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Romney, Gingrich square off in key Florida debate

World Jan. 27, 2012 - 01:45PM JST ( 24 )

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Gingrich and Romney are battling it out for the chance to challenge Obama

Romney and Gingrich are just two percentage points apart in the latest polls

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Ben_JackinoffJan. 27, 2012 - 07:40AM JST

Kind of sick of the boxing cliche. Anyone else?
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SushiSake3Jan. 27, 2012 - 11:59AM JST

The circular firing squad continues to battle it out yet another day.

Sooooo funny. :-) The GOP implosion has been really entertaining. I wonder whether people can donate to a fund to keep their comedy coming?

Wha-? It's **not **comedy? It's real??? LOL!! :-)
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LagunaJan. 27, 2012 - 12:00PM JST

It’s simply the kind of over the top rhetoric that’s characterized American politics too long

Romney said, continuing, "Obama caused job losses, raised taxes on corporations, and has traveled the world apologizing for America."
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SushiSake3Jan. 27, 2012 - 12:03PM JST

"Romney said, continuing, "Obama caused job losses, raised taxes on corporations, and has traveled the world apologizing for America."

Yes, some Americans can't do humble as they think their nation really is'exceptional.'

At the moment, thanks largely to GOP/conservative leadership.the American economy is exceptional all right, exceptionally failing.
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TorafusuTorasanJan. 27, 2012 - 12:17PM JST

@"boxing cliche" Yeah, remember those boxing nun puppets?

Actually, this matchup is turning into the real scalp taking (referencing a recent tennis match headline). Florida's primary is only four or five days away, but I think we can expect more of the same dueling and dithering from these two for a long time to come.

"Self-deportation"--a voluntary honor system? Probably coined to burnish credentials as a "compassionate conservative". Romney offers a retirement age cutoff for immigration law enforcement, and Gingrich is touting his support of a Dream Act path to citizenship via military service. Who knew immigration would be the top issue leading up to a primary in Florida, of all places. In Miami, first generation immigrants are the majority of the population!
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RushO'HannityJan. 27, 2012 - 12:32PM JST

" Obama caused job losses, raised taxes on corporations, and has traveled the world apologizing for America ."

romney has a problem and it is his tenedency to repeat the obvious.
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RushO'HannityJan. 27, 2012 - 12:35PM JST

" But Romney, who said his father was born in Mexico, and his father-in-law in Wales, "

first time to read about his in-laws. pretty 'diverse' background there. didn't romney also live in france for five years?
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TorafusuTorasanJan. 27, 2012 - 01:05PM JST

Romney lived in France for 30 months from July 1966 to December 1968. As a teetotaler, he at first got very few converts among the wine producers around Bordeaux. Later, a car wreck in which one of his passengers died gave him a sense of urgency and his team baptised about 200 people. He was pro-Vietnam but got three deferments and lucked out with a high number in the December 1969 draft.

A memorable event from his years in France: "In Nantes, Romney was bruised defending two female missionaries against a horde of local rugby players." (see more on Mitt's wikipedia entry)

There's gotta be at least one hefty Tom Wolfe-type novel in the material from Mitt's idyllic French fantasia.
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zurcroniumJan. 27, 2012 - 01:30PM JST

Research reported today explains the anti-immigrant republican party and its hateful candidates. And most of the posts from the normal crew on JT.

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice.

Pretty much describes the tea party members.
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LagunaJan. 27, 2012 - 01:44PM JST

first time to read about his in-laws. pretty 'diverse' background there. didn't romney also live in france for five years?

Doesn't hold a candle to where his money has been: the Caribbean, Ireland, Switzerland.... It is nice to see him giving his cash the opportunities he never had.
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sailwindJan. 27, 2012 - 03:04PM JST

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice.

