Posted on 01/07/2012 1:21:48 PM PST by 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:
(Excerpt) Read more at 2012presidentialelectionnews.com ...
“Perry hasn’t been relevant to this nomination process since that debate gaffe on Nov 9.”
Yea, I know, but I want him out once and for all, so I keep at it. To me, he’s kind of like a tumor - you zap it, think it’s gone, and it starts to grow back. After Iowa, when he was going to ‘re-assess’ I thought it was over...but no, he gets the call from Romney to stay in - in exchange for something (maybe VP, maybe Energy Secretary), and he’s talked into staying in (well, who knows, maybe Anita talked him into staying - but Romney has the most to gain, by far).
You mean like Santorum saying yesterday that immediate cuts should be made to Social Security? That will be the last straw for him for millions of senior voters.
The problem is Paul is an understated threat in the race so far. I really feel he is getting more votes from mainstream voters and not just his usual fringe. His support in IA from 2008 to 2012 went from about 10% to 22%. He is polling in NH around 17-22% when he only got 8% in 2008. Our normal Republicans are being squeezed from Romney on their left and Paul on their right. Paul is getting way too many votes to just write them off.
However, this underscores how he shouldn’t be in the party in the first place. He should be in the libertarian party. He takes the debate into some ridiculous areas that are just a waste of time.
You would think with our huge debt and with Europe cratering under debt that one question might be about debt? Nope, got to talk about sex and homosexuals
Romney bankrupted the state of Mass and was a disaster as governor. So bad he didnt bother to run for reelection because he knew he would lose.
Why does he get a free pass on this. He was an absolute disaster for the state.
What qualifies this filthy rich liberal to be president? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yes he is, and Rick Perry hasn't done squat to stop it.
I'll start squirting blood from my eyes if I keep talking about this.
“Everyone in the “debate” ... showed a grasp of the issues. Gingrich has been good, but not overwhelmingly so.”
I’d say they all demonstrated the ability to answer the questions just fine, but Newt goes beyond the surface questions, and that is why everyone speaks of his superior debating skill.
I.e., they all tap danced forever about the privacy question, birth control, gay marriage, blah blah blah. Newt turned the biased question on its head, and showed that the gay agenda isn’t about some couple wanting a long-term relationship. It’s about achieving government approval and subsequent interference, as happened in MA, DC, an other jurisdictions that adopted ‘gay marriage.’ Catholic Charities that had formerly placed half the adoptive babies in those venues was shut out because their religion doesn’t recognize ‘gay marriage.’ In the same way the Boy Scouts were thrown out of public buildings in Philadelphia for opposing the gay agenda. They are not satisfied with anything less than having the full gay agenda met, and its opponents crushed.
The media is pushing that agenda, and that was behind the question. No other candidate went to the underlying question until Newt blew it wide open. Sorry, none of the others begin to compare with Newt on the debate and articulation front.
>Aren’t transcripts of the debates usually published somewhere after a while?<
yes, they are!
Ill dig thanks
Channel 44 on my home station when I grew up.
LOL
Doh!
“What qualifies this filthy rich liberal to be president? Inquiring minds want to know.”
Beats me...let’s hope the opposition can get behind a single, viable, candidate - such as Newt or Santorum. Otherwise Romney may win by default.
And you really think Perry’s ‘ponzi scheme’ and overall blasting of SS isn’t going to do the same? Please. Perry has alienated just about every group of voters out there.
It would probably be a mistake to run off 20+ percent of the republican voters.
Ok, but I heard him cooing about Perry just this week. He said, "he always brings a smile to my face."
I agree with Rush 99% of the time, but that other 1% makes me crazy.
from the transcript it says:
>But, also, I’m the only one up here and the only one in the Democratic Party that understands true racism in this country is in the judicial system. And it has to do with enforcing the drug laws.<
LOL. And you saw today Arizona is putting an end to those crazy la raza curriculum plans, too?
from the transcript it says:
>But, also, I’m the only one up here and the only one in the Democratic Party that understands true racism in this country is in the judicial system. And it has to do with enforcing the drug laws.<
It’s a shame, because Perry is absolutely right. I thought we almost had a consensus that Obama pulling all the troops out of Iraq and scuttling the immunity deal that could have allowed some to stay was a mistake, against the interest of our nation, and simply pandering to his liberal base. To concede this issue to Obama is a major strategic mistake and wrong on its own merits. We ALWAYS leave troops in countries after we win major wars there (Korea, Japan, Germany, etc.). To fight that war and then completely abandon the country removes our influence there and risks wasting all the blood and treasure we spent there. Perry is not my choice for the nomination but he was the only candidate who was 100% right on this question.
i don’t see how Perry staying in helps Romney at this point. Is his 3-5% in SC really going to make that much of a difference? I doubt it.
That assumes that Romney is only going to win in SC by a tiny margin and that all of Perry’s support would all go the 2nd place finisher. Some would go to Newt, some to Santorum, some to Romney himself, some may just stay home.
Romney taking Perry as VP? Sure.
I think he just didn’t want to go out in total disgrace right away so he figured on making a last stand in SC. Maybe he’s read too much about Crocket and Bowie
Same here. I'm the same with Levin, too. 99/1. :)
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