Brian, you need to get out of Manhattan more . Not everyone thinks the Death Penalty is wrong and in fact most Americans support it. In last nights Republican Debate Williams ask Texas Governor Rick Perry about executions in Texas as follows:
Williams: Governor Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you . . .
(LOUD APPLAUSE)
Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?
Perry said "no sir"
Then Williams said:
"What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?"
The big question is why the Republicans allowed NBC and their wayward child MSNBC, which broadcast the debate, to have anything to do with a Republican debate. These folks hate Republicans and will do anything to defeat them and defend Barack Obama. The exchange on the death penalty only highlights that point. Did you see the MSNBC panel after the debate? All left wingers.
Best line of the Debate was from New Gingrich's attack on the liberal moderators of the debate:
NEWT GINGRICH: Well, I’m frankly not interested in your effort to get Republicans fighting each other.... (applause) You have — you would like to puff this up into some giant thing. The fact is, every person up here understands Obamacare is a disaster. It is a disaster procedurally, it was rammed through after they lost Teddy Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts, it was written badly, it was never reconciled. It can’t be implemented, it is killing this economy. And if this president had any concern for working Americans, he’d walk in Thursday night and ask us to repeal it because it’s a monstrosity. Every person up here agrees with that. (applause) Let me just say, since I still have a little time left, let me just say, I, for one, and I hope all of my friends up here, are going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get Republicans to fight each other to protect Barack Obama, who deserves to be defeated. And all of us are committed as a team. Whoever the nominee is, we are all for defeating Barack Obama. (applause)
