CNN/YouTube Questioner Kicked Romney 'off my property' [CNN LIBERAL PLANT]

The American Thinker ^ | 11/30/07 | Ray Robison

[night reader]

The author missed a couple of errors from the idiot's site. ("affected" and "who") This guy is a moron.

Makes one wonder how he ever graduated from college and wrangled a commission, much less rose in command. Political payoffs? Influence? Had the dirt on someone in the high command?

[Morgan in Denver]

The debate also showcased Republicans willingness to debate in any forum, even CNN, where they had to know they were being set up. That has to be compared to Democrats refusing to debate on FOX News because of perceived bias, which is total BS. Democrats cannot stand a forum where their bogus viewpoints might be exposed or they are asked legitimate questions with follow up.

[Wilhelm Tell]

It is frightening that the special interests that control one political party also control the mass media (the other major political party is partially controlled by these same interests). There are movies, television shows and news stories that do nothing but teach the party line and there are staged events of a faux "democratic" nature. Kind of like in the old Soviet Union.

If the Democrats win in 2008 and they get to pick a Supreme Court Justice or two, there will be NO First or Second Amendment rights recognized. It will be a "hate crime against nature" to question global warming. It will be "hate speech against the poor" to question taxes or illegal immigration. Churches will be forced to perform gay "weddings" and criticizing other lifestyles or religions will be a serious "hate crime." Pastors who question government policy will be arrested for "violating the separation of church and state." True, there will be some First Amendment "rights" remaining. Islamofascists will be able to freely recruit. Perverts will be able to go to the public library and view child porn on the Internet. People who want to harm us will have almost unlimited "rights" while the the average citizen will only have the "right" to remain silent and think only approved thoughts.

[Hunterite]

Mitt laughed and called the U.N. a joke.

Romney’s stock just went up a tick or two.

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dittos

[Waco]

The RAT party is screaming “we’re communists”. How come so few are listening?

[Manic_Episode]

What a charade.

If the candidates go back there for more of that nonsense again they don't deserve to be CIC.

They should all agree to go anywhere but CNN.

[ontap]

According to every source I have gone to he is indeed a general.

[anton]

Scary thing is that CNN is probably more fair than NBC. The RNC should have regulated these debates to assure fairness or refused the venue. Losing television coverage on CNN or CNBC wouldn’t miss but a handful of potential GOP voters anyway.

But, the sound bites from these debates are a whole other matter. They live on and on and on. Fortunately, the candidates did not make too much of a mess of this.

[ex-NFO]

He was probably really good at kissing butt (oops, did I say that out loud?)

[Enchante]

re: General vs. Colonel

He certainly represented himself as a “retired Brigadier General” BUT according to the item in Human Events below that may be extremely misleading at best (can any Freepers who know enough about both US Army and California National Guard ranks run down whether he is representing himself accurately??) — at the very least, saying you are a “retired brigadier general with 43 years of service” is meant to give the impression that you retired from the US ARMY as a Brigadier General??? According to the article linked below, he retired from the US Army as a Colonel and only received an honorific retirement certificate in Calif. giving him an honorary retirement rank in their own political system as a Brigadier General. Sounds like he may be a “Brigadier General” only to California liberal politicians and not in any actual service, but can anyone get to the bottom of this for us? Why would Calif. be allowed to make the “General” rank up on its own? (ok do we even have to ask???)

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“Brigadier Gen. Keith Kerr (Ret.): My name’s Keith Kerr, from Santa Rosa, California. I’m a retired brigadier general with 43 years of service. And I’m a graduate of the Special Forces Officer Course, the Commanding General Staff Course and the Army War College. And I’m an openly gay man. I want to know why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians.”

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23698

But there’s more. According to Col. Bill Campenni (USAF, ret), one of President Bush’s squadron mates in the Texas Air National Guard, there is no such thing as the California National Reserve of which Kerr claimed to be a former member.

Campenni told HUMAN EVENTS that Kerr is not even a retired Army General.

“He retired as a California Army National Guard colonel,” said Campenni. “It is common at Guard retirement ceremonies to give an honorary promotion to colonels to the STATE rank of Brigadier General…[but] it has no meaning other than a fancy certificate for the wall and use of the title at local Guard functions.”

Campenni said the rank of general is not federally recognized and the title can not be used or the rank worn outside the state.

[ontap]

Thanks for the info. Once again I was duped by the MSM.

[Swordfished]

Mitt asked me what I woud [sic] do in Iraq. I proceeded to explain how we need to get not only the effected nations in the region involved, but strike meaningful discussion and secure true resilution [sic] with the world thru the U.N.. Mitt laughed and called the U.N. a joke.

Now we're talking.

[gridlock]

If Romney thinks the UN is a joke, and is willing to say so, he goes up greatly in my estimation.

[Russ]

I lost respect for each and every candidate after that CNN “debate”. Not one of them was man enough to tell CNN to shove it and walk off the stage. In fact, all of them should have walked off when some of those questions were asked. If none of them can stand up to CNN how will they ever stand up to terrorists or foreign powers such as Chavez. Right now I’m leaning toward voting for “none of the above”.

[ontap]

I think you may be over reacting a little here. Support for none the above in actuality is support for the Dummycrats.

[Cedric]

Get a grip and think it through. Had any of the candidates walked off the stage THAT would’ve been the big story coming out of the debate, not deceit and duplicity of CNN and the Dems.
The GOP candidates did the right thing.

[EternalVigilance]

I’m voting for the one Republican candidate who was excluded from the CNN debate, Alan Keyes.

Dr. Keyes is on the ballot in Florida, where this so-called debate was held, by the way, and is polling ahead of Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo there.

There’s no doubt that had he been there, he would not have accepted any of the premises of the questioners, or of CNN. Before answering, he would have pointed out the falseness and the silliness of the questions.

Which is why they excluded him, of course.

[ChessExpert]

I did not watch the debate and need some help on questions of fact.

I did not realize that the questioners at the Republican debate were supposed to be Republicans. I think this is a key bit of information. Ray Robinson states:

Some problems were apparent at the start. For instance, CNN declared that it had selected twenty-four "undecided Republican voters" at the University of Tampa.

Can anyone confirm that CNN claimed these were undecided Republicans? Were these people from Youtube, live, or both?

To me, this is mostly about full disclosure. If CNN says, “here are questions from your critics,” that would be O.K. But if CNN said “here are questions from undecided Republicans,” and presented Democratic type questions from people that CNN knew to be Democrats, selected by CNN, that would be a fraud of Rathergate proportions and everyone, liberals included, should learn of it.

[Rockiette]

Isn’t little Andy Cooper the son of the poor little rich girl, Gloria Vanderbilt? Andy is a snotty little leftist with an attitude of “me,me and only me”. He carries the same virus as Hillary, the “I am not to be questioned” disease and it seems to be infiltrating all the Demo candidates thinking.