Live Thread: Republican Presidential Debate in Jacksonville, FL on CNN 8 P.M. EST

Thursday, January 26, 2012 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Hosted by Wolf Blitzer at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Candidates: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.

Word is the audience will be "allowed" to participate.

Livestream here.

[mylife]

That was the meme.

[writer33]

No. It’s not just you.

[RitaOK]

This is the doing of whom, these debate sponsors?????

Take it up at your precinct meeting and take it all the way up to your state convention.

[woofie]

Obama, if matched with him, will know his weak spot(s).

Obama IS a weak spot

[tsowellfan]

Looks like Santorum did best in the debate and a toss-up between Newt and Romney for second from all the winner’s lists and opinions I’m seeing.

Agree?

[AnnGora]

Be careful what you say...

[altura]

Amen, sister. I miss him too.

[katiedidit1]

LOL! oh Rita, how can we help Newt win Fla in 4 days?

[BigEdLB]

How about have Sarah ask the candidates questions about energy, John Bolton on foreign policy, Scott Walker on turning the economy around, Jan Brewer on immigration & border control, etc. ....

OUTSTANDING idea!

[rbmillerjr]

Santorum is just taking votes away from Newt, the only conservative who can beat Romney.

[MissMagnolia]

Talking head on CNN - guy with gray hair & mustache (don’t know who he is) just said Newt has NO debating skills, NO warmth, & is a one-trick pony. Nah, CNN is not in the bag for Romney.

[Proud2BeRight]

Apparently your reply was supposed to be directed at someone else because they sure don’t match anything I said.

[manc]

I live near here and tried to get tickets.
We were told that only 800 out of 3000 were out for the likes of us.

The establishment took the rest, meaning 2,200 in the crowd.

It was a woman form the Duval county GOP who told us this , right from them.

[Kenny]

I’m totally for Rick after tonight. If he takes it to Obama like he did to Romney, he can win. He’s right that he’s a true conservative and can best make those contrasts with Obama.

I also loved when he said we have to look at the situation realistically and it’s not pretty. It’s going to take some work and sacrifice to save our country.

[writer33]

Have a good one as well. And I can’t wait for baseball to get going again. :-)

[bray]

Hey RG, how do you think Newt did to Floridians in this debate and his campaign in general down there?

[truthluva]

Just voted:

Thank you for voting!
GINGRICH 18.95% (9,243 votes)

PAUL 35.82% (17,469 votes)

ROMNEY 28.34% (13,819 votes)

SANTORUM 16.88% (8,233 votes)

Total Votes: 48,764

[txhurl]

Why is the GOP establishment so afraid of nominating conservatives? The dems aren’t afraid to nominate flaming liberals.

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Because the Liberals drive the tractor to kill America, intentionally. ‘A Republic if you can keep it’ was good
for 150 years.

[mylife]

That’s Brother LOL

[freemarketsfreeminds]

He llied. He tried to make it sound as though he wasn’t involved in politics at the time. HE WAS RUNNING FOR A SENATE SEAT when he said he didn’t want a return to the Reagan era. Does anyone seriously believe he didn’t know who Reagan was at the time?