COMMENTARY | The latest debate between the remaining four GOP presidential candidates took place in Charleston, S.C., Thursday night, which aired live on CNN. In a unusual move, National Journal reported that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich released his tax returns at the start of the debate, which showed an income of about $3.1 million for 2010.
Debates are about memorable moments. Gingrich had the most Thursday night, showing just how crafty and resilient he is in prime time.
President Barack Obama should hope he doesn't have to face Gingrich in the general election because as fictional horror movies with several sequels have shown (e.g., "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Friday the 13th"), defeating the prime antagonists once and for all is near impossible. On the debate stage, facing Gingrich is like taking on "Freddy Krueger" and "Jason Voorhees".
The former House speaker showed that, under attack, he's no perceived Edmund Muskie, a 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who allegedly cried before the media while defending his wife and himself from attacks by a New Hampshire newspaper publisher, according to The Washington Post.
For in defending himself against a charge by his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich on "Nightline" that he asked for an open marriage, Gingrich reacted by instantly slamming moderator John King for bringing up such a question in the first place, which received a standing ovation from the audience, according to ABC News' The Blotter.
The former House speaker made one of the best tactical strikes against another candidate in debate history via releasing his tax returns to show up former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has yet to release his. Romney has been employing stall tactics over revealing his own tax returns, and said during the debate he wouldn't release them until April, as reported by CBS News' Political Hotsheet.
Furthermore, it was memorable witnessing Gingrich embracing former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's charge that he is grandiose, and then justifying his grandiosity by adding, "This is a grandiose country of big people doing big things," as reported by Politico.
No matter what gets tossed Gingrich's way on the debate stage, he not only takes it without faltering, but he rebuts any charge effortlessly without hesitation. If Obama gets to debate the former House speaker, it will be a series of rhetorical "A Nightmare on Elm Street" spectacles for the president.
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