Anyone else watch the GOP debate last night from Florida? Seemed quite civil compared to what I heard from the Democratic debate earlier this week.<\/p>\n
MSNBC seemed to think Mitt Romney<\/strong> won the debate afterwards but I wasn’t impressed. Granted I already have my pre-conceived notions about him so that may have blinded me somewhat.<\/p>\n I thought John McCain<\/strong> and Mike Huckabee<\/a><\/strong> did a great job and I was also impressed with Ron Paul<\/strong>. Paul’s ideas may not be mainstream but he knows his reasons behind them.<\/p>\n I loved the challenge Huckabee gave to moderator Tim Russert<\/strong>. While Huckabee talked about how the Fair Tax<\/a> would help stimulate the economy and help save Social Security, Russert basically said, “The idea of the Fair Tax is very improbable” (not a direct quote). Huckabee came back and said, “that’s what’s wrong with America. We keep saying that’s improbable or unlikely rather than looking for ways to make it work” (again not a direct quote but the gist).<\/p>\n And you can tell Huckabee knows the Fair Tax<\/a>. If you’re wondering more about it, be sure and visit the Americans for Fair Taxation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n What were your impressions after the debate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone else watch the GOP debate last night from Florida? Seemed quite civil compared to what I heard from the Democratic debate earlier this week. MSNBC seemed to think Mitt Romney won the debate afterwards but I wasn’t impressed. Granted I already have my pre-conceived notions about him so that may have blinded me somewhat. … Continue reading GOP debate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[190,159,57,52,715,225],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fair-tax","tag-gop-debate","tag-john-mccain","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-msnbc","tag-ron-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-SI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}