Rubio’s chief strategist in Florida now works for Romney.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:29 pm

Ad Lib….here is a story I just picked up on today. Mitt’s dad apparently gave him and Ann their first home. It was apparently quite a home. The downlow is that this house, free and clear, provided the collateral for the loans Romney got to start his Bain offshoot. So much for, “I inherited nothing.” I have put this on my “more research” list.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:27 pm

I live in Missouri….there is a “writein Newt” movement developing here. The primary here is a non binding beauty contest, so such an effort might pay off with the party which chooses the delegates and is none too happy about Mitt.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:21 pm

Remember my article back in December? I thought he would shoot himself in the foot with his brain and his mouth.

Gingrich surprised me in SC.

But that is beginning to look like SC dynamics more than Gingich’s appeal.

Now Romney has surprised me. This campaign has been far nastier than I thought it would be since Mitt needs to look forward to bringing the party together.

But the signs are that Newt is marching forward. What is next?

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 31, 2012 @ 5:19 pm

LIVE BLOG – GOP Debate in FL on CNN – 1-26-2012

This was great…that idea of the brokered convention got even less likely tonight.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 7:29 pm

Have you a link for this? Great quote.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 7:26 pm

I think that is changing. Several of my doctors who were anti ACA have swung into line.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 7:20 pm

He sounds Obama alien.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 7:19 pm

Mitt…presented himself as the rational choice and was ready for few attacks that a listless and unprepared Newt launched.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 7:06 pm

Thank God Newt mentioned Saul Alinsky. It would be a sad night with the Salamander without reference to the mysterious, foreign sounding, vaguely socialist….organizer whose tactics are best seen in the contemporary world by the Tea Party.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 6:59 pm

This final question is an invitation for each one to give his mini-stump speech….unchallenged….CNN blew it with this question….nothing to learn here.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 6:55 pm

They voted against a territorial assembly which is the first step in applying for statehood. Why? They do not have a self sufficient economy and benefit from territory status.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 6:52 pm

I actually think a little more religious repression would be a good idea. The wall of separation between established religion and government has eroded. IMAGINE IKE, OR NIXON, OR GEORGE HW BUSH ADDRESSING THIS QUESTION.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 6:49 pm

True, but Raoul has had to adapt the Fidel oriented government and introduce a number of reforms. With the end of the USSR, Cuba has been living on borrowed time.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 6:46 pm

What will bring down Cuban dictatorship? Its own internal economic collapse. Our small efforts to liberalize trade and to allow for some currency exchange do not prop up the government BUT it does create a sense of U.S. antagonism to the Cuban people.

» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On January 26, 2012 @ 6:39 pm