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While it may feel like a lifetime, it has been all but about a month since the last time the four remaining (now that Buddy Roemer is running as an independent). Much has happened since then– Rick Santorum winning all three primary states on “mini-Tuesday,” shocking most with his win in Colorado; Newt Gingrich‘s almost complete disappearance from the scene, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul hanging about even.

The debate, hosted in Mesa, Arizona, where there will be a primary next week (on Super Tuesday), is sponsored by CNN and will be moderated by John King. The news cycle it is arriving to is replete with social issues, and Santorum in particular is expected to have to explain some of the comments he made regarding Christianity that have recently surfaced.

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  • Anonymous

    Do they really need another debate?   These guys all look so bad, they need to just shut up for a while.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, look — it’s another Obama Reelection Infomercial.

  • 12voltman1

    The clown show debates is the best reality show on TV.
    Funniest too!

  • Timothy Lennon

    Santorum, don’t you think just maybe Cuba is becoming closer to our enemies like Iran because US and our allies are ignoring them. you say we ignored columbia and they are now being influenced by other ‘marxist’ countries. Well we are ignore Cuba and they are being influenced by Iran and Al-Queida…

  • Timothy Lennon

    And Ron Paul said we can expect a housing crash because of Freddy Mac and Fanny May(Newt) and the low interest rates which has been supported by Obama, Biden and through filibustering to keep the interests low.

  • http://twitter.com/BlueMtnMarc BlueMtn Marc

    until they start discussing true issues, cancel all debates :(

  • http://twitter.com/Sunlightstudio Anna Rolen

    Good for Santorum-Newt and Mitt get over yourselves!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carl-Buchberg/1361253227 Carl Buchberg

    Google the word Santorum.
    Actually, Fidel Castro made a rare cogent observation when, yesterday, he characterized these Republican debates. Look for it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VDHPAID7RWNQZ3S6ZJCVIY7SYM SW

    Why doesn’t Ron Paul ask Santorum when he starts ranting about protecting us from every potential threat from every possible part of the world(I think he  hasn’t mentioned Iceland yet) WHERE WILL HE GET THE MONEY????

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    CNN wants Mitt because Obama wants Mitt. Give us a break MEDIA!!!

  • Anonymous

    My parents, who are both staunch Republicans..refuse to even watch because it’s so embarrassing… Each candidate has said things no reasonable person can agree on… and somehow it gets worse with each debate.

    From the booing of gay soldiers, to the booing of Ron Paul explaining why foreign countries don’t want us to invade… to the cheering of people dying without healthcare.. the bar continues to be lowered.

  • http://www.facebook.com/thecrazydudesrd Shawn Dunn

    The reason for debate is to reveal and unravel the truth, much like the police trying to find truth from a suspect, sometimes it is quick, others though end up being… welll difficult.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    All of the candidates have great ideas. Whoever wins the nomination is better than obama.

  • Anonymous

    I agree! 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I double agree!!

  • 12voltman1

    Priscilla, my dear confused girl. You have gone astray and are now in the power of the dark side. Reach out and grab my hand before it’s too late!

  • 12voltman1

    Obama Wants Newt or Paul.These would be the weaker candidates in the general election.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1354778076 CanadaRican Mike

    where could I ask a question for presidential candidates?

  • 12voltman1

    Is that possible?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Not sure, but figured I had nothing to lose!!  =)

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    When the debates started…..Obama said give me Mitt.

  • 12voltman1

    What can I say? We will welcome you to Light side of the force with welcome arms. (Forgive me I just watched a Star Wars film with my daughter) 

  • 12voltman1

    Come on. Don’t you have any sense for comedy?

  • http://www.facebook.com/thecrazydudesrd Shawn Dunn

    Wait, what about Ron Paul with Israel/palestine?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/VDHPAID7RWNQZ3S6ZJCVIY7SYM SW

    Sheldon Adelson just paid Newt 10 million dollars to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Looks like he’ll get his money’s worth if his boy gets elected.

  • Mark

    Judeo-Christian ? what a joke …Jesus rejected Judaism completely  

    if US law was based on Christianity , then you would not get crazy christian recontructionists like Rick Perry and Bachman trying to replace the constitution with the 10 commandments .

