Posted on 10/09/2007 11:58:39 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #8 – Dearborn, Michigan 10/09/07 - Official Discussion Thread
CNBC/MSNBC/The Wall Street Journal are jointly sponsoring the first Republican Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign focusing on economic issues. It will be held on October 9 in Dearborn, Michigan at the University of Michigan-Dearborn at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. Broadcast is live on CNBC at 4 PM ET (1 PM PT) and re-broadcast on MSNBC at 9 PM ET (6 PM PT). CNBC's Maria Bartiromo and MSNBC's Chris Matthews will host the debate.
Candidates participating:
Thompson is sure a straight talker..gotta give him that.
Brownback is a waste of time.....yikes.
Thompson is well animated talking about free trade and china.
He has the sincerety projection down.
No mousse poisoning on Thompson’s scalp.
lol... no mousse needed!!
Brownback has a chiapet thing going on.....
reminds me of the enzite commercial (brownback)
“Hunter too, draggin on China taking our jobs. Plans to bring the jobs back.”
Which sounds good, but for the most part is a dream unless we are going to place a 900% tarriff on all goods from the sweatshop countries. The cost of goods from china is not ‘a little’ cheaper than here, it is multiples cheaper in many cases.
If not made in china, it would be made in India, or wherever...
“Really a stupid thing to say on the same day the DOW will post it highest close EVER.”
devaluation of the dollar certainly helps inflate equity prices.
Hunter and Tancredo LOOK interchangable. (twins)
Brownback looks like a low budget Romney.
a line item veto was advocated by Ronald Reagan.
that fist waving of Guiliani is annoying.
Pardon me for offering my view on the issue of tariffs in particular, but I do know that Smoot-Hawley, though hardly the primary cause of the Great Depression, might have extended it at the time when it resulted in every other country raising their tariffs in a time of economic strife (the market crash in 1929 that resulted in a recession). It was only one of many factors that resulted in the Great Depression.
Tariffs are a boogeyman, I understand that. But many of our Founding Fathers favored our tariffs. Some of our earliest Presidents used tariffs to help American businesses. To act like tariffs are the world’s worst economy killer is silly, in all honesty. They’re an economic tool that can harm one country in exchange for helping another in the short-term, it might hurt both in the long-term, it might help both in the long-term. Economic situations - especially global ones like the Great Depression - are rarely so simple as to be narrowed down to one cause, as many have done with the Smoot-Hawley tariff.
“The best TV debate I’ve seen (since I was a kid and my grandmother made me watch Willim F Buckley and John Kenneth Galbraith debate on PBS) in recent years was the one with Cheney and Lieberman.”
Everything I have seen or read about lieberman leads me to conclude he is more than just a politician (cheney as well).
“Since Nixon Kennedy the candidate who came off best on TV has won.”
Agreed, the media age of politics pretty much forces this, though the Clinton candidacy might be a notable exception.
“Olberman is a pathetic joke with oreily envy.”
I’m not sure I like either.
“That’s just gross. Greasy and slick?? Look at Thompson... he looks like a dirty old man.”
Haven’t read one comment by you about anything other than the candidates looks. Not liking Thompson is one thing but to make such a childish and nasty comment is sickening. Don’t slander an honorable man just because you prefer another.
Disgusting.
I might donate money to Thompson again IF he would commit to spending the money on a new taylor...
Notice how the other candidates all have white shirt red power tie. mccain, tancredo, huckabee, brownback,ronpaul..
Thompson has a blue shirt yellow tie.
Mathews is dressed like an undertaker.
Romney has a blue/white wide stripe tie, white shirt.
Guiliani has a blue/white narrow stipe tie, white shirt.
McCain looks like he is wearing a black sweater. the lapels do not show on the video. evil mr. rogers.
“Agreed, the media age of politics pretty much forces this, though the Clinton candidacy might be a notable exception.”
Is he the exception or the rule?
I tend to think Bill won based on two things...Perot and his ‘slick’ appearance.
lmao...too much detail. I’m thinking the average guy isn’t looking at that. But why not, for the women...
The same WTO where other nations can determine trade deals and agreements even if they’re not Constitutional or anti-American in nature?
The same WTO that has an authority overriding our own in terms of trade deals that affect us?
No wonder others like Hunter don’t like the current situation.
And just to clarify, please don’t compare Bill “Live by the Polls” Clinton to Duncan “Actually voted against Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty Bill” Hunter. The conviction of the two doesn’t even compare.
“True enough - whether you like all of his views or not (and I don’t), he’s just about the only alternative to the Federal Government Party candidates wearing Democrat and Republican costumes.”
Agreed, and well put. Pretty much every powerful interest in this country would not like to see a non-FGP candidate get any chance at all.
Do you know of a live stream of MSNBC - trying to catch the rerun.
Thanks
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