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Here’s the key exchange from last night’s debate that set the tone for the whole evening.
On the surface it sounds kind of funny. But it’s actually about a grim but little discussed injury suffered by military personnel. A British company, BCB International, is doing a thriving business selling body armor for soldiers’ genitals because the standard issue protection they get from the DOD doesn’t fully protect that part of the body.
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9:43 PM: This is starting to remind me of those Ali fights my dad and I would watch in the 70s. 15th round, both fighters exhausted, hanging on each other. But this time it’s not just Perry who’s pooped. You’ve got Herman Cain saying he won’t release our hostages. Santorum saying he won’t negotiate with hostages. I mean, it’s gettin’ ugly.
9:23 PM: Looks like Perry’s hit his 90 minute time limit and he’s in the midst of turning into a pumpkin.
9:26 PM: Remember Michele Bachmann? That was weird. Wonder what happened to her.
9:27 PM: Awesome: Bachmann: “He put us in Libya. Now he’s putting us in Africa.”
9:31 PM: First, a policy of not negotiating with terrorists. Second, get real and figure out whether to negotiate.
9:39 PM: Awesome, Cain says he’d never release the hostages we’re holding in Gitmo.
Romney: “You can’t have any illegals working on our property. I’m running for office, for pete’s sake, we can’t have illegals”
This is a classic case of gaffe as excessive candor — not ‘that’s outrageous, you can’t have illegals working on my property’ but ‘dude, I’m running for office, hiring illegals will kill me’
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9:04 PM: I think Rick Perry’s having a much better debate tonight. And he’s gotten the brain freezes down to maybe 2 or 3 seconds.
9:07 PM: Mitt: Markets are people!!!
8:42 PM: Okay now we’re talking. This is my kind of debate. Mitt’s contempt-drenched laugh in Perry’s face. Romney’s putting his hands on Perry’s body. And then it got really fun. Wow. Thoughts?
8:45 PM: Okay, I’m just going from what I heard here. But I think Mitt just said “Hey, I’m running for office. I can’t have illegals working for me.” Again, we’ll get the corrected quote in a moment. But isn’t that kind of a funny statement. Like, not ‘Hey, that’s wrong. I won’t stand for that.” But, jeez, I’m running for office. This’ll kill me. Get rid of those folks.
Here’s the actual transcript …
So we went to the company and we said, look, you can’t have any illegals working on our property. I’m running for office, for pete’s sake, we can’t have illegals. Turns out that once question they hired someone who had falsified their documents and therefore we fired them.
I think that quote is going to have some life.
Late Update: Here’s the video.