Posted on 10/18/2011 4:37:49 PM PDT by kristinn
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, 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.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. Hes 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.
Thanks, can I have an Isaac drink too? I always liked Doc the best, but then again, I am biased as I are one...
I guess it’s the Ron paul show AGAIN!! That clown needs to go, enough with the face time for this joker!!!
Don’t forget Newt was for Scozzafava. I can’t forget that and the global warming thing.
Our memories are so short
ditto
Nope. That was the worst part of the debate for Cain. he did the best he could trying to defend the indefensible but he was buried in the weeds on that issue. Cain has looked great during the rest of the debate
Imagine MR SPEAKER in debates with The Won.
Then imagine Rick Perry.
I appreciate what Texas has done. But why do Texas politicians, such as Bush and Perry, come off so, for lack of a better word, slow, in the debates?
Perry has attacked Romney at times when there was no reason to go after Romney. He still believes it is a race between him and Mitt, when it’s really Cain that he needs to worry about. His one attempt to go after Cain will, in my opinion, hurt him, because he called Herman “brother” twice. Someone, somewhere will say that label was racially motivated. I can see it now. “Why did he call the black man ‘brother’ but he never called anyone else up there ‘brother’?”
Perry..Serious discussion on defunding the UN? HELL YEAH!!!
Defund UN!
Quit aid to other countries and provide for our own first. Uh, how about not funding illegals, Rick.
Yes... but I like his cut, cut, cut!
Three wives. Evangelicals hate that.
Me, I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. I don’t need a priest for President.
Thank you so much for posting that. I was looking for it myself. Cain has been saying the same things for months. Perry wasn’t even in the race. Yet his supporters think he has cornered the market on good ideas on immigration. The difference between Perry and Cain is that Perry thinks illegals are owed something. Cain knows that entitlements cost us money and draw illegals here. He wants to cut off those enticements.
Herman Cain from April 19, 2006:
The movement to grant amnesty and eventual U.S. citizenship to some 12 million illegal aliens has turned the issue from the sounds of silence to the sounds of entitlement.
The entitlement mentality did not begin in America, but it has flourished here in the last century. The American claim on entitlements to health care, retirement income and seemingly any right one can conceive was birthed from the womb of Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, reared by Kennedys New Frontier and came of age in Johnsons Great Society. U.S. citizens, fanned by the flames of those who encourage class warfare, are increasing their demands for government-redistributed income and programs that guarantee outcomes, not opportunities. Non-citizens are now voicing the sounds of entitlement to an easy road to citizenship.
The entitlement attitude that has been ingrained in millions of Americans has blinded them to the ineffectiveness and runaway costs of their favorite programs. The fiscal challenge in meeting the future demands of the Medicare and Medicaid programs is well documented, as is the coming bankruptcy of the Social Security system. Yet few elected officials dare to even utter those programs names in public for fear of electoral retaliation.
Too many Americans also claim an entitlement to additional health care coverage from their employers. If they do not receive health care as a benefit, they believe the government should mandate it. The Maryland state legislature last year enacted a law requiring companies with over 10,000 employees to contribute 8 percent of total payroll to employees health care. The legislature is now looking at ways to require all employers, including non-profit organizations, to pay a percentage of their employees health care costs. Other states are considering the same plan.
Illegal aliens know they can receive free health care in hospital emergency rooms, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. A little publicized provision in the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act set aside $250 million in taxpayer dollars to reimburse hospitals for costs associated with treating illegal aliens. In a twist of logic only Congress could conceive, hospitals are barred from asking an emergency room patient if they are in the U.S. illegally. The long-run cost of this provision will surely skyrocket as hospitals continue to submit claims on coverage of people who may be illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens living and working in the U.S. have now co-opted the entitlement mentality present in too many Americans. Worse, their demands for the right to vote, guaranteed by our Constitution to citizens only, and access to social services are encouraged by elected officials trying to buy their future votes. At recent rallies Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY), to name just two, argued that illegal aliens must be allowed to remain in the U.S. and put on the path toward full citizenship rights. In other words, lets skip the illegal part.
In addition to demands for voting rights, health care coverage and U.S. citizenship, many illegal aliens feel they are entitled to U.S. soil itself. Two groups that have helped organize the illegal alien rallies across the country, the Aztlan Movement and the Mexica Movement, believe it is American citizens who are in fact on their continent illegally. The Aztlan Movement seeks to create a separate nation comprised of northern Mexico and parts of the American Southwest, including California, Arizona and New Mexico. Members of the Mexica Movement, who waved signs at recent rallies that read This Is Our Continent, Not Yours, seek to completely remove Americans from North America and surrender control of the U.S. to Mexico.
The entitlement and class warfare mentality fostered for a century by liberal presidents, congressional leaders, labor union leaders and heads of liberal organizations in fact obscures their real goal. They seek complete government control of our lives and our businesses, which ultimately can only be achieved with your vote. Since the inception of the income tax code in 1913, to the birth of the Social Security system in 1935 and the programs that have followed, the end goal is always bigger government. It is also important to remember that those who occupy the positions of power will try to achieve their goal by any means possible. If it takes convincing the public that our planet is somehow warming because we drive cars with the air conditioner running, then so be it. If it takes increasing entitlement spending programs to 100 percent of the federal budget, so be it. Whatever it takes.
The United States would never have become the United States had the litany of entitlement programs and the unnatural attitudes they foster been in place in the 1800s and early 1900s. This was the time when newly freed slaves struck out to work on achieving their own dreams, when American expansion and settlement headed west, and when millions of Europeans crossed the Atlantic for a hard but better life. The only thing promised was abundant opportunity, given in exchange for assimilation and adherence to the rule of law.
We must demand that our president and Congress secure our borders and our sovereignty as a nation of laws and citizen rights. To those who enter this country legally, welcome to America. Illegal entitlement is not an option.
http://www.davidstuff.com/incorrect/cain1.htm
But...but...those were just “mistakes!”
Perry: Unfund the UN
[That will move him up a dozen points.]
Again, Paul with an answer that makes him sound like a blasted hippy. “we’ve got enough weapons to blow up the world x times”...hell, whats next, “I think we should just all hold hands, because then we couldn’t be holding guns”?
Plus, Ron Paul sounds like Piglet. NO kidding. go listen to piglet, then Paul. Its eerie.
Romney can’t answer any question directly. He’s spineless.
Newt is not a leader. He is an extremely intelligent, articulate wonk.
” Dammit Newt is awesome..”
Absolutely awesome! This guy is going places when more of the electorate tunes in.
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