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.

[johnny7]

TERRI SCHIAVO!!

[harpo11]

Massive disgrace. Whoever thought to put our GOP Candidates in front of mushball leftist sympathizer interrogator Chris Matthews is an idiot.

The grilling is all about stupid inane dummycrat talking points and irrelevant concerns.

Mushball even had the audacity to argue with the candidates answers.

The candidates should have just walked off the stage when this nutcase asked what is wrong with America. Asking that question is an insult and an outrage especially when a brave member of this group suffered for 7 years in captivity brutalized and tortured just because he choose to stand tall for America.

I can't believe it, but it is there for all the world to see, a bad decision on the part of the RNC to agree to have our candidates subjected to this leftist farce.

[jdm]

There was a moment, I don’t think anyone here has mentioned it yet, around 8:45PM, where McCain was answering a question and began by replying:

“The reason we [Republicans] lost the wahh... (started to say the word “war”) but corrected himself to “election.”

I’m not sure how many people caught that.

[EVO X]

“Who do you think won the first debate?”

MSNBC. First time in years that I've watched them..

[advance_copy]

Scooter got Nifonged.

But Ron Paul thinks he should be in jail for being "instrumental" in starting the war in Iraq based on "misinformation". Yikes!

[oneamericanvoice]

Mitt got it right on the Libby question! Good for him for standing up to Lefty Matthews question!

Let’s hear it for Tancredo! Supporting Ramos and Compean, and Libby!

[bvw]

Hunter, Brownback, Gilmore, Guiliani, Huckabee, Romney -- no order, just the ones that seem of the solid timber needed to move forward. Only catching interludes during my Thursday evening tasks ...

I need the name legends!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

LOL!

[newzjunkey]

Ron Paul says Libby *should* be there for political reasons claiming no pardon because of the “misinformation” getting us into war. That’s completely beyond the pale for someone who wants to be president.

[Jane Austen]

Hillary is a coward and on the stupid side who tries to con the public. Why else her fear of debating on Fox.

[mylife]

Agreed.
We need to keep chipping at it

[sgtyork]

light cheese !?!?! — this keeps getting worser (heh!)

[NittanyLion]

I believe I just heard Ron Paul say Libby shouldn’t get a pardon because he was in an administration that got us into Iraq?

You sure did. How embarrassing for him.

[Fudd Fan]

Ron Paul’s responses are refreshing.

You have to be joking.

[merryweather]

If you’re playing the drinking game, Huckabee just got a culture of corrpution question — that’s TWO shots.

[merryweather]

HOLY CRAP?!!!

Five shots for Terri Schaivo!!

[jackieaxe]

I know Ron Paul doesn’t have a shot but I’m glad he’s there. I feel the same way about Tancreto. They raise good issues. I was resigned that Rudy McRomney would be the nominee but now think Duncan Hunter has a shot.

[Mr. Blonde]

Be interesting to see how it works out. To do it it would seem you would have to improve ways to keep track of citizens too. Make it harder to fake social security cards and such.

[mware]

I sure wish that Fred was at the debate and asked a question about Scooter.

He helped raise funds for Scooter.

Chrissy would freak, if Fred said, "The first thing I will do upon becoming President is to pardon Scooter."

[EternalVigilance]

Take a hike, Mitt.