Watch the Full CNN Republican Debate!

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LynnM

Oh, AND apparently you have to have had many offspring in order to be a good Republican. Does correcting neighborhood kids count?

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LynnM

Am I the only one who thinks the American Idol or Dancing with the Stars type questions are stupid, a waste of time, irrelevant,…and on and on. I painstakingly listened to this. So they are all private sector is the answer to resurrecting the economy and Obama ruined everything. Whatev! Why do I not believe that this is not the answer? I also don’t think that universal healthcare costs taxpayers more. We are ALREADY paying for those that can’t pay for healthcare. I just had to see what the Dems were up against. If it were wind, I wouldn’t even feel it.

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Paula J Rodman

I am liking Bachman, TPaw and Cain at the moment and with the present field. The moderator was a nitwit…hope the next debate is not hosted by CNN. He would not let anyone finish a sentence. Terrible job by King.

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stevenbiot

Right Scoop, you are the man for putting this whole thing up. I didn’t want to go to youtube to see all the tools comments.

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Paula J Rodman

I second that! Thanks

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Paula J Rodman

I second that! Thanks

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JazzFromHell

anyone is better then what we have now

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Jeremy Volkens

Thank you so much for uploading the full debate. You’re the best!

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Randall Lowe

Yea just like Ron Paul said. Yea that is right Ron Paul is the only one that served his country in the military.

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stevenbiot

So did John Kerry. Bring a little more to the table than that.

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Randall Lowe

If God wanted us to leave this planet he would of not created gravity. The space program has done nothing for us and is a waste of money.

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Randall Lowe

Romney is another Bush!!!

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stevenbiot

I agree with the Bush comment, but Ron Paul is a blamer; he thinks that all our foes have a right to hate us. He’s only going to steal votes. That guy has a better chance winning a beauty contest than becoming president.

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stevenbiot

I agree with the Bush comment, but Ron Paul is a blamer; he thinks that all our foes have a right to hate us. He’s only going to steal votes. That guy has a better chance winning a beauty contest than becoming president.

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Anonymous

Palin first!

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stevenbiot

I hope she gets into the mix.

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Randall Lowe

Republican and Democrats are one in the same. If you want to learn the real truth go to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com

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stevenbiot

I had a feeling you were a 911 conspiracy theorist. I like Jones, but he is a nutjob.

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stevenbiot

I had a feeling you were a 911 conspiracy theorist. I like Jones, but he is a nutjob.

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Randall Lowe

Romney is a liar. He voted for Obamacare!!!

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stevenbiot

No he didn’t. His plan was similar, but instituted in a state, not nationwide. Tell us the difference between a state and a federal policy. I’ll add two points to your IQ if you get the right answer. And that is very generous, so hurry it up.

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Randall Lowe

Do your research people. Don’t listen to the lies of the main stream media. Ron Paul 2012.

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Randall Lowe

Sorry Ladies but women never make good leaders. Just research the Bible. Even God knows that women are not meant to lead but to follow. Ron Paul for 2012.

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Persephone

Mmm…nice.
Have you said anything like that to your Mom?

You’re not helping Ron Paul with remarks like that.

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stevenbiot

Dude is a drone and is using his mom’s computer to post these d-bag comments.

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stevenbiot

Every comment you post shows your declining IQ. I bet your mom would smack you right upside the head. Tell her what you have posted. It won’t be difficult, because you still sleep on her couch.

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Randall Lowe

Ron Paul 2012. Everyone else is another Obuma experiment!

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Orange Shaman

Nobody really cares that not all the candidates were invited?

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KenInMontana

With CNN, did you really expect them to be?

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KenInMontana

With CNN, did you really expect them to be?

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Sabers WarDogs

OH man we are so screwed….Sarah we are waiting for you!!!!!!!!!

