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LIVE Chat Recap: Sparks Fly as GOP Candidates Faced Off in South Carolina

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination took a turn toward the South Carolina surreal Thursday as Rick Perry dropped out, Newt Gingrich faced stunning allegations from an ex-wife and Mitt Romney struggled to maintain a shaky front-runner’s standing.

An aggressive evening debate capped the bewildering day.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum played aggressor for much of the night, trying to inject himself into what seemed increasingly like a two-way race with little more than a day remaining until the South Carolina polls open on Saturday. He accused Gingrich and Romney of “playing footsies with the left” when it came to health care. Both men rejected the allegations.

The debate began a few hours after first word that Romney had been stripped of his Iowa caucus victory, only to be stung a few hours later by Perry’s withdrawal and endorsement of Gingrich.

Gingrich, in turn, was accused by an ex-wife of seeking an open marriage so he could keep his mistress.

“Newt’s not perfect, but who among us is,” said Perry, abruptly quitting the race just before the first-in-the-South primary.

His decision to end a once-promising candidacy left Romney, Gingrich, Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul the remaining contenders in the race to pick a Republican to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama this fall.

Nine hours after Perry exited one stage, the four remaining contenders walked onto another for a final pre-primary debate.

Gingrich angrily denounced the news media for putting his ex-wife front and center in the final days of the race. “Let me be clear, the story is false,” he said. Santorum, Romney and Paul steered well clear of the controversy. “Let’s get onto the real issues, that‘s all I’ve got to say,” said Romney, although he pointed out that he and his wife, Ann, have been married for 42 years.

All four remaining GOP candidates lustily attacked Obama, while Santorum in particular sought to raise his own profile.

Introduced to the audience at the outset, he mentioned his change of fortunes in Iowa, where an evident eight-vote defeat in caucuses on Jan 3 was belated transformed into a 34-vote advantage – though the Iowa Republican Party did not declare a winner.

Santorum jabbed at both Gingrich and Romney, but seemed to focus more attention on the former. If Gingrich is the party nominee, he said, “you sort of have that worrisome moment that something’s going to pop. And we can’t afford that in a nominee.”

In a reflection of the complex political dynamics of the race, first Gingrich and then Santorum challenged Romney over his well-documented switch of position on abortion. Once a supporter of a woman’s life to choose, he now says he is “pro-life.”

Gingrich didn‘t exactly question Romney’s change in position, but he didn’t embrace it, either, saying, “He had an experience in a lab and became pro-life.”

Romney bristled. “I’m not questioned on character or integrity very often. I don’t feel like standing here for that.”

Recent polls, coupled with Perry’s endorsement, suggested Gingrich was the candidate with the momentum and Romney the one struggling to validate his standing as front-runner. Whatever else the impact, the day‘s events reduced the number of contenders vying to emerge as Romney’s principal conservative alternative.

The former Massachusetts governor had other challenges in a state where unemployment approaches 10 percent. He adamantly refused to explain why some of his millions were invested in the Cayman Islands, how much was there or whether any other funds were held offshore.

Under pressure from his rivals to release his income tax returns before the weekend – a demand first made by Perry in a debate on Monday – he told reporters it wouldn’t happen. “You’ll hear more about that. April,” he said, a position he renewed during the debate to jeers from the audience.

Gingrich pursued an approach Perry used in the earlier debate.

“If there‘s anything that’s in there that’s going to help us lose the election, we should know before the election. If there’s not, why not release it?” he said.

Gingrich released his own tax return during the day, reporting that he paid the IRS $613,517 in taxes on more than $3.1 million in income. He also donated about 2 percent of his income to charity.

His effective tax rate, roughly 31.6 percent of his adjusted income, was about double what Romney told reporters earlier this week he had paid.

Gingrich grappled with problems of a different, possibly even more crippling sort in a state where more than half the Republican electorate is evangelical.

In an interview scheduled to air on ABC News, Marianne Gingrich said her ex-husband had wanted an “open marriage” so he could have both a wife and a mistress. She said Gingrich conducted an affair with Callista Bistek – his current wife – “in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington” while she was elsewhere.

“He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. That is not a marriage,” she said in excerpts released by the network in advance of the program.

He said his two daughters from the first of his three marriages – the ex-wife making the accusations was the second of three – had sent a letter to ABC “complaining about this as tawdry and inappropriate.”

In fact, the letter made no such accusations. Instead, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman wrote ABC that anyone who has endured a failed marriage “understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.”

