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. He’s 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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Of course you didn't. Neither did I. We are not typical American voters. We saw through his statements in the debates. We know how to do that. He basically put together a bunch of college words and rattled on but we listened closely and realized he said absolutely nothing everytime he spoke. Yet he got applause!
Sarah Palin's got my vote. It's winning the others' votes in order to beat Obama that concerns me. If she's going to run she needs to get in now.
If you're the one that posted the 1200 word post without the breaks, I didn't read beyond the first couple of sentences.
i don’t think the debates had anything to do with why he won. If the Bush was at 50% and the economy was in good shape, McCain likely wins. The 8 yrs of the GOP in the WH also hurt, it’s tough to win 3 terms in a row.
I’m just saying I don’t really think the debates will matter all that much next year.
Either the economy will have improved and Obama will win against anyone. Or, things will be the same or perhaps worse in which case he’ll lose against anyone and nothing he’ll say in the debates will matter
You missed it. Keep looking.
I’m too damned dyslexic to type more than a couple sentences. Wasn’t me.
OTOH, you and I agree upon much more than we disagree. You’re just more impatient.
Okay. Point taken. So you are not in the no Palin at any cost catagory. I will disagree that these *debates* were debates though. They were katie couric interviews on steroids. Sarah has honed her skills by talking with real people on the ground everywhere she goes. She silenced the union goons in Wisconsin on their own turf by looking them straight in the eye and telling them the truth about themselves. I’m convinced.
i think Rubio will be the VP Candidate no matter who the Presidential Candidate is.
I paraphrased nothing in my reply to your post. In fact, I copied and pasted your post above my reply so that paraphrasing was not necessary.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2762391/posts?page=1236#1236
owebama is a teleprompter baby. Uh, uh, uh is the most he can string together on his own. In a one on one debate he will crumble.
Newt Goes Nuclear on Super Committee
http://nation.foxnews.com/newt-gingrich/2011/08/11/newt-knocks-debt-ceiling-question-out-park
Gingrich Defends Campain Stability
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1106058273001/newt-gingrich-defends-campaign-stability
That is a beautiful thought. I’ll ruminate on that as I wander off to sandland.
G’nite all y’all.
Foremost, the survival of our republic stands upon the defeat of Obama.
I would agree with your scorecard. It is not good to see two governors with the necessary executive experience for the presidency on the bottom of the list.
If Palin were running she's got my vote and she had my vote since 2008.
I quoted your paraphrase in 1260.
Nite.
I think that is what we would like to see but I feel Rubio will not get on a ticket with some bafone he knows will not win...the VP does not carry the ticket, the guy at the top does albeit he can help. I don’t think either Rubio or Palin or anyone I can think of would be able to carry most of those on the platform this PM.
A wager on what? Cain is in the middle of the pack now. All I said is I don’t discount him yet. You dismissed him like he is Gary Johnson or huntsman. I said Cain shot to the top tier in the SC debate and then faded back. I don’t think he is likely to win, but he’s not out yet. I good performance this weekend or a later debate and he could move back up.
“Kiss my ass, Ron Paul.”
Ditto that. He really showed his butt tonight. And his crazed, loud, disruptive “fans” as well. I thought more of Santorum tonight just for going up against him.
When it comes to foreign policy - particularly Iran, Israel, the middle east in general and radical Islam - RP’s a downright danger to our country. Why won’t he just go away???
“gotta say I am liking Newt more than ever tonight.”
Gingrich has always been the go-to guy for bomb-throwing comments. He knows Washington, he knows Government.
Unfortunately, he also fits the mold of the slimy political whore with no cred, going along with whatever the Democrat-pushed Media meme of the moment is.
NO THANKS...
Maybe as Sec of State, or a Dept. Sec, but not as President.
Out of all the bodies on this stage tonight, I honestly thought ROMNEY delivered the best, and most presidential performance. But he is NO conservative.
And I question if he really has the gonads to throw it back at Obama, to his face.
This is just the prelims, and I’m not sweating it...
And don’t fall for the media meme that it’s “TOO LATE!” for anyone else to get in. There are STILL at least two people I’d like to hear from.
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