Who Won Last Night's Debate? »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 year, 2 months ago218 Comments Report this Story
Here are the winners and losers of Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate, accurate to three decimal places.
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jeffery11 year, 2 months ago
The one who wasn't there when god created the universe and so didn't know how long a "day" was. That's the kind of guy I want in office, someone who admits to not knowing what the bible means by a "day". I certainly wouldn't want some freak who claims to know what the bible wants when they use it to make policy decisions, that's for sure.
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LordyLordy1 year, 2 months ago
Bush is a liberal, and compromises. I'd vote for Tancredo.
What always amazes me is that the system is set up so that those who are the best talker and debators are always the ones who seem to win the Presidential bids in the last few years, and very little attention is paid to real leadership ability, not just how well they can "smooze you". Clinton could have talked an Eskimo into buying a refrigerator and made him think he got a great deal. We all know he was a great debator but master-debator. Monika had him beat there.
We need a President that can keep his pans zipped up, his political agenda left behind, and someone who will do what is right for America. Of those I've seen running, I'd have hoped Tanbcredo would run. He at least understands this country is under invasion by illegals who are not paying taxes, and some of them drug dealers. I'd vote for Tancredo
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GLee1 year, 2 months ago
Time to bring in Fred to help clear the air and shame on the Repubs for even getting involved in something Wolf has a hand on....... Duhhh.......
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Neophile1 year, 2 months ago
My girlfriend and I watched a bit of the debate last night. The healthcare portion had us laughing so hard that it hurt. (Don't worry, it didn't hurt so much that we felt the need to take advantage of our free universal healthcare)
But the funniest part by far was when Tancredo called Bush a liberal.
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Twistoflex1 year, 2 months ago
You certainly have more forebearance than I do. I had switched off long before. If it wasn't Wolf Blitzer's ridiculous questions that beg for soundbites and pandering over substance, it was the responses, which by and large offered soundbites and pandering over substance.
The only Repugnant candidate who demonstrates even the remotest sense of conservative principles and respect for the rule of law is Ron Paul and he is too much of an ideologue for the eclectic thinking that must go with the job.
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ryan6011 year, 2 months ago
Not that I necessarily disagree with you regarding the ridiculous questions that get asked during these debates (on both sides), but I thought that Blitzer's questions were at least better then the completely absurd questions that were asked during other GOP debates (was Chris Wallace asking a question in the 2nd debate or pitching a script for next season's 24?).
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star531 year, 2 months ago
neophile nothing is free some WORKER has to pay for it universal healthcare will not work right now healthcare cost 3,000,000,000,000 dollars this will more than double under any universal plan where do think the money will come from? and if you say the rich I say YEA RIGHT try again!!!!!
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Neophile1 year, 2 months ago
It's pretty funny how you make it sound like if I need treatment they send a bill to the guy down the street. It's more complicated than that.
And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that universal health care is necessarily a good fit for the United States, what with the higher rates of clinical obesity, drug abuse and violence... not to mention war-mongering.
And I kind of doubt that the U.S. government could pull off a universal health care system in a way that serves the best interests of patients rather than special interests.
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tommmmie1 year, 2 months ago
Didnt the officers in charge of guantanimo bay say the terrorists are being given the best healthcare in the world, for free. the same ones who planned 9/11. Why cant citizens of the U S be given healthcare, and not be turned down by thier hmo's for testing and cures because it's not in thier program to be paid for.
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kedirian1 year, 2 months ago
Universal healthcare should be an INDIVIDUAL concern!
When this country continues to let in the "poor and downtrodden" of the world, gives them, at best, a chance at minimum-wage work or starting their own fastfood joints, maximizes their labor to the greater glory and growth of the employer's bottomline,then I am NOT in favor of a government-instituted, hence taxpayer-supported, healthcare system!
Most of those "poor and downtrodden" had to get by in their (third-world) countries by hook and by crook... Once inside the Promised Land, their ideas of Liberty do not seem to include a sense of personal responsibility and discipline.
One has but to look at the numbers of obese and otherwise health-challenged persons to realize that many of them are poor and uneducated...
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alakazam1 year, 2 months ago
Good Call!
I'm ex-military, love my country and have voted Republican since I started voting.
Unless Ron Paul gets the Republican nomination. I will probably vote for someone independent this time around.
We aren't choosing a King, we are electing a President.
He has to stand for something. The Constitution is a good start. Under It a Presudent can only enforce the authority he has been given. States rights were the intent of many of the founders.
I am tired of one side or the other always having their backs against the wall.
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jaern1 year, 2 months ago
I didn't understand the comment that John McCain "hit the ball out of the park" when he replied to Erin Flanagan's question. It was great that he acknowledged her and her family's loss but he didn't answer her question....and after all she 's lost, she deserved an answer. I think his answer bounced over the foul line. McCain = 4 more years of war.
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kerrywon1 year, 2 months ago
If these schmucks are the best the Republic*nts have got to offer then they might as well hang it up...More of the same (Bush light)isn't going to cut it anymore.
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mcgrievysr1 year, 2 months ago
saintetienne----"Get lost. We're all trying to have an intelligent web discussion".