Those weren’t the only political events in the run-up to the Saturday primary. Television commercials for the remaining candidates and their allies ran virtually without letup, generally designed to diminish each other’s support.

According to information made available to The Associated Press, targeted viewers in most regions of the state were watching an average of about six commercials a day paid for by Romney’s campaign and Restore Our Future, a group supporting him. Gingrich, Paul, Santorum and their backers raised the total higher.

Santorum ran commercials likening Romney to Obama; Gingrich’s cast the former speaker as the only candidate who could defeat the president this fall. In a sign of the shifting campaign, Restore Our Future stopped attacking Santorum so it could concentrate its fire on Gingrich.

Santorum, whose fortunes have ebbed since what appeared to be a narrow loss in Iowa, pronounced himself the winner there after all when state party officials in Des Moines announced he had finished 34 votes ahead of Romney instead of eight behind.

“There have been two contests. We won one,” he said, and he proceeded to ridicule Romney and Gingrich as weak challengers to Obama. “How can you differentiate ourselves on the major issues of the day if we nominate tweedledum and tweedledee instead of someone who stood up and said, `No’?” he said to one audience, referring to his opposition to a requirement to purchase health care coverage.

Iowa Republican chairman Matt Strawn said the party would not name an official winner because the results were so close and some votes couldn’t be counted. Results from eight of the state’s 1,774 precincts were not certified to the state party by Wednesday’s 5 p.m. deadline.

It was Strawn who had stepped before a microphone shortly before 2 a.m. in Des Moines on Jan. 4 to declare Romney the victor.

That announcement propelled the former Massachusetts governor into New Hampshire, where he breezed to victory in the opening primary of the campaign a week later.

He arrived in South Carolina the following day, front-runner then for sure, now more shakily so.

Perry’s withdrawal mimicked one earlier in the week by former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in that they both quit a few hours before a debate.

The similarities ended there, though. Huntsman endorsed Romney.

Perry had other thoughts, calling Gingrich a “conservative visionary who can transform our country.”

Echoing words Huntsman said of Romney, Perry said he and Gingrich had their differences.

And in saying the former speaker was not perfect, he sought to provide political cover of a type that might reassure South Carolina voters for whom religious values are important.

“The fact is, there is forgiveness for those who seek God and I believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my own Christian faith,” Perry said.

His decision to withdraw set off a scramble among the remaining contenders for the allegiance of his supporters and donors, both in the state and nationally.

State Rep. Chip Limehouse of Charleston said he was expecting to speak by phone with both Romney and Gingrich later in the day before making up his mind.

“I‘m looking and I really do think tonight’s debate will determine the next president of the United States. That’s how important it is,” Peeler said.

Perry’s exit marked the end of a campaign that began with soaring expectations but quickly faded. He shot to the head of the public opinion polls when he announced his candidacy last summer, but a string of poor debate performances soon led to a decline in support.

His defining moment came at one debate when he unaccountably could not recall the third of three federal agencies he has promised to abolish. He joked about it afterward but never recovered from the fumble.

In his farewell appearance as a candidate, he said he was bowing out of the 2012 campaign, seemingly a hint he would run again in four years if Republicans fail to win the White House this time.

An aide, Ray Sullivan was more explicit, telling reporters Perry hasn’t ruled out running for governor again or for the White House in 2016 if Obama is re-elected.

Comments (129)

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  • A Conservatarian
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:57pm

    Here’s the night Mitt needs to learn to shut up so the other two progressives on the stage can rip each other up.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:17pm

      Rick Santorum was just pushing Internet Censorship… Such a lame big gov’t Progressive. Why is he not in the Democrat Party?

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:29pm

      Shame on Santorum for supporting SOPA

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    • DCPatriotChick
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:05pm

      And Mitt is not a progressive…

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:05pm

      Newt won big time. ( and i dont believe his ex wife either) . Nobodys ex wife has anything good to say about em

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:07pm

      Mitt isn’t a progressive. HA!
      didn’t he support NDAA in the last debate?

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:43pm

      TECHY, you might want to clean the wax out of your ears and get a life while you are at it. Santorum said he was not for SOPA, other than some provision protecting against overseas pirating.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Everybody keeps forgetting. Newt is a member of the CFR and a supporter of the U.N.
      He is not for the Constitution as much as he thinks or says he is.

      CFR membership roster:
      http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=G

      Not only will you find Gingrich on this list; You will find Clinton, Cheney, Rockefeller, Bloomberg,
      Goldman, etc as well.
      The CFR does not like personal property among a list of other American freedoms or liberties.

