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(LIVE THREAD!) Republican Presidential Debate #3 - Aug. 11, 2011 9pm/6pm: Iowa (FOXNEWS)
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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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To: jersey117

Gingrich was good, and good with a strategy that almost never succeeds - going after the moderator. Bachmann is best on the stump, and while she is usually pretty good in these forums, she was thrown off by Pawlenty, who went from ineffectual to disagreeable. Perry was of course smart to stay away. The real race is Perry v. Romney.


1,381 posted on 08/12/2011 8:47:29 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: americanophile

The real race to be McCain #2 is Perry v. Romney.


1,382 posted on 08/12/2011 8:49:32 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: ohioWfan

That’s what I thought at the time. And like you, still think.


1,383 posted on 08/12/2011 8:51:57 AM PDT by bvw
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To: editor-surveyor

...it is what it is.


1,384 posted on 08/12/2011 8:56:26 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: The Bronze Titan

“You’re gonna put what in your mouth?” - Name that movie!


1,385 posted on 08/12/2011 9:05:09 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: daisy mae for the usa
I did not know Perry was an Aggie Yell leader. Wow. That will be a source of endless derision; those guys are twisted.


1,386 posted on 08/12/2011 9:19:22 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: americanophile

SARAH PALIN 2012...I’m still hoping she jumps in.

Granted anyone is better than Obama, but the choices we have are truly pathetic. I like Santorum, but I don’t think he has any chance,...not enough people like him.

Perry, Romney, Huntsman, Newt....all RINOS. Sure they talk a great game and Newt really sounded great last night. But it’s their walk that does not match up with that talk. They can’t be trusted. Would they get us back on track, possibly. But I’m sure they’d serve THEIR purposes first.

As for Cain and Paul...I like them and they are right on most issues. But I don’t think they’d be great leaders. Cain kind of lost me with his “islam” statements and view points and sometimes he comes across kind of condescending, IMO. Although I’m sure he could get us back on track economically, look what he did to Burger King and Godfathers Pizza!!! At least he has that. Just not sure about the other issues with him.

Paul is great on domestic issues, but foreign affairs...no frakkin thank you. End the Fed - HELL YEH! Go back to the Constitution - HELL YEH!! But thinking Iran is not a threat or that there aren’t muslim extremists that want to KILL US, not sit down and make nicey nicey, is delusional at best. I agree we shouldn’t be meddling in other countries, and I agree the only Nation Building we should be doing, is here on our own damn soil. But we sure as hell should be protecting OUR interests, wherever that is. So, if that means we attack someone else to do so, then so be it. NO ONE is for war..that’s just stupid. But we MUST protect ourselves HERE and ABROAD. I don’t think he gets that and that puts us in danger, IMO.

Bachman is great, but every time I watch her, I think she gets weaker in her arguments. She didn’t come out of that debate so well last night. It’s like she repeats the same lines over and over. She doesn’t seem as strong as we need for a leader, IMO. But I still like her.

I don’t know...tough choices....I just hope we get a conservative who cares about this country and fixing the mess we are in and SAVING THE REPUBLIC AND OUR FREEDOM!!!


1,387 posted on 08/12/2011 9:47:14 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: llandres

“And BOTH he and Herman are far superior intellectually to the Wan.”

So is my Pug.


1,388 posted on 08/12/2011 9:48:37 AM PDT by Grunthor (Faster than the speed of smell.)
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To: ohioWfan

Oh please, I want Obama out as much as anyone here on FR, but I’m not happy with current crop of Republican candidates, not those on stage yesterday and not Perry.

We need someone who can give Obama run for his money, as of now, I don’t think he’s loosing sleep over these challengers. Of course, any of these guys is better than O policy-wise but like I said, we need someone who can actually WIN the election.

Obama is Jimmy Carter’s 3rd term alright, but none of these are Ronald Reagan, not even remotely close.


1,389 posted on 08/12/2011 10:14:40 AM PDT by mickeymice
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To: conservativebabe
Submission after all, is what Liberals want from the electorate. They want complete power over our lives. Submission is exactly what they have gotten from entitlements. So that is the premise they approach it from

Wow. GOOD point.

They want us to submit to them in a very non-Biblical sense (i.e. obey), but reject submission in a Christian marriage, because they have no concept of what it is, and that it requires the mutual respect of two spiritual equals.

In other words, they are all mixed up!

1,390 posted on 08/12/2011 10:19:36 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: mickeymice
You used the word "pathetic" to describe Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Herman Cain. It accurately describes none of them, nor anyone else on the panel except Ron Paul (who goes way beyond pathetic), and claimed that Obama was happy.

Sorry if I don't believe that someone who signed on a few days ago, and attacks the entire Republican field, who are all being very hard on the punk-traitor, is anything but a troll.

1,391 posted on 08/12/2011 10:24:34 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: bvw
Rush doesn't think so, but after hearing Byron on F&F this morning, I think he was helping her out with the question (as awful as it seemed at the time).

The anti-Christian left will pummel her with what she said about submission, and she's already addressed the issue.

Very well, I might add.

1,392 posted on 08/12/2011 10:27:09 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: daisy mae for the usa
LOL about Perry's being a cheerleader. I'm willing to let that go if he has other qualities. :)

I still think that Michele answered the question well, and I know that Sarah would have too, if it were asked of her.

The left doesn't understand willing submission in marriage, first to the Lord, then to each other, but they got a chance to hear about it, possibly for the first time last night.

I agree that Rick was clearer and firmer on values issues, and I was impressed by him last night, and I agree that Cain was strong, and that Newt is bright, but has crossed the ideological divide too often and the moral divide.....well, even once is too much for me.

1,393 posted on 08/12/2011 10:32:51 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: monkapotamus

I hear Monk I didn’t watch Fox news debate I too busy watching my future LA Team San Diego Chargers LOL!


1,394 posted on 08/12/2011 10:37:27 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Lucky9teen
I have never believed Palin would get in, ever, so I'm in the minority around here on that score. I agree on most of your other points. In the end I will support any Republican over Obama, but like you, hope that we get a conservative that's up to the real challenges that America faces; he or she will need a GOP Senate majority however.
1,395 posted on 08/12/2011 10:37:38 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: tsowellfan
We American voter want to hear all candidates in the debates and they should not be denied that.

Nobody denied her except herself.

1,396 posted on 08/12/2011 10:53:35 AM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: ohioWfan

Trust that they never let up on Christian values....never....!


1,397 posted on 08/12/2011 11:10:01 AM PDT by luvie (It's the Obama Downgrade!)
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To: ohioWfan

Professor Limbaugh’s takes on last night’s debate seem strange. I’d like to hear Adjunct Professor Levin’s take.


1,398 posted on 08/12/2011 11:11:58 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Jedidah

I would be pleased if the panels just asked INTELLIGENT questions!


1,399 posted on 08/12/2011 11:12:14 AM PDT by luvie (It's the Obama Downgrade!)
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To: bvw

Maybe it’s because he saw the last part before he saw the first part, and got confused. ;)


1,400 posted on 08/12/2011 11:15:13 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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