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

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[katiedidit1]

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:

[patriot08]

My dream team is Gingrich/Perry
______________

I’m beginning to think this will beat the Marxist/Muslim.

[AGreatPer]

Hmmn, I don’t think you like him.

[tioga]

Matlin’s face is almost as tight as Nancy Pelosi’s.

[Kenny]

My dream ticket would be Perry/Bachman. Both strict Constitutionalists, both fighters, both with great track records.

[katiedidit1]

tomorrows debate is at 9 am...Union Leader which endorsed Newt is one of the sponsors...January 8, 2012

9am ET on NBC (Yes, 9am)
Location: Chubb Theatre at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH
Sponsor: NBC News, Facebook and the Union Leader
Participants: Santorum, Romney, Paul, Perry, Gingrich, Huntsman

[Rome2000]

Probably from than heretic Mormons planet Kolob

[Yaelle]

Mary’s jaws have been like that even before she married the serpent.

But what happened to her hair?

[RitaOK]

How about FOX BUSINESS? Are they in the tank for Romney? I hear Business FOX is beating FAUX NEWS.

[Afronaut]

"Even Mary Matilin in the tank for Myth. Said Newt’s the Truman Capote of politics/party?"

They are both Mormons, easy to figure out.

My question is, is it possible to pull support from Romney? I think it is impossible to sway voters from Romney because they are 95% Mormon.

There is only a very small turnout for these races and the Mormons are all showing up. The reason his vote count decreased in Iowa was due to the deaths of some of his older Mormon supporters.

[BobL]

“And it brings up an even more important point - Romney has yet to receive that level of vetting.”

Great point - they’ll simply wait until he has it locked up (which hopefully won’t happen), and THEN they’ll vet him...just as they did with McCain (not that he needed it).

[Reddy]

“Anyone but Obama, Romney, and Paul.”

That’s who I’m voting for! :)

[leapfrog0202]

[onyx]

Which channel? I’m pretty far behind on this thread, as always? LOL.

[Windflier]

Rush even refered to Perry as the most Conservative.

I heard Rush say that he liked Perry, but I've never heard him claim that he's the "most conservative" candidate in the race.

[duffee]

He got so little time and not many opportunities to respond. The moderators didn’t ask him many questions and were mostly inane re:gay marriage or the “chicken hawk” attack question and if you noticed the other candidates didn’t reference him so he didn’t get the rebuttal opportunities. He still won the debate in my opinion and look how just jumped in with how the Catholic charities had been effected by federal policies and intervention.

Did anyone notice how inane and uninformative and unimportant this debate appeared compared to the ones where Newt got more time, and he still managed to give it the high points.

[af_vet_rr]

Gingrich shined. Santorum is missing something.

Santorum is too focused on the little things. It's hard to tell how much was Santorum and how much was the moderators, but Santorum seemed to want to fight Paul more than maybe he should have. If Santorum took every little spat he had with Paul and had instead used that time to attack Obama, I think it would have served him better.

I feel Santorum let the moderators lead him into fighting with the other Republicans. He needs to move away from that and focus his fight on Romney and Obama.

This was Bachmann's problem as well, she wanted to mix it up with the other candidates when she should have been mixing it up with Obamney.

[preamble]

The contraception question posed to Mitt Romney was a bit from left
field I agree.

Romney’s response to it was...
TILT TILT TILT
does not compute, does not compute

Santorum has said he personally believes as a Catholic that
he does not believe in birth control. I think that’s why they asked it.
Some liberals have said he wants to outlaw it.

It is a Constitutional question about state police power. But it is
related to Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) which is a precursor to
Roe v. Wade.

Mitt doesn’t DO THE CONSTITUTION. HE DOESN”T EVEN DO RIGHT TO LIFE.
And he is a Harvard Law graduate.

Santorum bailed him out a bit about the new right to privacy they
found in the 9th amendment in Griswold which they used for Roe v Wade
to find it in the US Constitution.

But Mitt was thrown a curve and we saw the real Romney.
Not interested at all in the Tea Party, the Constitution or right to life.
Doesn’t know state police power which he used to justify Romneycare
mandate.

I’m not even sure he would appoint conservative justices after this
because he doesn;’t know FUNDAMENTAL Supreme Court cases.

How the heck is he going to pick SC — Rely on his advisors?

[Gator113]

My rating of these folks:

1-Gingrich, our next president. Every answer was reasonable, presidential and well explained.

2-Perry, he did far better than he has ever done. He could someday become a president, maybe.

3-Santorum, he just fails to impress me and he rambles, but he does do a good job at repeatedly saying, “I agree with Newt”. LOL

..........

Paul, still a loon and a liar, but he does make me laugh.

Romney, slimy lying baby killing POS, period.

Huntsman, I just can’t get interested... he almost puts me to sleep. He talks like a reasonably intelligent 10 year old.

[Yaelle]

Will tomorrow’s debate be live streamed on the web?

[CainConservative]

TOUCHDOWN SAINTS!!!

Oh wait..., wrong thread.