Posted on 01/19/2012 11:53:40 PM PST by iowamark
JOHN KING, DEBATE MODERATOR AND CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We're live in Charleston, South Carolina. It's debate night after a dramatic day in the Republican race for president. Iowa declares a new winner. Rick Perry bows out. And 35 hours before the polls open here in South Carolina, we have a dead heat. The Southern Republican Presidential Debate starts right now.
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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the South, the heart of the Republican Party, where tradition lives.
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FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R-MA.), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The strongest military in the world.
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ANNOUNCER: And values matter.
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FORMER SEN. RICK SANTORUM (R-PA.), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We want a conservative on the ticket.
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ANNOUNCER: Tonight, the Republican candidates on stage in South Carolina for their final debate before the first-in-the-South primary.
Mitt Romney, the front-runner, going for another win, trying to close the deal with skeptical voters.
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ROMNEY: I will work to get good jobs back.
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ANNOUNCER: Newt Gingrich, on the rise, trying to harness conservative support as the field gets smaller.
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FORMER REP. NEWT GINGRICH (R-GA.), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I am the only candidate capable of stopping a moderate from winning the nomination.
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Please, someone, tell me why we keep letting our sworn enemies “moderate” our debates? What is up with that?!
Thank you. I want to especially read the part where Santorum rips Romney on Romney”care.”
Santorum called them both, Romney and N.G., on it.
(Note: Not endorsing anyone (yet). )
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