Posted on 06/13/2011 4:49:56 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 the 58th 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. He’s an obstetrician-gynecologist and was the Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty served two terms as governor of Minnesota, from 2002 to 2010. He served in the Minnesota House from 1992 until 2002. He is the son of a truck driver.
Mitt Romney
Romney was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008. 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.
IMO Romney is not keen on running....just nothing else to do and his people want him there. He's such a Manchurian candidate and it completely shows...the democrats have tried to form him into an image favorable to republicans...and he's the darling of the media as well..but his mind left the stage a long time ago.I think that's a good analysis of what we heard and saw from Romney tonight. He's a used car salesman without any real interest in closing the deal.
The ‘who is the badassest coder on FR’ poll. You won.
I missed the debate. But scrolling through the thread I see very little mention of Obama by the candidates if any.
Is that what actually happened during this CNN sponsored debate??
Anybody??
FR: boxers or briefs?
Diarrhea-of-the-mouth King. He was a one-man barf-o-matic.
I thought it was, Who is the most likely to catch
an STD from hitting on all those abusive school teachers?
I understand Palin not being there...gives her more time to do her thing and prepare, plus she sees where these candidates are coming from. However, she was not there and I really do want to see her debate....so at the same time disappointed she wasn’t there.
Still this was about the other candidates so I understand people not wanting Sarah in the mix. It’s natural to be so since she opted out of the debate...so people are going to react when her name is brought up a major event she’s not at.
As Onyx has said...”Just wait til Sarah announces she’s running.”.... for that will be a game changer for all who are running.
yup.
Exactly she knows what she is doing.
That is my impression too. Can’t waste his brain. We have too many problems. Thanks for the reply.
Best post in the entire damned thread!
LLS
yup.
Seems like Newt lives in a wayback machine. Every time he opens his mouth he talks about stuff that happened 20-30 years ago. Whole lot different today. The metrics are changed completely. 1994, Reagan? That was at least two political lifetimes ago.
They have no idea though. But yeah, I'm pretty good.
Paul won’t win, but at least he is smart enough to reject the liberal premise of a question totally and explain it.
Id like to see paul as Surgeon general
Hes tortally pro-life
I met him at a rally in Aiken SC in Jan 2008
he is a gentleman and really open and friendly to the other candidates and their supporters
2 of the Romney sons were there too and they were proper little needing their rude stuck up butts kicked...
Obama took some hits, but it was pretty standard stuff. And it will remain pretty standard stuff until one of these people takes the plunge and accuses THE LEFT of selling America down the river.
We don’t have an Obama problem... well, we do, but that’s not the main problem.
We have a Leftist/Elitist/Aristocracy problem. There is a whole CLASS of leftist aristocrats, at all levels of government, that have to be reigned in.
And the media is their private attack dog.
And somebody has got to stand up and SAY it.
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