My Night At The Orlando Fox News Presidential Debate

Myself | 10-22-2007 | my favorite headache

[Choose Ye This Day]

Sounds like you did a great job.

I didn’t get to see any of it. I’m hoping to find a video online, but can’t find anything at Fox’s disaster of a website.

[Choose Ye This Day]

What was your Ron Paul comment?

[My Favorite Headache]

“Ron Paul is certifiably insane” - it was in the pre-debate portion of the show.

[TLI]

I said the concept of America voting a socialist like Hillary Clinton as President should be motivation enough for Republicans to get their act together.

Absolutely spot on correct. We need to forget trying to hammer out the perfect candidate and put together a winning team that can beat the hildabeast.

[My Favorite Headache]

Luntz’s last question of the night was “Is America ready for a Mormon President?”

My answer was “If America could vote for Bill Clinton...twice...and still have this love afair with the Clinton’s...then they can handle a Mormon.”

[flaglady47]

Nice going. I thought you did a great good for the conservatives by the comments you made on Prime Time. Kudu’s to you for a job well done.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Nice. This thread needs clips, though.

Someone please post a video clip of My Favorite Headache’s appearance!

[Rick_Michael]

Agree...I want to see the debate online, but I feel I lost my chance.

It sounded like a good one.... : /

[TLI]

“If America could vote for Bill Clinton...twice...and still have this love afair with the Clinton’s...then they can handle a Mormon.”

Ouch! I don't think that qualifies as a "fine detail" of a perfect candidate. There are other issues with Mitt, he would be no more than third or fourth on my list and not a real contender to beat hilldabeast, which means he is not really on the list at all.

[My Favorite Headache]

When you are being asked a question you are allowed 3-5 sentence answers max. Believe me if I could have gotten into more detail I would have!

[farmer18th]

If Paul altered his message to say, in effect, “Muslims are not worth our time and blood; we should defend our borders,” he would be unstoppable. Hannity seemed to have apoplexy over the 34% win by Paul. I liked Huckabee a lot tonight too; he struck me, particularly in the interview afterwards, as being his own man.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Why does it not shock me that a Ron Paul supporter would pull this kind of crap?"

Some questions automatically provide their own answers.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the report.
BUMP for great freeping.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep Huckabee is his own man alright, except when it comes to illegal immigration. Then he’s George Bush.

[DoughtyOne]

I appreciate your efforts to participate in this.  You got some great shots in and I'm looking foward to seeing/hearing more.

Let me address these comments for a moment if you would.

To me the top winners tonight were Romney, Huckabee, Thompson, and blech...I hate to say this but Rudy. His night was not that bad but he certainly is not my top choice for President.

I called for a thining of the herd. Paul, Tancredo, and Hunter need to go. They virtually played zero in the room. It was sad because I really like Tom and Duncan and said that if a Republican wins the White House in 2008 they should all be given cabinet posts ASAP.

What concerns me is that I have seen folks talk about Romney, Huckabee, Thompson and Rudy as if we knew nothing about them.

Rudy is a raving leftist.  I don't care if he wins a debate or not, he isn't viable.  I'm not voting for him period.
Romney is another closet/not so closet leftist:  He isn't viable either.  I'm not voting for him peirod.
Huckabee is a good guy.  It's just that on immigration that guy is George Bush.  I'm not voting for him period.

I have had it with deconstruction from the right side of the isle.  Either they are with me and what conservatism stands for, or they are running from the wrong party.

Paul is Paul.  I don't need to say more.  I'm not voting for him period.
Tancredo has been a good foot sholdier for border security, but I don't think he has a broad enough platform to be viable either.  I would vote for him, I think.  I won't get that chance.
Hunter is a very good man.  He's well grounded to the point of being scarey.  He believes as I do on right to life, illegal immigration, fair trade, defense, China.. this guy is amazing.

Look folks, these men are not just voicing good policy on their own behalf, they are voicing good policy so the other candidates will have to tow the line.

Duncan Hunter is a man who should not only be in the next debate, but he should be given equal time with Rudy, Fred, Romney and McCain.  There was a selective effort to limit Hunter's participation last evening.  That was wrong.  The guy only got 1% of the vote, but hell he was only asked a limited number of questions 4 or 5, and brought in to participate a couple of other times.

This telegraphed that he was non-viable and effectively froze him out of support.  At least that's the way I see it.

Folks, I have made decision not to vote for anyone except a true conservative this year.  I know that will rub some of you the wrong way.  That being the case, I wrote down the reasons why.

If you would like, please use this link.  If you disagree, don't be afraid to say so.  I won't give you a super-hard time over it.

Take care.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914434/posts?page=178#178

[donprocto]

Ad hominem seems to be your specialty, Jabba. Why don’t you give one reason - just one - why smaller government is insane?

[Man50D]

Whether we can stand it or not Republicans will do everything in their power to elect anyone else but Clinton.

Not if Giuliani is the GOP candidate. He and Clinton are both socialists. Voting for either one will only bring more socialism to he White House.

[Man50D]

When he compared a moderate conservative to a major serious conservative he wanted a show of hands...

There aren't degrees of conservatism. Either you are conservative or you are not conservative. The misconception of conservatism by degrees is what has caused the GOP to go down the slippery of socialism.

[mkjessup]

Ad hominem seems to be your specialty, Jabba. Why don’t you give one reason - just one - why smaller government is insane?

Why should he? He didn't say 'smaller government is insane', he said 'Ron Paul is certifiably insane'.

Give us one reason why Ron Paul should not be considered the leader of the Kucinich wing of the Republican Party?