Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #8 – Dearborn, MI 10/09/07 - Official Discussion Thread

[CounterCounterCulture]

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #8 – Dearborn, Michigan 10/09/07 - Official Discussion Thread

CNBC/MSNBC/The Wall Street Journal are jointly sponsoring the first Republican Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign focusing on economic issues. It will be held on October 9 in Dearborn, Michigan at the University of Michigan-Dearborn at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. Broadcast is live on CNBC at 4 PM ET (1 PM PT) and re-broadcast on MSNBC at 9 PM ET (6 PM PT). CNBC's Maria Bartiromo and MSNBC's Chris Matthews will host the debate.

Live streaming on CNBC.com

Candidates participating:

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

[RasterMaster]

Been ahead of the curve on all the issues....maybe it is others who have been proven wrong every time that are short-sighted.

[traditional1]

Hunter has zero electablility and cannot even get off the bottom of the scale. You can waste your time beating the dead “dark horse”. Without a world market, the U.S. economy tanks. Protectionism won’t work today, and Hunter ignores that fact.

[airborne]

Sorry. I’ll behave.

[TomGuy]

McCain: The American people no longer have trust that we (government) can fix anything.

[True, Senator, and we have doubts most of you would do it as President. Why should we trust you with the Oval Office when most of you have failed so miserably in the Congress?]

[davidosborne]

I can see why Fred Thompson sat out the previous debates.. he is not doing well here without a script.. Duncan Hunter scores again... !

[jonathanmo]

Good summarization...!

[mnehring]

I think you are right, when they do a close up, look at the lighting behind him, they have the lights too low. They have the lights at Ron Paul height (umpa lumpa height)

[rodguy911]

I’m listening on C-spam and Fred sounds weak, somewhat unsure compared to the others,he should have got in earlier IMHO.

[Darth Republican]

How about if we trade our illegal immigrants to the Chinese?

[CounterCounterCulture]

McCain: job retraining programs. stop spending. waste in defense spending.

Tancredo: the problem of illegal immigration, restore the people’s faith in gov’t by doing something about illegal immigration, not just talking about it.

[dschapin]

Actually I think Hunter is doing great. He is stepping up and confronting the front runners this time and he will get noticed instead of getting lost in the crowd this time. He also is looking very confident and sounding very presidential.

[pissant]

You are grossly misconstruing his position.

[wastedyears]

That sounds good

[trumandogz]

Fred looks tired.

Apparently, he does not have his Law & Order make-up artist on his campaign staff.

[AmericanMade1776]

Romney looks great, sounds great, talks business... you go Romney.

[SoCalPol]

China cuts will NOT bring jobs back

You know this how?

[redgirlinabluestate]

Strict constructionist Justice Scalia disagrees with Rudy and dissented on that case:

Had the Line Item Veto Act authorized the President to "decline to spend" any item of spending contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, there is not the slightest doubt that authorization would have been constitutional. What the Line Item Veto Act does instead -- authorizing the President to "cancel" an item of spending -- is technically different. But the technical difference does not relate to the technicalities of the Presentment Clause, which have been fully complied with[.] Clinton, 524 U.S. 417, 469 (1998)

Mitt is right. There is a way to have a line item veto that will pass constitutional muster.

[Kevmo]

You mean for Chinese illegal immigrants?

[carton253]

I feel so sorry for you. Is what you posted to me truly the level of your debate?

[traviskicks]

Hey, I know you hate Paul’s critiquie of the Federal Reserve and the Military-Indusrial complex but he didn’t call for income redisribution . You must really hate Paul, however, to resort to lies, especially since everyone hear actually saw what he said.

Thanks, income redistribtuion is anthetical to everything paul belives so I figured folks were either BSing or he misspoke.