Posted on 10/18/2011 4:37:49 PM PDT by kristinn
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, 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.
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.
Yeh, you’re not obvious at all. Hehe. ;o)
In fact, your posts have been most informative for me.
**another Cain supporter**
Unless Obama gets personal and he would.
The good news for Bachmann is that she’s already dressed for Tailhook in Vegas. Not sure who gave her advice on that wardrobe but they should be horsewhipped.
Cain didn’t get flustered, though....which is more than I can say about Romney.
No, I think they booed him for attacking Mitt on a couple of questions when he had no reason to bring Mitt into his answer. Sort of a party foul, if you will. Perry did the same thing on the question of faith. That stupid answer where he said “Americans know about faith, and the person they’ve lost faith in is Barack Obama.” OUCH - that hurt PERRY, not Obama.
Or Gergen.
**click**
I suspect there are a lot of posters who were tempted to post that.
This is a chance for conservatives. I just cannot take CNN and what they try to do to conservatives on that network.
Sure would be interesting. I could get behind that.
Huh? Perry is awful. He seems I’ll prepared at best.
CNN, Donna Brazille with perfect hair, coming up for comments. Something just makes me want to punch her in the face.
Newt wants three 7 hour debates between himself and Zero with only a timekeeper and no moderator. I would pay money to see one.
Post-debate, Romeny runs straight to his “blankie” - John King of CNN.
Stupid Gergen claimed that Newt’s bickering comment was about Republicans. Newt was attacking the media for turning the debates into bickering contests
Did you hear Cooper say 41% of Republicans think Romney’s best to beat Obama? If so, we are so screwed. I don’t think it’s true, however.
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I’m not buying it at all either. The audience tonight was Romney stacked. Utah WILL go Romney and parts of ID and NV, and probably MI (home boy).
Cooper is shilling Romney because he KNOWS Romney will not win against Obama also Romney is closest to the socialist Dems running. He is repeating propaganda, it isn’t what I am hearing from the rank and file at all. Even many of my LDS friends hate Mitt (and that is good news).
Romney CANNOT beat Obama. I’ve gotten flack for saying his religion is an issue but be sure if (God Forbid) he gets the nomination IT WILL BE front and center.
And you know what I hate about mormon haters? The same thing I with other “clicks”. You can’t fight your own fights and have to call in the posse to gang up on the one you disagree with. That shows a tremendous amount of insecurity.Can’t fight your own fights, cracks me up. Obviously the unpopular kid on the play ground.
Darn, it’s tough going through life being the cheerleader in high school. As a grown up, I have still have to deal with all the unpopular kids.
I like Newt. I think unfortunately there’s a few things that take him down on the right. As vp, I think he’d be a strong chose.
The format was totally biased toward CNN’s favorite candidate, Mitt Romney. Presenting Romney as the one to beat and then giving Romney 30 more seconds every time his name was mentioned was outrageous favoritism.
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