something i wanted to say before the break. watching tim hit michele. i agree, it was eugene that said this. if you were scoring it at the time, okay, bob michele got the exchange in those debates, 2007, particularly that one debate. i got a sense it exposed some real weaknesses. romney and perry, essentially, the play book on how to go after her. assuming, maybe he wins the stronghold and gets his mojo back and he is able to get out of the show. if that doesn t happen, though, i would not be provided the blueprint as to how he sort of threw himself on the grenade and tried to stop her if you were
watching tim hit michele. i agree, it was eugene that said this. if you were scoring it at the time, okay, bob michele got the exchange in those debates, 2007, particularly that one debate. i got a sense it exposed some real weaknesses. romney and perry, essentially, the play book on how to go after her. assuming, maybe he wins the stronghold and gets his mojo back and he is able to get out of the show. if that doesn t happen, though, i would not be provided the blueprint as to how he sort of threw himself on the grenade and tried to stop her if you were romney or rick perry.
it almost seems like they are trying to outdo each other on taxes. always. the could have followed it up with out 100 to 1. all the hands would have stayed up. they are out trying to outdo one another. that was my interpretation. we have a thing in minnesota called minnesota nuts. we found out tonight that they left the republican arena. i thought that michelle and tim going back and forth with one another is very telling. we will see more of this with the candidates as we get going. they will have to separate themselves on issues on how far they will go when it comes to taxes, house for they will go when it comes to entitlement programs, and how far when it comes to rolling back health care reform. i thought michelle was strong tonight, and i thought it was strong.
romney or rick perry. this is a very important point because i think for the men on that panel taking on the only woman on the panel is difficult. it seems that romney will want him to stay on as long as he can. i want to point out what michelle said about tim s record is accurate. the raising of the taxes and the budget issues that he s had, and i thought polenty seriously misrepresented himself tonight. he kicked a lot of cans down the road and penciled a lot of stuff out that was not true budgeting. mark baiten will tell you that he s been left with a real mess. so i thought bachman didn t expect polenty to be as aggressive as he was but i thought she handled herself very well and what she said from my
eugene robinson, did you see anyone tonight when you consider the road that candidate will take to get all the way to the republican nomination, who can take the presidency away from barack obama? i am not sure that i did. if you are going to judge by that metric, i think romney is the strongest of those eight candidates in the general election. we will see the extent of which he corners himself in this radical, right position. i thought the tim/michelle, minnesota nice, it minnesota not so nice smack down were great moments. i thought she d have did him in that they both connected. she was going after her record. he was going after her courage.