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.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Danzig

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.

yeah, but, but... people were nicer on TV back then.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

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.

All of which has exactly nothing to do with the behaviour of live TV audiences in studios, watching - not participating in - political debates in 2012.

The same piece of machinery that shows people competing for a husband and also swapping spouses is supposed to automatically induce civility in a political debate? Just admit you're wrong, psycho.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

The same piece of machinery that shows people competing for a husband and also swapping spouses is supposed to automatically induce civility in a political debate? Just admit you're wrong, psycho.

People are responsible for their own civility. Example: you.

Newt was using the Southern Strategy in South Carolina. Just like Palin. Just like Nixon. Just like Reagan. Just like Atwater. It doesn't work without lemming-like crowd frenzy feeding off itself.

The most "civil" are the ones you have to keep an eye on. They are usually the rulemakers. Phonies. You are extremely civil which basically means passive-aggressive dis-informer

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

The most "civil" are the ones you have to keep an eye on. They are usually the rulemakers. Phonies. You are extremely civil which basically means passive-aggressive dis-informer

You know what cognitive dissonance is, right?

Getting back to Newt ... Florida isn't filled with the blind anger and hate of the 99% white people Tea Party demographic that just voted in the GOP primary of South Carolina - which is all he won. He'll have to do something else to try and get the voters there. Different audience. He was smart the way he won South Carolina, but now he's in Florida.

[Antitrust32]

have you ever been to central florida?

bible belt, USA