Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #1~ Reagan Library 05/03/07 - Official Discussion Thread

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Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #1 – Reagan Library 05/03/07 - Official Discussion Thread

• Sam Brownback
• Jim Gilmore
• Rudy Giuliani
• Mike Huckabee
• Duncan Hunter
• John McCain
• Mitt Romney
• Ron Paul
• Tom Tancredo
• Tommy Thompson

  The debate will take place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and will air live on MSNBC from 8:00 to 9:30 pm (ET) and stream live on MSNBC.com and politico.com and will include audience questions gathered on politico.com.

[don-o]

Internet FRink!!!

[EternalVigilance]

It's not a debate... it's Hardball with a lot of Republican guests.

Bullseye!

[TomGuy]

Hunter - major failure of the government — NOT securing the border. I didn’t catch what he said the government did right.

Blew up Zarqawi's safe house --- with him in it. lol

[NittanyLion]

Kudos to Rudy for answering the Shiite Sunni question. That was a gotcha for sure.

Yep. I give him credit for that.

[CharlesWayneCT]

My daughter was waiting for him to get it wrong so she could correct him, but he got it right and she said “darn”.

[stockstrader]

I agree. McCain, Guiliani, and Paul were the worst three at this point.

[acapesket]

new website via people who have worked for and/or left the Washington Post. It’s totally about DC and the respondents are mostly moonbats.

They are a Gotcha Gang, just not as bad as the MSM.

[TheDoctorNoh]

Total set-up question. The real answer is “who cares, if they’re against us they’re burnt toast. We’ll let God pick through the crumbs.”

[unspun]

Romney... Hunter... in that order.

It can be difficult to argue with Ann Coulter (leaning Romney, last I heard ;-).

[Halls]

I saw a few hands, but didn’t pay attn to it. Anyone else see who raised their hands that didn’t believe in evolution?

[mylife]

Thankfully I did not.
Mc Cain gave a good answer to that one

[johnny7]

McCain... and especially Rudy were lackluster.

[Old_Mil]

I didn’t catch what he said the government did right.

"Precision guided munitions on top of Zark's safehouse."

[Reagan Man]

SHUT UP ROOTY!

[mimaw]

Just exactly what has the old bag been through that others have not have to endure? I took care of both my parents until their death and I cared for my husband for ten years of our 30 yr marriage. Don’t lecture me about what poor Nancy went through. No matter what I went through I never thought killing embryos was the answer.;

[Miztiki]

Let me know if you get an answer.

[newzjunkey]

I was hoping someone would tell me who mentioned mandatory spending. That's exactly the problems Arnold had in CA when he first came to office. He gave up after being slandered by the media and unions with over $100 million attack campaign.

Mandatory spending is a great evil in gov't. Because of it, spending will always go up.

Rudy is fantastically unimpressive in this debate. He's very much mayor material.

[no dems]

If Rudy says he lowered crime in NYC one more time I think I’ll puke.

[merryweather]

One shot for

- Question to Rudy
- Iraq
- Rove
- Abortion

Two shots for

- Culture of Corruption
- Religion

[bnelson44]

bingo