I'm sure the good Doctor also included children of minorities not just of those with caucasion offspring in his research. As we all know even minorities would also have a percentage of children with low intelligence and would exhibit the same socially conservative ideologies, which explains why they dominate "tea party" rallies......or this "study" is a load of.......well..stuff.
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smithinjapanJan. 27, 2012 - 03:38PM JST

I wish they'd add a 'during debate fact-check' function to these debates, wherein a monitor on the stage over and between the 'contestants' points out the truth to their lies, or the moderator stops and corrects them (or does so between rebuttals). It's about the only thing that would make it funnier... that, or playing the Benny Hill music when fading out to commercials and fading back in.
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SushiSake3Jan. 27, 2012 - 07:36PM JST

Looks like the JT conservatives have given up defending their 'candidates,' packed up shop and gone home.

No surprises there. I would too if I was one of them.

Interesting paradox: A Republican senator will yell out that Obama lies as the President addresses the nation and be congratulated for it, yet a Republican candidate will lie before millions of people on TV and his constituency will not say a word.

No surprises there either.
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SushiSake3Jan. 27, 2012 - 07:40PM JST

Only a card-carrying conservative would watch their candidates spew lies and hate on national TV and not say a word.

Politics first. Country last: The Pure Republican Way.
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SerranoJan. 27, 2012 - 08:24PM JST

Sushi: "The GOP implosion"

Sushi does not yet ( and may never ) understand American politics. There is no implosion here, there is good ol' free-wheelin' debate goin' on here.
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SerranoJan. 27, 2012 - 08:40PM JST

Sushi, remember when Obama and Hillary were at each other's throats during the Democrat primary in 2008? They reconciled to the point where Hillary became Obama's girl to handle the foreigners!

Somehow, tho, I can't see Mitt becoming Newt's boy to handle the foreigners, or vice versa, ha ha! But guaranteed, whoever gets the nomination will have the support of the loser in this Republican primary.
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zurcroniumJan. 27, 2012 - 09:03PM JST

sailwind,

google my text and you will find out how the research was done. It confirms other publications that document that low intelligence people tend to be conservative and also tend to be racist. Fox news knows this and caters its news to the mentally challenged.

It really explains well why conservative states have the cruelest immigration laws. It is all about racism. And Next and Mittens are sucking up to these folks big time. Even if they do not believe the crap they say.
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SerranoJan. 27, 2012 - 09:09PM JST

"low intelligence people tend to be conservative and also tend to be racist"

"Next and Mittens"

Wow, this thread is really going downhill...
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unreconstructedJan. 27, 2012 - 10:44PM JST

"The GOP implosion"

Takes me back to 1980. If I heard it once I heard it a hundred times back then.
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MadvertsJan. 28, 2012 - 12:05AM JST

He,h implosion is something you own, nobody can doubt that.
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sailwindJan. 28, 2012 - 12:33AM JST

google my text and you will find out how the research was done. It confirms other publications that document that low intelligence people tend to be conservative and also tend to be racist.

Low intelligent black people? hispanic? Gay with straight issues? LBGT? Mormons? ....Clarify please.
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MeanRingoJan. 28, 2012 - 03:01AM JST

zurcronium cites research done in Ontario. Which means it refers to Canada. America is not Canada.

He's right there Zurc. And just remember, the US is always a couple steps ahead. After all, Canada is still in the midst of having the conservatives destroy the economy built up by the liberals.
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The Truth MattersJan. 28, 2012 - 03:10AM JST

Romney seems to be trying to grab a little of Newt's "I'm an angry entitled white man who's not going to take being screwed over any more" schtick. Kind of hard to spout that rhetoric with the silver spoon in your mouth. And really, how screwed over have Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich been? Did someone tell them there was no cake after they ate it all? How unfair!
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sailwindJan. 28, 2012 - 06:11PM JST

Fantasy:

Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice.

Pretty much describes the tea party members.

Reality:

In a New York Times/CBS News poll released in April 2010, the 18 percent of Americans who identified themselves as Tea Party supporters tended to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45. They were wealthier and better-educated than the general public.