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

[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.

[combat_boots]

Go to your happy place, Stephy!

“Man Destroys Computer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtTUsOKjWyQ

[imchris]

Newt and Mitt are both doing fine (Newt is going really well).

[llandres]

Yuck - Rick’s better looking than Willard (Mittens).

[rodguy911]

Don’t know about that but he sure established himself as the most rino of all tonight IMHO.

[BCrago66]

You’re kind of sickening. Newt’s OK.

[mylife]

Perry doesnt get to respond on the gaurdasil issue?

WTF?

[sheikdetailfeather]

Here we go with the vaccine fixation again. Geesh!

[TomGuy]

Romney gets defensive by claiming his Romneycare wasn’t FEDeral, but state.

Romney says they didn’t raise taxes.

[Chris Wallace caught Romney on that last year — MA got Federal funds to set up Romneycare, so they did NOT have to raise taxes — until years later, after Romney was out as governor.]

[Williams]

I don’t think Mitt did good saying “I wanted to give people health insurance”.

[katiedidit1]

she must have made a mint on tax deductibles...from the kids

[Jane Long]

Mittens wagers.

[TomGuy]

Gingrich now claims that ‘mandates’ are — but they weren’t when ‘the Republicans’ and Gingrich were for them in the early 1990s.

[newzjunkey]

Newt said multiple times that the only reason Romney didn’t become a career politician was that he lost to Ted Kennedy in ‘94.

I like that Newt got Romney to admit it was true.

[LostInBayport]

I don’t think Mitt did good saying “I wanted to give people health insurance”.

No, because what he did was FORCE us to buy it (and then fine us if we don't).

[bobby.223]

Then he wants to bet Perry. Perry smartly did not take the idiot Mitty up on it.

[fatima]

He did lose weight.

[SamAdams76]

I thought the Mormons were anti-gambling.

Did I just see Mitt Romney offer to make a $10,000 bet (handshake and all) with Rick Perry?

[JulieRNR21]

Mitt is trying to wiggle out of what he did in MA.....but he’s tied to the individual mandate forever!

[Cato in PA]

The funny thing about Bachmann is that she’s 100% right, but she irritates me every time she opens her mouth.

[GourmetDan]

The fact that the Republicans allow liberals to ‘moderate’ their debates shows that it is nothing but a dog and pony show.

They allow their opponents to define them.

They are not serious.