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LIVE THREAD- Republican Presidential Debate -ABC NEWS in New Hampshire
ABC News ^ | 01/05/08

Posted on 01/05/2008 2:17:41 PM PST by SE Mom

Charles Gibson will moderate the Republican and Democrat debates tonight in New Hampshire, beginning at 7 PM Eastern.

Have at it..


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 2008; debate; debate2008; duncanhunter; election2008; elections2008; fredthompson; giuliani; gopdebate; gopdebates; hunter; johnmccain; mccain; mikehuckabee; mittromney; nh2008; paul; presidentialdebate; republican; republicandebate; romney; ronpaul; rudygiuliani; thompson
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To: Khepri

Other than Mitt, please name a candidate that will win the republican nomination and go on to win the general.


2,661 posted on 01/05/2008 11:04:15 PM PST by TheLion
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To: TheLion
You sound like you haven’t really read Romney’s record but rely on the attackers here to provide you with information. Romney is the real deal.

Well, I didn't read the whole thing, but got far enough to see that I was already aware of his good positions and the red flags.

Throwing it back at you... you sound like somebody that hasn't really looked at how willing Romney is to bend the truth to fool people into thinking he's something that he's not.

Telling people its raining while he's peeing on their leg is probably what gets him the high negatives that he has. Regardless, I think the chances of my vote making a difference on the outcome are pretty low. If Romney faces Hillary, he'd stand a chance because her negatives are higher than his. If he faces Obama, I think Romney loses the election in a landslide. Obama has a personality that will get the liberals actually excited about going out and voting for him. Romney turns off too many people to be able to match him, IMO.

2,662 posted on 01/05/2008 11:06:15 PM PST by Wissa (I despise the liberal media.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

The pic....ROFLMAO....in tears....


2,663 posted on 01/05/2008 11:07:24 PM PST by Khepri (Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
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To: Wissa

I guess that is why Romney stormed conservative Wyoming today and leads in delagates.


2,664 posted on 01/05/2008 11:08:49 PM PST by TheLion
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To: StarFan
Steppie is saying no one seemed to like Mitt Romney and all seemed to go after him. Well he certainly held his own, IMHO.

He fought back and didn't fold...problem was he didn't fight back very well. Earlier in the day he told the house party he was at that he had had only two hours sleep....it showed tonight in his answers...(mandates)
2,665 posted on 01/05/2008 11:09:58 PM PST by Khepri (Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
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To: joebuck
...and what the Senator did in his madrassa growing up is his own business.

LMAO!!...
2,666 posted on 01/05/2008 11:16:20 PM PST by Khepri (Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
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To: TheLion
I guess that is why Romney stormed conservative Wyoming today and leads in delagates.

How many people showed up to caucus today? Few enough that a devoted group of Romney supporters could swing the outcome I'm sure. I looked at the vote count for one county and was surprised at how few people it took to swing the election there.

That same number of devoted Romney supporters showing up for a general election wouldn't even be enough to cover half the dead people voting for the democrat.

2,667 posted on 01/05/2008 11:18:47 PM PST by Wissa (I despise the liberal media.)
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To: Onerom99
You’re nuts too.

Romney WAS on the defensive all night. He didn’t come off good AT ALL.


Agreed. But he did hammer the GUBERnator and did a poor job on his Romneycare bs....

I think all think peeps will remember is him being attacked and then McCain bringing out the Mean Old Man routine...they'll remember that...

Reminds me of an old retial axiom...a customer will tell 20 people about a bad experience, but only tell 10 people about a good one...

They'll remember McCain being a mean old man....;)
2,668 posted on 01/05/2008 11:22:15 PM PST by Khepri (Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
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To: ChessExpert

Man, people should watch the Dems on healthcare. They trip over each other to give away more than the other.

The Republican debate was far more creative and lively. Rudy stated “We have the best healthcare system in the world” then, if we had socialized medicine, “Where would Canadians go for healthcare?” However he does not acknowledge the problems with costs.

McCain said the problem is inflation. Bringing inflation down would bring down healthcare costs. However, then he blabbered that much of long term care in facilities could be transferred to home health care. No way does he know what he’s talking about on that. Insurance companies will not go for it.

Romney described the Mass healthcare plan, where the state helped the uninsured to buy private insurance, by bringing down the cost of the premium and the deductible.

FRed! said we have the best healthcare system, but it costs more than it should. Beyond that, he became rather vague as to how he would change that.

