Posted on 09/07/2011 1:53:42 PM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: MSNBC
Broadcast time: 8pm EDT/5pm 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 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.
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman was Utah Governor, former ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an ob-gyn and was Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Rick Perry
Perry is the three term governor of Texas, from 2000 to current. He is a retired Air Force captain for former farmer. He has a degree in animal science.
Mitt Romney
Romney was 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.
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He definitely proved tonight that he's a contender.
Well it doesn't appear to be working for Texas when you look at their educational scores. Maybe if they'd close the border they could get a handle on it.
I didn’t make it up. Perrybots walk around with it stamped on their foreheads.
Danae’s 2 cents on the debate (I will take that in gold thanks):
1) Herman Cain, He had specific plans which I believe WILL actually work in turning our economy around and returning the USA to #1 status across the board. He has the executive exp., he has the conseverative street creds, and he has the POTENTIAL to draw vast numbers of plantation blacks off the democrat slave farm and free them for real. There is no other candidate with the hand he holds. FOR REAL.
2) Bachman - she has been consisant in walking the talk in congress. Booyeah.
3) Huntsman - He cogently made every single issue he spoke to app;icable to average americans. He is on the right side of things, his lack of name recognition is his only negative.
Romney and Perry are ESTABLISHMENT GOP choices which take them right off my desert plate. Faggadeabout it. In many ways I would rather starve, but push comes to shove I will take either one over the Oblidiot. But then I would take Ron Paul over Oblidiot... even off his meds.... and that says more about the Oblidiot than it does about Ron Paul.
Thats Danae’s take on it.
I’ll be here all week, please don’t throw cash, just throw gold! Make sure to try the roast beef!
Good to hear! Hope I can be home to watch the next debate. :)
LOL
Then you're willfully ignoring it. There's a virtual epidemic of that on the forum right now. I've seen Perry supporters belittling Palin supporters on this very thread.
ROTFLOL!.....Obama's bringing the troops home is just another tactic to gain political points from his base by making it appear he's kept his promise. There's little he can do now tat is going to change how people are thinking....but he will not go out easily Windflier...this guys not done yet and he's going to be revengeful I think.
Perry did a good job of getting Ron Paul to admit how he really feels about Reagan. Ron Paul really stepped in it and will be gone soon. Thanks to Rick for helping to get that kook out.
So what you are saying is your word is the final word, and trumps all other opinions?
I say he sucked
Amen
Cuban vs Mexican vs Haitian...
That is a huge difference. The old joke during the Elian Gonzalez drama was...
Q: How do you convince Americans to support sending him back?
A: Tell them he’s from Haiti.
I introduce her to my right hand and ask, "Are you open to a threesome?"
I’ve always wondered that same thing.
Comic gold, right there.
Perry called SS a ponzi scheme and you call him an Establishment choice? See what the establishment calls him tomorrow.
Perry = RINO
Mittens = RINO
We are so screwed.
I’m tired of hearing “Newt is damaged goods”, “Newt has too much baggage”, “Newt is unelectable”, “Newt is irrelevant”, blah, blah, blah. BS. Obama’s coke use, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, and total inexperience SHOULD have made Obama unelectable, yet he won by a wide margin. Mitt’s “Romneycare” is worse baggage than any of Newt’s past issues.
A big part of winning the next election will be winning the public debate of ideas. If you could pick ONE candidate to debate Obama in (9) ninety-minute debates with NO moderator (...which is what Newt will force Obama to do...), who would it be? I bet 9 out of every 10 people here would want Newt Gingrich to be that guy. It means something to dominate debates in the way Newt does.
Newt vs Obama in a debate would be more brutal that Dick Cheney vs. John Edwards. Much more brutal. I really want to see that. I don’t care what the media says about Newt’s “baggage”. He has my full support.
Having Palin as POTUS would be a bonus!
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