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Liveblogging the GOP YouTube Debate

November 28th, 2007 by Steve

The Warm Up

Micheal Goodwin on latest Rudy scandal: Why were they hiding the money?

Ed Rollins: Huckster will be attacked because he’s now a front runner.

Lou Dobbs rants about immigration again. Sheinkoff thinks the issue will be ignored.

Rollins: Can’t talk about open borders without committing political suicide.

78% don’t think the GOP candidates will expose a populist philosophy.

Intro:

Anderson Pooper is yacking away and feeling self-important. There were more GOPTubes submitted than DemTubes. Wonder how many of those came from Ron Paul supporters.

FlaGov likes the camera. It’s the people’s debate — hosted by CNN.

The Cast

• Dunky Hunter
• Dr. No
• John McCain-Feingold
• DeadHeadFred
• Mayor of 9/11
• FlippyMitt
• TaxHikeMike
• Tom the Mexican Slayer

Mitt Romney will be elbowed. Huckster leading in Iowa, but will be aborted.

“They have to define and differentiate themselves.” — I think one has and the rest can’t.

Anderson Pooper promised not to use a taser on the candidates.

Act I Scene I

Bad song on intro, but some funny lines. Singer seemed to omit Ron Paul.

Q for Rudy: Will the US become a big sanctuary city?

RudyTudy: Blames NYC on other mayors. Wasn’t a sanctuary city.

Mittster: Was so.

Rudyster: Mitt had illegals in his sanctuary mansion.

Mittster: Did not.

Did so. Did not. Did so. CHILDREN, go to your rooms!

Question: Another immigration question.

The Actor: Will veto amnesty bills and never eat at Taco John’s.

Thompson is getting so boring I just fell asleep.

Rudy’s ubiquitous “NYC was not a sanctuary city” yet again.

McCain-Feingold says he never proposed amnesty.

McCain-Feingold likes doing”hard things.” Toe tapping, too?

McCain-Feingold: Brown people need our love, too.

Tom the Mexican Slayer: They are trying to out-Tancredo Tancredo.

Q on guestworkers: What about those guestworkers who keep my business afloat?

Mexican Slayer: They can starve and you can go out of business. And I won’t apologize for it, either.

Dunkin Donuts: I built that fence in San Diego rerun from every other time he’s been on TV.

Q: Why do you give illegal aliens more education support than children of military members?

Huckster: We didn’t do it, but we did do it.

Mitt likes Mike because he’s a liberal. Mitt also pretends that he cares about the taxpayer’s money.

Huckabee thinks that some people “need” government support.

Mitt claims to be compassionate, but isn’t. Mike claims to not be compassionate, but is.

Q on North American Union and such:

Dr. No: CFR and Trilateral Commission exist. International highway from Texas to Canada. Illegal Canadians will be able to sneak across the Mexican border. No sinister conspiracy but freedom is at threat. Good applause.

Q: College chick is concerned about national debt and spending.

McCain-Feingold: GOP spends too much. Funny bear line.

Hair cur boy: Hates a few million dollars worth of pork and earmarks but will spend trillions on foreign wars.

Rudy: Across the board cuts. Spend half the proceeds on alimony.

Q LA Chick on federal spending: What 3 programs would you cut?

FredHead: Rambles on… Waiting for the 3 programs… Wants to save Social Security… waiting… waiting… waiting… OMB list… reform SS and Medicare… waiting… waiting… waiting… yawn refused to answer question

Dr. HellNo: Washington did not change me. 3: Dept of Ed, Energy, Homeland Security.

Shuckabee: IRS. Homeland Security (revamp). IRS.

Q from Mobile: Fair Tax.

McCain — hates Fair Tax.

McCain: Says Ron Paul blames 9/11 on WWII or something like that. We have to keep fighting in Iraq.

Paul: Responds with military contribution data.

Grover Norquist: Will you sign my pledge?

Tancredo: Yes.

Huckabee: Yes.

Romney: Yes.

Rudy: Yes.

Thompson: Won’t do pledges.

McCain: No.

Paul: Has never voted for tax increase, but have to cut spending.

