South Carolina Republican debate: Winners and losers

[ellisonz]

Posted by Chris Cillizza at 11:36 PM ET, 01/16/2012

Winners:

Newt Gingrich
Rick Perry
Barack Obama
Super Pacs/Stephen Colbert
Sand sculpture of the candidates

Losers:

Ron Paul
Audience
Pop-culture references

Full Analysis: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/south-carolina-republican-debate-winners-and-losers/2012/01/16/gIQAFvLT4P_blog.html?hpid=z2

Who do you think won and/or lost tonight's debate?

[joshcryer]

1. Newt definitely won that one.

Paul completely obliterated himself by standing firm, but he probably knew that would happen. Those fundies want blood, war mongering gets way more support than anti-war.

[ellisonz]

2. That's pretty much what I saw...

The funny thing was that I thought at the beginning we might get through the debate without overt racism; I was wrong.

[joshcryer]

4. As soon as I saw the audience was allowed to respond that way, I knew it'd be nasty.

The last few debates that I saw the audience was instructed to keep quiet and only clap occasionally.

I do admit that I didn't think they'd exhibit the depravity that they did, but I'd completely forgot this is South Carolina we're talking about here.

[grantcart]

3. Jon Huntsman was the clear winner of the debate.

[joshcryer]

5. Your theory intrigues me, we'll see what happens at the brokered convention.

[grantcart]

6. Paul's campaign indicates that they are already thinking about platform and convention.

Jesse Benton, spokesman for the Ron Paul campaign, says the congressman's first goal remains winning the nomination. But if Mr. Paul should go into the convention with delegates but short of the nomination, he would try to use that clout to influence the GOP platform - writing auditing the Federal Reserve into the platform and taking a stand against some elements of the Patriot Act, such as roving wiretaps.

[ellisonz]

8. Paul's campaign indicates thatt they are already thinking about fruit loops and woo woo.

[WI_DEM]

10. there will be no brokered convention, I'm almost sure

They just don't happen anymore and Romney in all likelihood will even witn South Carolina.

[grantcart]

7. tape of the debate

http://graphics.wsj.com/documents/WSJ_GOP_PRIMARY_2012/livecoverage/index.php

[KharmaTrain]

9. They're All Losers...So Are The American People

One thing that has really disturbed me over the past 30 years is the dumbing down of this country. How people are easily duped into voting against their own best interests and do so over and over again.

There's NOTHING a rushpublican candidate says that can be seen as benefiting this country only the 1% who they represent.

Simply stated: When rushpublicans win America loses!