Newt blames bad debate last night on lack of audience cheering

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

American politics have been anything but civil in the past. You're wrong yet again.

ain't that the truth! it cracks me up when people bemoan the lack of civility today, and talk of 'the good old days'. what, like back when the v.p. shot the former secretary of the treasury in a duel? or when the guy took a fellow senators cane and thrashed him with it? anyone ever take a gander at the political cartoons back when honest abe was in the running for president, and after he was elected? WOW. they were unbelievable.