Not all of us if you're involved in the debate. :-)
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Zorn1 year, 2 months ago
This article might as well have been from one of the big networks. 'fred thompson' was placed above some of the other candidates, and he wasn't there! He hasn't DONE anything while in congress, the only thing they keep talking about is that he is a good public speaker! Thats it!
wtf, this country is headed for disaster.
and sieben, did ron paul get to answer on the iraq question? he has said many times that we should pull out asap. (safely, but quickly - with NO bases left like DEMS AND REPUBLICANS are planning on...)
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hdrkid1 year, 2 months ago
Barak oSAMa won, or is it Hussein o BOMB a? The reps made him look presidential. Now he is ahead of Billary.
All billary has to do is burn another flag as she will be front runner for the dems.
My dream is a poster that says "Who loves America more?" and below is McCain at the Hanoi Hilton while Billary & Jane Fonda burn American flags.
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skyking2p1 year, 2 months ago
what a great idea kid. Maybe you could use your new crayons you got when you graduated first grade.
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ConquerorWyrm1 year, 2 months ago
And maybe your poster could also show Our Dear Leader, "W", wiping his nether regions with the Constitution while the representative GOP congressman stands with his pants down behind a young, fresh faced page. That image could be done really Norman Reckwell like...freckles and all...
And in the back ground, have Rumsfeld ladeling from an bubbling vat, burning white phospherous over a pile of screaming babies...yeah, that would be a good poster, wouldn't it...
Oh yeah, don't forget the inset where a pack of clonish 'Religious Right' pastors and polititicans bow in worship before a golden alter emblazoned with the mark of Mammon...
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zembel1 year, 2 months ago
CNN put up a comments page about New Hampshire GOP debate at http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/06/03...
The comments were overwhelmingly for Ron Paul.
So, CNN simply removed the comments and replaced them with apage of comments about last night's Democratic debate.
Shame on CNN for trying yet again to "pre-screen" the candidates before the elections.
It is time for the American voters to send a clear message that the mainstream media will NOT choose the President of the United States. That choice belongs to WE THE PEOPLE.
Shame on CNN for such underhanded chicanery!
Ron Paul sweeps the post-debate polling.
I hope he is wearing his Kevlar undies.
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zembel1 year, 2 months ago
CNN's post-debate poll
Check out the pundit's "sales job", then check out how real people voted
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NelsonR1 year, 2 months ago
By the above post I'm glad I missed the debate. The democratic debate was all about Hillary, Obama and Edwards while the other candidates were placed on the second tier by Wolf and his biased questioning.
Does the media control who becomes elected. Personally I am starting to think they have a major role. My suggestion, allow the audience to dictate the agenda with questions of their own making, lottery style.
Ron Paul was the most pragmatic, articulate and sensible candidate the Republicans had last debate but he will never be the parties choice. Republicans who have left Lincoln and his principles are now war mongers, defecit spenders, intruders into personal lives, religious intruders into government and the bottom line, not Republicans. This party is now a neocon organization leaning so far right they make Barry Goldwater who I did like, look like a sheep.
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Obaku1 year, 2 months ago
Ron Paul won this debate too.
The only candidate in either party who A) Understands the Constitution, B) Understands the role of government in society mandated by the Constitution and C) supports the Constituion, says so, and votes like he believes the Constitution should limit government.
The only candidate to come out and say pre-emptive war is WRONG, and un-American.
Only Republican who disavows the use of torture.
The only candidate in either party, who if elected, would actually decrease spending by the federal government, because he would veto almost anything (and everything) Congress would pass, so all appropriations would need a veto proof majority.
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aniokly1 year, 2 months ago
Your vote belongs to you. Research the candidates. When you find one that believes what you believe, and will protect our culture, and National Security, cast your vote. I watched the debates, and I don't think you can determine what the candidate believes with a debate where 8 to 10 people are trying to make their point in a minute or two. They all have public voting records, have made speeches available on the net. Check them out.
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tryinghard1 year, 2 months ago
I agree. There is plenty of time to choose. This "debate" nonsense is just so much noise right now. Go out and enjoy the beautiful Spring weather.
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tryinghard1 year, 2 months ago
I agree. There is plenty of time to make sense out of all this noise. I'm going out and enjoy the Spring weather.
Have a good one!
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ryan6011 year, 2 months ago
While I agree, ET, that Ron Paul had a good performance and is absolutely right on a lot of issues (particularly the Iraq debacle), he is definitely NOT the guy you would want in the White House. Paul absolutely believes that there is no function of the federal government that can't be done better by a private corporation. That is complete bull.
One only needs to point to Hurricane Katrina to see that are at least some vital that the government MUST provide, that should not be outsourced to private industry under any circumstances.
Paul even said, on his appearance on the "Daily Show" that he would get rid of the freakin' Post Office. I mean, come on! I agree that there is a lot of bureaucratic waste in the Fed. gov't, but c'mon! The right idea is to make the government more efficient, not gut it entirely.
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amazed1 year, 2 months ago
except in the case of Katrina, the private entities were PREVENTED by the local, state AND fed gov'ts from providing aid in New Orleans and the surrounding area in the wake of Katrina.
