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.
I love Cain, but that portion is mandated in the Constitution. You're not one of those people who think we need to throw "that tattered old thing" out are you?
I thought she was wrong to say she didn’t accept his saying he made a mistake. But, that wasn’t the bad part. The bad part was when she went on to say that a president can’t make mistakes. That was goofy...AND...it came across goofy.
Does that mean that you did know?
It’s all due to quantum entanglement.
Why do we have to settle for Romney or Perry, while we have Governor Palin that does not have to apologize for anything she did in elected office
Bachmann was not shrill... she has a nice voice but she used it to say some really nasty things tonight.
She went way down in my estimation. Way down. I never thought she had a chance for the nomination but I did admire her.
they ain’t leaving now, UNTIL WE straighten out the illegal immigration mess
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That’s the truth.
Perry said he isn’t for amnesty, did he not? I suppose there is some truth to not having a fence across the whole Texas border, but having them at metropolitan areas and a butt-load of other backups the whole border— boots on the ground, aviation assets/UAV’s. That would definitely be an improvement.
Perry as the president wouldn’t be able to write the laws and if we got enough in the house and senate, Perry wouldn’t buck a hard-nosed immigration policy, he would sign it.
After tonight, the only ones I’m watching are Cain, Newt and Perry.
Cain needs to make up more ground than Bachmann but he doesn’t make up his ground by tearing down others. He gets called on the least, too. I’m not really down with the 9/9/9 plan but it IS better than what we currently have.
Newt doesn’t tear down others to make his ground, either. Newt is smart as hell and my dream would be to see Obama debate him—Obama would be a pretzel, show his ignorance and prob’ly start crying or lose it. heh heh
Perry has his issues but I like him. Not completely comfortable with him but something about him I really like. He said he was wrong with the EO on the Gardasil stuff, at this time I will take him at his word.
Michele really disappointed me tonight. I also am tiring of some of her pat answers. She is very stiff.
Guardasil.......we talk’n bout Guardasil.
Ridiculous that candidates getting caught up in doing Blitzer’s bidding while our Nation is at Risk.
When the legislature passed the bill to nullify Ricardo's intrusive nanny-state Gardasit EO and he railed against it, condemned them for doing it and did not sign it (yes, Perrybots, I know he didn't have to)
Ricardo never backed down form his EO, he stood squarely behind it. Now he admits it was a 'mistake' but he is running for POTUS, he has to.
The man is a fraud.
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Perry did not really back away from the most important aspect, politically, of his EXECUTIVE decision to mandate the vaccine.
A doorknob doesn’t spread HPV?! Don’t tell that to Dan Savage!
Did you know that you had to get the governments permission to opt out?
As in:
Parents’ Rights.The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law.This executive order supersedes all previous orders on this matter that are in conflict or inconsistent with its terms and this order shall remain in effect and in full force until modified, amended, rescinded, or superseded by me or by a succeeding governor.
Given under my hand this the 2nd day of February, 2007.
I'm sure you'd all be cool with Obamacare if it had an "opt out" where you could "submit a request as a concientious objector" and have the government decide whether your request met their standards.
Right?
Yes she has
All I’m saying is right now, this second, Sarah Palin is not a candidate for President. Why she has chosen to stay out, I claim no knowledge. If she will choose to run, I claim no knowledge. She’s not running as of this evening - which makes the ideas she puts into the public domain fair game to be “borrowed” by those who are.
On this forum, any candidate who is not Sarah Palin is the Anti-Christ. Get used to it. At least until she decides to back Perry, then he will become an Archangel.
It seems to me inappropriate for Sarah Palin to be bashing anyone in the debates, much less accusing Perry of ‘crony capitalism’ until she announces. Let her get on stage for a few debates and put forth her positions and confront her opponents and face their questions if she’s going to enter. In the meanwhile, she is just another talking head on Fox who used to be a VP candidate and who is tantalizing her fans with the possibility that she will run. I’m getting as tired of her act as I am of Bachmann’s. Yeah, I know that’s blasphemy around here, but it’s growing more tiresome every day.
Herman CAIN - 999! Herman Cain knows how Washington works - IT DOESN'T! OUTSTANDING!
He said more than once during the debate that the EO was a mistake.
It is all the other hyperventilating wannabes that don’t understand that was worst of it.
To me that says that only 17% of the people identify themselves as liberal in any form and 83% identify themselves as something other than liberal. That being the case Obama has NO chance to win re-election given that he IS, quite evidently, a liberal!
Moderate is a subjective term. I consider myself a moderate but most others think I am to the right of Atilla the Hun!
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