The night of November 9, 2011 may be well remembered at Oakland University in Michigan, where CNBC hosted another 2012 presidential debate among the main Republican candidates. First, CNBC will go down as being widely hated by the online community for not providing live streaming video access. Apparently, a decision was made just 30 minutes or so before the start of the the debate to break the current custom of offering live video on the Internet. This was an outrage and the GOP should seriously consider banning CNBC from hosting any future debates. Beyond that, the two most talked about moments will obviously be when the audience booed the moderators for raising the Herman Cain sexual harassment question and another Rick Perry debate gaffe where he could not name all three federal departments he intends to shut down.
Let us deal with this last item first. As you regular readers of mine know, I am the official Rick Perry apologist here at RightPundits.com. Even I was taken aback when Texas Governor Rick Perry had a brain fart during the debate. My initial reaction was, its over Rick, time to go home to Austin and hang it up. But after a night′s sleep, I′m back on board. Its not like we have not seen Barack Obama, allegedly the most brilliant orator since Cicero, make verbal gaffes during speeches. Plus, when the rubber meets the road, and the choices are a reasonable Conservative who suffers the occasional brain fart, Mitt Romney, who is the political equivalent of Silly Puddy ®, and Barack Obama, a Socialist who wants to destroy America, I′ll take Rick Perry any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Now for the other big moment, when CNBC honey-pot, Maria Bartiromo perked up her collagen-filled duck lips to question Herman Cain about the sexual harassment allegations. The audience nearly booed her right off the stage. Cain defended himself, as well as in the third-person, and was rewarded by a cheering crowd. Another dummy moderator then tried to lure Mitt Romney into the controversy, probably thinking Romney would diss Cain as he had done so the other day when Romney referred to the latest allegations as ″disturbing.″ Meaning, of course, that Romney finds Cain disturbing. But Mitt is way too plastic and quickly retreated knowing how the audience felt. Cain later drew loads of applause when he referred to Nancy Pelosi as ″Princess Nancy″, which may not have been the wisest thing to do given the allegations about how he interacts with women.
The big winner of the night was, once again, Newt Gingrich. Newt played the serious adult role to the hilt. He even put Mizz Bartiromo in her place when she wanted 30-second answers from each candidate on what they would do about health care. Gingrich scolded her for being another shallow journalist asking another stupid question in the absolutely wrong format. She conceded and Newt then rattled off his decades of experience on how to fix health care in America.
All in all, the CNBC presidential debate had the potential of being one of the best, but as usual, the network in their infinite stupidity did all they could to self-destruct. It was obvious that they were focused on promoting Mitt Romney as the front runner and Jon Huntsman as a back-up, as all of the Liberal Media is busy doing. They tried to derail Herman Cain but failed. They got a gift from Rick Perry whose debate skills are far from adequate. CNBC did their best to ignore the rest of the 2012 presidential candidates during the debate, including Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. The biggest losers last night were those of us who wanted to watch the debate on a live streaming video, but CNBC is still stuck in prehistoric times, painting pictures on the walls of caves with dried mammoth blood and using bear skins and bones for high technology. Shame on you, CNBC!
November 10th, 2011 at 8:51 am
Haha, a gaff. You guys are so silly. Imagine if Obama gaffed like this, you guys would be ALL OVER IT. In fact, every time Obama does gaff you guys are like a pack of rabid animals.
Maybe Rick should write all of his talking points on his hand like Palin does.
November 10th, 2011 at 8:54 am
If at this point you still think Rick Perry is the right choice for America then I beg you – PLEASE, PLEASE don’t vote. You are too stupid to vote.
November 10th, 2011 at 9:00 am
It was beyond a gaffe. Obama has made gaffes. Biden has certainly had brain farts. This was in an entirely different league. If you’ve spent enough time and brain cells studying an agency to make the determination that it needs to be eliminated, then you had best be intensely familiar with the workings of that agency, know exactly what it does, how many it employs, its history and its name.
November 10th, 2011 at 9:09 am
[Ripping Obama for saying we have 57 states coming up in 3...2..]
November 10th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Perry is the human result of education cuts.
