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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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No he’s gone now. I saw him wrap up his show with a thoughtful invitation for us to join him on Twitter as he scores the debate. As if.
Perry hit it out a park!! YOU GO COWBOY!
OK, where in this thread does the actual debate start?
Is every question going to be a White House talking point meant to damage the candidate? That’s how it’s been on the 1st two.
Okay. I’m voting for the first candidate who steps beyond the podium and smacks Brian Williams across the head.
It’s like the questioner is assuming Obama’s position in a debate. This is surreal.
I am just happy to find an online source to stream the debate.
Rick looks good.
GO RICK!!!
Not everyone watches FNC (sorry to say) This will give these candidates more exposure
At first, I made a committment to personally attempt to raise the level of discourse on Palin and Perry threads because I support both Perry and Palin. However, the name-calling and trashing of Perry supporters is such a turnoff that I mostly stay away from the threads. There’s very little objectivity. I reached the end of my patience when they started trashing Texas and Texans in their criticisms of Perry. Criticizing Perry is fair game. Trashing Texans is not.
TY tj
I brought the audio on XM radio. I am a better listener than watcher anyhow
Seems like McRomney had more time to answer....hmmm...prepared?
We understand completely how most of you feel about how these questions are framed and the a-hole moderators, however, everyone, please watch the language. We really don’t want to pull good comments because of one bad word. This is a family forum.
Thanks..
GO HOME!
Yeah, but Perry just dinged him good.
“Okay. I’m voting for the first candidate who steps beyond the podium and smacks Brian Williams across the head.”
LMFAO
lol; no; have debate channel paused on TIVO, so I will catch it eventually.
I don’t know about that—MSNBC is relegated to the upper cable channels on most systems these days. I think this is getting the network more viewers tonight than it’s had in the last three months.
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