Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #6–Ft Lauderdale, FL 09/17/07 - Official Discussion Thread

[CounterCounterCulture]

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #6 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida 09/17/07 - Official Discussion Thread

The debate will focus on issues of special concern to social and religious conservatives who brand themselves "values voters." The candidates will begin arriving here mid-afternoon, and the debate kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It will be streamed live via the Internet at ValuesVoterDebate.com and the website for the American Family Association.

It is also reported to be telecast on Sky Angel's Angel One channel & Dish Network channel #262.

Moderated by Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily

Candidates participating

• Sam Brownback
• John Cox
• Mike Huckabee
• Duncan Hunter
• Alan Keyes
• Ron Paul
• Tom Tancredo

[padre35]

“Uh, oh, alcohol, tobacco Bic Mac and obesity nanny state question!”

An issue near and dear to your heart no doubt:

(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn’t be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)

LOL!

[DocRock]

Now I really have to leave for about 15 minutes. Be back as soon as possible. Hope someone keeps up with the questions.

[jmyrlefuller]

Law of the Seas Treaty.

Would you oppose this treaty?

All say yes.

[newzjunkey]

These would be tough questions for the Democrats.

[TomGuy]

Red Light - Green Light concluded.

Thank goodness!

[RasterMaster]

Final round...

[Sun]

“Many of these questioners are asking for the candidates to commit to legislating morality.

Legislating morality does not work, and it certainly is not a election winner.”

Killing and stealing, for instance, are moral issues that have been legislated, so we already do legislate morality.

[JTN]

Ugh. The “Bingo” in my #346 to you was my response. I really fouled the HTML on that one.

[tyke]

I didn’t know that. That’s too bad. Did he run against a pro-life, conservative in the primaries?

He lost to Bob Riley, the incumbent Republican governor. Dunno if Riley is pro-life, but I suspect he is. Moore's problem is that he's known a single-issue candidate--getting God back into the government. Like Alan Keyes, he's never going to win a major campaign anywhere unless he presents himself as a candidate who can attract a wide base of support in the Republican party. As of now, he's only on the fringes.

[padre35]

I think that he lost to the current Gov Riley, a middling Conservative who tried to raise taxes by amending the State Constitution.

[RasterMaster]

Question to Rooty’s empty podium.

[jmyrlefuller]

End of yes/no round. Thank goodness.

Farah looking very professional today. A total departure from his usual character.

Individual questions this round.

Um... why is she asking a question to a candidate that isn’t even there??

[CounterCounterCulture]

Teresa, abortion survivor.

Mayor Giuliani, your position would have left me dead. Do you believe the abortionist had a right to kill me?

Empty podium. :-p

[RasterMaster]

“Good answer” someone from the crowd says....

[Eric Blair 2084]

So Paul said no to the nanny state question, right. All the others said yes? I can’t rewind this live feed.

[RasterMaster]

“Good answer” someone from the crowd says....

[newzjunkey]

Rudy was asked a question from a woman who is the survivor of a failed abortion. He’s not there. No answer.

[jmyrlefuller]

Yes, I believe so.

Schlafly asks Hunter what he’d do about the Red China problem.

[TomGuy]

[Guenevere]

Duncan Hunter looks very Presidential!