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. Hes 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.
omg..paul is so out there with foreign policy....
Pawlenty and Romney both thanking the navy guy...
ok.
Pawlenty is strong on defense!!!Good.
WHAT KIND OF “DEBATE “ IS THIS ? they don’t stay with a question long enough.
Victim card, you must be joking!! How would YOU do with the entire media lying not only about you — every day — but also your spouse and children? Not half as well as Sarah, I’d bet the farm.
What an ignorant comment.
(SOmeone needs to tell Romney, we stopped voting for Pretty Boys, right after John Kennedy)
No offense to any of you that like the man...but his answers are political pablum or just plain crap and the sad thing is, even HE doesnt know the difference!
Romney stuck foot in and chewed ....turn Afghanistan over to Taliban Military...
GOODBYE MITTENS!!!!!!!!!! Finally!
Ron Paul will never get it through his thick skull that we can not defend against jihadists by a defensive posture under the desk. Our borders are porous and the only thing standing between us and another 9/11 is American warriors hunting and killing jihadists.
Pawlenty has manned-up a bit tonight. Someone must have told him to be more forceful.
(Answer - King is a total dweeb as moderator. This is really poorly set up).
Certainly got the attention of the uniformed soldier in attendance!
Michelle is brilliant, beautiful has lots of great admiral traits but the rest has already been said. You don’t go after Palin if you are a pubbie.
...and stick our head in the sand..."
From Wikiepdia - “Santorum was born in Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and Butler County, Pennsylvania, the son of Aldo Santorum (born 1923) and Catherine (née Dughi; born 1918). Both his father and maternal grandfather were immigrants from Italy.”
He mentioned something about his grandfather coming here. If his father was naturalized BEFORE he was born then it’s ok. If not, then we’ve got another situation.
Ricks father was born here I think
Yeah...good God.
Newt is great....too bad he won’t get elected.
Huntsman is a “soon-to-be-candidate”?
Santorum is doing GREAT on the sanctity of life. Oh, how we NEED a pro-life President!Yes!! I'm with you.
Libya.
Michelle says ‘our policy is flawed. Bambam says we lead from behind. We defer to France? That is all we need to hear. What possible policy benefit do we get from backing terror-linked groups involved in local unrest?’ (paraphrased)
OMG, he said that?
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