The stakes are high in the Sunshine State as Florida’s primary is a Winner Take All delegates primary. Going into this debate, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney were in a statistical dead heat in the polls, so the winner of Thursday’s debate will likely be in position to win next week’s primary. But Floridians and the rest of the nation were denied an opportunity to fine-tune their decision on who to vote for based on the issues.
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The first thirty-eight minutes of the debate were orchestrated to create discord between Gingrich and Romney. Absent were any questions dealing with Barack Obama’s many failures, about the 16 trillion dollar deficit, Keystone, Solyndra, Fast and Furious, or how to create jobs. When Wolf Blitzer began the petty questioning, the crowd groaned and booed , to once again let the media know that we don’t like gotcha questions, and it finally elicited this remark from an angry Rick Santorum:
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“… we have been playing petty personal politics. Can we set aside that Newt was a member of Congress and used the skills that he developed as a member of Congress to go out and advise companies—and that’s not the worst thing in the world—and that Mitt Romney is a wealthy guy because worked hard and he’s going out and working hard? And you guys should leave that alone and focus on the issues.”
Eventually though as we knew he would Wolf got around to asking deep, thoughtful questions when he asked the panel why they thought their wives would make good First Ladies, prompting Michelle Malkin to tweet:
“Wolf looking to cast Real Housewives of the GOP.”
During Anderson Cooper’s debate followup discussion, most of the pundits felt that Newt Gingrich had a flat evening, Romney did not hurt himself, Rick Santorum had his best debate yet, and Ron Paul added levity with several jokes.
Hey you’re going to Hollywood!
