Posted on 01/06/2008 4:03:39 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #14 – Milford, New Hampshire 01/06/08 - Official Discussion Thread
Fox News Channel; Roundtable format
Candidates the gatekeepers are allowing to participating:
McCain wants to be “humane and compassionate.”
“I am not a social conservative. I am a “cut my taxes and protect my country” conservative. I’d be OK with anyone besides McCain or Huckabee getting the nomination. McCain lost my vote when he was against the Bush tax cuts. Huckabee is not as hard on islamic extremism as I’d like a president to be. And the FairTax plan that he supports is a croc of BS. I’m more of a flat tax person. Keep the current structure and get rid of the estate tax, reduce the income taxes lowering the marginal rates, eliminate the capital gains tax, then reduce government services and entitlements.
So that leaves Mitt, Rudy, and Fred. Mitt is going to have some real problems winning over independents and Reagan democrats if he can’t even win some of these early contests that he poured millions into.
So that leaves Fred and Rudy. Fred does not have the personality appeal needed to win over the country in the election. Rudy CAN win against the democrat while pulling in some independents and preventing a bloomberg 3rd party intervention.”
-Sounds smart to me. Don’t pay attention to the criticism. I hope there are lots more college kids like you.
Because you're shallow?
*IF* Huck gets the nomination, he’s gonna have to work darn hard to get the base. He seems to be running like he’s already got the nomination and needs to appeal to moderates. His Gitmo statements are just crazy.
Huckasnake on here alert:)
McQueeg just can’t give up on amnesty.
yeah, except Thompson does not appear to be subdued by handlers, a move that still baffles me.
Oops, my fault.
I resent the hell out of the fact that Romney has already spent $17 mil of his own money and some of it was spent spreading a dirty rumor on Fred the day of the Iowa caucus..
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Do you have a reference for this, or are you choosing to believe MSM lies?
McCain claims he wouldn’t give the Z-visa to everyone (even though we know he’d give it to just about everyone). There is nothing humane about exploiting illegal aliens for cheap labor.
Mitt is now exposing the McCain-Kennedy shamnesty.
The Rats are salivating to release the trash on this guy..
sw
Great Zinger!!
McCain should STOP defending his old amnesty plan which is dead, and juat say he got the American people’s message.
He’s letting Romney seem tough on this issue, and Romney isn’t.
Mitt is making McCain look really bad on amnesty!!!
Is Mary Matalin still working for Fred?
Hello,
Because you have been here since last month.
MOgirl
LOLOLOL
like “ the world needs more maps” ?
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