Comments on: Republican Debate Rankings, 1/30/08: Romney on top http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/01/31/republican-debate-rankings-13008-romney-on-top/ Train Wreck Politics-- a collection of humor, cynicism, pop culture, and semi-serious commentary-- is the 1,000,000th political blog to go online in 2008. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:19:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Griffin http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/01/31/republican-debate-rankings-13008-romney-on-top/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Griffin Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:52:29 +0000 http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/01/31/republican-debate-rankings-13008-romney-on-top/#comment-6 Good catch, Mike. I put a post up today <a href="http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/02/01/correction-republican-debate-rankings-130/" rel="nofollow">correcting the record.</a> Good catch, Mike. I put a post up today correcting the record.

]]> By: Mike http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/01/31/republican-debate-rankings-13008-romney-on-top/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Mike Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:03:11 +0000 http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/01/31/republican-debate-rankings-13008-romney-on-top/#comment-5 "2. Mike Huckabee - Scored points for honesty by being the only candidate to note that Americans are worse off now than they were eight years ago (though he blamed it on Congress, not Bush)." Uhm, excuse me? Mike Huckabee was not the only candidate to say that. Ron Paul was aligned with Huckabee on this, with one further nugget of wisdom. Straight from the CNN transcript (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/30/se.01.html): COOPER: Congressman Paul, 61 percent of Americans think there is a recession already -- 61 percent of Americans say there's already a recession. Are we better off than we were eight years ago? PAUL: No, no, we're not better off. We're worse off, but it's partially this administration's fault and it's the Congress. But it also involves an economic system that we've had for a long time and a monetary system that we've had and a foreign policy that's coming to an end and we have to admit this. “2. Mike Huckabee – Scored points for honesty by being the only candidate to note that Americans are worse off now than they were eight years ago (though he blamed it on Congress, not Bush).”

Uhm, excuse me? Mike Huckabee was not the only candidate to say that. Ron Paul was aligned with Huckabee on this, with one further nugget of wisdom.

Straight from the CNN transcript (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/30/se.01.html):

COOPER: Congressman Paul, 61 percent of Americans think there is a recession already — 61 percent of Americans say there’s already a recession.

Are we better off than we were eight years ago? PAUL: No, no, we’re not better off. We’re worse off, but it’s partially this administration’s fault and it’s the Congress. But it also involves an economic system that we’ve had for a long time and a monetary system that we’ve had and a foreign policy that’s coming to an end and we have to admit this.

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