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Neo Con John

Thanks for posting the debate RS, I will not watch cnn for any reason,don’t want them to have my support on anything. Thanks again RS

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Persephone

It seemed more like a Firing Squad than a debate.
CNN is like an egg-sucking dog that just couldn’t stop itself from being hostile.
They had it set up to fire questions from all sides to disorient the candidates.
[And ambush them,]
That ‘this-or-that’ thing was stupid.
[Trolling for a ‘gotcha’ moment.]

The moderator guy, John-something, seemed like he was agitating Romney and Pawlenty to get into a fight.
And what was the deal with his little ever-present gutteral noises?
Does the guy have some sort of gastrointestinal problem?
He sounded like a fussy baby that was tuning up to start wailing.

In spite of all the hostility and snide remarks from John-the-moderator, I thought all the candidates handled themselves well.

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Rshill7

“He sounded like a fussy baby that was tuning up to start wailing.”(Perse)

mi, mi, mi…waaaaaaa…..waaaaaaa !

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Persephone

Did you notice that too?
That little “mengh…mengh…mengh” noise that he was making?
It’s like he was trying to distract them while they were giving their answers.

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poljunkie

I agree! Thought they all did pretty well, and there was no in fighting! John was really trying to get an all out attack going from Pawlenty. That must have been his to do for the night.

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Persephone

I was proud of them all, for maintaining their composure and not even acknowledging the level of hostility that they were being subjected to.

It would have been fun to see them all leave their podiums, en masse, and jump on John a slap him senseless.
The guy was so obviously chagrinned to even hear applause for their answers, it was completely pukeworthy.

I think that in all…they projected an air of conservative solidarity that I was proud to see.

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Je'Amour P. Matthew

“Ron Paul” kicked booty.
Newt is a toad
Santorum is a Nazi homophobic sexist joke
Bachmann is a total homophobic jerk
Romney was not bad

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RCL

You’re as crazy and out of touch as your candidate.

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KenInMontana

I would say she is crazier.

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stevenbiot

I think she’s related to Chris Matthews.

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K-Bob

I couldn’t watch it because we don’t get CNN. I thought C-SPAN carried all the debates. Oh well.

A quick read-around the right-o-sphere shows a lot of regular folks thought Romney did OK, Pawlenty less so (whiffed on a perfect chance to hammer Mitt), Bachmann well (although lots of folks are easily annoyed at her points about having fostered so many kids–I don’t get that at all). Cain not so well, but not terrible, and Santorum poorly.

Newt was evidently fun to watch (a lot wrote something like that), and Ron Paul was Ron Paul, who is not a Republican, so why bother.

The pundits of course are spinning their butts off for “their” guy, who seems to be named “Romlenty.”

Palin’s name seemed to come up in every third comment on the debate. It’s almost like she was there.

Did I get anything wrong?

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PK

When asked about the clear choice between VP Palin or Biden. Pawlenty gave Palin unequivocal full support, Backmann danced around the question with American idol – let the audience decide. It showed the contention between the two.

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steveart

The YOYO moderator paced in front of the candidates as though he were a PROSECUTING attorney!!

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Anonymous

How much longer till Palin throws her hat in the ring? She’s still trumping up popular support.

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detectivedick

My top three ratings of the Debate
Pawlenty
Bachmann
Santorum

Romney was NOT sharp, Cain was himself as was Newt and Paul

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Tony

Strong on the militant Islamist issue they were, especially Cain imo.

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stevenbiot

Dang it! Missed most of it.

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stevenbiot

Dang it! Missed most of it.

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Tony

Cain did work on em all… To me Cain came out looking the best.

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Rshill7

They all did well IMO and came together at the end. It was good.

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Anonymous

I had been favorably impressed with Cain before this debate, but his answers on the foreign policy questions were worrisome. Quoting his grandmother that “this is just a big mess” in answer to specific questions about Afghanistan and the Middle East? He clearly is not comfortable with foreign policy issues and, after 4 years of Obama screwing things up for us all over the world, we are going to need a President who shows a strong sense of direction on how to sort things out.

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PK

Cain sure needs to polish up on the foreign policy. Grandma motherhood statement on national security and foreign policy won’t help.

