Posted on 01/30/2008 4:16:12 PM PST by khnyny
Reagan Library Republican Presidential Debate: January 30, 2008
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopefuls will face off Wednesday night without a familiar face as ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out and endorse front-runner Sen. John McCain.
The remaining candidates will take the stage in a debate -- sponsored by CNN, the Los Angeles Times and Politico -- beginning at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, follows McCain's Tuesday night win in the Florida primary.
McCain topped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 36 percent to 31 percent in the hotly contested race.
Giuliani placed third with 15 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 14 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was fifth with 3 percent.
Giuliani is expected to end his White House bid and endorse McCain at a campaign event in California later Wednesday, Republican Party sources said.
Minus Giuliani, the debate will be a four-candidate affair -- McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Paul -- with CNN's Anderson Cooper moderating.
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Yeah, one person clapped.
Caught at what? Timetables as markers of progress are fine. Apparently McCainbots don't think so. The Dems love to say, "look how many years and lives have been wasted with no progress."
Progress is measured over time.
“McCain 100 years in Iraq” question to Ron Paul....
Time out from main event (Romney McInsane)
You must be watching another debate.
Great answer by Paul...Crowd cheered.
I agree
None of the above. Brokered convention please!
Yippeee!!! I remember your son...:)
I know. But my memory on the Clintons is clear, and I will hold my nose and vote for anyone to keep Billary out.
To us he is. But I wonder how independents view this. They may love his style. What's important is not what the choir here thinks what what the larger public thinks. McCain has to be smacked down so even they see him for what he is. Not sure that has happened just yet.
Arpaio said that?
Whoa .. that’s big .. ‘cause
you KNOW he knows all about
McCain.
Me too, he could have lessened the blow by shutting up, but his big fat mouth prolonged it.
Well, that’s what I came from. Romney bitch slapped the old fart.
I’m gonna bake cookies.
Damn, I guess I should stop chasing him now.
Huckabee pouting because he is being left out...
A GOP presidential debate of four non-conservatives at the library of our generation's greatest conservative leader.
Ronaldus Maximus is spinning in his grave
Paul making sense...again.
She’s not a Mitt fan.
Ron Paul’s a lying sack of crap. Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal, Zarqawi.
No. I think that is left from his cancer.......I dunno.
Could be where he keeps his cockamammie.
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