Posted on 01/30/2008 4:16:12 PM PST by khnyny
Reagan Library Republican Presidential Debate: January 30, 2008
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopefuls will face off Wednesday night without a familiar face as ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out and endorse front-runner Sen. John McCain.
The remaining candidates will take the stage in a debate -- sponsored by CNN, the Los Angeles Times and Politico -- beginning at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The event at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, follows McCain's Tuesday night win in the Florida primary.
McCain topped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 36 percent to 31 percent in the hotly contested race.
Giuliani placed third with 15 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 14 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was fifth with 3 percent.
Giuliani is expected to end his White House bid and endorse McCain at a campaign event in California later Wednesday, Republican Party sources said.
Minus Giuliani, the debate will be a four-candidate affair -- McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Paul -- with CNN's Anderson Cooper moderating.
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“Henceforth he shall be known as..Cain..”
That wasn’t supposed to come out until after he won the Primaries...the Dems have already printed that button.
He will throw open the southern border and let all the terroist in that want to come. Ya, feel safer? NOT!
Plus- it would seem, according to this, that McCain would be proposing a very public timetable in Congress, no? So this is nowhere near the private negotiations that Romney was talking about.
“McCain is lost on the economy. This is not his subject.”
McCain ‘lost on economy’/VP Paul ‘lost on foreign policy’
yeah that’s the ticket!
I do understand, Hope~~
Exactly. As my husband and I were watching the debate I said McCain is trying really hard not to raise his temper and reveal the nutcase that he is. Probably sedated.
I repeat again, we have 6 R Senators in this state. It’s a D oligarchy, abortion is a state religion here.
How could some of us find that video? If we put in a search, what would be the best wording for it....we can at least try!
I know that John McCain has a violent temper as his face turns blood-red. He uses terrible language toward his Republican ‘friends’ if they argue on an issue with him. I can’t repeat the words he uses but I did read it recently on F.R. A violent temper is no way to talk to other countries over serious disagreements. Its good to be stern but in the right way and I am not sure McCain could hold his tongue and that pointing finger!
So she rendered a decision you don’t agree with, and that makes her a “slutty whore”. What is this, DU?
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NOW THAT IS REALLY FUNNY!!! You fault me for not agreeing with a decision she made and then go on to say I am from DU because you don't agree with my decision.
If you believe as I do that abortion is murder, you would understand.
Many other bad decisions from her that offended God, to many to mention. PEACE AND OUT
Who cares about a bill in Mass to allow abortions? It is what the people there choose by overwhelming numbers. Romney told the people that if elected he would not reverse the law on abortion - that he would keep the status quo.
Romney kept his word. Mass isn’t the issue. It is about what each person stands for today.
But the joint stand of Huck and McCain will kill the chance of conservatives to select Romney.
McCain strategized well. He used the religious right to elevate himself. It was a brilliant move.
It reminded me of Queeg rolling his steel marbles.
Romney’s balanced approach last night was less about next Tuesday and more about the following:
1. defending his honor against the ugly and distorted attack regarding Iraq “timetables”
2. demonstrating to conservatives that McCain has no intention of trying to meet conservatives half-way (“choose patriotism over profit”)
3. revealing to the GOP faithful and power brokers from coast to coast that they are on the precipice of disaster by nominating McCain. This Johnny One-Note looked and sounded like a tired Vaudeville act, complemented by narcissism and self-righteous attacks when cornered. We have a loser on our hands, and McCain is compelled to rattle off stale names from the GOP sidelines just to prop up his own deficiencies. McCain will be a disaster in a debate against either Democrat, particularly Obama.
4. Romney is coolly positioning himself for a new run in 2012, b/c he knows that McCain is unelectable.
Final thought: I am reading a biography of Winston Churchill, in which he (Churchill) states unequivocally that the supreme qualification of a leader is temperament, not intellect. McCain did not pass the temperament test last night. He was volatile, defensive, snarky, narcissistic, and worse.
MCCAIN: Well, of course, he said he wanted a timetable. Before that, we have to understand that we lost the 2006 election and the Democrats thought that they had a mandate. They thought they had a mandate to get us out of Iraq.
And I was prepared to sacrifice whatever was necessary in order to stand up for what I believed in.
Now, in December of 2006, after the election, Governor Romney was won't weigh in. I'm a governor."
At the time, he didn't want to weigh in because he was a governor, I was out there on the front lines with my friends saying, "We not only can't withdraw, but we've got to have additional troops over there in order for us to have a chance to succeed."
Then in April, April was a very interesting year (sic) in 2007. That's when Harry Reid said the war is lost and we've got to get out. And the buzzword was "timetables, timetables."
Governor, the right answer to that question was "no," not what you said, and that was we don't want to have them lay in the weeds until we leave and Maliki and the president should enter into some kind of agreement for, quote, "timetables."
"Timetables" was the buzzword for the...
ROMNEY: Why don't you use the whole quote, Senator?
MCCAIN: ... withdrawal. That...
ROMNEY: Why don't you use the whole quote? Why do you insist on...
MCCAIN: I'm using the whole quote, where you said "I won't"...
ROMNEY: ... not using the actual quote? That's not what I said. MCCAIN: The actual quote is, "We don't want them to lay in the weeds until we leave." That is the actual quote and I'm sure... ROMNEY: What does that mean? MCCAIN: ... fact-checkers -- ROMNEY: What is the meaning? MCCAIN: It means a timetable until we leave.
Gomer did not win the debate. LOL
WOW! You are awesome. I have to agree with everything you said...with one small exception. Forgive me for saying that I really don’t think Obama is a “natural” politician. I do think he is very polished and well spoken when he gives a speech. But unlike Reagan...he is not good with on the spot questions. I might be wrong...but I think like Hillary, everything has to be rehearsed for him. The longer he is on the campaign trail...the more this weakness will show.
I agree, Jim Rob does a tough job, and I suspect it will get tougher during the next election cycle. By the way, I too have cancer. Dx’d October for early stage Prostate cancer. Currently undergoing radiation treatments. Feel like someone has kicked m in the stomach.
His buddy Kennedy told him that Timetable meant withdraw and surrender. So, he heard Mitt use that word in an interview (not realizing that a CEO and project manager might have a different definition of the word) and thought Mitt meant surrender.
Here in the real world, the word has a different meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timetables
“A timetable or schedule is an organized list, usually set out in tabular form, providing information about a series of arranged events: in particular, the time at which it is planned these events will take place.”
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/timetables
“timetable
Main Entry:
Function:
noun
Date:
1838
2 a: a schedule showing a planned order or sequence”
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