GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Bumped - Todd

The debate begins at 8pm EST.

Watch it HERE and follow along in the comments. This should be a doozy.

Update: Don't forget to listen to MyDD Blog Talk Radio immediately after the debate.

Tags: 2008 Presidential election, cnn/youtube debate, Republican primary (all tags)

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Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Really. Why can't CNN just do the intros before their debate coverage?

by Jonathan Singer 2007-11-28 03:09PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Was that Chuck Norris?

by Jonathan Singer 2007-11-28 03:13PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Chuck Norris doesn't go to debates, they come to him.

by Todd Beeton 2007-11-28 03:39PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

There are no such things as debates, only a list of questions that chuck norris chose not to kill.

by Trey Rentz 2007-11-28 05:07PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

OK -- i know this really isnt diary worthy, but have some friends over, we're going to watch the debate and play a drinking game (no one is driving).

Every time Reagan is mentioned 1 person has to drink, same with 9/11 and a different person, and the third (me of course) will drink every time Hillary is mentioned (if its not as much as the other two, will throw in the other dem candidates).

we're going to try to keep track, but will most likely forget.

by sepulvedaj3 2007-11-28 03:09PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

omg.  who drank the most?

by Trey Rentz 2007-11-28 05:08PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

I'll bet they don't use this question.  I liked it.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-28 03:14PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Some may say the gloves came off at the beginning debate tonight... The truth is they walked onto the stage with no gloves on.  Look at them go.  Making everyone bloody and bruised for a Democrat to steamroll.  

by JeremiahTheMessiah 2007-11-28 03:17PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

oh damn. "sanctuary mansion." this immigration argument is actually a really interesting exchange. giuliani sounds downright sane but I think romney is winning it among the base, although he does look like the evasive shifty one.

by Todd Beeton 2007-11-28 03:17PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Doozy indeed, the sword fight begins early today. Secondly who cares about Fred I want more Guliani/Romni

by lordnoble 2007-11-28 03:19PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

and that is why Mike Huckabee would be a very very dangerous nominee.

by Todd Beeton 2007-11-28 03:31PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Amen.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-28 03:33PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

You know, I generally don't share this fear of Huckabee, but moments like that do elevate my concern. He's a much better compassionate conservative than Bush ever was. That said, I'm not really so afraid of any of the republicans except McCain.

by DPW 2007-11-28 03:36PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

This is just confirming for me that the repubs are batshit crazy.  It's actually painful for me to watch.  It's like they are completely disconnected from the majority of the country.

by Reece 2007-11-28 03:34PM | 0 recs
Call me bad

But it makes me laugh when F.Thompson pronounces "Program" like "Progrum"

by JeremiahTheMessiah 2007-11-28 03:38PM | 0 recs
Re: Call me bad

Pogrom?

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-28 03:46PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

wow, Thompson is downright cringe-inducing. the secret of Thompson's failure: he needs a script.

by Todd Beeton 2007-11-28 03:40PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Imagine that, he isn't as good an actor as Reagan.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-28 04:26PM | 0 recs
Huckabee's a first tier candidate

They are asking him that many questions, and he's hitting them hard.  

by JeremiahTheMessiah 2007-11-28 03:41PM | 0 recs
Re: Huckabee's a first tier candidate

Yup, a friend of mine and I had a discussion about him a few months ago and we predicted this.  Actually he asked me which candidate I feared and I said Huck and he said it was funny that he felt the same way.  At that point Huck was nowhere in the polls.  

by MollieBradford 2007-11-28 04:25PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

what did McCain say that got all that applause?

by Todd Beeton 2007-11-28 03:44PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

McCain said that the troops were telling him, "Let us win!" and that Ron Paul's isolationism is what caused WW2.  Anyone think either of those two things are true?

by Reece 2007-11-28 03:55PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

These candidate videos are just terrible. Did they even see ours? If that's the message team we'll be up against, then I feel pretty good no matter who our nominee is.

by DPW 2007-11-28 04:08PM | 0 recs
my husband said something brilliant

We were talking about that New Yorker profile of Addington, the Cheney hack who has been instrumental in promoting the torture agenda. My husband commented that the scariest Republicans are the ones with facial hair, like Addington, Grover Norquist, and John Bolton.

by desmoinesdem 2007-11-28 04:14PM | 0 recs
Re: my husband said something brilliant

you mean dick cheney has no facial hair? whats that stuff all over his face?

by Trey Rentz 2007-11-28 05:10PM | 0 recs
Hey Huck

he asked you what Jesus would do?  Jesus would NOT execute anyone you fucking fake Christian.

