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.
Good one!!
You have two former governors, a Speaker of the House, two sitting Congressmen, a former Senator, and a successful businessman. And this is a weak field? Compared to what?
LOL. He’s finally grown-up at his advanced age. I even liked some of his answers. He was toned down and rather reasonable. It helped that his younger peeps were not in the crowd hooting and hollering.
yeah, but the Q was why it was only streaming on CNN
Dittos on that! John King is the loser!
On the whole, I thought the whole thing was disjointed. Some good comments from each of them, but the whole thing was rushed, and the interruptions showed the time allowance was wrong.
I’d rather see ONE question, with each answering it down the line, with a time limit. A bell rather than an annoying King-type interruption,-— and then on to another question.
The whole thing gets a poor grade from me.
My winner? Cain. He gave straight forward answers, in a clear a concise manner. Romney? Fuhgeddaboutim.
I really like Cain, Bachman and Santorum...and everything I saw just reinforced that opinion.
I thoroughly enjoyed the debaters tonight. Hard to pick a winner, but I will pick the loser...Romney. The rest had spark, quick answers, and showed clarity.
The Sarah bashing on here is something else.
Yeah Palin was very good tonight.
Yes, yes she was, her ratings probably went up just
by not going through this charade.
The phrase “separation of church and state” actually goes back to a letter from President Thomas Jefferson in the early 1800s.
But if a letter from a POTUS counted as a Constitutional amendment, than Bill Clintons letters would make oral sex a Constitutional right.
There is no such thing in the Constitution.
who frigging cares????????????
being a conservative is not just what one picks and chooses it is fiscal and social and so yes us conservatives do give a crap about the homosexual agenda and BTW it is not gay
For crying out loud how many times does Jim R have to state this pro family social conservatives issues on here for some to get it
maybe if you have the homo agenda shoved into your face, you have to serve and see them act and see cross dressers walking on base you would give a crap
FFS
I enjoyed the debate. My opinion: Pawlenty stood out in my view. He was sharp and sincere. Bachmann did real well too.
Now here come’s the spin ...Anderson Cooper’s gonna do some fact checkin’ on those candidates ....
How about FACT CHECK Obama???
Palin was here tonite too? Oh, must’ve missed her.
winner.......The GOP. We might actually get a good conservative out of this.
I thought they all did well in the time frame they had to answer. I was proud of them all.
I agreed with a lot of things all of them said.
Ron Paul believes in a much much smaller federal government doing much much less.
He’s not about forcing states to legalize anything. Doesn’t care what they do, is in favor of Limited Constitutional Government, but isn’t a Libertarian. Libertarians agree with him on issues - they agree that the federal gov shouldn’t have drug cops - but Ron Paul doesn’t agree with them on state matters.
Cheers!
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