Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Sound of No Conservatives Clapping

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NBC moderator Brian Williams announced before Monday's Republican presidential candidates debate in Tampa, Florida that the audience had been told to refrain from clapping. This lame rule resulted in a more boring and ponderous debate than usual. Leave it to a major network to deliver a deader debate than those on basic cable.

As expected, Mitt Romney came out swinging, but he landed few, if any, blows against Newt Gingrich. The attacks were too canned, desperate, and shorthandish to be effective. Romney appears to assume that primary voters are keenly aware of the details of the scandals to which he glancingly referred. They aren't, and might not care about them even if they did. 

Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/24/the-sound-of-no-conservatives

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