Proof that Obama won the GOP Presidential debates

[ProSense]

‘The Country Deserves Better’: Maine Gov Unloads On GOP Field

Sahil Kapur

In remarks captured by the Portland Press Herald, Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage unloaded on the GOP 2012 field Saturday, decrying all the candidates as damaged goods after having battered each other. He said the country “deserves better” than the current crop and called for a brokered convention to pick a dark horse candidate to challenge President Obama.

“The candidates in this primary have beat themselves up so badly it would be nice to have a fresh face that we all could say, ‘Okay.’ The country deserves better than having people stand up and keep criticizing each other,” said LePage, according to the Press Herald.

He told reporters at the National Governors Association meeting that the remaining candidates have all “injured themselves and injured the party” to the point where he’d “love to see a good old-fashioned convention and a dark horse” emerge from it. LePage’s spokesperson later told the Press Herald that the governor would support the eventual nominee for president.

The remarks come as party insiders fret that a GOP primary battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum may not end any time soon.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/the-country-deserves-better-maine-gov-unloads-on-gop-field.php?ref=fpa

McCain: 'Mud Wrestling' GOP Debates Have 'Certainly' Hurt Candidates

John McCain said Sunday that the Republican presidential debates have turned into "mud wrestling," and lamented that the negativity is hurting the candidates.

"I think these continuing debates, and the tenor of the debates, which have turned into mud wrestling, have certainly raised the unfavorables of the candidates," McCain said on CNN's State of the Union. "I don't have any doubt about that."

He added that the Super PAC-driven attack ads are fueling the negativity, and ferociously attacked the Supreme Court for making them possible. Citizens United, McCain said, was a "disgraceful decision" in which the court "displayed a level of ignorance and arrogance that I don't think is with precedent."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/mccain-mud-wrestling-gop-debates-have-certainly-hurt

[dballance]

1. It Wasn't SNL or the Onion? Seriously?

You mean those debates were for real? It wasn't Saturday Night Live or the Onion putting us on? Not Colbert and his great satire?

They were some of the best comedy I've seen in quite a while. Really; Rick Perry trying to be a candidate and saying "OOPS" on a nationally televised debate with hundreds of millions of people watching. For God's sake Perry make something up. Romney certainly has.

[ProSense]

2. It has been quite a show. n/t

[dballance]

4. Yes, Unfortunately

It HAS been more of a show than a show of good candidates.

[immoderate]

3. Viability limit for Republicans is about three weeks.

Three weeks seems to be the amount of time any potential Republican nominee can stand the scrutiny that comes with being the front runner. Then some majority realizes they are crazy, and they fall below the yardstick, Romney, who is their "sea-level" non-entity.

Romney, still in the early pod stage of development, has not achieved a level of personality which could demonstrate craziness.

I wish this was a joke. Poe's Law.

--imm

[ProSense]

6. The right

is in full panic mode.

[immoderate]

7. They've set the bar higher than any of them can reach.

They know that the "ones with a brain" can't meet their ridiculous prerequisites. So the dedicated Kamikazes are immolating themselves for the cause. I wish Santorum luck, but like Trump, Perry, Bachmann, Cain, and Gingrich before him, he's just too crazy -- even for them!

--imm

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. K&R