Debate Snapshot

The Republican presidential candidates displayed the patience of Job last night as they fended off ridiculous and largely stupid questions from the CNBC "moderators." Here they were, on a business network, having to school business "anchors" on how business works. Good on them. They all performed really well, stuck it to Obama, the Left and the media while advancing positive conservative agendas on tax reform and economic growth. Well done by all.

A few additional comments:

Mitt Romney: He was his usual cautious self, which is helping him maintain his lead position, but the caution is also really boring. Necessary to prevent screw-ups, but boring. Marry that to his inability to deal with questions about individual mandates in health care and the fact that he's not a small government conservative, and well, ho hum.

Rick Perry: His performance was actually quite stellar. The best debate performance we've seen from him so far---which isn't saying a lot, I know. Debating ain't his bag. But his answers were clear and concise and conservative. Until the brainfart. We've all been there. We can relate to it. It was painful to watch, and he tried gamely to regroup once he had remembered the third federal department he'd eliminate (Energy, which along with his other two, Education and Commerce DO need to go). He appeared on several morning shows to do damage control and spun it in an amusing way. His campaign asked people: "which federal agency would YOU like to forget?" Good rebound. But here's the reality: GOP voters will not send him into a debate with Obama. Sad for Perry, but true.

Which brings us to Newt Gingrich. As usual, he was dynamite: brilliant, deliberative and right about everything. Now that we all realized that we're less than a year from the presidential election, we're trying to visualize the presidential debates. Which of the GOP candidates could thrust and parry with Obama most effectively? All of them would do a great job. Only Newt would truly make mincemeat out of him. That's the main reason he's rising in the polls. He's a serious conservative intellectual who is fearless.

Herman Cain: He did a fantastic job of turning back those invasive and insulting questions about the allegations and turning to his economic solutions for the country. Cain has shown himself to be a political novice---which is why so many voters are drawn to him---but also a strong, forceful voice for conservative, free market principles. He may be dented by the allegations and how he's handled them (which hasn't been particularly good). But he lives to fight on another day.

The other candidates acquitted themselves marvelously. All were smart, thoughtful and self-possessed. Any of them would be light years better than Barack Obama and would set the country back on its rightful path.

In the end, I think it's going to largely end up being a two-man race between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.

Let the games begin.

Comments

[xbjllb]

If Obama OK's this, he's a bigger idiot than anyone ever knew. Not that it matters whether he okays it or not. Israel is our 51st rogue state, and China has already let the US know on many occasions and in many ways to keep our bombs of their oil in Iran.

Not smart, but probably inevitable. Oi vey.

[Jay]

I agree with you seebee. I can't believe how RACIST the LIEberal media is about this and they haven't proven anything. NBC should be really proud of all the RACIST remarks broadcast from their "news shows".

Posted by: M/M | November 10, 2011 at 05:07 PM

For the conservtive, EVERYTHING is racist, commie, nazis, state-run .

If, Cain had been a Democrat, the conservative media would be on him to a strong degree.

Look at their ignoring the Ensign scandal before.
But, Cain being one of theirs . their reaction,"So, big deal!"

[Jay]

NO wonder Mark Levin says

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THE DRONES!

PS. "Drones" is Levin's word for progressive parasites, like the 24/7 toxic waste, spamming Monicamemo

Posted by: gringoman | November 10, 2011 at 06:48 PM

It was fantastic when Levin said that he had high regards for Truman, a Democratic president.
Does Levin know what Truman said about republicans and democrats? Does, Palin, Bush?

[M/M]

Can any of you help me understand how the Liberal Media is racist?

Or is this a tactic to distract folks from the truly racist?

Posted by: Rafe | November 10, 2011 at 05:29 PM
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I wish I had a collection of the clips Hannity has been playing. They are trying to discredit a successful, accomplished Conservative Black man. Herman Cain himself has admitted he's been called an "Uncle Tom" and "Oreo" in the past. Now, that he is doing so well in the poles, her comes the hit machine. One LIEberal woman discussed how the color of Cain's accuser plays into a stereotype while David Gregory said something about a "Grand Wizard" to rein Cain in. Besides, what would happen if Cain was white. Hint: what happened to Bill Clinton?

As Janeane Garafolo would say, "This is about hating a black man."

[Jay]

As Janeane Garafolo would say, "This is about hating a black man."

Posted by: M/M | November 10, 2011 at 08:37 PM

And, if Cain was a Democrat. The hypocritical GOP would attack him every chance they got!

