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.

[Tolsti]

He should be thrown out of the party and congress for his rant. What a disgrace by ron paul.

[pulaskibush]

Ron Paul now claiming we gave Saddam the gas. In fact we gave industrial and farm equipment that Saddam turned into weapons.

[sonic109]

Why are you even bothering to argue your point with someone so ignorant of history and obviously brainwashed ?

[Mo1]

BWHAHAHAHA!! Now it’s an autodialer that puts Ron Paul in first according to Carl Cameron. Heaven forbid people actually agree with him! Why, why, that would just be horrible....

You agree with Ron Paul??

[txradioguy]

He did that when he blamed America for bringing 9/11 on ourselves.

[advance_copy]

I’m waiting for Ron Paul to say that Bush is Hitler. It’s going to happen, eventually (if it hasn’t already).

[Shortstop7]

just LOL

[Rick_Michael]

Terrible response on Ron’s part. The exchange with Hannity is not worthy of air time.

Ironic that ‘phone polls’ are showing him a winner. Jokers.

[BIGLOOK]

What’s a CT kook, TRG?

[No Blue States]

Im just deciding who to eliminate at this point. LOL at RP. What an embarrassment.

[Tolsti]

Ron Paul just hit a new low in the Republican party. Good grief.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Ron Paul just said ‘we gave saddam the gas’ and we caused saddam and 9/11.

... and this differs from the toxic bilgewater pumped out daily from Daily Kos and DU how again, precisely...?

"Good" and "Lord." In that order.

[mylife]

He sounds like chomsky

[Zman516]

Ron Paul’s out of his mind.

And pretty much out of the race, after his idiotic performance tonight.

[Brimack34]

Ron Paul is a liar just like Colmes that is why they pig piled Hannity the Great.

[K-oneTexas]

Yes. I think the ones to watch and listen to now are Hunter, Huckabee and Romney. Strong on many key issues leaving you wanting to know more than a sound bite on their stance. More substance needs to be heard. Some statements on issues I am not in agreement with but they are fewer and with a strong running mate can be worked through.

[dragnet2]

But it would have been nice if Hannity would have allowed the man to answer the questions, regardless of how he might have responded.

I wouldn’t even grant the man an interview.

[LibertarianInExile]

Moment in the sun? He might just get into the next debate on the basis of the Hannity and Rudy spew. So sorry, cutie-pie. It’d sure be nice to see a constitutionalist in the mix.

[50mm]

Paul will go back to the Libertarian Party willingly after his poll numbers plummet even lower.

[patriciaruth]

We did bring Perl Harbor onto ourselves because of our foreign policy. We were shooting at U-Boats in the Atlantic, Lend Lease, we cut off Japanese oil and iron shipments (which ensured war, Japan had no other oil access sufficient to supply its war machine). You’d better believe that if we were in the same situation that we put Japan in (one year before no oil) we’d have to go to war.

This is total garbage. Japan was an aggressor nation. It had ravaged China and Korea and SE Asia and was bent on conquering and subjugating that part of the world and even taking over Australia.

You're saying that if we opt not to give war materiel to an aggressor nation that we deserve to be attacked, too?

I'll let I'mamadjihadist in Iran know that you think we should give him a bomb so he can nuke Israel and not us.

But let me clue you in. That sort of appeasement never works. They come for you next no matter how much you say, oh, it's okay to rape those people and here's some oil and pig iron to help you out.