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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No Perry, No Palin.
Fox should have cancelled in the last minute.
Iowa doesn’t mean anything this time.
The congressman on the foxnews commercial feed is critizing the questioning.......Newt is standing out...I don’t like him...but he’s doing the best tonight!
Romney just stinks. The stupid media is trying to push this guy on the GOP because they know he’s the only feasible candidate for the nomination that Obama can beat.
Santorum just pulled out a gun and shot himself.
He makes a good point but hardly anyone understood what he said.
Wallace is losing!
Great. Santorum hitting it out of the park on the 10th Amendment. Too bad this guy is so unknown. He really slapped Pual and Bachmann across the face on that.
Bachmann looked like she was storming over to whine to Rick as they went to break.
I hope that Mike Gallagher poses some tough questions to Chris Wallace tomorrow on his radio segment with him. Wallace needs to be held accountable for his disgusting behavior tonight. His smirking haughtiness has always been annoying but Wallace's performance during the debate has crossed a boundary.
Bachmann is the winner so far. Passion, energy, and actually answering the questions. She just cut off Romney at the knees with her answer on Romney’s health care mandate in Mass. No government, federal or state, should force a citizen to purchase a good or service. It is wrong at any level. It is tyranny.
“Then he got snarky after Newt dressed him down.”
Then the audience gave CW a second smackdown by booing him and cheering Newt :-)
Obama would do badly debating with Newt.
As far as debates go. A debate between Newt and Obama would be the closest to a Chaney vs Obama debate.
Newt is very articulate and has a lot of knowledge about government. Obama would appear to be stupid.
I don’t know, but maybe in MA they can force people to pay jizya.
I agree with you re Newt. By the same token I think Pawlenty is making an obvious desperate effort. He’s not highlighting his record, he’s attacking others (chiefly Bachmann who it’s clear he fears). Desperation!
Santorum wasted another opportunity to make himself relevant, just now. His point on the 10th Amendment was,well, weird.
Losers so far:
Pawlenty
Huntsman
Wallace
Santorum
Master Debater, but can’t be trusted: Gingrich
Biggest BS Artist: Romney
Able to take the blows and keep standing: Bachmann
Most Articulate: Cain
Most applause: Paul
Person exit82 wishes was there: Palin
oY, that was bad... Michelle.
LOL!
the MSM is picking romney like they picked McCain and Dole......it’s HIS turn.......gag me.
Somebody needs to call out Romney - once again he is the kid eating ice cream while other kids are fighting over who blows out the candles.
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