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  • This_Individual
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:57pm

    Did Romney just give Ron Paul credit?

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  • Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:57pm

    If I was Romeny when Newt was listing, I worked for Reagan, I created some group ect.. I’d look at Newt and say, and they call me the establishment candidate.

    Damn Santorum just lit into Newt!!

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  • 13th Generation American
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:56pm

    The only reason we have Military Bases around the world is to protect free trade shipping lanes and to egress against those who deem to upset that. We could cut that expenditure in half and remain safe. Paul is saying to do that and bring the rest of the revenue home. We can do that and many other things to take care of our own at home..

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:03pm

      We do NOT have free trade. If we did, China, Brazil, South Korea, etc WOULD NOT be taking our manufactuing jobs.

      Obama JUST helped BRAZIL get a contract to build AF planes. Those planes are CRAP and the AF does not want them. This story was on Neil Cavuto (Fox Business) tonight

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:09pm

      Its too bad Trump didn’t jump into this race.

      Trump is the ONLY one talking about our politicians DISMAL record in negotiating our “so called EQUAL trade agreements”.

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    • 13th Generation American
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:23pm

      Do I have to spell everything out for you people, Free Shipping Lanes, World trade, free trade the shipping lanes are open.

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:36pm

      13th Generation American
      ___
      Let me spell it out for you.

      It is NOT the American taxpayers JOB to be the policeman of the ENTIRE WORLD no matter what the reason. Trade was happening BEFORE we squatted all over the world and it will occur long after the USA is broke and split up doing it now.

      We need a MIRROR IMAGE trade agreement. THAT IS IT.

      Mirror image means – WHATEVER A COUNTRY DOES TO US in Trade – WE DO TO THEM. If they tax our goods going into their country, we MIRROR THEIR TAX by taxing theirs when their goods enter ours.

      If China manipulates its currency to make their products cheaper, WE either tax their goods to make up for their cheating when their goods enter our country.

      If EUROPE slaps our goods with a VAT tax, WE SLAP THEIR GOODS coming HERE with a VAT tax of equal value to their goods.

      BOTTOM LINE – THE USA is not constitutionality authorized to maintain 900 military bases around the world to keep FREE TRADE open for every country in he world. THAT IS RIDICULOUS.

      If we implement a MIRROR IMAGE trade agreement with every country we do business with – THE UNEVEN TRADE PROBLEM IS GONE.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:28pm

      Here is a good article explaining the AF fighter that went to a Brazilian company instead of U.S. Hawker Beechcraft.

      http://www.kansas.com/2012/01/06/2165596/plane-maker-says-lost-contract.html#storylink=misearch

      What is really crazy is; I remember Obama going to Brazil last spring and paying them lots $ for offshore drilling. He also talked about manufacturing jobs in Brazil and closer ties with the U.S. blah blah blah….

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  • COFemale
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:51pm

    Hey you can’t fault a man for at least asking his wife to allow him to cheat. As vehemently as I deplore cheaters, I have to a least give a minor kudos to Newt for asking for permission.

    His wife does sound bitter and she has every right to be, the question to ask of her has she forgiven Newt? If not, she needs too. I forgave my husband for cheating on me, but I have not forgotten and at times things I say may make me sound bitter. I just like slamming him when I can. I rarely think about him except when someone brings up the topic of cheating. His new wife, the one he cheated with, actually bought a home one block from our home; this is how blatant she was. They also tanned at the same salon during his cheating and they worked together in Air National Guard and people wonder I talk mean about him. Go figure.

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    • Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:06pm

      You’re not running for President! We’ve already had a Cheating President, don’t need another one!! Think it’s the character of the President that matters, morals and values. Like I said what you did, is good for you, but you’re not running for President. You won’t be representing me

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  • Debbie1927
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:49pm

    New or Ron is the right choice

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  • Debbie1927
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:48pm

    Rick Santorum is the one we need at this time. A true conservative with morals, and values!

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:52pm

      As I said, I will vote for Paul, Gingrich or Santorum or Trump if he jumps in. I will never vote for Romney.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:39pm

    Rick Santorum…LOOK him in the eyes!!! When you stick it to him!!!