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PK

Cain stood his ground and corrected the moderator on the distortion of his past comments for the record, he was quite impressive, came across strong to the surprise of many.

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Rshill7

I think Michele Bachmann just declared her candidacy.

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conservative1989

Lol! Loved Cains answer on pizza. I think they came out strong on the Muslim issue.

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Anonymous

Right scopp chat just banned me after he attacked me. I said typical, attack me when you have nothing to say.

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Rshill7

Waaaaaaa ! Is your jugular still intact?

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KenInMontana

If you hadn’t been acting like a troll you would not have gotten booted.

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stevenbiot

What did I miss?

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KenInMontana

Peter was trolling in the live chat and mouthed off at Scoop.

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stevenbiot

I always want to see what someone looks like when they have a temper tantrum at their keyboard.

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Rshill7

I just noticed something that I hadn’t noticed before sir. If I click on your picture (by the way, what is it?) I see a saying that goes like this:

“Never drop your gun to hug a Grizzly bear.”

What’s up with that!?

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KenInMontana

The avatar is an illuminati symbol I started using as a joke to get a rise out of some “tinfoil” hatters we had on the site. “Never drop your gun to hug a Grizzly bear” is “Cowboy Wisdom”, from those of us that live among Grizzlies.

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CDS in Manitoba

What? You mean that the symbol isn’t a nod to The Alan Parsons Project? Too bad.

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CDS in Manitoba

What? You mean that the symbol isn’t a nod to The Alan Parsons Project? Too bad.

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CDS in Manitoba

What? You mean that the symbol isn’t a nod to The Alan Parsons Project? Too bad.

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K-Bob

Where are those guys? And the hard-core Libertarians. Just curious. Haven’t seen any of them since @TRScoop went back to Disqus.

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KenInMontana

I would say you could ask the “Grizzly man” Timothy Treadwell about what happens when you try to hug a Grizzly. Oh wait, sorry you can’t, he was the plate du jour a while back.

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Rshill7

It’s sound advice. Thanks. Trying to stay in character :-I

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Rshill7

It’s sound advice. Thanks. Trying to stay in character :-I

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KenInMontana

It was back in 2003, the moron got himself and his girlfriend killed. I think the audio of their deaths is still out there on the net.

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Rshill7

La Cucaracha (?)

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Anonymous

Really, talking about the important issues and discussing them intelligently is being a troll? Not really that fair, ya know… That means no Republican could be a troll.

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KenInMontana

Ah but, you weren’t discussing anything you were throwing jabs out. When you got called on it you got even more “hissy” about it. It’s called trolling for a fight and we don’t tolerate it in chat or here from anyone, regardless of their claimed “affiliation”.

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Anonymous

Hunt and peck typer… tried to take time to look at the screen but there was SO much really horrible stuff they were saying I didn’t have time. But I’m a giver! Happy to have long discussions after the fact of my true conservative values and why no one on that stage was a true conservative.

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stevenbiot

Why don’t you run tough guy? We need true conservatives. Show us what we are missing.

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KenInMontana

Anytime I see someone define themselves as “True” anything, it sets off my BS meter. But by all means go ahead, discuss away with the folks. But remember you’ve been warned about “trolling for a fight” and I only give one warning. One last thing, the folks with the little blue stars by their screen names are moderators and the moderation on this site is an active style of moderation. However, we do engage in discussions from time to time.

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Anonymous

I wasn’t trolling for a fight. I was speaking truth as I know it. But sometimes people can’t discount truth so they lash out.

Listen, I’ll make it easy for anyone to find me. All you have to do is find me on twitter and find anything I said and tell me why I’m wrong – I’ll tell you why I’m right.
@20500_0001
I don’t go there everyday but happy to discuss anything. But I doubt anyone is willing, because I can back up everything I say.

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KenInMontana

I don’t tweet or do facebook. If you can’t do it here that’s your issue not mine or anyone else’s.