November 10th, 2011 at 10:10 am
[Ripping Obama for saying we have 57 states coming up in 3...2..]
Seriously – that’s a perfect example of a gaffe. Had there been a follow up question – “Senator Obama, how many states are there,” to which he had replied “Um, I can’t remember…. oops,” it would have been along the lines of Perry’s performance last night.
November 10th, 2011 at 10:35 am
I’m not gonna bring up the 57 states but I will say that Obama cant speak at all without the teleprompter.
And Perry better start keeping one nearby, even when he goes thru the Jack in The Box drive thru.
And at this point, comparing the two is ridiculous.
One has proven to be a lying flip flopper and the others catching up.
While Reagans Alzheimer’s was starting to kick in he had a better memory
November 10th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Who are you pulling for, Mick?
November 10th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
The rents too damn high !
November 10th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Listen, Andy, I really like you man, but with all due respect you’re fcked-up! Andy, please think about this a second longer, the consequences of trying to get Perry the nomination. I try not to say anything bad about fellow Republicans, but damn man, Perry really should hang it up. Imagine this happening in a general election with obama on the stage? It would be lights out. Andy, Perry getting the nomination is equivalent to serving obama another 4 years on a silver platter. obama will truly tear Perry to shreds, by the time the obama machine is finished with him he will go back to Texas and crawl under a rock. He doesn’t have the capacity, fortitude, or readiness for this. Believe me Andy, I would have loved to see Perry do well, I was happy when he entered the race, but Andy, unfortunately the guy just doesn’t have it, and he is really not the conservative you try to make him out to be.
Secondly, you keep trying to focus attention away from Perry’s screw-ups and onto Mitt Romney who has performed superbly throughout this primary so far. We all know you don’t like Romney but you are being so disingenuous when you try to pull someone into Perry’s mess when he had absolutely nothing to do with it. Your actions if they were to come to fruition would be disasterous on many levels. Mitt Romney obviously has an IQ double that of Perry and would probably make an excellent president if he is willing to make the tough decisions. He would kick obama’s a$$ in too.
As to your claim that the liberal media is pushing for Romney you’re dead wrong. They are trying to make this screw-up look like nothing big because they want Perry to get the nomination. That major screw-up that Perry had caused liberals to sense blood in the water, they want Perry because they know obama will beat him, they fear Romney because he is everything Perry is not.
Andy, what would you have done if this was Romney that had a “brain fart”? You would be all over him like white on rice. Not cool, your one-sidedness is too obvious and makes any of your writings uncredible as they are biased and skewed. You cannot change the powers that be, Romney has the talent Perry lacks, it is what it is.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference…
November 10th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
“[Ripping Obama for saying we have 57 states coming up in 3...2..]”
Oh please, we all know obama is a damn failed nincompoop with or without his stupid blunders!
November 11th, 2011 at 4:44 am
@ Ron,
You seem to be forgetting all about 2008 when the Liberal Media systematically went after credible candidates, including Romney, in order to prop-up John McCain as the GOP nominee. I suppose my crime is that I view politics as a battle of ideas, not competency. I plead guilty as charged of that.
Is the Perry the best Conservative? No. Is he the best Conservative that may have a chance at beating Obama? I’d say the odds are long for now, maybe 1-in-6, but we’re a long way from November 2012. If the economy remains the same, then he has an even shot.
Frankly, I’m ready to split my cards and straddle both Perry and Gingrich. Newt probably has somewhat better odds at the moment, but just wait for the Media to start focusing on him. So far he’s gotten a pass because most figured he was going to remain a 2nd Tier candidate.
As for Romney being the best option to defeat Obama, just wait for the very first debate between them. Obama will begin by complimenting Romney and giving him credit for inspiring Obamney-Care. Then we’ll be treated to a billion dollars worth of TV ads showing Mitt flip-flopping like a halibut on the deck of a fishing trawler.
November 11th, 2011 at 6:57 am
What is going on is, the GOP is having too many debates. I don’t remember anything like this before, debate after debate after debate. Have enough debates, and they will all screw up.
Which makes me wonder, why is the GOP doing this? It is for a reason, to be sure.
