The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

The testimony he gathers bring into focus a woman so frightening that You Betcha's closest cinematic relative may well be The Omen. One after another, friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives, mentors, employees, campaign advisers, cops, teachers and even priests step forward to grind axes, blanch at the prospect of a Palin presidency and, armed with anecdotes, outline why they think Palin is, variously, "dangerous", a "sociopath" and "disrespectful to intelligence". "Nice lady, charming, genuine smile, but she'd kill you like that," says the Rev Howard Bess, snapping his fingers sadly – Bess's 1995 book, Pastor, I Am Gay, was among those Palin had removed from Wasilla public library during her tenure as the Alaskan town's mayor.

I am noticing a lot of the chattering class saying that Romney killed Perry on points and looked more professional, the WSJ asserts that Perry looks a lot like Reagan so one should not assume the looking like the most professional debater and politician is a good thing for Romney.

I do like the fact that he's not allowing the liberal-media to cause him to cut and run on social security or capital punishment.

I asked you before if you were excited about Perry; I don't remember you responding... or maybe I just missed it.

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I asked you before if you were excited about Perry; I don't remember you responding... or maybe I just missed it.

Maybe you did miss it, but I certainly don't remember you asking, let alone whether or not I answered. If you're implying that I ducked the question, don't make me laugh.

I'm not particularly excited about Perry running and at this point I haven't decided whether or not I would like to see him as the nominee.

Are you excited that Obama will be the nominee of the Democrats?

TAMPA, FL -- The morning after a sometimes-rocky appearance in front of a Tea Party debate audience, Gov. Rick Perry said he was "taken aback" by cheers from some crowd members on a hypothetical question of whether a young man who decides not to buy health insurance should be refused care if he develops a life-threatening illness and be left to die.

"I was a bit taken aback by that myself," Perry told NBC News and the Miami Herald after appearing at a breakfast fundraiser in Tampa.

"We're the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives."

Perry distinguished from that the issue of "justice," reiterating his strong support and "respect" for the death penalty on a state-by-state basis. "But the Republican party ought to be about life and protecting, particularly, innocent life," he added.

Perry also responded to the crowd's negative reaction to his support for allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, saying his campaign has "the right message" on opportunities for children who were brought to the United States illegally "by no fault of their own."

"This issue is about education, it's not about immigration," he said.

"These kids showed up in our state by no fault of their own, some 2-3 years of age. And they've been in our schools, they've done their work, they've prepared themselves good, they want to be contributing members of society. So it would be I think the wrong message to say somehow or another that you can't go to our colleges, or we've going to punish you because of the sound of your last name." More

Perry is starting to notice that the TP fanatics are just that. He should watch whose banner he wants to fly.

Jon Seidl at The Blaze tries to get the Tea Party audience some room to wiggle out of this ghoulish display, theorizing, alternately, that it was a delayed reaction to something Paul said earlier (not unless those folks were watching on their portable DVRs), or that the hoots were from liberals, cheering on Blitzer’s “Gotcha!” (which would make them the quietest bunch of liberals in the world for the rest of the debate)

The reactions of three or four audience members at a debate isn’t all that meaningful on its own, but this outburst follows last week’s Death Penalty Ovation at the Reagan Library debate, and another ugly moment at the Tea Party debate in which the crowd cheered for fed chairman Ben Bernanke to be tried for treason, a capital crime.

While Rep. Paul mercifully declined to leave coma-guy to die, he is simply suggesting a form of socialized medicine, only without the guarantee. He places moral responsibility for coma guy on “our neighbors, our friends, our churches,” which only differs from socialized medicine in that it burdens churches (who don’t pay taxes). That, and my neighbor has a lousy TV in his ICU.

This bloodthirsty vibe that’s running through these debates will undoubtedly help Rick Perry, whose popularity has been undiminished (perhaps even enhanced) by his Death Dealing ways in Texas, but will this sort of thing still knock ‘em dead when the audience is the entire American electorate? Times are tough, so who knows. America is also in an ugly mood.