    Ron Paul gave the best answer….the media is trying to turn this into a two horse race    

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Phillip-Waller/100000028132731 Phillip Waller

    we don’t want to “reach out and grab your hand. We want to defeat you, and your Socialist ideas. May the best win. It’s war and I take no prisoners.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Elroy-Oboe/549689495 Elroy Oboe

    When’s the swimsuit competition?

  • 12voltman1

    Civil War?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    I have truly seen the dark side and believe me you don’t want to see it. I would not wish it on anyone. As far as taking your hand no thanks…Jesus has pulled me out of the darkness into the light. Now I also am a musician. I  played keyboards and sang.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UGYI5EKZRMHIIMARBB5IS35ELU DeborahL

    Your parents aren’t so staunch. They’ve probably made up their mind, just like you have. I disagree that the candidates haven’t said reasonable things. Even Ron Paul who I dislike.

    I must not let you repeat the lies.  A Gay soldier was not booed. See the video for yourself. They were booing the exclusion of openly serving. Ron Paul’s foreign policy is dangerous because it is naive. No one is cheering people dying without healthcare.

    The bar has been lowered by the Democrats. But I’m sure you can’t see that, just like I couldn’t when I was a Liberal Democrat. Learn how to critically think, and why Republicans see things differently, rather than just thinking they are evil, nasty people. Are your parents like that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UGYI5EKZRMHIIMARBB5IS35ELU DeborahL

    Except for Ron Paul. His foreign policy makes him dangerous, and unpresidential.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    You are right Rons foregin policy is the pitts.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    OOPS! foreign :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Barney-Ellingson/100000293802800 Barney Ellingson

    sorry but obama will lose to paul cause there is no dirt on paul, and paul has dems, non-voters, independs and republicans will back him over obama only hope for gop is unleash the ron paul revolution

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Barney-Ellingson/100000293802800 Barney Ellingson

    meaning non voters turned voters sololy for ron paul, like myself, other wise i will vote obama cause other 3 are too childish

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UGYI5EKZRMHIIMARBB5IS35ELU DeborahL

    Ah, voltman, Priscilla is not  the confused one. It seems she has critical thinking skills where you sorely lack. I was once like you, until I found out why and how the world works. It was a revelation when I learned about all the lies I had been told from the Left. They don’t want peace, except at the price of your liberty. Think North Korea and Venezuela. The Left wants total control of our life, which is why they favor big government and all the regulations. There can never be the utopia that the Left has convinced you can happen, because there can never be perfection. If you read Saul Alinsky, you’d know the plan. Hillary and Obama are devotees of Sauls. Saul dedicated his book, “Rules For Radicals” to Satan. How ya feel about that, man?

    You should know that it was Republicans or their forebears who not only freed the slave, which Democrats fought against. They were the first to give women the right to vote in areas that they held. Started the Conservation movement. And have freed more people around the world. The Left has cost more lives than all the wars to free people.

    Hope you wake up like I did. Remember, peace without freedom is tyranny.

  • B Sala

    Jesus did not reject Judaism. He rejected the legalism of the Pharisees and Sadducees. He specifically said that he did not come to do away with the law. The benefit of Jesus’s coming was the ability to not have to live under the law anymore. But he definitely did not reject Judaism. It was within the Old Testament that the coming of Jesus was told.

  • B Sala

    Jesus did not reject Judaism. He rejected the legalism of the Pharisees and Sadducees. He specifically said that he did not come to do away with the law. The benefit of Jesus’s coming was the ability to not have to live under the law anymore. But he definitely did not reject Judaism. It was within the Old Testament that the coming of Jesus was told.

  • Mark

    *rejected Judaism in its current form at that moment, and how jews practise it today 

  • http://twitter.com/jonathanconway jonathanconway

    ROFL agreed

  • 12voltman1

    Always a pleasure to meet another musician. I love all music.
    Even gospel.
    LOL

  • 12voltman1

    You live in New Hampsire?
     You know”Live Free or Die”. 

  • 12voltman1

    I know you would like to think that to be true. Ron’s base is loyaled. I will give you that.He will never have a chance in the general Election, 
    No dirt?

    http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-pauls-white-supremacist-radio-connections/

  • 12voltman1

    EWWW!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7HQ574COTHH5OEZJJOQAVN6IHI priscilla

    I did not do gospel. Linda Rondstat,Stevie Nicks, Grace Slick and the like.