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Anonymous

As I figured… it’s not in your best interest to talk about things on equal ground – only where you have the upper hand in your own place. I won’t give that much importance to it. C ya around… you know where to find me.

Republicans never want to find the truth if it isn’t regurgitated by some momma bird Republican. The truth is much more complex than something that can be found on a bumper sticker

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Marti17

I know he doesn’t need and doubt he would approve my saying this but Ken in Montana could school you on the complexity of truth. I’m sorry but I’ve been part of this site for way over a year now and you just punched my button.

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Anonymous

either one of you are welcome to “school” me in truth. You may find we’re not far apart on many things – we just may think we need to get there in different ways

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KenInMontana

Seems to me you’re still trolling for a fight, 140 characters or less seems to be about your speed. Still waiting for this “truth” of yours.

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Anonymous

140 charaters per tweet plus twitlonger makes it unlimited.

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KenInMontana

I don’t tweet or do facebook. If you can’t do it here that’s your issue not mine or anyone else’s.

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KenInMontana

Ah but, you weren’t discussing you were throwing out jabs and when you were called on it you got even more “pissy” about it. It’s called “trolling for a fight” we don’t tolerate it in the chat or here regardless of the poster’s affiliations.

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Anonymous

Right scopp chat just banned me after he attacked me. I said typical, attack me when you have nothing to say.

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Anonymous

Why do these people agree to subject themselves to this nonsense?… In my opinion until Perry or Palin get in this is going to be boring.

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Anonymous

Why do these people agree to subject themselves to this nonsense?… In my opinion until Perry or Palin get in this is going to be boring.

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Richard McCreedy

So don’t watch.

Always stuns me when people decide something is so boring that they have to comment on just how boring it is. That means you just watched something that bored you and then wasted even more time posting about it.

And yet again, we see a pattern. A quick run-down of the 4 or 5 people who are whining about this debate being a snooze-fest, pathetic, boring, etc. Guess which candidate they all seem to support. Take a wild, freaking guess. You know the one. And everyone but that one is extremely boring, prepped, establishment, whatever..you make up the word you want to use.

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Anonymous

Perry is a lying crook. Do NOT believe anything the guy says. He’s my governor and he’s not who he represents himself to be!

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Dave Kawasaki

There are no words to convey my disgust at having to concede that Willard just gave a hell of an answer.

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poljunkie

which question? I didn’t notice…

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Dave Kawasaki

WRT unsustainable spending/borrowing.

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Anonymous

This is ridiculous! Would somebody please put a muzzle on that moderator!

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Jules Arnold

IVE BEEN RIPPING MY HAIR OUT WITH THAT GUYS GRUNTING!

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Jules Arnold

IVE BEEN RIPPING MY HAIR OUT WITH THAT GUYS GRUNTING!

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Goldni007

Right now very impressed with Congresswoman Bachman and also Hermain Cain. Pawlenty is smooth too. I’d take anyone of them on that stage over the current idiot we have in the WH now.

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stevenbiot

Well said. That twosome got elected because of misplaced guilt and ignorant hope. Let’s hope America votes with brains next go round.

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elmerfud71

Nothing new being said here. Nobody mentioning NAFTA. (although Paul eluded to 20-30 years of job killing legislation or policy) Paul is the only one addressing the primary issue of monetary policy. Apparently we are going to get three steps forward, and half a step back if one of these guys gets in.

This is a waste of time unless you want to see the next batch of central government republicans. Every one of these candidates have been prepped by the media to be here. Out of 300 million people, this is all we get.

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stevenbiot

Come on now man. Let’s get one of these guys in. Bachman and Cain seem solid? Ron Paul blames America for 911; that is the reason his isn’t going to win. Nobody wants another Obama clone blaming America for everyone hating us.

