Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere folks are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Vegas - - the GOP has struck out.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band
is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere
folks are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy
in Vegas - - the GOP has struck out.

Again.
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POLITICO 44

At its 26th debate in the last 36 hours - - or maybe it has just
seemed that way - - the GOP field showed America Tuesday night it was
capable. Capable of fussing and fighting and feuding. The candidates
also showed they were full of it: Full of sound and fury signifying
nothing.

No new ground was broken. Nobody who “won” did much better than anyone
who “lost.”

Leave it to Newt Gingrich to have summed it up best as the curtain
fell on the CNN debate.

“Bickering is not the best road to the White House,” Gingrich said in
his best schoolmarm tone.

Yeah? Well, get a GPS and find another road, bub. Because this is the
road the Republican candidates are going to follow.

And what choice do they have? They must point out differences, whether
significant differences exist or not. They must attack Herman Cain’s
loony 9-9-9 tax plan, not because it has any chance of becoming law -
- it doesn’t - - but because people have been loony enough to tell
pollsters they like Herman Cain.

The first contest in Iowa is only about 11 weeks away, and the
Republican field is still large. A lack of money is not forcing
candidates out of the race because there is always another debate
coming up to give them free publicity. All they need is a ticket on
Southwest and a clean shirt, and in a pinch they can do without the
clean shirt.

And the best way to squeeze their way into the post-debate stories is
to bite hard and hang on tight.

“You were chairman of Al Gore’s campaign!” Mitt Romney said to Texas
Gov. Rick Perry. “Forty percent of all the jobs you created were for
illegal aliens!”

“You failed as governor of Massachusetts!” Perry parried.

And that was the high-road stuff. Earlier in the debate, the two had
wrangled over whether Romney had once hired illegal aliens to mow his
lawn, a charge left over from the last presidential campaign.

“You lose all standing,” Perry said to Romney. “It is the height of
hypocrisy.”

When Romney tried to explain, Perry kept interrupting him. Romney was
too civilized to do what he wanted to do - - slap Perry across both
cheeks with his glove - - so Romney appealed for an intervention from
the ref, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper.Oh, somewhere in this favored
land the sun is shining bright, the band is playing somewhere, and
somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere folks are laughing, and
somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Vegas - - the GOP has
struck out.

Again.
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POLITICO 44

At its 26th debate in the last 36 hours - - or maybe it has just
seemed that way - - the GOP field showed America Tuesday night it was
capable. Capable of fussing and fighting and feuding. The candidates
also showed they were full of it: Full of sound and fury signifying
nothing.

No new ground was broken. Nobody who “won” did much better than anyone
who “lost.”

Leave it to Newt Gingrich to have summed it up best as the curtain
fell on the CNN debate.

“Bickering is not the best road to the White House,” Gingrich said in
his best schoolmarm tone.

Yeah? Well, get a GPS and find another road, bub. Because this is the
road the Republican candidates are going to follow.

And what choice do they have? They must point out differences, whether
significant differences exist or not. They must attack Herman Cain’s
loony 9-9-9 tax plan, not because it has any chance of becoming law -
- it doesn’t - - but because people have been loony enough to tell
pollsters they like Herman Cain.

The first contest in Iowa is only about 11 weeks away, and the
Republican field is still large. A lack of money is not forcing
candidates out of the race because there is always another debate
coming up to give them free publicity. All they need is a ticket on
Southwest and a clean shirt, and in a pinch they can do without the
clean shirt.

And the best way to squeeze their way into the post-debate stories is
to bite hard and hang on tight.

“You were chairman of Al Gore’s campaign!” Mitt Romney said to Texas
Gov. Rick Perry. “Forty percent of all the jobs you created were for
illegal aliens!”

“You failed as governor of Massachusetts!” Perry parried.

And that was the high-road stuff. Earlier in the debate, the two had
wrangled over whether Romney had once hired illegal aliens to mow his
lawn, a charge left over from the last presidential campaign.

“You lose all standing,” Perry said to Romney. “It is the height of
hypocrisy.”

When Romney tried to explain, Perry kept interrupting him. Romney was
too civilized to do what he wanted to do - - slap Perry across both
cheeks with his glove - - so Romney appealed for an intervention from
the ref, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66332.html#ixzz1bCJ8xyrQ
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band
is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere
folks are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy
in Vegas - - the GOP has struck out.

Again.
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* Huntsman bets it all on N.H.

POLITICO 44

At its 26th debate in the last 36 hours - - or maybe it has just
seemed that way - - the GOP field showed America Tuesday night it was
capable. Capable of fussing and fighting and feuding. The candidates
also showed they were full of it: Full of sound and fury signifying
nothing.

No new ground was broken. Nobody who “won” did much better than anyone
who “lost.”

Leave it to Newt Gingrich to have summed it up best as the curtain
fell on the CNN debate.

“Bickering is not the best road to the White House,” Gingrich said in
his best schoolmarm tone.

Yeah? Well, get a GPS and find another road, bub. Because this is the
road the Republican candidates are going to follow.

And what choice do they have? They must point out differences, whether
significant differences exist or not. They must attack Herman Cain’s
loony 9-9-9 tax plan, not because it has any chance of becoming law -
- it doesn’t - - but because people have been loony enough to tell
pollsters they like Herman Cain.

