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.
“You and your comments on Romney/Mormons sicken me. Go away, you are filled with bile.”
My comments are that Mormonism is false and if someone feels it would violate their conscience to vote for Willard, that is their right.
If you feel they should be forced to act against their conscience, perhaps you are intolerant and bigotted toward other faiths. If you believe only your views should be spoken here, perhaps you are against the free speech rights of others.
Absolutely! In fact you just opened my eyes. I've been falling for the "expected" candidate image but I'm done. If we really want someone to go in and change Washington, it's going to have to be someone who's DIFFERENT!!
“Boy, you need your glasses and hearing aide adjusted.
Your right, I should have said Perry definitely had his best debate so far.”
LOL! Your glasses are permanently fogged, or should I say rose colored.
Yeah. The Mormons I know are largely...how did you put it? Oh, yeah, "nice"...The FREEPER Mormons not so much, with the exception of several noteables...
But so what?
The "funny" thing is ... I don't find the word "nice" in the Bible. IOW it's not a very high "ethical standard" exposed for the world to follow.
The origin of the word "nice" was the concept "simple" -- as in "not aware of the bad things of the world." Nice, IOW, had a tone of naivety, which isn't always bad (vs. say a prostitute whose "overexperienced" in the world's "knowledge").
So when people point to others' "niceness," I think of people who don't want to acknowledge the lostness of the world; the real evil of the world & universe; the hell of the universe to come.
If none of the above were realities, Jesus as the Son of God would have remained comfortably up yonder.
And too often on these threads we see posters who keep trying to "outnice" Jesus.
Sorry. But a "nice" Jesus didn't treat legalistic Pharisees as "nice" fellow people. (There was a good reason why he actually referenced them as children of the devil in John 8).
Now if you think Jesus was mistaken, by all means, critique Him.
But I don't think you will.
You sound like you're just too "nice."
I pray daily for mormons to leave the destructive organization and find their way to Christ's grace. My dislike is for the cult, not the people.
I too was very disgusted with him back then
Newt would be a president right out of the box. We can’t afford one that comes with a warning, “some assembly required”. LOL
No more experiments... we need a real president and Newt is the guy.
DA, perhaps?
Didn't get to see the debate tonight but glad to see positive comments about Newt. I agree he could take them all to the mat with his facts at hand and ability to spread them out there clearly and precisely.
I wasn't considering Newt at all in the beginning but the whole dynamics of this elections, coupled with the times we're in , and by the time Obama's destruction is finished...is going to call for someone with understanding of foreign affairs, navigating Washington and host of other significant abilitles to hit the ground running with. Newt could do that without the time others are going to need just to get adjusted to Washington.
Look, if you can’t live with FR, just freeping leave already!! Sheesh. Turn the damned channel!! Whine, whine, whine. Hate, hate, hate. Are you a liberal? Life is soooo unfair! Start your own damned website and capture the market on Romney worshipers. Call it WankersForRomney.com
While you're waiting for Jon Stewart's recap, so as to "revise and extend" your remarks, I'll clue you in.
Mitt Romney attended the debate, even answered a question or two. You might want to mention that in your forthcoming correction.
Oh, by the way, you say Huntsman lost...I guess you dozed off during his answers.
Oh wait.....he wasn't even there.
Damn, I must have misread your post. Or something.
For the onlookers wondering, his "Debate Recap" (in absentia) is at 1517.
How DU of you.
Real conservatives don't crap on peoples' jobs. I'd rather deal with a decent food service person than someone of your low quality any day.
It gets worse. One of Romney’s former advisors on the junk-science global warming policy that he supports was none other than ultraliberal kook John Holdren (Obambi’s current ‘science’ advisor).
“how many will write in another name”
Well, then you may as well right in the name Obama.
Yes I wasn’t quite sure why she went through the trouble for that. I guess she was on a “turn it on Obama” thing? It fell flat.
On policy though i really like her answers. She has other problems when it comes to actually winning the nomination.
Assuming you spend every penny you make. Is that what you do? You're also assuming retail prices won't go down after corporate taxes are slashed by 72%.
I thought Ron Paul was good, but then I always think that because he’s my guy. Too bad he can’t sell himself better. I didn’t like Gingrich having to admit he supported an individual mandate on healthcare.... I didn’t know that. Point deduction for Gingrich. At least he attacked Romney on it. I thought Romney finally got beat up tonight. Cain acquitted himself ok, considering he had everyone attacking his 9-9-9 plan. He didn’t lose anything tonight. I still haven’t decided on who to support.
Good info.
Thanks
Newt would be a president right out of the box. We can’t afford one that comes with a warning, “some assembly required”. LOL
strike two. Keep up the insults.
Some things never change and, “support your coreligionist, no matter what” is one of them for some.
You really shouldn’t speak of that which you don’t know. I was raised a Lutheran, thank you, and half of my family is Catholic. I’m just a fair person when it comes to attacking another person’s religion, not a jerk.
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