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.
She’s another Perry Harpie.
Thank you Eaker. Have a good night my FRiend.
Divert the entire Rio Grande?
CNN’s DAVID GERGEN-
“The real winner of tonite’s debate was BARACK OBAMA”.
Sadly, mostly correct, and exactly as the queers at CNN planned it.
Mitt - took heavy damage and he knew it, you could almost see the tears welling up in his eyes at one point.
Perry - did MUCH better, he has improved a lot. He FINALLY turned and attacked Mitt face to face, and scored major hits on Mitt several times. Mitt was able to counter punch, but in my opinion Perry got the best of the exchanges. Perry had very little to lose and let it all hang out, and in my opinion it paid off. Perry also did a masterful job of handling that little gay twit moderator. Perry's best line of the night was how we should defund the UN! freaking A! that's what i’m talking about!
Cain - took some damage early, layed low most of the debate afterwards which was probably good, then for some unknown reason right at the end he .... freaking praised Romney's amazing record as governor?!?!!?! WTH !?!?!? No more debates for nearly a month and the last thing you want to leave the audience with is how great a job Mitt did as governor?! *sigh* having said all that Cain will be fine, he didn't take any mortal damage and will live to fight again another day.
Bachmann - shrill as always, please get her off the stage.
Santorum - WOW, FINALLY Santorum goes after Romney! and draws blood no less! Santorum and Bachmann have been good at destroying the others since the beginning but this is the first time they have ever seriously gone after Romney, and Romney was rocked all the way down to his magic underware. And what the heck was with that audience? seriously they must of rounded up every mormon in the state and squeezed them into that auditorium.
Gingrich - brilliant as always.
Paul - is .. well,Paul.
Cain needs to also explain his plan better to the American Voters.
Media complex and stupid RINOs running the GOP still have a lot of power. We need to change the narrative from 1 minute soundbites to conservative activist record.
She’s been trolling against Cain ever since Palin bowed out.
Lol. Hope all is well with her and you as well.
I'm not a Mormon hater, but I thought it was pretty damn funny.
Still the Mittbot after all these years, eh?
I don’t get all the criticism about Michelle’s outfit.
It has a military flare...so?
She looks lovely.
Exactly, the ones deriding the 9-9-9 plan haven’t looked at it closely enough. My income is middle class range and I pay less under his plan any way I ran it. There is a calculator for his plan somewhere on his web site. I will link it if I can find it.
Here are a couple of threads, Some will have a few posts removed because they were so hateful. Sometimes the entire thread was zotted because of the hate. Sometimes there were LDS and NON LDS threads with the same topic because it got so bad.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/855613/posts#40
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/855558/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/929176/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/940345/posts?page=27
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/954688/posts
It’s not that hard to understand, unless others are distorting it which seems to be the plan.
Is there a link for online viewing? I’m cable-less.
THANK YOU JIM! That was a long time coming.
behzinlea has left the building kids.
You may be perfectly comfortable with someone who has no record, not even city council, school board... nothing but one failed attempt at senator.
Therefore, the man has no record to point to, either to defend or brag about.
He’s done a lot of talking, much of which he had to take back and explain that he was ‘joking.’
Dang all us people who can’t take a joke.
Doing an excellent job as governor of a large state with a huge Mexican population, both legal and illegal, and still keeping the state conservative, business friendly and economically sound is a record to be proud of, not despised.
Contrast that with California, another large state with a minority problem, but one which has always been run by democrats. The welfare system there is out of control, if the people try to do something, liberal judges shoot them down and a state that should be prosperous is broke.
I believe that Perry would be just as successful running the country.
Don’t understand the hatred for him here, but when I consider the posts of some of the haters ... it kinda explains it.
You and a few other posters act like very cow and bull and calf in Texas drinks directly from the Rio Grande. Someone who’s capable of being objective and who also knows the true water situation in south Texas needs to provide some factual input.
But there is no way that that river is providing water directly for cattle more than a few miles to the north.
But whatever the water for cattle situation is, it is long past time that those narrow local interest were made a distant second to the national security need to get control of the southern border. Build the fence above the river for and if cattle farming is no longer possible, then cattle farming on the border isn’t that important.
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