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

[khnyny]

bump for later read.

[WalterSkinner]

September 27, 2007 - Baltimore, Maryland
October 9, 2007 - Dearborn, Michigan
October 14, 2007 - Manchester, New Hampshire
October 21, 2007 - Orlando, Florida
November 6, 2007 - Ames, Iowa
November 28, 2007 - St. Petersburg, Florida
January 10, 2008 - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
January 5, 2008 - Johnston, Iowa
January 30, 2008 - Los Angeles, California

..Hunter has about this many chances left

Don't read too much into tonight--an election cycle or two ago, the winner would have been Gary Bauer--this group is just as vulnerable to a good line of political bull as anyone else--I know of what I speak...

[Pistolshot]

Well....I'd love to stay up wqith all you fascinating people for lively discussion and opinion, but unfortunately, I have to be up early working in the national interest.

Nite all.

[dschapin]

Thanks for the information - I hadn’t heard most of those allegations about Huckabee before. I will definately have to look into that.

[pissant]

Hunter did great, as always. Not sure what these people were looking for, but apparently they found it in Huckster and Paul and Keyes. Yikes.

[billbears]

Huckabee is disturbing. But what’s this with Rep. Paul getting the second amount of votes? From the Value Voters? A pleasant surprise. And the Straussian representative, Alan Carpetbagger Keyes, only got 24. Guess his message isn’t as popular as he thinks it is.

[Pistolshot]

Don't read too much into tonight

But so many of Duncans supporters believe it was important. Were they wrong?

Duncan could have set himself apart from the field or at least given Huckabee a good run for the limelight. He didn't and for the life of me I don't understand why that is happening.

He gets these opportunities and looks like a wallflower compared to the fervor he showed at the Gathering of Eagles.

Had to get that in. Nite all.

[dschapin]

I still think that tonight was important - Duncan Hunter can still recover in the next debate but it was a missed opportunity. Overall, I would say that the biggest winner tonight was definately Governor Huckabee and the biggest loser was Fred Thompson who I think is about to find himself losing most of his social conservative support to Mike Huckabee.

[gidget7]

Thanks for that Walter!

[RasterMaster]

Huck got the votes either because he’s recognized as a governor or a former minister....like somehow that gives him more credibility.

Some do have a fascination with governors....even if he was a lousy governor.

[upsdriver]

Missed the whole debate and the debate debate. Other than the straw vote, how did Hunter do?

[Eric Blair 2084]

Huckabee = an ordained Rev. John Edwards who is adamantly pro life.

[WalterSkinner]

But so many of Duncans supporters believe it was important. Were they wrong?

..every event is important--that is why I post announcements for them

This simply is not the end of the process, only part of it--we move on...

[traviskicks]

thanks to both of you for typing this up, it was great to follow.

[pissant]

Hunter did very well. Not enough emotional nonsense to carry the straw poll though for these folks.

[gidget7]

I thought he did very well, and looked great! He didn’t answer anything wrong.

[Sun]

I wonder if the voters know that Huckabee didn’t think that Congress should have tried to save Terri Schiavo’s life.

I don’t know if Terri Schiavo came up or not, because I couldn’t get the debate.

[RasterMaster]

Hunter was impressive as always...I’ll clip his parts out and have you pinged when it’s up. He smacked Paul for his “blame America” stance again.

[Sun]

Thanks for starting this thread, and thanks for the updates on the debate!

[dschapin]

He did ok but it wasn’t his strongest debate performance. He had one real high point where he slapped down Ron Paul for his “Blame America First” rhetoric. However, he seemed to stumble more than usual and wasn’t at the top of his game tonight.