We delivered generators and ice, arrived within hours of the end of the storm and had to wait three days before the gov't would allow us to deploy anythng, although there was plenty of obvious need.
And, don't forget all the school busses that were drowned in New ORleans.
yep, the gov't does somethings better than anyone.
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
If anyone thought I was endorsing Ron Paul for President, please be advised this is NOT the case.
Of all the guys on the stage during the Republican debate of June 5, 2007; he is the only one who stuck to the truth and refused to resort to the finely tuned "new Republican" strategies of Pandering, Demagoguery, Fear and Smear.
I don't want to see him as president, but I do applaud the fact that he actually believes the Constitution of the United States is worth reading and he has the mental capacity to actually understand what it says. Nobody else on that stage demonstrated such a capacity. All the others did show that they know how Joe McCarthy rose to such heights, and they fully intend -- in the campaign and if elected -- to put demagoguery to good use.
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onlyonesecret1 year, 2 months ago
Ron Paul: I'd legalize competition. You know, there's FedEx, a few other of those companies that do exist. I'd just legalize competition in First Class mail and let the market decide which is best.
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OnlyTheTruth1 year, 2 months ago
The Democrats won last night's show among the mental midgets of the GOP.
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kerrywon1 year, 2 months ago
Better an articulate moron than a blithering idiot (can you say "nukular"?) and a climate Nazi (dear Lord thats GOTTA be a Rush "Limpballs" phrase) than an Administration of Neoconazis' hell bent on starting World War III. Go home Bushbot...
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 2 months ago
THEY are tolod what to say and believe..It's a Fox thing.
pleasantries for those who don't seem to be taken seriously until it is proven that they deserve those pleasantries, and then they spend the remainder of their time slamming them..
IN OTHER WORDS..When they were being pleasant they were LYING!
Can you say "mean spirited and divisive"??
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 2 months ago
They only spew pleasantries when they see no threat.
(It's a Fox thing)
Now that Obama has proven the compliments they go into their divisive mode because they never believed the pleasantries.
Can you say LIARS and DIVIDERS???
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ConquerorWyrm1 year, 2 months ago
Yes, and you also endorsed that comment which you quoted and thus attributed that very sentiment as if from your own mouth...
Not gonna let you 'cut and run' from your own comments, luv...
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nonparted1 year, 2 months ago
QUESTIONSEVERYTHING
"candidates like obama that want open,honest govt restored"
do u have any idea about govt official opperate?
about 98% of our govt hasn't been honest in decades (its all about the money to them). regardless of who (dems and reps)is serving their term. all u ever hear is both parties bitching about one another. they surpress third parties at elections because they dont want anyone slicing into their pie. any excuse they give about third parties is hindsite and BS.
i'll repeat myself: its about time the registered dems and reps voters to wake up.
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kerrywon1 year, 2 months ago
Personally I don't care for any of the Dem candidates (Ron Paul would at least shake things up) much less the Republican'ts (you know-the "lesser-of-two-evils" choice) as they CAN'T seem to get anything right these days. It seems we are at a loss for someone who isn't afflicted with a severe case of Bureaucratitis, which is fatal for a Democracy.
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skyking2p1 year, 2 months ago
you repubs like to use the "Hussein" in Obama's name don't you. Make you feel smug? Maybe it is becoming like the other code words you use for African American. He sure is a LOT smarter than your prez that you love so much. Bush IQ 91
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B1BLancer1 year, 2 months ago
Why shouldn't Barack Hussein Obama's name be used? That IS his name. And just in case you weren't aware of it, one doesn't learn to fly and become combat qualified in a supersonic interceptor, and one that was notorious for being very unforgiving of mistakes at that, by being stupid. I don't recall Barack HUSSEIN Obama as having accomplished that. Bush did.
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MajJohn1 year, 2 months ago
Quit making up figures, the President has enough flaws without you making things up!
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el-jefe1 year, 2 months ago
Bush IQ 127 by actual test. Quit quoting bunk that has been discredited by Snopes.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
Gore reminds me of a penguin, and looking down his nose at all of us.
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artists-and-writers1 year, 2 months ago
Ron Paul, MD is the best thing that not only the GOP has out there, but that the American people have out there, as well--and I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Libertarian.
This man has the integrity of a goose, the consistency of a waterfall, and the working, Constitutional knowledge of the latter-day James Madison that he is. So, of course, he'll be downplayed by America's biased and abusive, Establishment news media as "The best Texas candidate in the race", in ninth place, and with only a 13.112 score.
Is this the best "The Politico" can do? Remind me to read something else next time that doesn't insult my sensibilities, let alone, intelligence. I am fed up with being lied to and deliberately misled by the press.
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nonparted1 year, 2 months ago
"ron paul isnt as radical enough for the cons though"
i think if ron paul running as a third party could get fair treatment and air time for debates as a presidental candidate he would since he did back in 88 as a libatarian.
the reason he said he switch to republican is because its real hard for a third party to run due to both parties control the elections.
i think third parties should consentate their efforts at state levels and win then set ur eyes on the bigger picture maybe things will change for the better. hope u succeed.
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