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Live Thread: Iowa GOP Presidential Debate 9 P.M. EST/ 6 P.M. PST 12/10/11 on ABC Television
Saturday, December 10, 2011 | Kristinn

Posted on 12/10/2011 3:43:05 PM PST by kristinn

Where: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

When: 9 p.m. EST, 6 p.m. PST, Saturday, December 10, 2011. Debate scheduled to last two hours.

Broadcast on: ABC Televsion.

Moderators: Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos.

Candidates: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: debate; elections; gop; iowa; iowagopdebate
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To: Grunthor

I’m not a huge fan of Rusty or Savage...but I really like JD. He was on at drive time for a while on my area.


1,281 posted on 12/10/2011 11:13:22 PM PST by berdie
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To: Indy Pendance

Trump has been saying he might run for president since what, 1998, and he never does. It’s pretty clear he’s a paper tiger. No doubt it’s that various candidates don’t want to be tainted by the spectacle of a Trump debate.


1,282 posted on 12/10/2011 11:13:51 PM PST by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Williams

And it looks like Bachmann’s cheap trick worked. In a report about the debate a local newscaster just said “... and Newt Romney... errh that should be, Mitt Romney...”


1,283 posted on 12/10/2011 11:16:12 PM PST by bd476
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To: sodpoodle

That is why Newt is a great candidate for most of us. I have written many times; we don’t LOVE Newt - heck we barely even like him.

Those are very good points!


1,284 posted on 12/10/2011 11:27:13 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: Tennessee Nana

I think they died in Burrows Alaska in 1935!


1,285 posted on 12/10/2011 11:37:43 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: ez

Newt held his own, Michelle continued to attack her peers, Romney looked desperate, Paul managed to string together at least two coherent sentences, and Santorum bored everyone to tears. It looks like it may come down to Newt vs Perry.

Good summary!


1,286 posted on 12/10/2011 11:40:09 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: maine-iac7
Newt is just being Newt - which is one reason he's winning.

What a GR8 DEB8 tonight. Loved it when Newt turned to Romney and said Mitt would have been a career politician if he'd WON!

1,287 posted on 12/10/2011 11:43:05 PM PST by b9
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To: af_vet_rr
The taxpayers were going to have to cover the cost for those who couldn't afford it. That's definitely being "forced to pay for something they did not want" since Perry didn't feel the need to discuss it with the taxpayers or the legislation.

That hardly constitutes an "individual mandate" in the context of Obamacare, however, as was claimed.

Perry wouldn't have had any problems over Gardasil if he had discussed it with parents and the legislature before signing the EO.

I agree that Perry mismanaged the issue. And, at this time, I'm not a Perry supporter. But I do cringe when I see people making claims about candidates that simply are not true.

1,288 posted on 12/10/2011 11:54:23 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: re_nortex

You forgot Sam Wainwright.

HEE-HAW!


1,289 posted on 12/11/2011 1:22:56 AM PST by bigoil (Study Thy Nixon)
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To: kabar

See, I knew it.


1,290 posted on 12/11/2011 3:24:31 AM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: kristinn

C-Span just announced on air, they will rebroadcast the debate twice this evening (Sunday)...9:30 pm and 12:30 am ET.


1,291 posted on 12/11/2011 4:28:58 AM PST by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: txrangerette

Perry is Romney’s kryptonite.


1,292 posted on 12/11/2011 4:35:52 AM PST by JediJones (Professor of Palintology)
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To: maine-iac7

I heard somewhere that Obama did not want to destroy the drone within Iran’s territory because he thought it would be an act of war. That’s wrong on so many levels.


1,293 posted on 12/11/2011 4:39:28 AM PST by JediJones (Professor of Palintology)
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To: eater-of-toast

I’d like the candidates to explain how former Clinton staffer Snuffalupagus is somehow a more acceptable Republican debate moderator than Donald Trump.


1,294 posted on 12/11/2011 4:47:55 AM PST by JediJones (Professor of Palintology)
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To: make no mistake

But there’s a big difference between stating your personal opinion as a candidate and stating the policy of the U.S. government as a president. He’s not speaking for the government now. It’s doubtful Newt would make major statements about the Israeli-Palestinian issue as president without consulting with Israel. But we need to know where he stands as a candidate now. He can’t pull a Herman Cain and say you’ll find out what my policy is after I’m elected.

And let’s face it, what drove this line of questioning was not the idea that Newt would somehow throw a monkeywrench into the negotiations. It was all about towing the politically correct line on the Palestinians. This came up for the same reason Snuff tried to stop Bachmann from talking about the Palestinians’ Nazi-esque textbooks. Do you think Mitt and the media were worried about how Israel would feel about that statement or how the Palestinians would? If you think Israel, then I’ve got a bridge in Palestine I’d like to sell you.

Besides, shouldn’t anyone set themselves up with a hard-line position before entering any negotiations? You don’t start giving stuff away before you even start negotiating. This is the same reason all the candidates were right to say they wouldn’t take a deal where they get 90% spending cuts and 10% tax hikes. If they said that now, that’s exactly where their negotiations would start at with the Dems.


1,295 posted on 12/11/2011 5:00:52 AM PST by JediJones (Professor of Palintology)
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To: Sacajaweau

yeah zero voted present once again..and now the Chicoms have our stuff.


1,296 posted on 12/11/2011 5:21:33 AM PST by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: JulieRNR21

wow! I missed the debate but think just maybe you are right. That was Perry’s big moment!!


1,297 posted on 12/11/2011 5:29:30 AM PST by pollywog ("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
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To: combat_boots

Good catch, that could be yet another reason the whacked out mullahs have our drone.


1,298 posted on 12/11/2011 5:37:38 AM PST by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: Graewoulf

The airport in OKC is Will Rogers, not Wiley Post.


1,299 posted on 12/11/2011 5:38:41 AM PST by I_be_tc
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To: AmericanInTokyo
When Bachman was talking about the textbooks...I started to recall that I heard that story before....way before she was around...

And endorsing Cain...she didn't notice that no one has been jumping to pick up his support??

1,300 posted on 12/11/2011 5:46:47 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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