2012 republican presidential nominee III: can romney get santorum out of his hair?

Gingrich appears to have misstated the number of lunar colonists required for a space-based outpost to apply for statehood — the number is 20,000 for self-government in the original bill, not the 13,000 he mentioned yesterday. Statehood requires the population of the least populous state — or greater than Wyoming's 563,626 people in the 2010 Census.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/newt-gingrichs-laws-for-governing-a-space-colony

This is such a misreading, though. Clearly it's not that Gingrich misquoted his own bill. It is that since his bill, he has since decided that a lunar colony is so important that we should reduce the threshold to apply for statehood by 7,000 people.

omg crdit card companies need to be in charge of immigration

Whoa--where did that come from?!

he has been using that line for a while.

ooh, i love the catfight

I was hoping newt would make a dig at romney's parents being 'immigrants'

I've watched pretty much every one of these, and Romney's never pounced like he did on that first exchange. I get the feeling he really wants Gingrich out of this after Florida.

I doubt that's gonna happen even if he loses big in florida

"The ad did run, Governor, and it ended with you saying, 'I'm Mitt Romney and I approved this ad'"--ouch.

this exchange is sort of hilarious

damn romney going hard

I'm finally in front of a TV during a debate but I feel like I'm out of the loop just 'cause I've been completely focused on work for the last week-plus but anyway hey y'all politics thread debate watchers I was srsly bummed to have missed the last several debate with you

Santorum wants to stop the petty politics and focus on the issues?--get him the hell off the stage, please. (He doesn't actually want that, of course, he just saw an opening and he's trying on a new costume.)

Romney is just bodyslamming Newt with the little ripostes imo

that last one = pwned
heh

romney sounds like an evil politician from like 24

"i have nothing to hide about my finances. my trustee vizier opened an off-shore bank account under the portfolio tax code remedial capital income which is totally legal."

That last five minutes was so bizarre...but Gingrich looked real bad.

By the way, Romney on blind trusts circa '94:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz0QCdkYJwI

wonder how many middle class people w/not a lot of money, such as myself, looked at their estimated taxes for 2011 and thought "gee i wish my tax rate was the same as mitt romney pays on $40 million"

i would like to hear ron paul talk about which elements of our economy are benefiting exactly from the "false" currency

oh shit space question so fucking excited

guys did ron paul just say "the welfare system helps the wealthy?"

"i have nothing to hide about my finances. my trustee vizier opened an off-shore bank account under the portfolio tax code remedial capital income which is totally legal."

lolll this is the one that almost made me get blazed during the debate just to see how this shit sounds

lol u kno me too well

currently it sounds like ron paul is saying, "back when i lived on a frontier town, freddie the pharmacist didn't charge too much and so we could afford it but now MRI's and ultrasounds are too expensive bc of government meddling."

"in the old west anybody could give you an EEG and you agreed on his fee like gentlemen"

i think gingrich is winning but i can't tell if that's true or if i just really really want it to be true

How dare Romney support a health care system that seems to work?

Too bad Blitzer is too big a pussy to keep this mess in check, but I guess it makes for better TV.

"for the 8% of ppl who don't have insurance they can get insurance by buying it from the 12% who didn't have public insurance before we changed the mandate of, i mean, the 4% whose private insurances they could get or help pay for their care which is what everyone either has to pay the state for the 15% of the people getting something for free and that's why it's not obamacare."

I think it's what you want to be true mordy, I'd like him to be scoring lols left and right but it's not happening

yessssss Ron Paul making racial generalizations

he didn't write that answer, it was ghostwritten

also, how can he be a racist? he's a libertarian. he only judges ppl based on being individuals, not groups. and every individual mexican has sound financial advice.

mexicans need to learn more about monetary policy, but they have much to teach us about not going to war

Is it his fault that the free market shakes out to oppress women and minorities? Invisible hand at work there.

the invisible man w/ the invisible hand is an invisible wealthy white dude

Not white, translucent. He just seems white because of the light shining though him.

You can also tell he's a dude from his translucent penis.

you can tell he's wealthy from the giant electric money signs in his godhead eyeballs

"Won" always requires quotation marks for these things, but for me, Paul's had the best night--he's such a contrast to the others. Romney's done what he had to do, plus more, although he started to overstep himself at one point in the last segment, when he launched a superfluous attack on Gingrich about something or other.

wait this is the stupidest question ever

"yo guys, tell me about your successful marriages and then we'll all lol at newt."

"why would your wife make a great first lady" what the fuckin

gingrich would sleep w/ any of these wives

"Give us three compelling reasons why we should bone your wife, Newt."

calista will look the best frozen in carbonite

Okay, let's back to the nasty debate--wives, please step out of the room.

Scion of Michican Governor George Romney denies early interest in politics.