But, being a conservative. They scream with their usual rants. "It's Democratic conspiracy" It's this, it's that"

[TexasPride]

Awesome as always, Monica! Gingrich is incredibly bright and well-spoken, with an unbelievable grasp of the issues. How anyone could look beyond him is incredible to me. The others are lightweights in comparison.

[Arshad Sherif, M.A., M.Ed.]

In her column today, Monica is infatuated with Gingrich and wants him to be president. And she was infatuated with him last week on Fox. He was the guest and she was the guest host. And judging from the way he looked at her, the affection is mutual. I wonder how Callista feels about the growing affection between her husband and Monica.

I don't want Newt to be president, but I want Callista to be first lady. Is it possible to have Callista as first lady without Newt being president?

There's been talk about Obama ditching Biden. But Biden is a fine VP. I wonder how Obama feels about Callista. I wonder how Callista feels about Obama.

Obama has the courage and confidence to do that which has never been done before. And he has the proven ability to do that which has never been done before.

Callista would be the greatest first lady in history. She would be powerful. She is a woman who would have a significant impact on any man possessing her. Her wish would be his command.

Cheney was the first and only VP to rule the country. And if Callista ever becomes first lady, she would rule. She would be a first lady who rules. She will be the Cheney of first ladies. But she has to marry a winner.

[Arshad Sherif, M.A., M.Ed.]

In her column today, Monica is infatuated with Gingrich and wants him to be president. And she was infatuated with him last week on Fox. He was the guest and she was the guest host. And judging from the way he looked at her, the affection is mutual. I wonder how Callista feels about the growing affection between her husband and Monica.

I don't want Newt to be president, but I want Callista to be first lady. Is it possible to have Callista as first lady without Newt being president?

There's been talk about Obama ditching Biden. But Biden is a fine VP. I wonder how Obama feels about Callista. I wonder how Callista feels about Obama.

Obama has the courage and confidence to do that which has never been done before. And he has the proven ability to do that which has never been done before.

Callista would be the greatest first lady in history. She would be powerful. She is a woman who would have a significant impact on any man possessing her. Her wish would be his command.

Cheney was the first and only VP to rule the country. And if Callista ever becomes first lady, she would rule. She would be a first lady who rules. She will be the Cheney of first ladies. But she has to marry a winner.

[Jay]

For, Gringo and is love of everything that has to do with Nazis!

The reason why they called themselves the National socialist German workers party was because if they had called themselves for what they really were. The,"anti-semitic totalitarian fascist regime" no one would have joined.

[Arshad Sherif, M.A., M.Ed.]

On her blog today, Monica Crowley is critical of Rick Perry, but she is infatuated with Newt Gingrich and wants him to be president. And she was infatuated with him last week on Fox News. He was the guest and she was the guest host. And judging from the way he looked at her, the affection is mutual. I wonder how Callista Gingrich feels about the growing affection between her husband and Monica Crowley.

I don't want Newt to be president, but I want Callista to be first lady. Is it possible to have Callista become first lady without Newt becoming president?

There's been talk about Obama ditching Biden. But Biden is a fine VP. I wonder how Obama feels about Callista. I wonder how Callista feels about Obama.

Obama has the courage and confidence to do that which has never been done before. And he has the proven ability to do that which has never been done before.

Callista would be the greatest first lady in history. She would be powerful. She is a woman who would have a significant impact on any man possessing her. Her wish would be his command.

Cheney was the first and only VP to rule the country. He was far more powerful than Bush.

And if Callista ever becomes first lady, she would rule. She would be a first lady who rules. She will be the Cheney of first ladies. But she has to marry a winner.

[gringoman]

Rick Perry Debate

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DEBATE COVERAGE: Mitt Romney Locks It Up In Detroit (So says GE's Obamasuck Media. However.....)

Within seconds of Rick Perry's onstage collapse last night, the political world had almost unanimously declared the time of death for the Texas Governor's presidential campaign.

But Perry's spectacular meltdown may end up being the best thing that ever happened to his lagging White House bid.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perrys-collapse-is-the-best-thing-that-could-have-happened-to-him-2011-11?op=1#ixzz1dMNf7mzE

gringoNOTE: As previously posted, I mentioned that Perry's "super gaffe" (which still pales besides all the Obama gaffes under SLIME protection) may turn out to be "a stroke of idiot genius." Stay tuned. Vamos a ver.

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Sometimes I look at Billy and Jimmy and say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin." LILLIAN CARTER, mother of Jimmuh.

