Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #2 - Columbia, SC 05/15/07 - Official Discussion Thread

May 15, 2007

[CounterCounterCulture]

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #2 – Columbia, South Carolina 05/15/07 - Official Discussion Thread

Watch live coverage of the First-in-the-South Republican Party Presidential Candidate debate on FOX News Channel and FOXNews.com on Tuesday, May 15, at 9 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. PDT).

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

The 90-minute debate will air from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ET (6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.) and will be moderated by "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume. Questions will be posed by two panelists — "FOX News Sunday" host Chris Wallace and White House correspondent Wendell Goler.

[Jake The Goose]

Good point - but only Fox will show that.

[meandog]

mccain clearly winning this debate...

[bushfamfan]

Yes, he is. Even with a measley 3 questions compared to the others getting many more.

[redgirlinabluestate]

So is Gilmore.

[pulaskibush]

Your right, the cowards in the leftist media will only focus on disagreements between candidates.

They will give Duncan Hunter the silent treatment.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

He did not dodge the abortion question.

[LibertarianInExile]

The Texans in his district sure don’t have problems sending him to D.C...but then, they’re all kooks, right?

[therut]

Did the 2nd amendment get erased from your constitution after 911. Funny mine is still there.

[Tree of Liberty]

McCain blows the “ticking time bomb” question, but that was a given.

[TomGuy]

McCain is more concerned about world opinion than finding out where the next impending terrorist attack might be happening.

[RasterMaster]

Johnny is lecturing us on what REALLY maters - what the world thinks.

[EternalVigilance]

The Corner

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney called for repealing McCain-Feingold. Which made me wonder about the candidates' record on the issue. McCain's we know about.

Romney, it turns out, has—surprise, surprise—been on both sides of campaign-finance reform. In his 1994 race, Romney came out for banning political action committees, limiting spending on federal races (something the Supreme Court has not allowed), and opposed allowing larger contributions. All told, those positions place him to the left of McCain-Feingold, which doubled the allowable size of individual donations to candidates. In his 2002 race, he took the position that campaign contributions should be taxed at a 10 percent race, with the proceeds going to public funding of all campaigns.

[nutmeg]

Ad what exactly is Ron Paul doing? Besides showing the entire world what we Texans already knew about him? That he’s a kook of the highest order.

Geesh, AMEN to that...

[MHGinTN]

Don’t even wipe the fork, stick it in McLame now!

[tiredoflaundry]

DUH Brit.............. we would just call Jack Bauer!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Shhh...don’t be a disrupter.

[mylife]

two words....”(FD)Thompson/Hunter”

[DCBryan1]

OK FREEPERS, HERE IS YOUR HALFTIME SCORE:

Duncan Hunter
Tom Tancredo
Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
John McCain (ok, you served in Vietnam, and I like drunk sailors)
Sam Brownback
Tommy Thompson (good guy)
Jim Gilmore (Check my website)
Mitt Romney (Anti RKBA (unless you hunt)
Ron Paul (Toast)
Right_in_Virginia (for being not only being an ignorant Constitutionalists, but a rabid anti-gunner).

[TigersEye]

McCain just Mondaled himself.

[Sir Hailstone]

I didn’t like Ron Paul before. I can’t stand him now. He might as well quit the GOP and head over to the dope smoking Libertarians