I used to think he was at least sincere in his religion, as loony as it is to be as fundamentalist as he is.  But he knows damn well Jesus would not agree with the death penalty.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-28 04:17PM | 0 recs
Re: Hey Huck

well he gave a damn good answer on the bible.  Why couldn't he just be honest on the death penalty question.  He could move the debate on the death penalty forward if he had the guts.  The loony right would listen to him.

by MollieBradford 2007-11-28 04:20PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Romney flubbed on the Religion question!!  He's only hurting himself tonight.  

by JeremiahTheMessiah 2007-11-28 04:18PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Yep.

The Bible and the Book of Mormon are two different books that contradict each other. I will be following the fall out.

by BlueDiamond 2007-11-28 04:23PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Is anyone suprised by how few questions Fred Thompson is getting?  Laughable, borderline histerical.  

by JeremiahTheMessiah 2007-11-28 04:20PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Huckabee is having a good night. For the first time, I think he actually might be able to win. This debate could conceivably really shake things up--depending on the media's post-debate narrative, of course. Guiliani, Romney, and McCain are all delivering piss-poor performances. Fred is just . . . well, Fred.  

by DPW 2007-11-28 04:22PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread


What does a cyclist call someone who is too
slow to keep up.

FRED

You know, like stone wheels and bare feet and
yabba dabba doo?

by Trey Rentz 2007-11-28 05:12PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

McCain just had him moment--and shamed Romney while he was at it.

by DPW 2007-11-28 04:32PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Should say had "his" moment.

by DPW 2007-11-28 04:33PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Did the Republican audience just boo a general who served 42 years in the military, after which he came out as gay? Wow.

by Jonathan Singer 2007-11-28 04:54PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

And did they really cut his mic?

by Jonathan Singer 2007-11-28 05:08PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Who party of the military, again, Jon?
The party that wants to fund them, or the party that cuts their expenses, picks wars we can't fight properly - and cut the mike for generals
who serve 42 years?

>:)

by Trey Rentz 2007-11-28 05:14PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

Yea, its quite disgraceful. The fact that Europe  countries allow Gay soldiers to serve openly and yet we are openly discriminating against U.S. citizens.

by nzubechukwu 2007-11-28 05:03PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

It was Huckabee's night.

by Shaun Appleby 2007-11-28 05:16PM | 0 recs
All the Democratic blogs

seem to agree that he won. I'm not entirely sure what that means, and am afraid of surfing the Republican blogs.

by BingoL 2007-11-28 05:27PM | 0 recs
ranking worst for Supreme court

1.  Thompson

  1.  Huckabee
  2.  Hunter
  3.  Paul
  4.  Tancredo
  5.  Romney
  6.  McCain
  7.  Guiliani

Thompson especially scares me, he has a hard on for Roe V. Wade and damn anything else.  

by Robert Oak 2007-11-28 05:41PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

I think Huckabee would be a scary candidate for the Dems to face and he did himself a huge favor for Iowa tonight.

How about William Bennett saying Romney won after the debate? What a joke.

by shoeshine boy 2007-11-28 06:53PM | 0 recs
Re: GOP CNN/YouTube Debate Live Thread

The audience was scary.  People were shocked at the boo's at our last debate- that's all they did here- there were huge boo's that drowned out some of the responses.

Rudy is slick but he did not come off that well this time- i still think he will be the nominee.  Romney scares me- he is what the anti-christ would look like.

by reasonwarrior 2007-11-28 09:21PM | 0 recs

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