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:49pm

      rick is getting schooled

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:36pm

      Rick is doing Just fine. He keeps his eye on the ball. He’s definitely going to be around for a while, and when the dust clears, don‘t be too surprised if he’s The Last Man Standing.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:33pm

    Is Ron Paul going to be there tonight or is he still out on I-85 packing up the Ron Paul hot air balloon (his version of Air Force One) along with his groupies (roadies)? From what I understand, there was a Ron Paul hot air balloon snarling traffic along side the highway (I-85) and authorities treated the crew somewhat like the Italian cruise ship Captain who came to close to that Island and ripped his ship apart.

    Stick to “Space Ship One” Ron…. it suits you better.

    Also understand that Paul is skipping campaigning in Florida because (like SC), there are just too many real military and retirees that want to run him out of town on a rail. He’d rather spend his time at the Bunny Ranch in Nevada where “Air Force Annie” might want to check out his Air Force credentials.

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    • THXll38
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:44pm

      You sound like a modern day liberal.

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:52pm

      Space Ship One”
      _____
      That sounds more like Romney’s Mormon religion. He believes spacemen seeded Earth. Scientologolist believe that also.

      When Romney dies, he becomes a God who flies around the Solar System with other Mormons looking for planets to rule over and have spirit babies on.

      Those planets won’t ask for a passport though. Good thing since Romney’s father and grandfather were escaping polygamy charges and were born in Mexico. Obama will have a good laugh if RINO ROmneyCare is the Republican nominee by asking Romney for his birth certificate. They both have polygamists fathers and grandfathers.

       
    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:55pm

      The military is for Ron Paul. And, they give him a lot of money.

      Ron Paul is the ONLY veteran on stage. I am a 26 year veteran.

      Romney NEVER served and neither did ANY of his 5 sons. Romney EXCUSED that by saying they are SERVING THEIR COUNTRY by getting him ELECTED. What an EGOTISTICAL A%%
      http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/questions-about-romneys-sons-and-military-service/
      “one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping to get me elected.”

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:55pm

      We know you hate personal freedom and small government. I wont even mention sound economics. Im sure you would freak out and say everything is fine with the status qou. You love Ken doll types (mittens). So we the freedom lovers will support a candidate who has a record that you can BANK ON!

      Mitt likes the NDAA. Newt has a record of being pro carbon taxes and has no heart. Like literally. Santorum is big government.
      Ron Paul 2012

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:56pm

      I forgot to mention that Romney religions requires they wear MAGICAL UNDERWEAR.
      Obama will have a FIELD DAY with that also.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:15pm

      Let’s just take Rick Santorum in Iowa as an example in comparison to Ron Paul.

      Ron Paul and his $millions$, ended up finishing behind Santorum and his tiny amount of money spent in the Iowa Caucus.

      Ron Paul spent $344,000 in Iowa, between December 19th and Dec 25th.

      A PAC for Santorum spent $150,000 in Iowa.

      In July through September of 2011 Santorum raised $700,000.

      In December Ron Paul raised $4 million in a Tea Party money bomb.

      Oh yeah and he has the most donations from military members.

      I think you get the contrast in money on hand. Ron Paul had millions and he had the entire military behind him. Yet Ron Paul couldn’t finish ahead of Rick Santorum who had maybe a million total, and who didn’t have any military support at all.

      Oh yeah, and remember all those straw polls he won and all those online polls Paul won. Remember the entire military worships him… yet he couldn’t finish ahead of Rick Santorum and his small amount of coin.

      What’s up with that?

      Oh and the remark about Santorum having no military support is said [tongue in cheek], seeing Paul supports keep saying Paul has so much military support.

      It will just get worse for Paul in SC and Florida where… he gets so much military support [again, tongue in cheek].

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    • Ironbalut
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:22pm

      Actually, you don’t make much sense. Are you another neo-con?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:26pm

      Hmmmmm… “neocon”…. pretty Democrat Party-ish of you. Can you throw in a war-monger in for good measure?

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:43pm

      Oh yout going off the numbers that were released two days ago, a caucus that was 3 weeks ago?

      Right. Those numbers are clean. The “architect” Karl Rove said that night he had a gentlemens agreement that Rommney won. Its bull. A guy from no-where comes in and wins. Paul has the right ideas. And you can never kill a idea. Even if Paul loses we win. By injecting real issues.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:59pm

      “Even if Paul loses we win.”

      Sounds like you’re resigned to Ron Paul losing. Fact is you’re just catching up on what the rest of the GOP already knew. Ron Paul needs to step aside, support the eventual GOP nominee, stop making a fool of himself and his followers… and someday maybe his son (who seems to have just a bit more sense than Dad… time will tell) might make it to the bigs.

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  • number9
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:32pm

    I’m not lovin Newt, or Mitt. What the heck is wrong with this picture?

