Posted on 01/06/2008 5:42:13 PM PST by NCDragon
Taxes were the top item at the FOX News Presidential Forum Sunday night, in which invoking the name of Ronald Reagan and lobbing rabbit punches marked the conversation over who’s the best candidate to win the Republican presidential nomination.
Speaking in tax-averse New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday’s primary, Mitt Romney laid the first blow on his top rival, John McCain.
“One of the great lessons of Ronald Reagan is lowering taxes grows the economy,” Romney, whose battling for what he has called a must-win victory in the Granite State, said, referencing McCain’s votes against President Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at youdecide08.foxnews.com ...
Fred spanks Wallace in interviews , so this isn’t surprising ...
FRED’s holding his own! Wallace is the one looking bad by cutting FRED and others off.
I’m enjoying this debate format. I’d much rather listen to a well-prepared moderator than idiot audience members.
Well huckleberry has been running his mouthg for 15 minutes and Wallace ain’t cuttin him off. Obvious?
I’m not a fan of Charlie Gibson , but he moderated yesterday’s debate very well .
Looks like Wallace is taking a different approach ...
Is there a live thread?
It grates on you to hear Wallace doing the moderating. I just don’t like his style in debates or interviews.
Not all the GOP candidates were there. Currently Romney has the most delegates, second is Thompson and third is Hunter. The remaining candidates have no delegates. Iowa was just a beauty contest, no delegates were actually selected until the real primary in April.
History in the making.
Romney ...26
Huckabee .20
Thompson . 6
McCain ... 3
Paul ..... 2
Hunter ... 1
Giuliani . 1
Wrong. The Iowa caucus did not win any delegates, that contest occurs in April for Iowa.
Moving into New Hampshire, the only republicans who have more delegates than Duncan Hunter are Romney and Thompson. No delegates were actually selected in Iowa.
The New Hampshire GOP withdrew its sponsorship of yesterday’s debate.
According to this article, there were no delegates selected in Iowa.
First G.O.P. Delegate Goes to Romney (Romney, Hunter Leading in WY)
New York Times ^ | January 5, 2008 | MEAD GRUVER
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/politics/05cnd-wyoming.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1199563235-58hBRHoYXSVDHcyr25G/Fw&oref=slogin
“Wyoming chose the first 12 delegates of 2008 at 12 separate county conventions. Iowa Republicans, who have 40 delegates, conducted a straw poll but elected no convention delegates Thursday.”
So, that means that Romney has the most delegates (8), Fred has 3 and Hunter has 1, going into New Hampshire. I see now that Hunter was wise not to campaign in Iowa, and where he did choose to campaign he drew blood. You get more bang for the buck with Hunter.
The fact that he’s being excluded from New Hampshire debates is probably a historical first. This is a conservative website and Hunter is a conservative candidate. The GOP is late in waking up to the fact that the media hates conservatives.
Basically, it’s a wide open race, with the lead changing on a weekly basis. Might as well support the truest conservative, Hunter.
History in the making.
To be fair:
Clinton 169 Obama 66 Edwards 47 Richardson 17 Kuchinich 1
Gibson was great, Fox has a chintzy set and format, as usual. Fred and Giuliani were given hardly any time in the first half whie the huckster rambled on.
Wallace grilled Huck pretty hard on his foreign policy gaffes.
Fred is the only ADULT.IMO
You have not read the articles posted to you. The Iowa caucuses selected no delegates. It was a beauty contest.
The first delegates selected were in Wyoming.
The only GOP candidates with delegates right now are Romney, Thompson, and Hunter.
If this were happening to your candidate, how would you feel and what would you expect other freepers to do about it? What would you expect the GOP to do? I doubt anything will be done due to the selfish nature of the process, but it’s interesting to watch other candidate supporters twist themselves into pretzels when they are asked to look at something from a perspective that doesn’t favor their candidate or themselves.
The Iowa delegates are tied in number to the January 3 result. The actual delegates have not been selected, but they have to be selected to fulfill the result of the caucus.
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL:
Closed caucuses
40 total delegates*
37 tied to January 3 caucuses, 3 unpledged RNC member delegates
The candidates have delegates to be named later, but they have to represent the result. To say that the count is lower because of a technicality is wishful thinking.
Oh... I think that Hunter should have been included. Since he was not, Giuliani probably shouldn’t be there either. Paul shouldn’t for other reasons, but I don’t think I need to go there. Optimally, this would have been just Duncan and Fred.
I was typing my reply while you were posting yours. Iowa was not a beauty contest. Although actual delegates were not selected, they are bound by the result.
Does McCain realize how crazy he looks when he takes a shot at Romney and laughs? Nobody is laughing with him. He just seems totally unable to hide something or he just doesn’t have any idea what humor is and thinks taking shots at somebody you are sitting next to is funny.
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