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(Live Thread) Republican Presidential Debate #8 Oct. 18, 2011 Nevada 8 P.M. EDT CNN
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 | Kristinn/ newzjunkey

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: bachmann; cain; debate; debates; gopdebate; gopprimary; hermanator; livecnngopdebate; livevegasgopdebate; newt; nextpotus; perry; pickone; romney; santorum; vegasdebate
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To: Texas Songwriter

Obama is immature and empty, Gingrich is mature and at his full powers. That would NOT be interesting as a debate. It would be awful.

It might even be like the awful match between world champion boxer Muhammad Ali and the strange pro “wrestler” Antonio Inoki, June 26, 1976 in Tokyo. A DRAW! For 15 rounds Inoki laid on his back and kicked at Ali. Ali landed only 6 punches. The low kicks damaged Ali permanently.

When I used the paper towel versus tsunami analogy I wasn’t kidding. The analogy works both ways. Newt is vastly superior to Obama in knowledge, maturity, logic and normal debate skills.

But Obama can just lay on his back and kick at Gingrich, like a tsunami wave only a foot deep can destroy much of a town. Obama will pour out words and words, each phrase sounding good, but no sentence making much sense and no paragraph making any sense at all.


1,641 posted on 10/18/2011 7:28:08 PM PDT by bvw
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To: NYC-Conserv; darkwing104; 50mm; Old Sarge; 230FMJ; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; ...
Stay quiet and let folks think you’re informed

Should have stayed quiet, retread Rudy/Romneybot NYC-Conserv. ZOT!

To be added or removed from the Viking Kitty/ZOT Ping List, FReepmail Darkwing104.

1,642 posted on 10/18/2011 7:28:18 PM PDT by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: altura

If you could predict the future with any certainty you should go to Vegas. But you can’t. And frankly, your opinion means squat.


1,643 posted on 10/18/2011 7:28:18 PM PDT by South40 ('Heartless' since 1957)
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To: Gator113

“I don’t hate mormons, not at all. I don’t agree with mormonism, but that is definatly NOT why I don’t like Romney.”

Yeah, right.....


1,644 posted on 10/18/2011 7:28:25 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: TsonicTsunami08

Perry will be our next POTUS!!!


1,645 posted on 10/18/2011 7:28:45 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: RightFighter

Interesting I did not take it that way when Perry said that.


1,646 posted on 10/18/2011 7:28:48 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: altura; South40

“Where did Cain serve?”

Cain served as ballistics expert for the Department of the Navy for 6 years, so your boy Perry could actually hit what he was aiming at.


1,647 posted on 10/18/2011 7:29:07 PM PDT by justsaynomore (Cain 2012 - http://teamcain.hermancain.com)
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To: okie01

Amen.


1,648 posted on 10/18/2011 7:29:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: flaglady47
“Probably Perry’s best debate so far.”

Boy, you need your glasses and hearing aide adjusted.

Well he did manage to string three words together so it just might be true. :-)

1,649 posted on 10/18/2011 7:30:00 PM PDT by South40 ('Heartless' since 1957)
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To: flaglady47

Don’t like Romney but that is an extremely petty accusation against him, reminds me of some of the false and petty accusations against Perry ...


1,650 posted on 10/18/2011 7:30:05 PM PDT by altura (Perry 2012)
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To: South40

Okay, one more LOL! and I need to sign off.

That post was really well done!


1,651 posted on 10/18/2011 7:30:17 PM PDT by Eaker ("If someone misquotes you, it's because they know you're right.")
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To: tcrlaf
Now that the debate is over, you’ll note that not a SINGLE question was asked about Fast&Furious, Solyndra, Light-Sqared, the Indiana Forgery Scandal, etc.?

Good point!
1,652 posted on 10/18/2011 7:30:53 PM PDT by Arcy
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To: kristinn

Cain — They landed a few blows and he wasn’t at the top of his game tonight, but he didn’t hurt himself much.

Mitt — He’s gotten much quicker with his BS, but he still looks like a child trying to play president. He reminds me of one of the kids in adult clothes in those old Frosted Mini Wheats commercials.

Perry — Best debate yet for Rick, but that isn’t saying much. The RINO battles with Mitt made them both look stupid. And the similarity with the bickering that occurred with Santorum and Mitt made him look like a smaller candidate. He got in a few good lines, but good Lord, is he having seizures in the middle of every sentence or what? Someone check that man for TIAs.

Newt — The greatest guy that nobody wants to vote for.

Bachmann — Was playing Miss Priss while everyone attacked each other, except when she took shots at Cain. She came across as desperate, whiny, and annoying.

Santorum — Good show. He had much less to lose than Perry did by going toe to toe with Slick Willard. If he hadn’t lost PA by 20 points, he might be worth examining further.

Anderson Cooper — GAY. But, while the debate format was pretty bad, he did the best job as moderator I’ve seen in a debate so far this cycle.


1,653 posted on 10/18/2011 7:30:53 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (Perry's idea of border control: Use both hands to welcome the illegals right in)
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To: flaglady47
Boy, you need your glasses and hearing aide adjusted.

Your right, I should have said Perry definitely had his best debate so far.

1,654 posted on 10/18/2011 7:31:11 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: tcrlaf

Good points, and all points that Mr Perry knows well.

FUBO!


1,655 posted on 10/18/2011 7:31:18 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: onyx

Wow. CGEB-style! Cool.


1,656 posted on 10/18/2011 7:31:25 PM PDT by bvw
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To: RitaOK
This is a Romney Perry game. The money declares that. Perry is the distance runner. The country is not yet watching reportedly. When the others are gone who will it be? Romney or Perry

That money sure is helping Perry out in the polls, LOL.

You forget something very important: Unlike Romney and Perry, Cain is willing to go out and mix it up with the media, on talkshows, etc. and Cain is racking up airtime that would cost Perry and Romney several million dollars to purchase.
1,657 posted on 10/18/2011 7:31:28 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Hugin

No way. SMART people get the apples and oranges analogy. I do — it’s simple, and logical.

Right now we pay state taxes, and yet STILL deal with the enormous hairy crazy tax code on top of it.

Cain’s plan replaces the hairy tax code w/ something ELSE. End result: your’e going to pay less overall than you would have before, even w/ the same state sales tax in place.

Mitt’s the stupid one w/ his fruit basket analogy. He doesn’t get it, and neither do the stupid reporters.


1,658 posted on 10/18/2011 7:31:49 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: ozarkgirl

I saw your first post and it is still as stupid as it was the first time. You throw out a blanket attack and seriously don’t expect people to inform others that would be included?

I guess I shouldn’t expect more than that from Christian haters like you.

And you are proving the maxim true...cheerleaders don’t have any brain cells.


1,659 posted on 10/18/2011 7:32:03 PM PDT by reaganaut (Romney IS Obama - just 'white and delightsome' 2 Nephi 30:6)
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To: justsaynomore

Cain didn’t “serve”, he makes a point to correct people who use the word. He was a civilian employee of the Navy. And Perry didn’t “hit what he was aiming at” other than the runway. He flew transports.


1,660 posted on 10/18/2011 7:32:08 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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