Posted on 09/22/2011 2:55:26 PM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: FOXNEWS
Broadcast time: 9pm EDT/6pm PDT
The NINE(!) Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, 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 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.
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman was Utah Governor, former ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an ob-gyn and was Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Rick Perry
Perry is the three term governor of Texas, from 2000 to current. He is a retired Air Force captain for former farmer. He has a degree in animal science.
Mitt Romney
Romney was governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican 2008 nomination for president. 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.
Gary Johnson
Johnson served as governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2002. He founded what would become one of the largest construction companies in New Mexico. He has competed in several triathlons and climbed Mount Everest.
“Old joke on twitter world, In fact it was on today’s Dan Reihl twit”
It’s been a regular on the attackwatch feed, and Rush quoted it today.
Rush won’t be back until Monday. That British guy is filling in for him
I will be voting NEWT!
Shall we vote for the best debater? That would be of course, Newt. Newt can best string the thoughts together and deliver the sentences with precision, but Newt is a talker leaving his ability to “do” in doubt in this era.
Rick may string thoughs and phrases together imperfectly, but no doubt he is a proven doer. The debating skills are not the clincher for me, here. If Rick should fall, which is the plan of the Left to elevate Romney, I will have to go with Romney, who can beat Obama as well as Perry. My only mission is beating Obama.
That's not what her parents and friends said during the TV interview, but then, why would you believe them when you can get the skinny from a tweet.
Same thing would happen if we went to NC, or any other state. If you are not a resident there for a certain time, YOu pay out of state tuition!
Chris Wallace set them up (Perry/Romney) and now he is blathering that they are arguing like an old married couple.
Chris Wallace sucks
My thoughts exactly. They're pathetic and I might have to reconsider Gingrich.
Although I wouldn't have to if Palin got in.
There is another.....
Perry has come out officially for amnesty, though he won't call it that.
He has explicitly stated that he is favor of giving legal status to the illegals.
She has expensive taste kinda like Michelle!!!
That's a great question and one that will likely come up for Perry.
Me too!
Wow a lot of people switched from Perry to someone else.
CHIT! Everybody is Romney, say hello to our next candidate.
I want to cry...
Who cares? Pretty much anyone stressing over the Bilderberg Group is a conspiracy nut.
Based on the debate performances, I'd gladly support a Gingrich-Cain ticket.
Kabar’s posts on immigration are really great tonight....worth re-reading imo. Good job and glad he posted.
Romney had that answer. I was looking for it on the net and couldn't find it so I am impressed with Romney's researchers.
12,000
That's a good size school ~ could have it's own serious basketball team!
BTW, the instate tuition issue is very important. It tells us a lot about where a candidate thinks he's from ~ does he imagine only that he's back in Chicago taking care of Cook County political business, or does he imagine he's capable of being the Leader of the Free World representing the interests of the world's only superpower ~ a continent size nation called America?
Perry's responses on the tuition shows us he's pretty parochial. Herman Cain sounds international. Mitt tells us that he can get the answers but we also know he's been all over the table on the moral issues of our time ~ no clear core beliefs in that guy.
I see Newt doing Secretary of State ~ and so can Obama, and those other guys on the stage. He's as well versed as Henry Kissinger always was. That's a necessity in that job.
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