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  • THXll38
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:32pm

    You will not hear me often say this, but Newt smacked down CNN and the rest of the lame stream media.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:46pm

      That alone was worth the price of admission. Never thought I would hear it from this group, but Newt stomped CNN. You just have to see that part. It won’t get any better than that!!!!

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:02pm

      And he’ll slap Obama up side the head in a debate too

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  • another pucker
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:30pm

    Why is Santorum saying we should judge Newt for what he has done, but we should allow people who have committed violent crimes and have served their time and exhausted their parole, we should allow them to vote? I guess he’s for forgiveness if it helps him to progress!

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:37pm

      True. He’s more than willing to give convicted murderers and rapists the right to vote Democrat, but heaven forbid that Newt had an affair over a decade ago.

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  • number9
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:30pm

    We are so screwed.

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  • absolutely
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:27pm

    Newt Kicks Ass. Absolutely

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Santorum needs to step aside. His little jobs speech was lame. The man has no business experience.

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  • the58thstate
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:23pm

    what a relief came over me when newt made cnn look like the shills they are.

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:20pm

    Wow, Newt turned John King into John Queen.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:19pm

    Yep, good ole Newt… The master debater……

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  • NOTvotingforRomney
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Newt IS SLAMMING CNN for asking about his EX-WIFE saying he wanted an Open marriage as the FIRST QUESTION of the evening.

    LOL

    LOL

    Newt got his 2nd STANDING OVATION. Only 2 other standing ovations during a republican primary have EVER been recorded. Fox pointed this out yesterday and this morning. I wish I had written down the two names – I think one was Reagan.

    NOW that CNN guy is trying to get the other Republicans on stage to go after NEWT on his wife saying he wanted an open marriage.

    YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! all the republicans are saying NO to falling for CNN crap.

    GO NEWT. I voted for Ron Paul but NEWT back handing of CNN propping up Obama WAS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:47pm

      I despise Bush and Obama.
      If you don’t like it, don’t read my comments.

      So take your drone comment and shove it.

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  • ibcrazyru2
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:16pm

    Typical of CNN to open the debate with personal attacks!

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  • grubgrub
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:13pm

    Good job Newt CNN epic FAIL.

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  • WAKEUPUSA2012
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:12pm

    I hope Newt crashes and burns. I doubt he will. He is a great debater. He is very smart.

    But hell so was Hitler and Mussolini

    Bohemian Grove

    Boo

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    • Ballot_Box_Revolution
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:13pm

      Again i will say…..Newt is awesome at debate…..I would make him head of the national debate team w/o question,,,,

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:19pm

      Like Romney is fake. LOL

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    • Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:19pm

      I agree Newt gets cheap ovations. He knows how to do that!! I can’t believe so many so called Christians are giving him a pass for cheating on his wife. Newt knows to attack the press that gets you ovations. How can anyone say Newt’s not the ultimate Insider! He is Mr Washington!! Took money from Freddie and Fannie, sat on the couch with Nazi Pelosi, attacked Ryan’s Economic plan. He’s a straight PIG!!

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:23pm

      I hope Romney crashes and burns. His daddy has money though so he will be picked up and tucked in.

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    • NOTvotingforRomney
      Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:19pm

      Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
      _____
      Reagan was divorced and elected. Clinton cheated BEFORE and after he was elected TWICE. Michelle Obama is rumored to be sleeping with one of her guards. NO ONE CARES!!

      If you want Ozzie/Harriet for president, go ahead and vote for him. But I bet EVERY man on that stage has screwed around – we just haven’t found out yet. I do NOT CARE.

      Your type of republican is WHY the Republican Party is losing members. I only joined again because i did NOT want the RINO dregs left in the Republican Party to pick YET ANOTHER RINO in 2012. Bush Sr. Bush II and John McCain were enough.

      I PROUDLY voted for Ron Paul on my Florida Republican ballot. But, in the general election I will vote for Paul, Santorum or Gingrich but NOT RINO Romney.

      If Romney gets the nomination, I will do what I did in 1992 – —–vote for a Ross Perot 3rd party candidate. THAT WILL BE MY MIDDLE FINGER to the liberals running the Republican Party if they nominate another huge RINO like Mitt Romney.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:04pm

    Can you give us a link to watch the debate? Thanks.

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  • SonOfThunder
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:02pm

    Newt will win this debate! Newt 2012!

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  • Boomer52
    Posted on January 19, 2012 at 7:57pm

    May I join youse guys?

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