Fox News Live Thread: Candidates to Sell Conservative Credentials at Republican Debate

Fox News ^ | 10-21-2007

[My Favorite Headache]

WASHINGTON

[gidget7]

That is hardly the point pat. With the exception of Paul, EVERY ONE OF THEM is strong on security. Some more so than Julie Annie!

Character matters. If a man cannot be trusted by his own family, I can’t trust him, and especially not with my country. Sorry but that is the cold hard truth.

[buckeye49]

Romney quoting Hunter again about China. Huckabee quoting Hunter in the after-debate show. Huckabee talks like he is preaching a funeral, I believe the word is unctuous (sp)! Makes me sick

[altura]

My God!!! Mitt’s hair was wrong???

Well, that does it.

I’m for Thompson anyway, but this is beyond shocking.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You’re most welcome, but I have a daughter.

[Just mythoughts]

Fox is replaying it NOW!!!!

[George W. Bush]

How did Ron Paul win the poll if there are more of us than him?

A lot of his supporters are young people, primarily cell phone users. So they don't get polled by traditional pollsters. So RP is probably at 6%-8% if the pollsters called cell phones. So he's undermeasured on regular polls. Among older people, RP supporters are similar to the old Perot supporters in that many of them are cynical about politics and don't always vote so they don't make the list for "likely primary voters". But if you excite those folks, they turn out to vote and can surprise you. The state where this can happen is in the Live Free Or Die state, New Hampshire.

And his young cellphone-wielding supporters have far more SMS-capable phones and know how to text-message, unlike many older folks who don't text. But, most importantly, every last Ron Paul supporter was watching and waiting to dial. And they might even borrow a roommate's phone, a girlfriend's phone and register an extra vote or two that way.

RP supporters are intensely interested in showing public support. They're a great bunch of kids too. And they'll vote liberal if someone doesn't take the time to give them a good message on liberty and small-government. So Ron Paul is doing the future of the party a lot of good, something he gets little credit for.

[DoughtyOne]

Debate Poll Final

[upsdriver]

Hannity can be very irritating.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I still think that some Dems are watching, and who else would they vote for?

[DoughtyOne]

Sure Ron. Sure Mike.

[joseph20]

I’m serving in Korea, so I only get AFN News. The schedule for that makes it inconvenient to watch the debate.

[Shortstop7]

Interesting.....

Romney, Thompson and Rudy all about the same.

I’m shocked Hunter only got 1%.

The Paulettes disgust me. ;-)

[bray]

Ron Paul is a joke as well as the HilaryCare campaign to promote him in conservative blogs. Do you want President Bush Impeached??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[eyedigress]

I’ll leave that alone! (Congrats!) :^) it was a carson from 78

[longtermmemmory]

they just need to pull just a few percentages.

just enough to keep Giuliani in the race.

Then Hillary can run to the right of Giuliani.

[upsdriver]

Hope someone posts that interview on U Tube. Would love to see it.

[org.whodat]

We're all on the same side and generally have the same conservative goals.

Boy does that peg the BS meter. There is no way that the judy/mittwitt are conservative. So how we have the same conservative goals.

[txhurl]

You know, I live in Austin, arguably Ron Paul’s ideological fortress, and I drive quite a few miles everyday. I see RP people putting up RP signs, but I don’t see drivers sporting RP bumper stickers. I might see one per day. Mostly you see Edwards or Obama stickers.

[longtermmemmory]

you can also send free text messages via sites like sms.ac and there are mass sms/text message programs.

[longtermmemmory]

can we FINALLY DITCH ronpaul from the final debate?!