Posted on 09/12/2011 7:14:30 AM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: CNN
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.
Oh please. I know netmilsmom.
I posted a cookie recipe here because they were talking about cookies.
I’m a woman.
Grow a sense of humor.
And you know all about stupid, being stupid.
Ad hominem attacks? How very adult of you. I am merely pointing out that we have mandatory vaccines for diseases that kill far fewer people than cervical cancer does - yet everyone is pretending to be so scandalized about this particular one. I say pretending, because I suspect their outrage is largely manufactured in order to gin up opposition to Perry.
If a kid goes to Texas schools K-12 and graduates from a Texas High School, why the heck should he have to pay out of state tuition to go to a Texas college?
What is more disturbing is watching FR members support mandates that impinge on parental rights. You must be a big fan of the Obamacare mandates.
PeterHambyCNN Peter Hamby
Bachmann team sends out press release hitting Perry’s “crony capitalism” cc @SarahPalinUSA
Not to defend taking money for political favors, it’s unacceptable. But do we know why he did it? Was this just a dumb mistake? I can’t picture Perry really selling out 11 & 12 year old girls for a campaign contribution.
Obama on the other hand sold us all out over and over again
And earlier she said she would consider running under a 3rd party banner. I think that leaves the door open.
He's old and confused. He probably thought he was at the democrat debate.
He meant to do good, was corrected on it and acknowledged it. We’ve found that he does listen to the people! That seems like a good thing to me.
Look at all the inoculations kids have had to take before they can enter school. There were tons of bad or fatal reactions to things like the Polio or Smallpox vaccine years ago.
Sometimes, I think it is the upper Midwestern nasal quality that she and Palin share with the Canucks. When they get going, either of them, my left ear hurts.
I don’t like Romney, but his voice is smooth. I’ll say that.
Michelle is wrong to talk about ‘innocent young girls.’ No vaccine is for any innocent. It’d be better if people didn’t have to have vaccines for anything.
I’d rather see Michelle as a Secretary, for example, of HHS or Agriculture. Or Treasury.
I admit it. Seeing a woman as POTUS is hard for me, not for us here, but in dealing with the ChiComs, the NK, Iran and the Arabs. I don’t think we have an Elizabeth Regina in our ranks, and I don’t count women who are more men than women.
I’m happy with Palin whether she runs or not. But news cycles are so fast these days and polling shows that some have gone nuts wondering whether she will or wont,I just don’t get the strategy of it all.But then I’m not running.
That’s nonsense. Unless they get a religious calling there is a pretty high probability they will indeed become sexually active at some point in their lives.
Perhaps your girl Sarah should have taught her daughter to put a condom on.....something so she wouldn’t get knocked up. And with her choice for baby daddy I hope for her sake she was injected with Gardasil as well!
I’m not worried about CNN , just the uninformed people that watch it
I agree. Newt does a great job of reminding people of that.
I don't want Newt as POTUS, but I've been impressed with his performances in the debates and would like to see him play a role in the next administration.
As others have said, I think he'd make a good Press Secretary.
To paraphrase Cain tonight, "It don't work".
She has gone “all-in” on Governor Perry over this. This is either her last act of desperation to be relevant and stay in the race, or it is her doing the bidding of Romney in order to be VP.
That is what Santorum was suggesting in his pointed comments about what Perry expected Texas school girls to learn.
Palin/Newt 2012 ?
My dream team!!!
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