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.

[Newton]

I’m waiting for the big question about their favorite food.

[Cato in PA]

Newt seems to be picking up steam. This is good.

[Leep]

I’m just calling em how I sees’em.

[rodguy911]

Amazing it takes Santorum to bring up the debt after an entire hour of blather.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Santorum bringing it back to Obama.

[Jane Long]

Newt’s talking solutions, Milt and Paul are hurling attacks.

[Fawn]

Yeah, crazy uncle paul needs to shut the hell up.

[bigbob]

Newt’s big grandiose moonbase idea (channeling JFK?) probably sounded like a good idea after SC when he was riding high but now it sounds kind of dopey...

[Reagan69]

Romney REALLY likes to FIRE people, apparently.

[Calliecat]

Me, too.

[RobinWWJD]

I can’t vote for Myth under any circumstance. I’d rather schedule the removal of a wisdom tooth (and I’m afraid of dentists) then vote for that POS.

[AFPhys]

Why didn’t any of them remind Wolf that the ‘toon and zero never released their medical records ?

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EXcellent point!

[CitizenM]

You can’t be serious about voting for Zero if Paul is not the candidate! What foolishness.

[indpndtguy]

Newt is a leader with big and executable ideas!

[Shortstop7]

This is a disaster..

[bgill]

Sorry, audience lady, but it’s really not the government’s responsibility to provide you health care.

[Right_in_Virginia]

:^) Understand.

[TJA]

Newt is getting killed

[ez]

Haltime score

Santorum A

Paul A-

Newt B

Romney C

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Question from audience: "I'm unemployed. What will you do for my healthcare?"

Paul has pretty good first response.