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 ...
“Newt had the courage and is the leader. Both Romney and Perry followed through.”
You are so right...Go Newt!
Romney gives meaninglewss answer about getting out of Afghanistan.
Huntsman says civil war is next for A’stan.
Newt: we are asking the wrong question.
Says we have a region wide crisis which we have been mismanaging.
Says needs a fundamental new strategy.
He seems to be attacking Obama right now. Maybe just bad timing on your complaint.
Oh yes, Gingrich did a great job too...the Hussein fellators at the moderator’s table are trying, unsuccessfully, to get these guys to attack each other. LOL. They are failing.
Lol, Santorum is so wimpy compared to Newt. The contrast is awful for him.
I love his snark! LOL
He knows just where to hit them!
What is going on? Romney agreed with Newt and now Santorum agrees with Newt? does that mean NEWT is the man?
I love Perry and I like Newt very much.
Glad they are both doing well tonight.
By the way, would people who mention ‘Rick’ please specify which Rick they are talking about.
It gets confusing.
What? Huntsman said we didn’t get good info from commanders on the ground in the 60s?! Mr. Huntsman, DC got its info from the protesters on the college campuses!
Newt just summed up the mid east in a minute!!! No one else standing there could do that!!!
It's really not even worth our time.
They are giving Huntsman way too much time to talk.
Did Fraud Paul pull his ‘the government has no business in marriage’ crap?
It's really not even worth our time.
They are giving Huntsman way too much time to talk.
Here comes the second Newtron bomb of the night...he looks like a man among boys up there. He understands the ME and these morons who keep driveling about whether we should be there need to shut up. Nice bolster by Santorum.
Santorum doesn’t know what the heell he is talking about.
Santorum looking presidential regarding Islam....
Yes, marriage is a religious issue -- a sacrament of the church. It is also a social issue. And it is a legal issue.
The Federal government has a legitimate role in the legal definition of marriage. For one thing, we don't need fifty different legal definitions -- one from each state.
No one on ABC confronts Romney over the lie
even as Romney blames others for HIS use of
improper executive authority. [The Romney Way™]
"While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claims he did everything possible to throttle homosexual marriage in his state – his campaign now saying he took "every conceivable step within the law to defend traditional marriage" – several constitutional experts say that just isn't so.
"What Romney did [was] he exercised illegal legislative authority," Herb Titus said of the governor's actions after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its opinion in the Goodridge case in 2003. "He was bound by what? There was no order. There wasn't even any order to the Department of Public Health to do anything."
Titus, a Harvard law graduate, was founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School. He also worked with former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, ...
Romney's aides have told WND that after four of the seven court members reinterpreted the definition of marriage, he believed he had no choice but to direct clerks and others to change state marriage forms and begin registering same-sex couples.
Some opponents contend that with those actions, Romney did no more or less than create the first homosexual marriages recognized in the nation. And Titus agrees."
"....But the court's decision conflicts with the constitutional philosophy of three co-equal branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial, Titus said. It also violates with the Massachusetts Constitution, which states: "The power of suspending the laws, or (suspending) the execution of the laws, ought never to be exercised but by the legislature..."
And it cannot even be derived from the opinion itself, asserts the pro-family activist group Mass Resistance, which says the decision did four things:
* First, it acknowledged that the current law does not permit same-sex marriage.
"The only reasonable explanation is that the Legislature did not intend that same-sex couples be licensed to marry. We conclude, as did the judge, that G.L. c. 207 may not be construed to permit same-sex couples to marry."
* Second, it said it is NOT striking down the marriage laws (among other things, the Massachusetts Constitution forbids a court to change laws)
"Here, no one argues that striking down the marriage laws is an appropriate form of relief."
* Third, it declared that not allowing same-sex marriages is a violation of the Massachusetts Constitution.
"We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution."
* And fourth, given that the court is not changing any laws, the SJC gave the Legislature 180 days to "take such action as it may deem appropriate."
"We vacate the summary judgment for the department. We remand this case to the Superior Court for entry of judgment consistent with this opinion. Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the Legislature to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion."
After the Legislature did nothing during the 180 days, Romney then took action "on his own," the group said.
"Gov. Romney's legal counsel issued a directive to the Justices of the Peace that they must perform same-sex marriages when requested or 'face personal liability' or be fired," the group said."
Santorum has a good answer too
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