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

[CounterCounterCulture]

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.

[azhenfud]

When Matthews asked “What’s wrong with America”, one of the candidates should’ve shown him a darned mirror.

[jaycee]

If Rudy is the Republican candidate up against Hillary, how many of you hate Rudy so much that you will vote for Hillary?

[JohnBovenmyer]

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

Whoever we pick is going to be faced with lefty media way more than we wish. We need to learn who can do well is such an environment. This is, alas, an important test.

[Vision]

These stupid Clinton questions are for getting sound bites against these guys later on.

Another dumb move by Reps by letting this lame forum to be run by Matthews and for taking anonymous questions off the internet.

[Guenevere]

McCain is showing how wishy/washy we always knew him to be!

[firebrand]

Sharp observation.

[tillacum]

I don’t trust mccain. I haven’t trusted him since he and skerry called the families of still missing POWs “trouble makers” and then put away and/or destroyed what information they had concerning the POWs. I DON’T TRUST HIM >-—< FAR.

[TAdams8591]

I can’t believe I actually like Guilianni’s answer about Terri Shindler’s case.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Ron Paul’s responses are refreshing."

I think he adds a needed perspective to the discussion.

[TomGuy]

It will be interesting to see which clips of which 2nd tier candidates (excluding Romney, McCain, Giuliana) get the most play the next few days on the news outlets.

[Netizen]

.... big losers, Rooty and McCain.

With these two as losers, the rest win! Is Paul a Libertarian or a Republican?

[acsrp38]

I can’t see or hear — what did he say??

[RasterMaster]

Ditto that!

[mysterio]

Clinton back in White House good? That is absurd. Maybe Hunter mention ChiComs...

Not sure what you're referring to here. I in no way support a Hillary presidency.

[AliVeritas]

[kidd]

Benefitted from the debate:
- Brownback (from nothing to something)
- Hunter (exposure, exposure, exposure)
- Romney (might now win it all)

Hurt by the debate:
- Rooodieee, big time loser tonite
- McCain
- Huckabee
- Thompson

[spectre]

I was so proud that Tancredo stood up for our Border Patrol agents.

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[no dems]

McCain finally gave a decent answer. He said it would not be good for Bill Clinton to be back in the White House because that would mean that we would have Judges legislating from the bench. He applauded Justices Roberts and Alito.

[bvw]

Answering your McCain comment — geesh, it must be hard for the man to stand so long, you can see the tremors. Anyone whose gone through a part of what he went through knows he’s redlining 100% willpower to do it.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah, they’re set-up questions to benefit the Dems.