Posted on 08/11/2011 4:15:45 PM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: FOXNews
Broadcast time: 9pm EDT/6pm PDT
The Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, she earned a Master of Laws degree, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as the 58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. Hes an obstetrician-gynecologist and was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty served two terms as governor of Minnesota, from 2002 to 2010. He served in the Minnesota House from 1992 until 2002. He is the son of a truck driver.
Mitt Romney
Romney was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican 2008 nomination for president. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman was Utah Governor, former ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
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Newt was clear winner, no question.
LOL! Romney won?? C’mon Andrea. Wake up and smell the coffee!
AH that explains it
Pushing Romney onto us...
I really wish FNC would quit letting Wallace moderate debates. His bias is obvious.
That’s how I saw it.
Yet, the Fox News online crew (Not Me!) is saying that Romney won, Bachmann lost, and Perry will be the biggest challenge to Romney.
Of course RomneyCare looked “Presidential” he only had a few light challenges.
Romney=another empty suit
The MSM would love that! Ugh
The fact that Romney was so bland and boring didn’t help him any.
I'll look forward to reading your mia culpa one of these days.
you betcha
(and tho the likelihood of its necessity is slight, i would surely reciprocate)
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winner of Debate 1: Herman Cain
winner of Debate 2: Michelle Bachmann
winner of Debate 3 (tonight): Newt Gingrich *
* and I say that as a Newt critic. A Republican adulterer, a climate change believer, a globalist like Newt cannot win the presidency. But dang, he’s good in debates.
Biggest losers: Tim Pawlenty and FoxNews
Newt was on fire.
“... she could wait until it was 6 months off, and have time to make her point. Why submit to the “establishment timecycle”?”
Because 6 months before the election, in May, the primaries are all but over. The delegates to the party conventions will have been chosen. By then one candidate will have a clear lead if not majority of delegate votes adequate to win the nomination. Running as an Independent has yet to work for anyone.
Right now most of the big names and big money are waiting for the final announcements. The wait is going to end very soon. There is, from a practical standpoint, little wait time left.
“She is a Democrat strategist.”
Huh? Someone better tell Newsmax.
Bachmann and Palin won tonight, IMHO.
Big Winners
Newt Gingrich
Runner up: Herman Cain
Big Losers
Tim Pawlenty
Runner up: (tie) Ron Paul and Mitt Romney
Now it's time to go out and get an artery clogger
Newt seemed to be far and away the best to me. Unfortunately he’s just not reliable.
The rest all lumped into the also-ran level or total jokes.
yes. chipmunk is a liberal like his daddy mike wallace.
It wasn’t just the bias....it was the saddest excuse of questions.......Americans are taking this seriously, yet we get the submissive wife question? What a lot of hooey. I was disappointed in FOX’s performance.
I enjoyed seeing and hearing Newt school Brett on his lousy questions.
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