  • 12voltman1

    I love all of those Artist as well especially Grace but I now listen to a lot of Eliza Gilkyson,Iris Demint,Lucinda Williams,Shawn Colvin.Nancy Griffen,Mary Gauthier.Amimee mann,Lucy Kaplansky.Emmy Lou Harris (Especially with Gram Parsons) I am More of a folk musician.I Play a Martin HD-28 for my acoustic guitar. I own and sometimes play a 1972 Fender telecaster and a 1964 Fender Mustang through my 1968 Twin Reverb. I can play the piano(not well) and the Trumpet (Not a lot recently) But I love rock as well. Carol King was alway a favorite.And then there is Janis.
    Grace slick was really my favorite in the 1960s groups with Airplane.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caleb-Jennings/1661952387 Caleb Jennings

    Read the transcript, what did he say that was racist?  Who cares if racists like him, why does that mean he’s racist…Jeremiah Wright anyone?

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    This whole thing about Ron Paul being involved in White Supremacy is madness. If you knew anything about him, he has stood up for people of all races, and has NEVER said anything racist. If you would actually do your research(which I know you wont), then you would know this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    All of this business about Ron Paul’s foreign policy being naive, and Republicans wanting to get rid of welfare so people can die on the street, and so on and so fourth HAS to be discussed. It is our intellectual duty to discuss facts, and not your opinions. The TRUTH is our government spends WAY too much money. How do you democrats wish to solve this, huh? I’d like to know how. Oh wait, I know, we should spend more money to stimulate the economy. Where should we get the money? Oh yeah, we have a Federal Reserve system that allows us to print money and make inflation higher. Wait, while were at it, why down we tax the people higher, and take the money they don’t have, to make up for the spending of money that doesn’t exist, so that we can pay for welfare in what is practically “monopoly” money. Oh, and while we’re at it, lets print up more money so that we can continue a war that was unconstitutional(undeclared), which we promised to stop, by the way, of which more than half of our active duty troops support the one candidate that really believes in a full withdraw. Does anyone else see how this is mad?

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    America is UNIQUE and GREAT and SET APART from the rest of the world. Lets keep it that way. Don’t ruin this for our country. If you believe in a political system that works like other countries do, go move there. Otherwise, your best interest is to keep this country as close to its constitution as possible. In the best interest of OUR people. If we actually HAD money, we as a people could GIVE IT TO THE POOR. I know I would.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    Agreed, Jesus didn’t reject Judaism, He rejected the way it was practiced, and the hypocritical  people that practiced it. He came to bring the salvation of those people. As well as to spread that to the world. And that is the truth, whether you believe in it or not. That is what the bible says, whether you believe in the bible or not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    and I’m for Ron Paul 2012, and I’m for Reason and Fact, not regurgitated nonsense that people make up about things they don’t understand or know about

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    Not true, you misunderstand what he is trying to say. He wants to GROW our national security by bringing it to OUR borders. He is FOR WAR if someone is to attack us strait on. He is NOT for war if it is undeclared and thus unconstitutional. I’m sorry but saying anyone is “dangerous” “unpresidential” or that his foreign policy is “the pitts” and says so without fact or reason, then they have no business in discussing politics.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    Ron Paul has been discussing true issues…

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    Ignorant

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthewspritzer Matthew Joel Spritzer

    Ignorant

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dean-Berry/100001444386877 Dean Berry

    A FOREIGN NATION HAS COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER AMERICA’S ELECTIONS. If a politician is not a member of the Council On Foreign Relations ( http://jbs.org/ ) – a “jewish” front – he won’t receive maximum funding. Nor will he be covered by America’s OVERWHELMINGLY “jewish” media.  

    In addition, “jewish” companies manufacture our voting machines: 

    - ELRON/VOXEO is owned by an israeli (“jewish”) defense firm.  A defense contractor wants to make voting machines why?  
    http://tinyurl.com/JewsDecideWhosPresident

    - DIEBOLD is owned by “jew” George Soros.
    http://tinyurl.com/JewsTakingOverEvenMore

    NOW …results from our elections will be broadcast through the “jewish” companies Google and Twitter. 

    THE “JEWS” ARE A FOREIGN NATION!  THEY ENJOY DUAL CITIZENSHIP BUT THEIR MAIN LOYALTY IS TO COUNTERFEIT ISRAEL.  IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR RON PAUL YOU’RE VOTING FOR THE CONTINUED COMMUNIZATION OF AMERICA!
    http://tinyurl.com/JewsOwnAmericasElections

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