[gringoman]

kimboslice on Nov 10, 11:53 AM said:

The most amazing thing to me was the absolute stupidity of some of the moderators, especially Maria Baritromo and the inanity of her stupid questions. It was a joy to see her slapped down by the superior intellects on the stage last night.
Cramer also was a fool, but he is always a clown anyway.
The first question's premise was so idiotic I almost shot tea out my nose at it.
Cain, Romney and Gingrich slapped her down and the audience actually BOOED Maria, which was fabulous.
Maria gives big-titted airhead bimbos a bad reputation.
Reply

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perrys-collapse-is-the-best-thing-that-could-have-happened-to-him-2011-11?op=1#ixzz1dMRQoW61
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TROLL DUMBELLA /// So what if Hitler was gay? What does that prove? At least he didn't do it with little boys, like at Penn State, did he? Wasn't he a don't ask, don't tell kind of Fuerher?///////Another probable reason for Hitler's anti-Semitism is traditional Judaism's appreciation of women and its fierce opposition to homosexuality and the debasing of women. German-Jewish historian Samuel Igra describes this in his neglected 1945 book, Germany's National Vice. Machtan cites the book but not the concept.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_7_18/ai_83553874/pg_2/?tag=content;col1

[gringoman]

OCCUPY UPDATE OBAMAVILLES

OCCUPY OAKLAND: Murder

OCCUPY ATLANTA: Tuberculosis

OCCUPY MONICAMEMO: Progasites

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I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither of them would take out the trash ZSA ZSA GABOR

[gringoman]

PoliticalWoman///REDSTATE///

Rick Perry made a big-time gaffe last night on the CNBC debate. So?

Perry’s debate skills are keeping him from returning to Tier 1 candidate status. Oh?

Do you think last night’s debate will hurt him long term? No.

Do you think he should just pack it in and return to Texas? H–l, NO!

But what I do think is that we witnessed one of the worst debate moderator panels to date. Combative and downright rude. Perry actually handled the gaffe pretty well with humor and spontaneity, and it could have ended right after the EPA comment, but the whatshisname? moderator was intent on adding to the embarrassment quotient.

While I’m on file lately as leaning Newt, if it were Perry v. Obama on the 2012 debate stage, the contrast would be remarkable, and ya know, I think we’d all be in for a pleasant surprise.

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The world would not be in such a snarl
If Marx had been born Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN

[Jay]

But Perry's spectacular meltdown may end up being the best thing that ever happened to his lagging White House bid. GRINGO

Conservatives would pick anyone.
look at their past candidates.
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It's pitiful when someone has their mind in the past.
Gringo, Reagan isn't president, anymore.Tube radios are history. Bread comes store bought already sliced.

TROLL DUMBELLA /// So what if Hitler was gay? What does that prove? At least he didn't do it with little boys, like at Penn State, did he? Wasn't he a don't ask, don't tell kind of Fuerher?///////Another probable reason for Hitler's anti-Semitism is traditional Judaism's appreciation of women and its fierce opposition to homosexuality and the debasing of women. German-Jewish historian Samuel Igra describes this in his neglected 1945 book, Germany's National Vice. Machtan cites the book but not the concept.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_7_18/ai_83553874/pg_2/?tag=content;col1

Posted by: gringoman | November 10, 2011 at 10:00 PM

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The world would not be in such a snarl
If Marx had been born Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN

Posted by: gringoman | November 10, 2011 at 11:25 PM

Thee ONLY thing that has saved Perry, Cain, and Bachmann in conservative eyes. Is, that they are conservatives.

[Jay]

Now, if Perry, cain and Bachmann were democrats.
Perry for his being confused on what departments he would eliminate
Perry for those accusations against him
Bachmann, for her taking stimulus money as much as 16 times.

The conservatives would treat them like they treated Weiner.

Which is why they ignored GOP politicians Ensign and Vitter for their sex scandals

[xbjllb]

"As Janeane Garafolo would say, "This is about hating a black man." - M/M

No. It's about calling out a white racist God just happened to put in a black skin suit to punish him.

No. It's about calling out Nazis who just happened to have been born Jews.

No. It's about calling out a traitor to his race; the human race.

No. It's about calling out a pair of brothers who wouldn't know true Christianity if God Almighty Himself snatched them up and tossed them directly into Hell where they belong for all the evil they've done to America and the world to become even richer than any human had a right to be.

[xbjllb]

"I don't want Newt to be president, but I want Callista to be first lady." Arshad

Arshie. Callista is never going to be First Lady. Not happening. Wake up.

[Jay]

Person on Fox told Hannity that they had proved that a son of one of Cain's accusres works for Polotico. Politico said that statement was entirely false.