The first contest in Iowa is only about 11 weeks away, and the
Republican field is still large. A lack of money is not forcing
candidates out of the race because there is always another debate
coming up to give them free publicity. All they need is a ticket on
Southwest and a clean shirt, and in a pinch they can do without the
clean shirt.

And the best way to squeeze their way into the post-debate stories is
to bite hard and hang on tight.

“You were chairman of Al Gore’s campaign!” Mitt Romney said to Texas
Gov. Rick Perry. “Forty percent of all the jobs you created were for
illegal aliens!”

“You failed as governor of Massachusetts!” Perry parried.

And that was the high-road stuff. Earlier in the debate, the two had
wrangled over whether Romney had once hired illegal aliens to mow his
lawn, a charge left over from the last presidential campaign.

“You lose all standing,” Perry said to Romney. “It is the height of
hypocrisy.”

When Romney tried to explain, Perry kept interrupting him. Romney was
too civilized to do what he wanted to do - - slap Perry across both
cheeks with his glove - - so Romney appealed for an intervention from
the ref, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66332.html#ixzz1bCJ8xyrQ
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band
is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere
folks are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy
in Vegas - - the GOP has struck out.

Again.
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* Spending bill hits wall with moderates
* Huntsman bets it all on N.H.

POLITICO 44

At its 26th debate in the last 36 hours - - or maybe it has just
seemed that way - - the GOP field showed America Tuesday night it was
capable. Capable of fussing and fighting and feuding. The candidates
also showed they were full of it: Full of sound and fury signifying
nothing.

No new ground was broken. Nobody who “won” did much better than anyone
who “lost.”

Leave it to Newt Gingrich to have summed it up best as the curtain
fell on the CNN debate.

“Bickering is not the best road to the White House,” Gingrich said in
his best schoolmarm tone.

Yeah? Well, get a GPS and find another road, bub. Because this is the
road the Republican candidates are going to follow.

And what choice do they have? They must point out differences, whether
significant differences exist or not. They must attack Herman Cain’s
loony 9-9-9 tax plan, not because it has any chance of becoming law -
- it doesn’t - - but because people have been loony enough to tell
pollsters they like Herman Cain.

The first contest in Iowa is only about 11 weeks away, and the
Republican field is still large. A lack of money is not forcing
candidates out of the race because there is always another debate
coming up to give them free publicity. All they need is a ticket on
Southwest and a clean shirt, and in a pinch they can do without the
clean shirt.

And the best way to squeeze their way into the post-debate stories is
to bite hard and hang on tight.

“You were chairman of Al Gore’s campaign!” Mitt Romney said to Texas
Gov. Rick Perry. “Forty percent of all the jobs you created were for
illegal aliens!”

“You failed as governor of Massachusetts!” Perry parried.

And that was the high-road stuff. Earlier in the debate, the two had
wrangled over whether Romney had once hired illegal aliens to mow his
lawn, a charge left over from the last presidential campaign.

“You lose all standing,” Perry said to Romney. “It is the height of
hypocrisy.”

When Romney tried to explain, Perry kept interrupting him. Romney was
too civilized to do what he wanted to do - - slap Perry across both
cheeks with his glove - - so Romney appealed for an intervention from
the ref, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66332.html#ixzz1bCJ8xyrQ
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band
is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere
folks are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy
in Vegas - - the GOP has struck out.

Again.
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* Spending bill hits wall with moderates
* Huntsman bets it all on N.H.

POLITICO 44

At its 26th debate in the last 36 hours - - or maybe it has just
seemed that way - - the GOP field showed America Tuesday night it was
capable. Capable of fussing and fighting and feuding. The candidates
also showed they were full of it: Full of sound and fury signifying
nothing.

No new ground was broken. Nobody who “won” did much better than anyone
who “lost.”

Leave it to Newt Gingrich to have summed it up best as the curtain
fell on the CNN debate.

“Bickering is not the best road to the White House,” Gingrich said in
his best schoolmarm tone.

Yeah? Well, get a GPS and find another road, bub. Because this is the
road the Republican candidates are going to follow.

And what choice do they have? They must point out differences, whether
significant differences exist or not. They must attack Herman Cain’s
loony 9-9-9 tax plan, not because it has any chance of becoming law -
- it doesn’t - - but because people have been loony enough to tell
pollsters they like Herman Cain.

The first contest in Iowa is only about 11 weeks away, and the
Republican field is still large. A lack of money is not forcing
candidates out of the race because there is always another debate
coming up to give them free publicity. All they need is a ticket on
Southwest and a clean shirt, and in a pinch they can do without the
clean shirt.

And the best way to squeeze their way into the post-debate stories is
to bite hard and hang on tight.

“You were chairman of Al Gore’s campaign!” Mitt Romney said to Texas
Gov. Rick Perry. “Forty percent of all the jobs you created were for
illegal aliens!”

“You failed as governor of Massachusetts!” Perry parried.

And that was the high-road stuff. Earlier in the debate, the two had
wrangled over whether Romney had once hired illegal aliens to mow his
lawn, a charge left over from the last presidential campaign.

“You lose all standing,” Perry said to Romney. “It is the height of
hypocrisy.”

When Romney tried to explain, Perry kept interrupting him. Romney was
too civilized to do what he wanted to do - - slap Perry across both
cheeks with his glove - - so Romney appealed for an intervention from
the ref, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66332.html#ixzz1bCJ8xyrQ


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