Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #10 – St. Petersburg 11/28/07 - Official Discussion Thread

[CounterCounterCulture]

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #10 – St. Petersburg, Florida 11/28/07 - Official Discussion Thread

CNN will hold this debate, hosted by Anderson Cooper, with submitted questions in video form via YouTube.
8pm ET/5pm PT

Hosted by Anderson Cooper

Candidates participating:

• Rudy Giuliani
• Mike Huckabee
• Duncan Hunter
• John McCain
• Ron Paul
• Mitt Romney
• Tom Tancredo
• Fred Thompson

[Fishtalk]

Huckabee’s crap about not punishing children for what their parents did is irritating me.

These political elites did not do their job for yea many years since the mid-80;’s when they granted these illegal aliens amnesty. While we, the Middle Class who carry this country on our backs, were raising the citizens and soldiers of tomorrow, the politicians put band-aids on the problem, solicited their illegal votes and the votes of their employers seeking cheap labor...and now that we know about it....WE’RE MAD!

Yet they keep with the simple platitudes that solve nothing.

My opinion on Mike Huckabee just dropped to zero.

Solve the damn problem like a CEO would do it...stop with the emotion and attempt to guilt-trip us. We’re only asking for our borders to be enforced...duh...Governance 101, and a system to admit immigrants to our country that insures that our citizens are protected and new citizens have a job, no contagious infections, aren’t terrorists, and haven’t murdered anybody.

The whole bunch of them need a slap.

[padre35]

Paul gets a cut in spending question hopefully.

[lesser_satan]

I’m in love with Emily from LA.

[jmyrlefuller]

Next question:

Federal spending is out of control. Name 3 programs you’d cut back.

We start with Sen. Thompson.

[dawn53]

Did you notice at the beginning, the mayor of St. Pete was even taller than Fred. I think the mayor is something like 6’7”. Fred made a little joke of it when the mayor stood next to him.

[mylife]

Rooty says 42% of the workforce will retire over the next 10 yrs.

The solution?

Replace them with robots.

[Biblebelter]

These are great questions Thompson gets another softball, how do shut up a Democrat, you ask these questions

[exit82]

Fred’s question: which three Fed programs would you downsize?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Looks like they actually got real republicans to ask questions—I thought for sure they’d be lib plants.

[CounterCounterCulture]

what are the top 3 federal programs you’d eliminate to reduce government spending. good Q

[padre35]

Thompson talking up his SS reform plan, sounds pretty good so far...

[icwhatudo]

Thompson blowing this question. Name the 3 programs, just do it.

[Bahbah]

Someone please say you will abolish the Department of Education.

[Petronski]

The OMB has published a list of a hundred of them, I’d get rid of them all.

[AmericanInTokyo]

absolutely, fishtalk, absolutely. discouraging

[icwhatudo]

Ugh ugh ugh

[freekitty]

I agree.

[MNJohnnie]

The comic relief. That is incredibly insightful. I bow to your superior intellect.

[jmyrlefuller]

I’m just as shocked as you are. However, there’s still plenty of time...

[A. Morgan]

I thought for sure they’d be lib plants, too.