Posted on 08/11/2011 4:15:45 PM PDT by newzjunkey
Broadcast on: FOXNews
Broadcast time: 9pm EDT/6pm 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 2008 nomination for president. 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.
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman was Utah Governor, former ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
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Bachmann and Santorum won.
Re: the recent distrust of FoxNews: Me too.
That trick question with misleading, out-of-context quotes for Newt was really dishonest of Brett.
Almost every question was snarky and meant to start fights or make the candidate look bad. If FOX does this, how can we expect fairness from others,,,we can’t.
This is why Palin didn’t announce and attend. The entire media is against her with a few exceptions like Rush and Greta.
FoxNews-loser
Candidates-some winners, but the real winner was not there tonight.
Everyone needs to cut down on the fake tan.
One of Fox's own online ad-break panel thought the questions were bad and they were.
There is no question that Newt is a very polished debater. Even his harshest detractors would admit that.
Yah, it's difficult to discern, isn't it. Hard to distinguish from magic. Stay tuned.
She is a Democrat strategist.
Newt KO’d the stage.
Big shock, RuPaul groupies are stacking the FoxNews poll on who you think won. What a waste of time.
Cain is the man!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Andrea the RomneyBot says Romney won
I don’t think Palin is running either. I think Palin is going to endorse Perry. I would support Palin if she ran,
If I had to choose a candidate from tonight’s debate, I’d choose Santorum or Cain.
Pawlenty had the most time....sadly for him it just highlighted what a turd he was being.
I meant to say, if Palin doesn’t RUN, say hello to Romney. All he had to do was just act presidential.
Don’t be dissuaded by facetime. The answers were very important. Newt had a bat and he swung it.
RuPaul is a flaky loon. Sick of him. I thought Santorum, Cain and Michelle did great. I wish we could take Newt’s historical knowledge and give it to Michelle and Sarah or whomever winds up being the nominee.
Sarah is the big winner tonight by not presenting herself in such a disgraceful spectacle of stupid ass questions asked by morons.
I’m afraid the lamestream media is going to select Mitty for us though...
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I will NEVER vote for Newt, but he did shine tonight. That is true.
I missed it all! Working tonight and just got home short while ago...Looks like maybe Sarah not being there was a good thing. However I do like to hear Newt debate....he’d mop Obama off the floor! But it’s too late for Newt...too much baggage unfortunately and too tight with the Washington crowd. Still he is entertaining.
So who do you think took this debate? Bet Palin was watching and taking notes! tsk tsk.
Hah on comment re Notre Dame coach. We don’t forget the important stuff, do we?
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