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AMY WILSON

Amen!! Are any of these candidates against the FED? Do they even talk about it? This is the reason we have massive inflation coming our way. You can talk about all types of policies, but if the FED keeps printing money without oversight, there is no chance to fix the problem. Why are the candidates avoiding this issue? It’s like no matter what, American conservatives are still blind to the establishment GOP that is going to give us nothing but another big government conservative. The media has twisted what Ron Paul stands for because AGAIN, like the author of “The Creature from Jeckyll Island” said on GB – the FED owns politicians, the media and organizations. That’s why you never hear them condemning the FED. And the #1 reason they can’t let Ron Paul be elected – because he would bring REAL, POSITIVE change to our country. Read his words… Read more »

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J.A. Topfke

You’re right, Amy. Ron Paul was the only one on stage who really understands the problems of our economy. I counted about six times when one of the other candidates said something like, “It’s like Ron Paul said…” This was Ron Paul’s debate. They should have renamed it the Ron Paul/CNN Debate. Every candidate tried to sound like Ron Paul. Even on foreign policy. Hell, the Navy guy with three kids in the military basically said, “When are we going to do what Ron Paul says and bring the troops home?” The status quo candidates realize that our insane foreign policy isn’t selling to the America voters. Romney wants to bring the troops home? Who knew? During the last election he was in favor of McCain’s 50 to 100 year war plan. Of course Romney always has and always will say what he thinks is popular at the moment. He… Read more »

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The Wizard of Oz

“Herman Cain has a plan…more planning. He’s going to surround himself with smart people and have a meeting to set a date to talk about a plan for future planning. He also accomplished what everybody thought was impossible: he managed to paint himself as a racist.”

Unfortunately, way back when Cain first made that statement about appointing a Muslim, TRS called it game over for him. He almost manage to salvage it and turn it around, but I think that now he’s pretty much in process of picking the dagger he’s going to use to slay his campaign with.

He still has a pretty good shot because I think he resonates with the lowest common denominator.

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elmerfud71

Everyone on that stage other than Ron Paul are conservative liberals. They push for a little less government take over of our lives. They still believe in social programs and the control is gives them. They still serve the banking cartel. They would keep the war on drugs, poverty, education, obesity, brown people in the middle east, and any other war they could run while keeping the Patriot act and Homeland Security in full swing. Newt was lying through his teeth when he said bring the troops home and protect the border with half of Homeland security. These guys know what their fool voters want to hear. Romney and Newt are the scariest guys on the stage. Bachman is a “reformed” conservative along with Santorum. Cain is a professional talker and an ex-corporate head. Pawlenty is a consummate politician and an admitted government control guy. Ron Paul is the only… Read more »

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elmerfud71

If any of these guys ever get up there and say “the Fed prints money from nothing, lends it to our government, then straps the American people with the debt to be paid through the IRS straight to the Fed, and America puts up its real wealth as collateral for this fake money”, my heart would stop in my tracks. Ron Paul has said this, but nobody listens. At least not the guys who the media puts up. These guys know this, but serve the Fed Res system. That is why Newt was pushing for carbon taxes to be paid to the banking cartel. This election needs to be about ending the Fed, and ending the wars that we fight for the banking cartels and world leaders. People are so emotionally attached to 911 that they can’t see the most obvious of conspiracies. We are not fighting these wars for… Read more »

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elmerfud71

If any of these guys ever get up there and say “the Fed prints money from nothing, lends it to our government, then straps the American people with the debt to be paid through the IRS straight to the Fed, and America puts up its real wealth as collateral for this fake money”, my heart would stop in my tracks. Ron Paul has said this, but nobody listens. At least not the guys who the media puts up. These guys know this, but serve the Fed Res system. That is why Newt was pushing for carbon taxes to be paid to the banking cartel. This election needs to be about ending the Fed, and ending the wars that we fight for the banking cartels and world leaders. People are so emotionally attached to 911 that they can’t see the most obvious of conspiracies. We are not fighting these wars for… Read more »

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David Landrum

Leno or Conan? Really, CNN?

The correct answer is: Team Coco.

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Tony

ron paul usin Cains line about foreign repatrioted profits