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Wednesday, 02/22/2012 6:19:43 PM

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:19:43 PM

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BOP PRIMARY DEBATES: THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Republiclown Debate Night: Rick Santorum finally takes center stage

Wed Feb 22, 2012 at 01:40 PM PST
by Jed Lewison for Daily Kos



Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com at 8 PM ET.

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Join us tonight at 8 PM ET as we watch the twentieth—and perhaps final—debate of the Republican primary season, six days ahead of the crucial Michigan and Arizona primaries. It's the first debate in nearly one month, and will be the first debate featuring Rick Santorum atop the national polls (8 points according to Gallup). CNN will broadcast it, and John King will moderate it.

As I wrote yesterday, the big question in tonight's debate will be whether and how Rick Santorum addresses questions about his religious agenda—particular his warning about Satan's attack on America. That might make Republicans uncomfortable, but this is the party they created, and it's not like Mitt Romney hasn't been doing it too.

As ABC's Rick Klein notes, today is Ash Wednesday. Santorum has been wearing ash on his forehead today, although Newt Gingrich hasn't. I suspect Santorum won't wear it during the debate, but it would be a striking visual if he were to do so.

Mitt Romney hopes to put his tax plan at the center of the debate, but his back-to-back gaffes (saying that cutting spending hurts the economy, and using the language of Occupy Wall Street to describe his tax plan), could haunt him.

Newt Gingrich is apparently planning on returning to Churchillian form by letting the others be chihauhaus, whatever that means, and Ron Paul will, as always, be Ron Paul. So gather yourself around the Daily Kos comment threads and join us tonight to watch what would be the most hilarious debate yet.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/22/1067323/-Republiclown-Debate-Night-Rick-Santorum-finally-takes-center-stage?via=blog_1

Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx


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