[yoe]

How many of us have written over the years asking our elected why they don't clean up government waste....it would save billions of dollars. Having faxed at least half a dozen letters about waste, I probably received some three or four 'form' letters over the last four years. I don't suppose Wallace or Baier will ask the really hard question addressing Government WASTE or reducing the size of the Bureaucratic morass that is strangling Washington, DC ......what would they (candidates) do to correct both situations. Hope beautiful Ms. Kelly can refrain from sounding like "just the facts 'mam" Joe Friday - aka Jack Webb......Education will not be helped with more money thrown at that Union: America has laws that prohibit illegal aliens from entering the country and from remaining here once "caught".....enforce those laws....I don't want to hear any politician weazle around that let alone Baier etc. ask questions about it - being here illegally is a crime; all should agree on that......NO OLD RHETORIC, MODERATORS. Perry and Romney are not the only contenders....just because the pundits etc. say so.

[skeeter]

Just a quick reminder - there’re more than two candidates in this race.

[Williams]

Decisive how?

[ez]

My prediction...Michele Bachmann puts away her long knives.

[ml/nj]

Decisive?

Am I the only one who thinks these "debates" are full of sound and fury signifying nothing?

ML/NJ

[Cicero]

In case this reporter didn’t notice, it’s still almost 14 months to the election. So, how on earth is this “third debate” between two establishment Republicans supposed to be “decisive”? Nothing will happen for the next year?

[Lazlo in PA]

Bleh. It will be more of the same. Everyone gangs up on Perry, Ron Paul goes off the rails and Mittens stands there while everyone is afraid to muss up his hair. Obama will be barely mentioned. We will also have Chris Wallass being snarky and asking what brand of car tire the candidates prefer, Firestone or Uniroyal.

[Retired Greyhound]

I only hear to watch Newt bash the media.

[svcw]

How is this debate decisive?
Wouldn’t decisive come during primary season?

[Will88]

Perry, Romney Head Into Decisive Third Debate

Might be just a little premature with the first primary voting still more than four months off.

[truthguy]

It's roughly 13 months to the election. I don't see where this is a decisive debate. What's with those in the press trying to decide these things so damn early. We shouldn't get serious about this until spring 2012. Am I wrong about this? We are gonna have election fatigue before summer 2012. Why the rush? Am I missing something?

[jgge]

Debates are not decisive and they are only for political junkies to talk about. Daily campaigning, political ads, and media interviews are more effective, more decisive, and would sway much more opinions than debates do.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let's pretend that state-controlled media gets to decide who our candidates are.

It always works out so well when we do that.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries,_2012

[sodpoodle]

Predictions:

Newt will steal the show by bashing Bammy and the media.
Perry will be very circumspect and careful.
Romney will come off as arrogant and snarky.
Bachman will be very quiet and ladylike.
Paul will twitch a lot.
Johnson will smile and be personable.
Huntsman will be very statesmanlike.
Santorum will stand behind his podium.

[Bassfire]

Just hope the name Gardisil doesn’t pass thru anyone’s lips!

[Clintonfatigued]

I missed the debate, but heard about it. I hear that Rick Perry did poorly. He may turn out to be the Fred Thompson of this election cycle. Mitt Romney performed well enough, though he was very mechanical, I hear. Herman Cain and Gary Johnson came off the best.