[xbjllb]

"So what if Hitler was gay?" - Gringowhore

Hitler wasn't an out-of-the-closet self-accepting homosexual. That happens to be history and everyone knows it.

What he was, was a self-hating latent homosexual who saw homos as the downfall of Western Civilization and popped them into concentration camps. After he killed all of them in the SS.

Just like you are, and like you'd love to. No one ever caught him with another man or a boy like your favorite football coach, who, if he was gay, was also self-hating and could only act out with boys who wouldn't tell so the world wouldn't know he was gay and hanging around with "queers".

You and your ilk are pathetic. You wouldn't even WANT to be healed by Christ, even if you believed in Him for a second.

I cannot help you any longer; time is shorter than ever. I will, however, CONTINUE TO INDICT YOU.

[xbjllb]

"Person on Fox told Hannity that they had proved that a son of one of Cain's accusers works for Polotico. Politico said that statement was entirely false." - Jay

OF COURSE. Fox News Corp. are nothing but Goddamned (literally) liars, and EVERYONE INVOLVED from the top on down to the janitor will be answering to God for their participation, and soon enough that if the date were known and believed, panic and terror would erupt from one end of the planet to the other.

[xbjllb]

"The world would not be in such a snarl
If Marx had been born Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN" - Gringowhore

Communism doesn't exist. It never did outside of a book that was written that was never followed. We fought Big Business corporate fascism feigning as communism for fifty years.

That cutsie snipe is every bit as irrelevant and archaic as the rest of Berlin's songs. Even La Streisand can't even breathe them to life anymore.

Oh. And Berlin could only play the piano in one key. His greatest talent was living past 100 years.

"White Christmas" my as*s. This year's going to be blood red. And burnt black glass.

[xbjllb]

"I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither of them would take out the trash ZSA ZSA GABOR" - Gringowhore

That's because they were the same man, and she never had the sense to marry a Liberal Democrat.

Herman Cain won't take out the trash either, because the truck would carry HIM off.

[Jay]

Perry and his being confused with the 3 deaprtments he would eliminate. Bush and his being confused with the "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"

Bush:
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

These are the people that conservatives love to vote for.

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Concerning the bill to give companies tax breaks when they hire veterans.

GOP politician DeMint voted NO.
He said "veterans don't deserve it"

[xbjllb]

Yes, DeMint is one of the worst Goddamned pieces of sh*t amongst a reprehensible bunch.

Headed straight for hell would be an understatement when it comes to that asshole.

[xbjllb]

RE: Revelations and soon

It's a pity that billions are going to have to die to get those pricks into hell where they've always belonged.

But the good news is: when it's over, it's OVER.

And the rest of us start again with a blank slate, and every last one of them gone forever. As if they never existed.

[xbjllb]

Hmmm. IN two hours here on the west coast it will be 11-11-11.

Hmmmmm.

[xbjllb]

Support the troops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/us/calvin-gibbs-convicted-of-killing-civilians-in-afghanistan.html

[Chief Joe]

Good to see Steve Croft taking on Pelosi and Boehner. Of course, like Martha Stewart, they know nothing about this. Should Steve just say, they all do it - in Washington, and NYC. There is no investigation, no enforcement, no probes ....

I get stopped, when people tell me to say nothing. What would happen if everyone thought Washington is crooked, and all involved in insider trading?

My answer is, they would sell, baby, sell - and that would start Washington thinking about reform.

[Chief Joe]

Commies went into law, to get established. Get a law degree in NY in one month, including a fake score on the state bar exam. It was hard to pass the exam, straight. Just ask GEORGE.

Gays in the statehouse - are fairly common, sometimes entire departments, mostly occupied by Gays and Lesbians, with a little window dressing. The linkages between the statehouse, the justice department, and state universities, is exposed in Pennsylvania through the Gay network. Obviously, anything can go on there without outside scrutiny.

I often wondered why state governments did not take on ethics violations at their universities.

[Chief Joe]

Who would you rather have, Jesus or Barabbas?
In Italy, would you rather have Angelo Alfano, a homegrown Italian son, or Mario Monti, the Bilderburger?

Do Italians get to vote? Look for smoke coming from the Vatican? No. The banks will decide, depending on public unrest. If you are good, you get the Monti.

You look, and your country is in trouble because of the banks, then you try to save your country by borrowing from the banks, and then, voilla, the banks show you a trick to save yourself by letting them take over your country. It was a subprime loan.

[DJ]

As I've already stated numerous times here at the Memo: The USA is a First World Country with many Third World areas contained within.

