Disappointing results however.  Mitt Romney came wearing asbestos. We’d love to show you the clips, but NBC is keeping them all to themselves today, and we REFUSE to support NBC!  So here’s a summation from Politico, no friend to Conservatives,but today they call it pretty straight:

“Romney was under much more forceful attack in Sunday morning’s debate than he was in the Saturday night faceoff. He handled it with mixed levels of success.

For the first half of the debate, Romney was under sustained assault from Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — the ghosts of his 1994 race against Ted Kennedy were summoned again — and the former Massachusetts governor generally handled it smoothly.

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Romney didn’t get rattled and lose his cool, as he did in the Las Vegas debate when Rick Perry went at him. And he pushed back hard against the aggressors.

He also managed to respond to a question about comments he made in 1994 about supporting gay rights, well, without sounding like he was distancing himself from them.

However, he had some faulty moments, including his boast that he’d forced Kennedy to take out a mortgage on his home to keep fighting for his seat — a line that Democrats are sure to use against the multimillionaire in an economic climate with a high rate of foreclosures. Romney also gave an eyebrow-raiser about why he decided not to run for Massachusetts governor again, after Santorum noted he was seen as trailing in the polls.

The Final....SIX

His exchange with Gingrich about super PACs — in which he said he hadn’t seen ads by a group supporting him and then listed specifically every attack in them — may live on. His opponents have, if not explicitly, then tacitly, decided to make an issue of character instead of Romney’s specific record, most notably “Romneycare.”

However, Romney is still a superior debater compared to the field, most of whom seemed either unable or unwilling to maintain attacks against him. Once again, Ron Paul came to Romney’s rescue by changing the subject instead of answering a question about whether his rival is electable.

At this point, Romney’s so far ahead of the pack — particularly in New Hampshire — that it’s not clear how much a Sunday morning debate will resonate going forward.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71208.html#ixzz1iuGv2jj2

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Jan 8, 2012