Live Thread: Republican Presidential Debate in Jacksonville, FL on CNN 8 P.M. EST

Thursday, January 26, 2012 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Hosted by Wolf Blitzer at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Candidates: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.

Word is the audience will be "allowed" to participate.

Livestream here.

[glock rocks]

Do you have any doubt that cnn was working with the mitt campaign prior to this “debase?”

[Red Steel]

Calling all Romneybots, could I get a translation[Paul Psongas] on that.

Romney get an A+ in BS. LoL.

[Jane Long]

Crazy Uncle Paul managed to break out and make an appearance..."Most American's aren't worried about a jihadist under their bed".

Whew...you just can't make this shee-ot up.

[opentalk]

He has done that several times, I wish they would talk about the UN,IMF, push toward globalism..foreign aid

[MaxMax]

Like myself, I think were just clicking anybody to get our input in.
I could be wrong.

[The Citizen Soldier]

Great answer by Newt on Cuba. One of his best tonight.

[bray]

Apparently there are no Whites in the crowd?

[writer33]

Yep. Next he’ll be claiming we’re flying drones over Cuba. LOL!

[KJC1]

Palistinian American asking about Palestine/Israel. This should be interesting.

[Inspectorette]

I sure miss Rick Perry.

Late to the thread here, but I sure miss him too. He would've been a great president.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Good contrast...RuPaul got booed with his ‘jihadist under every bed line’ and Santorum tied (again) southern border issues to the jihadists.

[Irish Eyes]

..........he’s letting his surrogates do his attacking while he stands back and tries to look like he’s keeping his hands “clean”.

Romney is trying to put himself above the dirty tricks of him campaign.

[AFPhys]

I think that Newt has done well tonight thus far. Romney has held his own on most things except healthcare and his bad attacks on Newt. Santorum has done well. RPaul has gained some agreement with me on issues other than finance.

[caww]

Romney fumbles and stumbles like his tongue can’t catch up with what he’s trying to remmber to say.

Newt’s doing ok but not exactly knocking it out of the park tonight....Santorum showed he can fight...and Newt let him have the stage and enjoyed the show himslef! He really nailed Romney!

[mylife]

A Palestinian/American Conservative Republican??!! WTF?

[AliVeritas]

Spanish station question, Cuban, Palestinian... What’s next?

[bgill]

Ok, I’m giving Mitt a high five on his Israel answer.

[KansasGirl]

The only interesting part of this debate was the RomneyObamacare part and the Reagan part. The rest of it is completely forgettable.

What else did they talk about for the last hour and a half?

[yield 2 the right]

You aced it IMHO....

[AnnGora]

Santorum is just as conservative, if not more, than Newt. Either one would be good. Both...even better!