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.
I’m watching Bachman on Greta I think her outfit last was seen on the cover of the Sgt. Peppers album.
I don’t know how to take her “We raised 28 kids thing”. Was it a great sacrifice or did she view all those kids as tax deductions?
Also don’t like when she refers to her own kids as “5 biologicals”.
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Sorry wagglebee. Included you because I had intended to bring up your inclusion to do the same thing as this person, bring up all the kids on the playground.
I actually have a great deal more respect for wagglebee’s position against abortion than I do for those who hate mormonism. Mormon’s, love to have kids, ad infinitim!
haha, you said you hate having to deal with libs like myself.
bwahahaha.
Just another unpopular kid on the playground trying to get attention. lol It’s rather pathetic.
If you were paying attention, what did that person do that rated the zot?
Sorry to say, he had his shot and he blew it!
He’s not very quick witted and his attack on Romney was fairly lame.
I wanted to like the man, he’s made it very difficult! You have to admit it!
I was a ballistic missile expert when I was playing empirical experiments with estes rockets.
>> “Get a clue.” <<
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She doesn’t have a bucket to put it in.
magritte; reaganaut; aMorePerfectUnion
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Mags acknowledged my post of the same (that I am traveling).
We ended up in Rapid City, SD tonight and it was too far to get to Cheyenne so we were able to watch the debate and have a nice early dinner. YAY.
“Cain has swept parking lots and worked his way up at companies. Mitt always started near the top. That will resonate with people, because the experiences are very different.”
Class envy on your part? How conservative of you.
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On the question of the fence:
Where would you build the fence? On the Mexican side?
(good luck with THAT)
On the Texas side?
Most Texas ranchers are against the fence. It would take away their water rights for their cattle.
In the middle of the river?
Where?
What happens to U.S. land on the south side of the wall? Does it become a de facto part of Mexico?
The University of Texas, Brownsville, discovered recently that plans called for part of its campus to be on the south side of the fence.
Would students need a passport to get to some of their classes?
Officially, the project would cost at least $2.1 billion. But building in remote areas, not to mention legal fights with landowners who don’t want to sell, could send the price soaring.
I like it. Diabolical.
But Mexico might have something to say about that -- since almost all of the water in the Rio Grande comes out of Mexico.
All of the Colorado and New Mexico water is usually used up by the time the river reaches Fort Hancock, about 80 miles below El Paso. The river is usually dry between Fort Hancock and Presidio.
At Presidio, the Rio Concho flows out of Mexico into the Rio Grande and it becomes a river again. The Concho provides around 80% of the water that eventually reaches the Gulf.
Indeed. I do think he’s the only one of the bunch who could pull off a format like that.
Newt won tonight, IMO.
Cain, didn’t do so well.
The others all performed as would be expected.
He kept pushing La Raza Rick and blathering about other candidates’ supposed lack of military service.
Or maybe he made anti-Christian comments. Could go either way on that one.
It’s called a JOKE. Grey used to be LDS and knows they do not physically practice polygamy IN THIS LIFE even though they have never repudiated the doctrine.
A VAT tax taxes at every level including the end product. Herman’s tax is applied only to the end product so does not contain hidden taxes.
Don’t be obtuse. It’s obvious that the candidates that are attacking Cain’s 9-9-9 plan are not very familiar with it, or are misrepresenting it in order to make it look like a tax hike.
I’ve crunched the numbers, have you?
BTW, I live in California and pay 9% sales tax and I would still come out ahead, not to mention employers would be unchained from the oppressive taxation they are currently experiencing. Money that could go to R&D and hiring more people.
Well said, Thermonuclear. I’m also tired of cowtowing to that filthy corrupt little socialist hellhole peasant country to our south ...they can’t run a country to save their lives. They constantly push us around and we allow it. Tired of seeing them push of their parasite class on us, while they tell us what we need to do in terms of our policies.
I’m hoping Cain gets tougher on it, still.
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