What was your thoughts on the Republican Debate tonight? Sept 7th

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Mr Khan said:

Machina said:
Dull, dull, dull. They're all so uninspiring (though I do have a soft spot for Ron Paul, he seems to have a degree of integrity that's rare in career politics).

Shame it's starting to come down to Perry and Romney. And the media are running with them to the exclusion of almost anyone else (unless it's to declare them out or give them the briefest of mentions as 'also-rans'). When the main contender is a guy who no one really likes and who couldn't even win the first time around it shows what a dire field it is.

"didn't win the first time around," isn't really an issue. I know Ronald Reagan lost to Gerald Ford in the '76 primaries, who then went on to lose to Carter (whom Reagan himself trashed four years later)

Becoming a presidential candidate is always about waiting for "your time," politically. McCain running as a sort of Elder Statesman was the best shot the Republicans had in 2008, but Romney is better positioned now to move towards an American middle that's fatigued by Democratic policies, but rightly scared by far-right ideologues

Really the Carter Election is about the best modern example of what's going on.  Carter or Truman.

Right down to Obama's likely election plan.  "It's not my fault and hey I may suck but the other guys will suck harder."

Perry plays into that strategy a lot better.  The only real albatross Obama has is the Healthcare plan.  Obama can complain all he wants about Republicans obstructing him, but really all it takes is the Healthcare reform to really hurt his arguement there, as he spent all his time and energy on that and since then has been kinda absent....

and well, it's not a particularly popular plan.

I guess you could try and run a whole campaign on "Rick Perry wants your grandmother to die."

Though Romney... would be tricky which is probably why they had the whole "Focus on mormons being weird" angle.