H/T to VFR and SBPDL

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Black rule and bankruptcy
Paul Kersey writes:

The largest municipal bankruptcy in American history has been declared in Jefferson County, Alabama, home of Birmingham (the Detroit of the South).

This is the fate that awaits all cities where white flight has completely eroded the tax base. America is so screwed.

Here is the beginning of Mr. Kersey’s article:

What happens when a county, home to one of the former great cities in the world, turned over to the auspices the Black Undertow through white flight, can no longer raise enough tax revenue to pay infrastructure bills? Answer: the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.…
Jefferson County offers frightening proof of the overwhelming power of Black-Run America (BRA) and what happens when the Black Undertow takes control of a city’s destiny.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at 03:24 PM

http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/11/jefferson-county-declares-bankruptcy.html

[DJ]

The following, in large part, is what caused white flight in Memphis starting 38 years ago. Here we go again.

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Merger of Memphis and County School Districts Revives Race and Class Challenges

Sam Dillon, New York Times, November 5, 2011

When thousands of white students abandoned the Memphis schools 38 years ago rather than attend classes with blacks under a desegregation plan fueled by busing, Joseph A. Clayton went with them. He quit his job as a public school principal to head an all-white private school and later won election to the board of the mostly white suburban district next door.

Now, as the overwhelmingly black Memphis school district is being dissolved into the majority-white Shelby County schools, Mr. Clayton is on the new combined 23-member school board overseeing the marriage. And he warns that the pattern of white flight could repeat itself, with the suburban towns trying to secede and start their own districts.

“There’s the same element of fear,” said Mr. Clayton, 79. “In the 1970s, it was a physical, personal fear. Today the fear is about the academic decline of the Shelby schools.”

“As far as racial trust goes,” Mr. Clayton, who is white, added, “I don’t think we’ve improved much since the 1970s.”

The merger—a result of actions by the Memphis school board and City Council, a March referendum and a federal court order—is the largest school district consolidation in American history and poses huge logistical challenges. {snip}

{snip}

Federally ordered busing in 1973 provoked white flight, with about 40,000 of the system’s 71,000 white students abandoning the system in four years.

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Despite the current inequality, nobody expects the demographics of schools to change much, because most students in both districts are assigned to neighborhood schools and housing tends to be segregated.

{snip}

Mr. Clayton, who was the principal of two traditionally white Memphis high schools from 1964 to 1973, won election in 1998 to the Shelby County school board, where he and his colleagues were shocked when the Memphis board first voted for the merger.

“We all tried to figure out how to stop it,” he said.

They have not given up. The legislature passed a law in February that, as of September 2013, lifts a prohibition on the formation of autonomous school districts, and five of the six Shelby County suburbs have hired consultants to study the finances of breaking away.

[DJ]

Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans out there.

&

Please do not feed the progasites.

[Ummahgummah]

MORNING, NOON OR NIGHT
DO NOT FEED THE PROGASITE

POSTED BY: GRINGOMAN | NOVEMBER 10, 2011 AT 12:29 PM

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How about:

SNOW, SLEET, RAIN OR SHINE
DO NOT FEED THE PROGASWINE

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[LOL]

LOL @ LOL. Stick around, you fit right in!

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Posted by: Ummahgummah | November 10, 2011 at 04:54 PM

Thanx but no thanx, Ummahgummah.

A month or so ago I was emailed by a friend who told me I've got to check out the "madhouse" at Monica's Memo website, so I did. What I found was a few intelligent commenters engulfed in a black-hole of insanity and stupidity. I find XBJLLB and Jay to be especially disruptive - particularly Jay. Someone here -- I forget who -- pointed out Jay has the mind of a child. That is painfully obvious. I approximate Jay's mental age to be somewhere around that of a nine year old - and an obnoxious nine year old at that. His obnoxious childlike demeanor is punctuated by his slight variation of Pee Wee Herman's "I know you are but what am I" method of argumentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4Gj7JsET4

The depth of his ignorance is both breathtaking and mind-numbing at the same time. But in Pee Wee Herman's defence, he is a fictional character whose script was written for him. In Jay and XBJLLB's case, it's reality writing itself.

So again, no thanx.

In closing, what really confounds me is why Monica Crowley, a very classy intelligent lady, allows her blog to be defecated on, 24/7, by the likes of Jay and XBJLLB et al.

Arrivederci!

[xbjllb]

"In closing, what really confounds me is why Monica Crowley, a very classy intelligent lady, allows her blog to be defecated on, 24/7, by the likes of Jay and XBJLLB et al." - LOL

Love at first sight.

[James A. Kidd]

Go Newt!!!