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.
Sure. You always have to look at the expense of competing proposals. Building a fence may be expensive but I think it may be less expensive than permanently hiring manpower to be stationed all long such a long border. Therefore a fence should be more economic.
Everyone just imagine What a Cain candidacy means... He gets to debate Obama on a national stage. True Conservative Ideals against the radical left Progressive failure that is the current resident of the White House. A man that has a true American experience not a radical Marxist communist influenced upbringing by rich white granny and getting coddled through the expensive Havaaaad education. Herman Cain is the TRUTH..... Obama is a MARXIST LIE.... I want to see them both on a stage to once and for all settle this argument in front of the masses.
What DID Paul say? I couldn’t follow it.
You ain’t alone.
Cain would empower states to pick up the slack, not sub out the Fed’s job on immigration and the border.
Secure the border with more boots on the ground
I do believe we can secure the border with a combination of boots on the ground, technology, and a fence, but we’ve got three other problems. And to get to it, we’ve got to secure the border.
Secondly, let’s promote the path to citizenship that’s already there. We don’t need a new one, we just need to clean up the bureaucracy that’s slowing the process down and discouraging people.
The third thing we need to do, enforce the laws that are there, and the way we do it, empower the states. I believe that the people closest to the problem are the best ones to be able to solve that problem. Empower the states to do what the federal government hasn’t done, can’t do, and won’t do. This is how we solve the entire problem.
Source: 2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA at the Reagan Library , Sep 7, 2011
I am convinced Romney will have his clock cleaned by Obama in debate.
Romney will not win over Obama.
This debate has cinched in for me.
He gives canned answers. He can’t think on his feet. He gets flustered.
But he has no philosophy. no raison d’etre.
No grounding or passion.
Cain — yes.
Ron Paul—yes.
“The virtual fence was tried in Arizona and was a bust as some of us knew it would be.”
And any time an administration wants to save money, or maybe curry favor with Mexico, a virtual fence can disappear instantly.
A real fence guarantees that the next pro-illegal President we get stuck with will have a harder time indulging them.
Oh, come on, tattoos are hot...especially when you can pay for them instead of providing for yourself LOL
Haw Hoo!
Cain is coasting through just fine. A neutral performance.
Hey - the media is all about splitting the vote - hoping that Romney will win nomination because he would be easy to beat - too few real supporters.
Yeh...he’s looking creepy and about to break.
I agree
I like ‘em all. Hey, Switzerland has, if I member correctly, 7 cantons, and each canton’s president has his turn in doing the gig of the perzident of the federation. Can we do something like that here?
I wonder how many bras those tats could have bought? She could trip over those puppies.
Romney actually had the gall to put his hand on Perry’s shoulder in a gesture of restraint.
Wish Perry had removed it.
I think he might prefer to return to the days where a single wealthy individual would pass out the bucks to stop the bust.
Not sure who has money like that anymore.
At the time the Fed was created private individuals already didn't have that money.
The Fed is chartered to tame the cycles through control of discount rates (which, in turn, control interest rates). The theory is that it's marginally useful projects that lead to runaway booms that are always followed by deadly busts. So if you raise interest rates there will be fewer marginally useful projects and fewer booms and fewer busts.
The basic idea is actually total BS. The history of America has actually been one of ever expanding economic activity associated with greater and greater implementation of better methods, mechanization, automation, computerization and robotics. George Washington and his crowd were pioneers in improvements in agricultural methods and in biogenetic proceses.
The Fed simply isn't equipped to deal with modern technology or dynamic modeling in a deflationary cycle.
The two are acting very unpresidential.
I can’t figure out what either of their opinions are...and Perry isn’t answering the questions. He’s just going back to his drill baby drill dialogue.
Perry’s debate coaches must have drilled that into him and it’s a huge disadvantages when looking for a well rounded Presidential candidate.
Mitt is just a Ken Doll with a bunch of generic answers.
I don’t think he’s tough enough.
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Lydia The Tattooed Lady.
She has eyes that folks adore so,
and a torso even more so.
Lydia, oh Lydia, that encyclo-pidia.
Oh Lydia The Queen of Tattoo.
On her back is The Battle of Waterloo.
Beside it, The Wreck of the Hesperus too.
And proudly above waves the red, white, and blue.
You can learn a lot from Lydia!
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