GOP New Hampshire Primary debate tonight on ABC at 9 PM et [LIVE THREAD]

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GOP New Hampshire primary debate tonight on ABC at 9pm ET

By Nate, on January 7th, 2012

Tonight will mark the first of two debates this weekend focused on the New Hampshire Republican primary. This evening's debate will take place at Saint Anselm College and is sponsored by ABC News, Yahoo! and WMUR. Sunday morning will feature a GOP debate broadcast on NBC at 9am ET (yes, am) but look for more details on that later today.

Air Time: Saturday, January 7th at 9pm ET / 6pm PT on ABC

Live Stream: WMUR and Yahoo! News

Participants: Santorum, Romney, Paul, Perry, Gingrich, Huntsman

Report from WMUR:

[Kenny]

If enough people admit to liking Perry, I think he has a real shot. The media has made people feel like they’d be stupid to even consider Perry and I’m not sure if all that chatter, news, and commentary can be turned around.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Well, they’re analysis is right...no one really went after Mitt very hard....except for that dope who spoke Chinese...the guy who worked for Hussein.

[this is my country]

In my eyes, Gingrich has shined, and some of Santorum’s responses have been very good.

Gingrich shined. Santorum is missing something.

[Bigun]

Huntsman makes me want to hurl

Ron Paul has exactly the same effect on me! He is a despicable, lying piece of human waste and nothing more!

[exit82]

LOL! I sent Fred Thompson money on a Saturday and he left the race the following Monday.

You aren’t the only one!

[altura]

I think Rick Perry went all out in Iowa and was a little stunned and disappointed that Santorum won instead.

Of course, Santorum spent a year sitting in Iowa parlors listening to granny talk about her grandkids.

I don’t understand why people find it odd that a person would take some time to reflect and consider his options.

I would want that in a president.

After he thought about it, he realized that bowing out after one caucus defeat would be a betrayal of himself and his supporters and decided to continue through South Carolina.

[Vermont Lt]

And he had an apple in the brief case.

[af_vet_rr]

You are correct that it was Bush's timetable as approved by the Iraqi legislature. However, we have 8,000 US contractors armed to the teeth defending our diplomatic facilities, provinicial reconstruction teams, and NGOs. All of this is now under the direction of the State Department. I predict that we will suffer a significant loss of American lives in Iraq under this arrangement.

Now that the US Army isn't there propping up the Iraqi government or trying to maintain some semblance of neutrality, the Shiites and Sunnis are going to be more worried about killing off each other. Iraq is just a Middle Eastern version of Yugoslavia. You've got a few groups of people who hate each others guts and are never going to completely get along. It's just falling apart a lot faster than Yugoslavia.

And we could very well see a civil war break out damaging our strategic national interests in the region.

Iraq is in 3rd or 4th place on our list of problems in that region. Our biggest problems are our artificial reliance on Middle Eastern oil, an unstable Pakistan and its nukes, and Iran. If we don't address those other problems, Iraq will not matter, and we can prop up Iraq for decades to come, but it still won't address the other three problems.

That's why I liked Gingrich's take on the situation - Pakistan, Iran, and Middle Eastern oil are all much bigger regional problems.

[Utmost Certainty]

Newt did go after Mitt a few times, but the moderators would switch to an entirely different person after and avoid Mitt giving a rebuttal. Lame.

[Yaelle]

I like perry but he doesn’t seem quick on his feet at all. I doubt he could beat Obama.

[txhurl]

I’m surprised quite a few freepers haven’t started calling Perry a ‘gun-nut’.

[onyx]

If I knew, they’d be “Gone baby, Gone”!

Huntsman’s a bore, and Paul is deplorable.

[RitaOK]

Okay, who was rolled by whom?
Newt rolled the democrats.
Whose competence and intellegence pioneered the sweep of Congress after 40 years in the desert?
Newt did.
Whose afraid of that competence, naturally??
The Democrats.
What Republicand did NEWT burn?
The current Establishment.
Whose money is alligned against him and their favor calling?
The Marxists, the Republican Establishment and the media.

You’re right. That is over the top.
OVER THE TOP ACCOMPLISHMENT. NEXT?

[Leep]

Whoa they have a Republican giving opinion.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Mary Matalin the single Republican on the ANALysis stage.

[angelcindy]

Again the media is picking the nominee,,,grrrrrrrr

[NoPrisoners]

Ron Paul Take away his drivers license...Rick and Newt really overwhelm [Romney] on policy.

Excellent post especially the above :)

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Bingo.

If Huntsman thinks speaking Chinese just to show off, when we’re losing millions of Jobs to dishonest trade practices was going to win him any votes, he’s delusional.

What a dumb thing to do.

He should just go ahead and quit now.

IMHO that exchange was Romney’s strongest of the debate. We need more of that from Republicans.

Santorum also did well on that. Santorum is now a strong second in this race after tonight.

Formidable.

I’m impressed with Santorum.

[reaganaut]

BTW, I hate Mitt even more than I hated McCain, but I’ll do what’s necessary in November.

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Which is exactly what Mitt wants.

What is necessary is to get Mitt the hell out of the Primary and vote for a real conservative.

I will NEVER EVER EVER vote for Mitt!

[Bigun]

I concur!

But on my list Paul would show up in the following post he’s so low!