Huckabee was off and running on how our system needs “major, major repair.” Then, Captain Obvious went into a spiel about a preventive regimen. Duh, Mike.

My own opinion is that the problem of costs lies with the public sector not the private sector. There is, and has been, an immense amount of fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. I cannot begin to tell you. There are docs that live solely on how much they can extort from the government. I’ve seen it firsthand.

It is harder to get away with that with private insurance claims, but that is done too.

The insurance companies must be vigilant of every charge. That is why the utilization review is the largest department in the hospital. It’s a good place to be to understand how the insurance system works, per company and per policy.


2,669 posted on 01/05/2008 11:26:01 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: Marcella

Thanks for the info, Marcella. I wonder why the legislature couldn’t pass that? Texas has a large number of delegates and should be part of Super Tuesday.

However, as another poster was pointing out, this is a primary season of mathematics over momentum, and a clear winner may not emerge from the Super.


2,670 posted on 01/05/2008 11:31:39 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: Wissa

Obama would be a far more deadly foe than Hillary, I agree. He will be like the Pied Piper.


2,671 posted on 01/05/2008 11:33:40 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: Fawn
hope there is alot of talk about Fred now! MAybe on the sunday talk shows they will start to talk about Fred.....

I've been pretty ticked off (and still am) at Hume for his pretending Thompson isn't there in his reporting. And all of the sudden, reading your post, it dawns on me ... Funny, it's no longer important to me. Just gut-response, but it's as if it no longer matters because Fred is going to win regardless. For the media to take a sudden affection for him would be worrisome, actually! Fred's on a good course. Damn the media, full speed ahead.

2,672 posted on 01/05/2008 11:48:29 PM PST by Finny (There are many enemies in our work. One of them is envy. -- A British naval officer)
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To: Josh Painter
thanks for all those uplifting quotes on Fred! I'll sleep better tonight...

I've been trying to find some clips of him in debate tnight - (my TV is down due to 2 feet of snow on roof covering disk) and I couldn't TIVO it ;o(...

But I have been loving what I'm reading


2,673 posted on 01/06/2008 12:00:07 AM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: big'ol_freeper
And he's taller too. *wink*

Oh my! =^)

2,674 posted on 01/06/2008 12:07:17 AM PST by Finny (There are many enemies in our work. One of them is envy. -- A British naval officer)
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To: LexBaird

Lex, If I’m not mistaken, the hast tense of “drink” is not “drinken”, its “dranken”. But, I hast been wrongen before.


2,675 posted on 01/06/2008 12:41:54 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: Marcella; Eva

When Jason talks, it’s wise to listen. He’s the most hardcore conservative you will ever find and a serious intellectual to boot. I started listening to him in the mid 90’s and he has done more to shape my thinking than anybody except Aquinas, Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, and Reagan. That should give you a good idea of the reverence I hold for him. He has done more to advance conservatism here in MN than all the others combined.


2,676 posted on 01/06/2008 1:43:14 AM PST by lesser_satan (READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON - DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Which would Romney dislike more if he was the GOP nominee....
Going up against a black man or a woman in the debates????

Do you wonder what he sees as the difficulties in running full out against a protected minority member that would be thrown up as not being p.c. OR

Do you believe he is a racist or bigoted against women in general?

2,677 posted on 01/06/2008 1:51:32 AM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts (God bless our soldiers))
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To: rintense

Hey, Princess!

Nice to see you out and about.

How are things?

We’ve had Mom living with us this past year; we had to replace our leaking shake roof with tile; and entertained my elderly aunt (sister of Mom) with a 4 day gourmet extravaganza during Thanksgiving.

That and sending care packages to the troops in Baqubah, Iraq, and on the Pakistan border of Afghanistan and a couple NPTT units in Baghdad were the highlights of the year in review.


2,678 posted on 01/06/2008 2:12:28 AM PST by patriciaruth (JEB Bush/Condi Rice 2008)
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To: barryg
Hillary is the most Presidential of the Democrats.

In a debate field comparable to "Romperroom", I'd have to agree. : )

2,679 posted on 01/06/2008 2:17:18 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: PureSolace

Your experience with the Lebanese college student reminded me of a cab driver in Washington, D.C., talking about Nigeria and how many tribal languages there were, and that people literally couldn’t speak with one another, not even with those 5-10 miles down the road.

He thought our having the one language, English, was incredibly important to national cohesiveness.


2,680 posted on 01/06/2008 3:08:02 AM PST by patriciaruth (JEB Bush/Condi Rice 2008)
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