"Why would your wife be the best First Lady?"

[cyberswede]

...are you effing kidding me?

[riderinthestorm]

1. You know, after the attacks on Michelle, I think this is a brilliant question!!

Let them ponder their wives held up for that kind of ridicule and scrutiny.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. This should not be a consideration for who should be President!

It's about as important as the person's race.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Oh I agree but after the hideous, racist crap spewed about Michelle, I hope this question

gives them some pause.

[Atman]

3. Well, it is CNN and Wolfe Blitzer.

That's actually as deep as I expected.

[joshcryer]

4. Dumbest questions ever.

[mfcorey1]

6. Sneak in a wife question without making Newt mad. Chicken Blitzer

[pokerfan]

7. Newt's gonna knock this one out of the park!

"Because I'm on #3 and each one has been an upgrade!"

[Cleita]

8. OMG! I just had a horror flash!

Callista Gingrich as First Lady. Prince William and Kate come for an official visit and Callista's tiara from Tiffany's is fancier than Kate's and yet somehow she still manages to look like a burlesque queen in it.

[RZM]

9. Sounds like a subtle anti-Newt softball to Romney

He can say 'I've been married to the same woman for 40 years' etc.

Newt can say 'I'm 23 years older than her and we started sleeping together when I was still married.'

[Lint Head]

10. Frothy said people aren't civilized who don't buy Mr's Frothy's Christian book.

Let's see that is spelled. B. I. G. O. T.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. A lot of people like Mrs. Paul's fish sticks.

[yellowcanine]

12. Right answer is "we aren't electing a First Lady. Let's move on."

[Poiuyt]

13. I'm guessing that this question was asked because of what Newt said about his first wife

that she wasn't pretty enough to be a first lady

[jmowreader]

15. The current one isn't pretty enough to be a first lady, either

[JI7]

18. no, Newt said that about 2nd wife Marianne , said she wasn't hot enough

[tanyev]

14. Newt:: "Third time's the charm."

[The Genealogist]

16. What next? "What did you have for breakfast?"

I guess I shouldn't expect anything better out of the librul media.

[HeiressofBickworth]

17. I disagree

I think the question can be construed to elicit information from the candidate which could reveal his beliefs on marriage and women. If Newt had answered because she is beautiful, he could be revealing that he only thinks of women as objects of his adornment and not as fully functioning individuals.

Since I don't really CARE what they had to say, I didn't bother watching this particular cluster.....
(clutching pearls, trying to avoid potty mouth).

But, I understand that this can be high entertainment, whatever the questions.

[cyberswede]

19. Well, it *could* have been revealing,

but they all gave the standard political answers that were entirely cliche and expected. I doubt any of them would be careless enough to let their real view of women show through (except maybe Santorum, who said his wife couldn't be there because she was home with their 7 children - and he brought up his deceased baby and special needs child, too, which seemed craven to me).