Tempers still raw after fractious Republican debate

[rodeodance]

Source: reuters

Tempers still raw after fractious Republican debate

By Steve Holland Thu Nov 29, 12:22 PM ET

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Tempers were raw between rival Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney on Thursday after a lively debate that included what the Romney camp called a nasty attack by Giuliani.
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In the sharpest exchange of the night, Giuliani had a tough response when Romney insisted New York had been a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants when Giuliani was mayor.

Giuliani labeled the former Massachusetts governor's home a "sanctuary mansion" and accused him of turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants working on its upkeep.

"It just happens you have a special immigration problem that nobody else up here has," Giuliani added. "You were employing illegal immigrants."

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[Mojambo]

1. Edwards/Obama/Clinton have been absolutely pleasant to each other by comparison. n/t

[pennylane100]

2. Let's hope it goes downhill from here.

It makes the democrats look positively saintly.

[tridim]

4. Most Republicans don't care..

DemocRATS are bad, m'kay.

[razorman]

24. I don't think most people are paying much attention to this aspect of the debate.

Most of the attention right now is being focused on CNN's poor handling of the matter, with supposedly planted questioners and such. Soon, no one will remember what the candidates actually said to each other.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. In other words...

Giuliani and Romney exchanged blows during the debate and the rest of the carrion birds came swooping in to pick their carcases.

[Jim__]

5. Giuliani didn't come up with "sanctuary mansion" on the fly.

He was waiting for Romney to raise the issue of New York being a sanctuary city. Romney walked right into it and he really should have been better prepared.

Today Rush was complaining about the unfair questions asked by "liberal" CNN. It was the "liberal" type of questions that made the pukes look bad.

I enjoyed every minute of it.

[LSparkle]

6. LIBERAL questions? WTF??????

Do you believe EVERY WORD in "this book"?
What would Jesus do about the death penalty?

And no questions at all about global climate change, Iraq/Iran, education, ad nauseum?

WHAT THE F***!!!!! Lying Limpscumbag!!!!

[Jim__]

8. Fox is crying too.

"A number of questioners at a Republican debate Wednesday night appear to be supporters of Democratic candidates, leaving CNN, the host of the debate, open to criticism that it did not vet its guests and loaded the stack against the presidential candidates." Faux



:nopity:

[Uncle Joe]

13. Personally I've always

thought of Jesus as a liberal, but I totally agree with this Daily Kos Diary's take on the vast shortcomings of that debate, by the candidates, the moderators and the audience. In short where was the Constitution in all this?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/29/0183/4888

[LSparkle]

14. The only one who even mentioned it was Ron Paul

Not that I agree with him on everything, but at least he seemed to try and bring the debate back to legitimate issues, like compliance with the Constitution.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. All you can say to that rejoinder by Rudy is "Ouch".

Romney is a sanctimonious silver spoon sack of shit.

[judaspriestess]

9. I'm just waiting for them to start slapping each other

like spoiled rotten kids

[aquart]

10. Now, I'm sorry I missed it.

No, I'm not.

[Habibi]

11. No kidding.

I didn't watch--don't have the stomach--but from what I've heard, it was a middle-aged man's version of "I know you are but what am I?"

[yardwork]

12. Rats turning on one another. Not surprising.

The Republican Party has melted down from being mostly corrupt and greedy into an absolute cesspool of perversion. It's not surprising that the candidates are vicious to one another.

[MetaTrope]

15. Aren't we overdue for another Repub pedophile to be uncovered?

It's been at least a week...

[xchrom]

16. you know there's one slithering around out there.

just too many are on the rolls now -- the republick party likes pedophiles -- they must there's a lot of them.

[UrbScotty]

17. Do we need to put them in seaparate (men's) rooms?

They're being too naughty to each other. We have to give them their own rooms or it's just gonna get worse.

[rAVES]

18. Who can be the biggest assclown 08 You decide!

[Voltaire99]

19. So, what did Hillary say in the Republican debate?

Er, I mean Rudi. Er, I mean Biden. Er, I mean Hillary. Er...

Hard to tell the mix-and-match "leaders" apart!

[sentelle]

20. not raw

For them, in their perverted way, its foreplay.

[Olney Blue]

21. THEIR nerves are raw? What about us poor citizens who watched it!

[Hardrada]

22. My sentiments exactly

[samplegirl]

23. I would not even call that a debate

It was the lame. No real issuses were debated. I think they needed Olberman interviewing and asking some real questions.

[Orsino]

25. Bad title.

The story says nothing about anyone's temper after the debate.