What to watch for in the GOP 2012 presidential debate

[SecularMotion]

Source: Washington Post

Five likely contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination will gather in Greenville, South Carolina tonight for the first debate of the race.

But the proceedings, which get started at 9 p.m. and will air live on Fox News Channel, are as much defined by who won’t be on stage as who will be.

Not a single candidate polling in double digits in early national polling will be in attendance; that means no Mitt Romney, no Sarah Palin, no Mike Huckabee and no Newt Gingrich.

Other potential candidates who are drawing buzz — albeit for very different reasons -- in the political world — businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels — are also taking a pass.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/what-to-watch-for-in-the-gop-2012-presidential-debate/2011/05/05/AFqyXOyF_blog.html

[Drale]

1. There will be a lot of screaming and crying and general muckraking

[Drale]

2. Double Post

[MineralMan]

3. Some other channel?

[SpiralHawk]

4. Poo flinging (R)

The Republicons will fling poo at everything Americans hold as important and decent, while extolling the cesspool 'virtues' of torture, war profiteering, chickenhawkery, dumping on the poor, and going down on your knees to meekly serve & slurp Billionaire bilge, as they so gladly do.

[fascisthunter]

5. a Burning Cross on Stage?

hand out armbands with swastikas?

[Old and In the Way]

6. If I were going to watch...I'd be looking for signs of intelligent life.

I suspect I'd be disappointed.

[Taverner]

7. I would love love love to see Rudy "911!" Guliani give out his tripe

"Well, yeah, if I were president, I would have got Bin Laden the FIRST DAY! In fact, I would have gone back in time, and killed him at birth! Yeah that's it. 911! Heroes! Me me me!"

[Ikonoklast]

8. The GOP debate officials in South Carolina at the press conference today: