I like following conservative and conservative-ish pundits on Twitter, because A) it’s good to know what the other side is saying and B) they’ve often sometimes got insightful things to say about their cause. Here are some of my favorite tweeted reactions to tonight’s debate from a couple of the nation’s leading conservative thinkers:
On Mitt Romney, Jonah Goldberg accidentally makes a Mormon joke (I guess?):
When Mitt refers to “this planet” he makes it sound like it’s where just one of his many houses is.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 20, 2012
David Frum is less than impressed at Newt Gingrich’s “how dare you” fusillade against CNN moderator John King’s question about his ex-wife:
Curious : in 1992 Bill Clinton answered Gennifer Flowers claims by saying “that story is false” and blaming the media bit.ly/vnvyNV
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 20, 2012
Professional loathsome harpy Ann Coulter also thinks Gingrich is skating on the fidelity question:
I can’t imagine defending Romney or any other republican if he’d cheated on two wives.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) January 20, 2012
Erik Erickson, the viking who runs RedState.com, wasn’t crazy about the way Romney handled (well, didn’t handle) the tax return questions, though:
So basically all Obama has to do is get Romney to talk about his taxes and Romney loses.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 20, 2012
I’m not sure exactly which comment of Santorum’s Goldberg is referencing here, but it’s one of the funnier Gladiator references I’ve heard made:
Santorum: And if you find yourself riding in green fields with sun on your face. Do not be afraid for you are already dead!
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 20, 2012
Goldberg’s National Review colleague Ramesh Ponnuru wonders why Romney thinks his character is off-limits:
Odd answer from Romney, saying now is not the time to question others’ integrity. Why? It’s after 5?
— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) January 20, 2012
Kevin Eder calls it like it is:
Also, the one part of Newt that y’all seem to like is a complete fraud. He admitted after the debate that John King did a fine job.
— keder (@keder) January 20, 2012
Hey debate moderator! Yeah, you! You SUCK! (There, I can be President now)
— keder (@keder) January 20, 2012
And while Charles Krauthammer wasn’t live-tweeting the debate, he seems less than enthusiastic about Republicans’ chances this year:
GOP suicide watch, chapter 1. How to (start to) blow an unlosable election. washingtonpost.com/opinions/repub…
— Charles Krauthammer (@krauthammer) January 20, 2012
The winner of tonight’s debate, it turns out, didn’t show up. He was at the Apollo Theater singing Al Green.
N.B.: Nobody said anything funny about Ron Paul. The end.
I think we may need to place them all on suicide watch. Especially as Willard becomes more and more inevitable.
To be fair regarding Charles Krauthammer and his lack of enthusiasm, I think lack of enthusiasm is his schtick. Are we sure that dude is still alive? I think he’s a zombie that FoxNews keeps in a storage closet and brings out whenever they need to add an adult’s voice to the discussion. I am surprised he can manipulate his undead digits well enough to tweet.
I was going to say Krauthammer’s problem with “live-tweeting” begins with the word “live,” but jmedoom sort of beat me to it.
It should still be said that Krauthammer is a doctor, so he’s fully qualified to call this race dead.
Occassionally I feel a hankering to feel kinda bad for them.
Then I recall that this is the deal they made, when they freely, knowingly, and deliberately CHOSE to become the party of racism, 50 years back.
Then I just point and laugh at them.
And fivethirtyeight.com is giving Gingrich a 62% chance of winning the SC primary. Which has the potential of flipping the polling numbers in FL.
I honestly don’t understand why Romney doesn’t just state during one of these debates, flat out, that the Obama campaign team is hoping and praying that Gingrich wins the nomination, and that’s why the primary voters should vote for him instead. Then just bask in the booing and follow up with “Hate it all you want, it’s true. Do you want a Republican in the White House before 2017, or do you want Gingrich to be the nominee? Oh, and I’m not even going to pretend for one second that Ron Paul or Rick Santorum have a snowball’s chance. I have no interest in catering to anyone’s delusions.”
I actually was a little bit superstitious about writing this, but what the hell, the Romney campaign isn’t reading this anyway. And even if they were, he would be too gutless to follow through and say it in front of those guys.
This week has been bad for the GOP, and its ending badly for them as well.
Romney is having the hardest week of his life, and good for the duplicitous fucker. And another #RomnetFail at the debate allowing Newton Leroy to run away with it, even Frothy looked better then him, #RomneyFail
Well, Romney is having the hardest week of his life for now. ;-) Once the primaries are over, then he’s going to find out what “hard” really means.
Pretty much. But what planet is Krauthammer on that he thinks 2012 is ‘unlosable’ for the Republicans? I swear the Right does seem to have a problem with reality!
Yep, that’s my thought as well. Unlosable? No, it’s the President’s to lose and I don’t think he will.
Romney is not electable. No candidate is electable unless he can fire up the supporters of his own party. Don’t see that happening. Romney falls into the category of “he has no enemies, all his friends hate him.”
The GOP Primary is down to four cartoon Characters:
Rich “Uncle” Pennybags (Romney), Foghorn Leghorn (Gingrich), Ned Flanders (Santorum) and Yosemite Sam (Paul).
This, this what the Republican Party has left to run against President Obama? This is the best the grand old party can come up with to run the nation?
For political comedians – 2012 is going to be a God send of stupidity.
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