Posted on 06/13/2011 4:49:56 AM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: CNN
Broadcast time: 8pm EDT/5pm PDT
The Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, she earned a Master of Laws degree, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an obstetrician-gynecologist and was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty served two terms as governor of Minnesota, from 2002 to 2010. He served in the Minnesota House from 1992 until 2002. He is the son of a truck driver.
Mitt Romney
Romney was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
Newt seemed to recognize that his campaign is kaput, and a few of his answers blasting the media's attempts to get a yes/no answer when it is not that simple, reflected that.
Perhaps too late, the GOP is learning that we cannot play by the leftist media's rules (thank you SP!).
“but I would crawl across broken glass to vote for him over Obama (who is not a good man). “
You’ll just wind up cut up with Obama still as POTUS ...
RINOmney would run as a transgendered, Hispanic Lilliputian, if it would get him elected President...
It revealed the horror of the Obama administration across the board and everyone on the panel showed him/herself to be clearly more qualified than the posseur now in the Oval Office.
Obama got blasted on Obamacare, the economy, foreign policy, immigration, everything.
And even though CNN has a puny audience, word will get out via other sources.
I mean to lay off each other and keep the target on Obama. Ugh.
Good summary, some think Rollins is really working for Mitt.
Go play in the baby pool with Michelle. Past that both of you are in over your head.
Bachmann jumped in today. So apparently your deadline for "having guts" was today, June 13th, the day your candidate jumped it.
LOL.
Well I was flipping by MSNBC (for a good laugh) and they said that Bachmann won the debate. I thought she did well. Romney did what he had to do but other than Pawlenty no one really took Romney on and Pawlenty pretty much took a pass other than quoting Obama. Perhaps the closer we get to the fall whoever emerges as the Romney alternative will take on Romney more directly. I have to confess I flipped over the the hockey game whenever Paul was speaking so I didn’t see much of him. Santorum was OK and I thought Cain has some good answers for dealing with immigration and the economy.
Congrats you’re post #1000 you win the door prize!
If it was *self* adoration, what was the press doing there?
At least Palin knows how to manipulate the media.
Cheers!
You'll ever last the election cycle if that's the case. It goes with the territory..and this is just the first debate.
Romney stumbled with his "...turn it over to the Taliban army."
King was shallow.
Cheers!
“Michele announcing at the debate was a masterstroke’
No, it wasn’t. It was ridiculous. “Right here on CNN...”? Oh, gag me. Especially after she “promised” to announce in her “home, sweet home,” Iowa. What WAS that? Some advisor’s stunt to try and upstage Sarah Palin. Not good.
“She can’t repeal it.
Unless congress repeals it or it is declared unconstitutional, she, as president, will be duty bound to enforce it. “
Technically right, but substantively wrong.
ObamaCare = 1000s of pages of rules and requires funding and more laws to continue. A President who declares the intention to defund it, gets Congress to repeal its provisions, and dismantles it administratively by getting HHS to back off, is the President we need in the White House in 2013. There is a lot the President can do to gut it.
ObamaCare MUST be repealed and it matters who is in the White House.
It's kind of like Wal Mart putting out Christmas decorations in September. “Yes mam... our Halloween masks are on your left... just past the Christmas Tree display”.
LLS
His incessant hmpf’ing moments were a real aggravation.
‘He’s a smart guy who understands individual rights and limited government but he’s a space cadet when it comes to jihadists. “
As is typical on FR most of us like Libertarians fine on fiscal issues, and if they are pro-life so much the better. However on other social issues and on foreign policy they are not conservative, and that is where we part company.
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