Hunter: No, because we could be attacked by space aliens.

Q on farm subsidies — who will get rid of them.

Mittster: Loves welfare for farmers.

RudyTutti: Loves welfare for farmers.

Pooper question about new Rudy scandal.

Rooti: It’s not true.

Campaign Video One

Tancredo: Takes on Geraldo, Hillary and kills millions of Mexicans with a single nuke.

Q from Pittsburgh: Lead question. Protect us from evil toys.

Tancredo: Don’t normalize trade with China.

Dunker: China is cheating. They are arming. Buy American toys. Can’t buy certain toys in Alabama any more.

Video Two:

Thompson beats up on Romney and Huckabee.

The actor looks senile.

Romney says he was wrong between flip 2.3 and flop 3.7.

Huckster lies about his lies about his record on taxation.

Commercial Break

McCain Ad

McBCRA still pushing Hillary/Woodstock issue.

Q from California gun guy who likes big guns.

Duncan Huntered at the age of 10. Good KABA line blown by tying it to Iraq.

Q for Rudy for hating gun owners:

RudyGunHater: We have to enforce unconstitutional gun laws. Aggressively. Booed for hating guns. Didn’t say his own testing plan was unconstitutional. Talks about Parker case to avoid answering the question.

Frederick of Hollywood: 2A is not a choice.

Rudy says its OK for DC to outlaw BB guns because they aren’t NYC.

Q from Phoenix guy about personal guns.

Frederic of Hollywood won’t disclose what kind of guns.

McCain doesn’t own a gun. Hunter does. It’s a family tradition.

Rudy does not own a gun but Romney’s son does.

Q from Atlanta on black on black crime:

Flipper: Have a mom and a dad and street crime will go away. Family values will stop 9mm bullets.

FascistMan: Flippy isn’t a good super hero, but I am.

Q on Abortion for all pro-life candidates on what crimes should be charged:

Congressman No, M.D.: Not a federal function. No federal abortion police. Wouldn’t prosecute women for abortion. Should be criminal penalty for doctor for third trimester abortion.

FredHead: Rambling and not sure what he said.

Q from NJ on federal abortion ban.

Rudy: Would not sign bill. Applauded. Can’t figger out Repubs these days.

Flipper: Overturn RvW and turn issue to states. Would sign federal ban.

Q for Huckster: WWJD on death penalty.

Huckster: Was tough to execute someone, but will do it. Abortion is different, because a group of people make the decision. Jesus was too smart to run for public office. Good line.

Tancredo would pray for wisdom.

Q from Joseph: Do you believe every word of the Bible? King James Version.

Rudy: Believes it but not literally. Reads it while having affairs. Lost GOP votes with his answer.

Mittster: Believes it and tries to live by it. No question about other Mormon books.

Reverend Huckabee obviously believes it, but won’t pluck out his own eye. Loves his neighbors unless they have darker skin.

It’s a revival.

Romney ad

Fluff ad.

Commercial Break

Rudy Ad

Sort of funny, actually. Good job (and I hate Rudy).

GREAT Q on foreign policy from Huntsville, AL:

Rudy: Be offensive. Islamic terrorism. Islamic, Islamic, Islamic.

McCainFeingold: Continue killing people to make them like us more.

General Hunter: We gave you foreign aid. I won’t apologize for bombing you.

Q from Seattle on torture (mistakenly forgot that Ron Paul opposes torture):

Romney: I hate torture but will wordsmith it and evade definitions and keep suspending civil liberties in Guantanamo.

McCain: Taking the high ground on torture. I’ve got to respect him for this. Good response.

Flippy the Torture-Monger: I hate torture but will do what we don’t wordsmith as not being torture.

McCain: More good lines on torture.

Q from GA from person who wants to stay in Iraq forever.

FredHead: Won’t commit to withdrawal date and didn’t answer question. U2 will bring down the US of A. I wonder what Bono thinks of this.

Ron Paul: Give the Iraqis their country back. (mixed boos and cheers) Forgets the word Kurd. Viet Nam parallel.

McCain: we never lost a battle in Viet Nam (aimed at Paul). Bad guys will move to US.

