Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #1~ Reagan Library 05/03/07 - Official Discussion Thread

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Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #1 – Reagan Library 05/03/07 - Official Discussion Thread

• Sam Brownback
• Jim Gilmore
• Rudy Giuliani
• Mike Huckabee
• Duncan Hunter
• John McCain
• Mitt Romney
• Ron Paul
• Tom Tancredo
• Tommy Thompson

  The debate will take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and will air live on MSNBC from 8:00 to 9:30 pm (ET) and stream live on MSNBC.com and politico.com and will include audience questions gathered on politico.com.

[EternalVigilance]

...did you see Mitt debate Shannon O’Brien?

The one in which he vociferously defended his liberal record and practically swore eternal fealty to NARAL?

[Reagan Man]

Thank you.

[EVO X]

No more Republican debates, no more MSNBC..

I was able to cut the field in half..

[AGreatPer]

"I’m sure she’s a fine lady, though." (Mrs Browback BobbleHead).

I'm sure she is. It was just funny. She looked like a Muppet.

[mylife]

The thing about Fred over Mitt is that Mitt comes across as a career polititian, selling snake oil...”step right up, 2 for a dollar, it soothes smoothes, turns a sandwich into a banquet, it will fix your back, fix Iraq..your satisfaction is gauranteed”.

Fred strikes me as a Statesman

[Raquel]

speaking about quotes...Duncan Hunter’s “I’m talking about a real fence not the flimsy one CNN shows with people climbing over it.”

[Guenevere]

Absolutely correct!

[Miztiki]

I disagree with him on Iraq too. My “refreshing” comment was in regards to his blunt answers about what the role of government should or shouldn’t be. If he wasn’t so extreme then he’d probably have a decent chance.

[unspun]

WHO WON...?

Make sure you post your answer:

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[Harrius Magnus]

Hunter was in the top three. It was the first time I had seen him look Presidential.

[tillacum]

Thank you neighbor.

[LibertarianInExile]

I can’t vote for the guy, but I can’t miss his performance in this debate as the leading one. I did think Tancredo came across pretty well, and I found Thompson surprisingly persuasive for a guy I don’t find all that conservative. If I had to choose a pragmatist, good government ‘conservative,’ out of the left wing of the ten up there, from tonight’s bunch, he’d be my pick.

[AuntB]

Thanks Doc.

[HAL9000]

He has a bad record of granting parole and communting sentences if the criminal claims they have been “saved”

I'm aware that a governor has the powers to grant clemency and pardons, but it was my understanding that parole decisions were handled by the Arkansas Board of Parole, not the governor. Whom did Huckabee grant parole to?

[Austin Willard Wright]

Paul believes perjury is a crime whether it was by Bill Clinton or Scooter Libby. What is wrong with that postiion? BTW, no “underlying crime” existed in either case.

[steadcom]

“Can anyone explain the voting so far on Drudge?”

Yeah the Dems are clicking Rudy. Hillary would LOVE to go against Rudy, knowing prolifers would split the vote and go third party or not vote at all.

[Bigun]

I watched from beginning to end and, for me, the field of current candidates has been narrowed to two. They are in no particular order:

Mitt Romney

Mike Huckabee

Sam Brownback lost out on the tax issue.

[firebrand]

Now MSNBC has a photo of McCain and Rudy up on their site. The two most liberal.

[Guenevere]

HEY HEY HEY....Hope he read our thread :))

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18436681/

And another....