The First Ever GOP Presidential Twitter Debate! (live at 3:00 PM eastern)

WGST ^ | Wednesday, July 20, 2011

[Pan_Yan]

This afternoon will mark an historical event: The FIRST EVER Presidential Twitter Debate! 640 WGST and Theteaparty.net have teamed up to bring you 5 GOP hopefuls as they face off online. The participants include: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, and Rick Santorum. Rusty Humphries and S.E. Cupp will be your hosts and moderators today starting at 3pm.

Follow the tweets online (below) and LISTEN LIVE to the play-by-play and analysis from Rusty's panel of pundits. Jeffrey Kuhner from the Washington Times will be on hand along with John Hayward from Humanevents.com.

Read more: http://www.640wgst.com/pages/Rusty_Humphries.html?article=8850590#ixzz1SfcKkvua

[eeevil conservative]

ROFL!!

My mother hates him.....’cuase he is BIASED!!!!

but then she thinks Obama is dong a “good job”

[Pan_Yan]

Herman Cain’s opening statement:

THEHermanCain @140townhall It’s great to join you all in this debate of ideas. Tea Partiers & all conservatives deserve to hear what our candidates think.

THEHermanCain @140townhall My 40-year record as a job creator & a solutions-oriented leader makes me a unique & qualified candidate to be America’s CEO.

THEHermanCain @140townhall I appreciate the opportunity to communicate directly with the citizens’ movement. Thanks Rusty & S.E. for moderating this event

[eeevil conservative]

Cain is MY MAN!!!

[Pan_Yan]

Rick Santorum’s opening statement:

RickSantorum @140townhall Great to be w @TheTea Party_net. I am running for pres because Obamacare threatens the soul of America - God given liberty.

RickSantorum .@140townhall In 2008 Americans voted for a pres they thought they could be in, I will be a president who believes in you, the people

RickSantorum .@140townhall and i have a record in DC to back it up. please watch: http://t.co/UyocVV3

[eeevil conservative]

Rick is a nice guy.....but weak....he just strikes me as a wimp

[Pan_Yan]

Gary Johnson’s opening statement:

Drugs.

(just kidding)

GovGaryJohnson I’m Gary Johnson former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico. @140TownHall

GovGaryJohnson In office I vetoed 750 bills, cut taxes 14 times & left the state with a $1 billion budget surplus: http://t.co/JXQEeSG. @140TownHall

GovGaryJohnson To learn more about me watch my YouTube video “Who is Gary Johnson”: http://t.co/4YC0jQr & visit: http://t.co/4YC0jQr. @140TownHall

[eeevil conservative]

Gary is the unknown Ron Paul....

his speach makes him sound a tad gay to boot...

[eeevil conservative]

btw—

Newt, McCain, and Palin have the same attorney (friend of mine)...

I think Palin is the smartest of the four...I was told 2 yrs ago she would not run.....but I wonder if she isn’t playin’ the other 3.....

[EternalVigilance]

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.

I always wonder when this elite political establishment will hit bottom, and they keep surprising me by going lower.

I wonder if anyone believes George Washington would do something like this.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."

Nope. Just won't fit into 140 characters...

[EternalVigilance]

Hey, just to cut into the boredom of this "debate," maybe we could come up with our own appropriate "tweets."

Maybe something from G.K. Chesterton:

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." #gkchesterton

Hey, that's only 77 characters!

[Peter from Rutland]

We’re all conservatives here, knock it off please.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I agree, but I’d make a terrible moderator.

I suppose I was being a little cheeky, considering your "passion" for Romney. LOL.

Need someone better versed in issues and political campaigning. Hey, how about you?

Thanks for the compliment and t'is an intriguing thought, although I'm a more behind-the-scenes guy than somebody out there in front. :-)

[CounterCounterCulture]

I suppose your right. I haven’t seen Pat Buchanan around these parts since 2000. ;-)