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by **GLX** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:18 pm

Did anyone watch it? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

by **Thunderstorm** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:21 pm

Which country did we decide needs bombing this week?

by **Eli Katz** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:25 pm

I tried to watch it. But I don't give a fuck about this contest anymore.

Romney will probably win Florida, and has the superior organization to slowly grind out a victory.

by **GLX** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:28 pm

Thunderstorm wrote:Which country did we decide needs bombing this week?

Didn't really talk about that, tonight.

Marco Rubio was mentioned...a lot.

A Palestinian-American Republican asked a question about Israel and Pakistan and only two candidates were given time to respond. One was Romney and the other was Gingrich.

A question on Puerto Rico only got one response.

However, we did learn why each candidate's wife is awesome (Callista is artistic, fyi). Oh and that Gingrich wants to have a moon colony.

by **GLX** » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:29 pm

Eli Katz wrote:I tried to watch it. But I don't give a fuck about this contest anymore.

Romney will probably win Florida, and has the superior organization to slowly grind out a victory.

Sadly, this is likely to be true. That being said, it could be worse.....Gingrich could get the nomination. :smt090

by **Thunderstorm** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:01 am

I heard about the 51st State on the Moon. I may get an Obama bumper sticker now.

by **ReturnoftheMack** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:39 am

Man the answer they gave to the Palestinian guy was harsh.

by **GLX** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:21 pm

Thunderstorm wrote:I heard about the 51st State on the Moon. I may get an Obama bumper sticker now.

"I can see my state from Earth."

/palin'd

by **Cat-Scratch** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:36 pm

Yay Death Comet!

by **Spidey-Man** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:37 pm

the media seems to think Romney won and Gingrich did poorly.

They said Santorum was also strong, but that just made Gingrich weaker.

by **CountD** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:39 pm

they all seemed to be on their game.

which does not bode well for a clear cut front runner.

by **achilles** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:07 pm

The President wrote:Man the answer they gave to the Palestinian guy was harsh.

What was the question? What was the answer?

by **achilles** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:09 pm

Thunderstorm wrote:I heard about the 51st State on the Moon. I may get an Obama bumper sticker now.

I don't know, in principle I'm not opposed to the idea of building a lunar colony, if only to stop Eddie Murphy from making more movies. But it should wait for when we have some actual money to spend on it first...

by **GLX** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:20 pm

achilles wrote:
What was the question? What was the answer?

(APPLAUSE) BLITZER: Let's take another question from the audience.

Please give us your name and tell us where you are from.

(UNKNOWN): Abraham Hassel (ph) from Jacksonville, Florida.

How would a Republican administration help bring peace to Palestine and Israel when most candidates barely recognize the existence of Palestine or its people? As a Palestinian-American Republican, I'm here to tell you we do exist.

BLITZER: All right. Let's ask Governor Romney, first of all.

What would you say to Abraham?

ROMNEY: Well, the reason that there's not peace between the Palestinians and Israel is because there is -- in the leadership of the Palestinian people are Hamas and others who think like Hamas, who have as their intent the elimination of Israel. And whether it's in school books that teach how to kill Jews, or whether it's in the political discourse that is spoken either from Fatah or from Hamas, there is a belief that the Jewish people do not have a right to have a Jewish state.

There are some people who say, should we have a two-state solution? And the Israelis would be happy to have a two-state solution. It's the Palestinians who don't want a two-state solution. They want to eliminate the state of Israel.

And I believe America must say -- and the best way to have peace in the Middle East is not for us to vacillate and to appease, but is to say, we stand with our friend Israel. We are committed to a Jewish state in Israel. We will not have an inch of difference between ourselves and our ally, Israel.

This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip. This president threw --

(APPLAUSE)

ROMNEY: I think he threw Israel under the bus with regards to defining the '67 borders as a starting point of negotiations. I think he disrespected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

I think he has time and time again shown distance from Israel, and that has created, in my view, a greater sense of aggression on the part of the Palestinians. I will stand with our friend, Israel.

BLITZER: Thank you, Governor.

(APPLAUSE)

BLITZER: Speaker Gingrich, you got into a little hot water when you said the Palestinians were an invented people. GINGRICH: It was technically an invention of the late 1970s, and it was clearly so. Prior to that, they were Arabs. Many of them were either Syrian, Lebanese, or Egyptian, or Jordanian.

There are a couple of simple things here. There were 11 rockets fired into Israel in November. Now, imagine in Duvall County that 11 rockets hit from your neighbor. How many of you would be for a peace process and how many of you would say, you know, that looks like an act of war.

You have leadership unequivocally, and Governor Romney is exactly right, the leadership of Hamas says, not a single Jew will remain. We aren't having a peace negotiation then. This is war by another form.

My goal for the Palestinian people would be to live in peace, to live in prosperity, to have the dignity of a state, to have freedom. and they can achieve it any morning they are prepared to say Israel has a right to exist, we give up the right to return, and we recognize that we're going to live side-by-side, now let's work together to create mutual prosperity.

And you could in five years dramatically improve the quality of life of every Palestinian. But the political leadership would never tolerate that. And that's why we're in a continuous state of war where Obama undermines the Israelis.

On the first day that I'm president, if I do become president, I will sign an executive order directing the State Department to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to send the signal we're with Israel.

(APPLAUSE)

http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/26/se.05.html