I think what is happening is, the powers that be within the GOP (which are in league with Satan, but that’s beside the point) are clearing the field for someone else, who is going to come from nowhere, someone we don’t even know about right now. The intent is to make fools out of all of these people, so some sort of supposed savior of America can step in, unexpected.
The GOP is much, much better at politics than the Democrats. If you think that we are going to go into the Republican national convention with the current slate of idiots, then think again. The forces of mammon that have taken over our precious democracy will not allow this to happen. Someone new will appear, and this someone will have the full power and money of the current right wing aristocracy behind them.
November 11th, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Andy, if the economy stays the same most of the leading candidates have a chance at beating obama. As for obama hitting Romney with $1 billion dollars worth of trashing, it’s going to happen to any candidate he has to run against no matter who, the obama machine already has a list of propaganda on every candidate. That’s where the one who publicly faces obama has to be super good in a debate as this is some of the only exposure the average American that’s not a political junkie (like us) is going to base their decision on. That’s where Romney is strong and Perry is not. Romney will destroy obama in a debate even if obama says obamacare is based on Romney’s model in Massachusetts. Romney has dozens of weak spots and flaws he can point out about obama and belittle him on the state of the economy, the rules of engagement for our troops, obamacare(and more importantly who wrote it) and signing this bill that was voted on after giving Congress only 72 hours to read 2200 pages, failed stimulus, the Greengate scandals, the radicals in his administration, the vacations he and his family took while average Americans were losing their homes, the Fannie & Freddie nightmare that he threatened to filibuster while a senator, the $400 million he overturned Bush’s executive order for overseas abortions his first week in office, the failed cash for clunkers, the insecurity the private sector / small businesses are facing, the moratorium on drilling while lending $2 billion to Petrobras who drilled in deeper water than the Gulf BP incident and his campaign financier Soros is heavily invested into, not defending the Defense of Marriage Act, fighting the States of Arizona & Alabama for enforcing the immigration laws while not upholding these laws, not drilling here and releasing our reserves making us more vulnerable in a crisis, the new changes that take away the traditional tax deductions that will take place this year and next year, his vote on late term abortion, his Attorney General dropping the case against The New Black Panther Party, Fast & Furious and border agents being murdered, the flow of drugs into the country, the highest ratio of rich to poor, one of the highest if not the highest poverty rate (16%), not allowing Boeing to open a plant in South Carolina, his involvement with SEIU, not providing Poland with a missile defense system or using it as a bargaining chip for something from Russia, not renewing the Bush Tax Cuts, his position on Cap & Trade and using the EPA to enforce it, his involvement with big Wall Street companies like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros., his involvement with those heavily invested in Carbon Footprint Credits, his involvement with radical George Soros, his learnings and teachings of Saul Alinsky, his socialist positions, his apology tour to the world, his grounding of NASA and space exploration replacing it with a mission to appeal to the muslim community, attempting to try kalid sheik mohammed in N.Y.C., his pulling out of Iraq prematurely leaving the region open to Iran, not stopping Iran from furthering its nuclear ambitions, creating problems with Israel, it’s just one train wreck after another, it goes on & on.
Point is Romney can frame the debate, control it and guide it better than obama, and hit him with all of the truths better than Perry. obama will be swiss cheese by the time Romney gets through with him. The people need to receive the message from Romney about obama, and he’s beat. I know Romney without a doubt holds the potential to beat obama gracefully, but first in this primary season i’d like to hear more of what his goals are for the first 100 days, first year, and first term as President. Forget about fighting with other candidates, tell us what your positions are for the future of the country.
November 13th, 2011 at 7:06 am
Yeah, Ron,
I liked how Romney ‘framed the debate’ on Wednesday when asked about the debt crisis in Europe. Oh, they have plenty of money to bail themselves out. Yeah, RIGHT! Much of the IMF loans to Europe come from us and Bernanke is already committing the Fed’s help.
Romney is clueless about the situation and yet he is touted as being ’smart guy’ on economics???
November 14th, 2011 at 7:03 am
Andy, what do you think Perry would have said?
November 14th, 2011 at 7:51 am
He probably would have bashed Bernanke and the Fed for the help they’ve given Europe so far.