LIVE THREAD- Republican Presidential Debate -ABC NEWS in New Hampshire

ABC News ^ | 01/05/08

[SE Mom]

Charles Gibson will moderate the Republican and Democrat debates tonight in New Hampshire, beginning at 7 PM Eastern.

Have at it..

[TheLion]

You brought it up. Post yours first.

[rintense]

Sorry, you are the one who said Fred was pro-choice and for amnesty. Its up to you to support your lies with facts. But I won’t hold my breath.

[eyedigress]

Congratulations on your Silver Spoon upbringing.

[Josh Painter]

TheLion wrote: "Romney has been a conservative all his life and attested to by many."

Mitt Romney says you're full of beans:

"I received the endorsement of the NRA." - Source

"My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit." - Source

"My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses." - Source

"In my view, it is not a good idea to go into a [Contract With America] like what was organized by the Republican Party in Washington, laying out a whole series of things which the party said, 'These are the thing's we're going to do.' I think that's a mistake." - Source

"Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." - Source

“I remember in my earliest political experience my father fighting to keep the John Birch Society from playing too strong a role in the Republican Party. He walked out of the Republican National Convention in 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, ‘Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.’ Because he saw that as a tacit approval of the effort the John Birch Society was making to influence the Republican Party. I think that extremists who would force their views on the party and try to shape the party are making a mistake." - Source

"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety." - Source

"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." - Source

"I don't think [The Brady Bill's mandated waiting period] will have a massive effect on crime but I think it will have a positive effect." - Source

"I don't line up with the NRA." - Source

"I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." - Source

"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have, since the time when my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, we should sustain and support it. I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice." - Source

"I think it would be a positive thing to have women have the choice of taking morning-after pills….I would favor having it available." - Source

"There will be children born to same-sex couples, and adopted by same-sax couples, and I believe that there should be rights and privileges associated with those unions and with the children that are part of those unions." - Source

"All people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation." - Source

[TheLion]

I get my points from my own intelligence.

[maine-iac7]

How tall IS Mitt?

Fred’s 6’6”

[Invincibly Ignorant]

All of you Fredites need to get over it. The guy may have good views but he’s not going to win the nomination or the presidency. The early word on him being lazy and without passion or fire in his belly was TRUE. He needs to get out and endorse someone ASAP to help us gain momentum against the dems.Gettin' nervous eh? I love it.

[Khepri]

I hate to say this be Thompson could use botox the way Kerry needed it; and did it.

A little under-the-eyes work would work wonders. He wouldn't look so tired.

You guys sound like Dhimmicrats...

Only consumed politicians from Massachusetts would stoop so low....LOL

[La Enchiladita]

Rudy aces it again on principles.

Huck sermonizes, loves the sound of his own voice.

[rintense]

And that is why you are wrong.

Oh, and you are certainly in the wrong place.

[TheLion]

I was born of very poor means, my dad was a sharecropper. Your cheap attack is disgusting.

[rintense]

Your cheap attack is disgusting.

You're a hypocrite. You throw out blatant lies about Fred and say you don't need facts, you have your own intelligence.

[Pittsburgher]

I have heard Fred say drill in ANWAR multiple times - just not tonight.

[khnyny]

Congratulations on your Silver Spoon upbringing.

Real conservatives do not engage in class warfare.

[La Enchiladita]

I heard it and Charlie heard it and called Huck out on it..;^)

[eyedigress]

Sharecropper Eh! Damn, haven’t seen one of those for a while.

[La Enchiladita]

FRed! answered well re principle: the U.S. Constitution.

[EmilyGeiger]

What a difference Hunter would have made at that table. Yep, that was wrong not to have him and the other candidates that were not invited there. All of the candidates should be there, period.

[TheLion]

There you go again, defining conservatism by which candidate you support. You have no idea how conservative I am.

I talked to my buddy in Wyoming today where conservatism still reigns and he laughed at the partisans in the camps of the other candidates. He and many others out there know that Mitt is the one. You can attack him all you want, you can call me names, but you can’t overcome this simple point.

[Tennessee Nana]

“Fred believed in pro choice and amnesty for illegals at one time.”

One time when????

I’m a conservative and I voted for FRed for the US Senate...

“Romney has been a conservative all his life and attested to by many.”

No, Romney has not been a conservative and he’s just playing one on TV now...