Posted on 06/13/2011 4:49:56 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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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.
I'd love to see the field thinned to Palin, Bachmann, and Cain. Let the others go fish. Then we can pick from the three pro-American conservatives.
That’s pretty close on Newt,sad thing about him is he is so smart he knows the right thing to do but won’t always do it.!!
“How’d those 24,000 emails work out for you, d!psh!t?”
Classy as always from the Palin fanatics. ?s
Cheerios!
Yep. And it helped this thread that they weren't here doing the same thing. :)
I was pleased with Santorum, Bachmann, Pawlenty and Cain. Newt's a brain, but a personal loser. Romney was weak. Paul's so wrong on foreign policy that he makes my teeth hurt. He'd just as soon get us all killed. He would be a disaster as CinC.
I missed Bachmann’s early attack on the media. What did she say?
It’s important to attack the media in these debates. It’s NOT just “our Obama problem”... it’s “our LEFTIST problem” and our LEFTIST problem is, first and foremost a stinking lying rotten leftist MEDIA problem.
And somebody BETTER start talking about it, SERIOUSLY talking about it...
... oh wait. Someone IS talking about it. She just wasn’t here tonight. :)
No one had to lay a glove on him, he beat himself up with his lame performance.
I thought Michelle did well but if you gage the quality of some of Newts answers they are pretty much a head above many of the rest. He is a smart guy but remains unelectable.
Where does he disagree with Libertarians on state matters?
What poll?
There were 20 televised debates in the 2008 Republican primary.
1 May 3, 2007 - Simi Valley, California
2 May 15, 2007 - Columbia, South Carolina
3 June 5, 2007 - Manchester, New Hampshire-not on TV
4 July 12, 2007 - Detroit, Michigan
5 August 5, 2007 - Des Moines, Iowa
6 September 5, 2007 - Durham, New Hampshire
7 September 17, 2007 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
8 September 27, 2007 - Baltimore, Maryland
9 October 9, 2007 - Dearborn, Michigan
10 October 16, 2007 - Washington, D.C.
11 October 21, 2007 - Orlando, Florida
12 October 25, 2007 - Sioux City, Iowa
13 November 28, 2007 - St. Petersburg, Florida
14 December 9, 2007 - Miami, Florida
15 December 12, 2007 - Johnston, Iowa
16 January 5, 2008 Manchester, New Hampshire
17 January 6, 2008 Milford, New Hampshire
18 January 10, 2008 - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
19 January 24, 2008 - Boca Raton, Florida
20 January 30, 2008 - Simi Valley, California
21 February 2, 2008 - New York, New York
Candidates in the debates
Senator John McCain - Arizona (won nomination).
Representative Ron Paul - Texas (withdrew June 12, 2008).
Former UN Ambassador Alan Keyes - Maryland (withdrew from Republican Party April 15, 2008).
Former Governor Mike Huckabee - Arkansas (withdrew March 4, 2008).
Former Governor Mitt Romney - Massachusetts (withdrew February 7, 2008).[1]
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani - New York (withdrew January 30, 2008).
Former Senator Fred Thompson - Tennessee (withdrew January 22, 2008).[2]
Representative Duncan Hunter - California (withdrew January 19, 2008).[3]
Representative Tom Tancredo - Colorado (withdrew December 19, 2007).[4]
Senator Sam Brownback - Kansas (withdrew October 19, 2007).[5]
Former Governor Tommy Thompson - Wisconsin (withdrew August 12, 2007).[6]
Former Governor Jim Gilmore - Virginia (withdrew July 14, 2007).[7]
I think Sarah Palin has plenty of debate opportunities in front of her.
John King was the worst moderator of any Presidential Debate that I’ve seen.
I would love to see a debate with no Romney, no Pawlenty, no Paul, no Santorum, no Gingrich... and no CNN.
Point taken: when your cheap shot at Sarah is forcefully and substantively refuted, you morph into Brave Sir Robin and turn your tail and flee.
My reponse is still far classier than, say, Letterman, Andrew Sullivan, or Bill Maher.
And the more so as you deserve it.
Cheers!
Don’t know what you see in Cain, other than the fact that he is black.
You will, but not for a while yet.
Agree!
I take it you are a Michelle fan? Could you give it a rest? It is a bit spam like.
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