The idea that Bachmann could call anyone “naive” is almost too comical to absorb. 

I do agree with you on the larger point, but, she was dead on with this rebuttal. Perry’s response was absolutely naive and ignorant….and his bombastic rhetoric would endanger millions of lives. What can I say? A broken clock is right twice a day.

Name a Republican President that has kept the US Safer than President Obama? ……EXACTLY!

It’s scary when Michelle Bachmann is the smart kid in the room on an issue. Perry should high tail it back to Texas. His ignorance about foreign policy shows that he isn’t qualified to be President.

Interesting article.  What did two other people who won’t be the nominee have to argue about?

Make no mistake, I’ve no doubt that Perry is, in fact, naive. I just think it’s incredibly funny to think that she’s in any position to look down on anyone else for their lack of guile.

I am SHOCKED over how rational Bachmann’s argument was. This is what happens when you speak about a topic you are informed about. Perry is the dumbest man on the planet. He actually expects other countries to have OUR best interest in mind? What a dumbass.

I think it’s funny that you care so much about the Republican candidates. Very odd.

Frankly, it just makes me sad. My great grandparents were Republicans, my grandparents were Republicans, my parents were Republicans and, for 30 years, I was a Republican. It’s like watching a relative drink himself to death. You accept that it’s his choice to destroy himself, but it’s still a tragedy to watch.

It’s refreshing to hear something more thoughtful coming out of her mouth.

It’s not related, but could’nt we retire Nancy Allen’s “nip slip” story?  It’s just too painful being photographically reminded of it.  Please.

I’m sorry, but there is nothing Republican about your personality.

I don’t worry. The Dems. have no one to run after 2012. That suffices me long enough.

Bachmann is toast, she is not presidential and has no credentials. Perry was right on Pakistan, Iran, and boarder security. He was the elephant in the room, a giant 3 terms Gov. of a graet state and a commander in chief indeed. Perry was the winner of debate tonight.

Bachmann is toast, she is not presidential and has no credentials. Perry was right on Pakistan, Iran, and boarder security. He was the elephant in the room, a giant 3 terms Gov. of a graet state and a commander in chief indeed. Perry was the winner of debate tonight.

and I guess that makes a civilized East coast ignorant snob?

Perry is definitely right.  Why on earth would we give them a billion per year.  Makes no sense.

Nonsense. I personally agreed with Huntsman & Gingrich. They tend NOT to condense complex issues into pithy soundbites. They had the best responses on FP overall. Cain and Perry were the weakest. I don’t like ranking Paul because he’s on a different field with his views which are iconoclastic. many of which I agree with. He’s ganged up upon so much in such discussions, you don’t get to hear specifics because he’s always playing D. Romney was doing the usual pandering stuff. Nothing noteworthy. 

Ronald Reagan, not only did he keep up safe but made us safer, so nice try play again some time

A RINO by any other name is still a RINO. You abandoned the party, not the other way around. We’ve stuck to our guns and fought for our values, even in the face of the destruction of our culture by marxist social engineering, blatant disregard for the rule of law, rewriting the meaning constitution to serve immoral purposes, the deliberate discrimination against white christians. Where were you? Having coffee with your liberal friends?

I think Perry is right about Pakistan.  What have they done to show they can be trusted? 

@righteoushawk1776:

I’d rather have “coffee with my liberal friends” than drink Kool-Aid with your nutjob comrades.

@WCinWI2  you are a strange one.. You consistently like stonepark, Michelle, Gloves and many other VILE comments by YOUR ilk on this sight daily .. Then you have the audacity to call people out… Do you see how you look ?  

The Daily Caller has a story claiming that Bachmann may have disclosed classified information during the debate (15 nuclear sites and 6 jihadist assaults on nuke facilities)… Will be interesting if true.

How’s the weather there in the graet ( wonderful education system) state of Texas? Perry is more Presidential than Bachmann? That’s like being the tallest midget.

Ceeza – I don’t like all of their comments, by any stretch of the imagination.

I call out people like ExGOP and others when they like a comment that uses the R-word and I’m not talking Republican or Republicon.

Liberals on this site say some of the most vile stuff I’ve ever seen. But I also think there are some decent folks on here that can be thoughtful and funny. The liberal vs.conservative meanness is about 10 to 1 with liberals leading the pack.

Actually, you can make an argument he made us less safe. I’m talking about the lessons that came from our troops being in Lebanon in the early 1980s. We sent our Marines and Navy to Lebanon as part of a UN Peacekeeping Force, but the misuse of our forces there lead to the belief amount the Muslims in Lebanon and in Syria and Iran that we were not so much neutral peacekeepers but allies of the Lebanese Christians against the Lebanese Muslims (IE Our Navy ships bombing Druze and Shiite areas in the Bekaa Valley in support of the Lebanese Army, that killed hundreds of Muslims. Also our Marines aiding the Maronite Catholics against Muslim forces). This perception that the USA was not, in fact, neutral, but actually supported the Chritian forces against Muslims. This lead to the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks that killed 241 American servicemen. The subsequent withdrawal of our troops from Lebanon without a successful retaliation against those who perpetrated the bombing helped embolden those with anti-American sentiments and help foster the belief the Americans could be attacked in the world without fear of devastating reprisals. And that threat grew through the years that followed. So Reagan making us safer? Maybe not so much.

That’s because he spent much of his time 1) running from Hezbollah and 2) Selling arms to their Iranian (that would be I-Ranian to you crackers, peckerwoods, rednecks and hillbillies that can’t pronounce a damn thing correctly) masters.

What bizarro world am I living in when Michelle Bachmann starts to make sense?  I mean I didn’t think she even knew about the complex relationship between Pakistan and China.  What’s funny is her calling Perry naive, considering that she takes things as truth without corroborating them first

I’ll be a son of a bitch, she’s given the most coherent brilliant answer on this questions & I agree with her

And Perry you mental, name one country other than the US that “has the US’s best interest in mind”? And no, Israel and Canada are the wrong answer too. Evey nation in the world looks for its own best interest

Beautiful Michele Bachmann is clearly the winner of last night’s debate.

In your dreams.