Paul: It’s irrelevant that we never lost one battle in Viet Nam. Wolfowitz agrees (lots of boos and a few cheers).

Tancredo: Radical Islam is a threat to America.

Q for Rudy about using 9/11 for self promotion:

Mayor of 9/11: I sucked just as badly before 9/11.

Cheney cartoon question:

Fred the Gun Hater: Veep should have a lot of experience and be the President’s boy.

StraightTalk from McCain-Feingold: No real answer.

Hunter ad

Someone “retard” (exact quote) from the Air Force endorsed Hunter.

Commercial Break

Religious Ad from Huckabee

Award for best sermon on YouTube

Q from Retired General, Special Forces, War College and is gay:

Hunter: Blames it on Colin Powell. Blames it on religion.

Huckabee: UCMJ is best rule, because Constitution doesn’t apply.

Flippy: Flips again on gays in the military.

General gets the mic, makes a good speech for a non-politician. DADT is destructive. Mic dies. Guy has balls, mild boos in background.

StraightTalkGuy: Present policy is working.

Q from FL on Log Cabin Republicans.

Shuckabee: Will take gay support if they will support war and torture.

Q from Illinois about national debt/Social Security Trust Fund.

FredHead had good line about protecting the young from the older generation.

Flipper: Blames it on Jihad and foreign competition. Invokes the name of Reagan instead of answering the questions.

Q from Colorado about space travel (pork for Mars):

Huckster wants to expand space program. Wants to send Hillary to Mars.

Tancredo: No amnesty for Martians. Or space spending.

Q from LA about African American vote:

Rudy: Hispanics and African Americans should vote for the party that suspended habeas corpus and condones torture.

Reverend Mike: Black people like me because I bought their votes. I want to buy your vote, too.

Q from Houston on Confederate Battle Flag:

Flipper: Stutters. I missed what he said but he may have said he’d support banning the flag.

Frederick of Hollywood: Should not be flown in public places.

Ron Paul Video.

Typical of other Ron Paul YouTubes with speech clips.

Q from Florida doctor about bridges and stuff who wants money for infrastructure.

Rudy: New York, New York, New York, New York. When I was Mayor…

Ron Paul: Infrastructure problem is serious. We need to take care of our bridges, not the bridges in other countries. Get the government out of our wallets.

McCain: Will veto pork to eliminate bridges. Line item veto will fix bridges.

Rudy: Line item veto is unconstitutional. Since when does Rudy know anything about the Constitution?

Q for Ron Paul from Davenport on independent run:

Ron Paul: “No intention” at this time. No rule out either. Brings up recent campaign successes. Good revolution speech.

Last Q for Rudy on rooting for Red Sox:

Rudy: AL fan. Did bet McCain. Wonder if he will arrest himself for violating vice laws.

Romney hates Yankees.

Posted in Bad Republicans, Ron Paul, National Politics

4 Responses to “Liveblogging the GOP YouTube Debate”

1. LittleJim wrote on 11/28/07 at 9:15 pm :

   They should taze all of the GOp candidates who support torture.

2. LittleJim wrote on 11/28/07 at 9:28 pm :

   Did so. Did not. Did so. CHILDREN, go to your rooms!

   LOL

3. Eric Dondero wrote on 11/29/07 at 10:18 am :

   Ron Paul had the worst line of the night, saying that the Vietnamese were “now friends of ours.”

   Callous remark. Apparently, he’s totally forgotten about the over 1 million South Vietnamese boat people who fled the Communists and were mostly drowned in the South China sea. And he’s forgotten about the 1 million South Vietnamese sent to re-education camps by the Vietnamese Communists. And the over 2 million slaughtered at the hands of Pol Pot and the Communist Khmer Rouge.

   Ron Paul: You are now beyond the point of being a harmless clown. You are now a complete embarrassment to the entire libertarian movement.

   You are no libertarian Sir. Not if you support alignment with the Communist Vietnamese.

4. James Madison wrote on 11/29/07 at 2:28 pm :

   Ron Paul Again Easily Wins Debate Polls
   Thursday, November 29, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

   NEWS ANALYSIS/OPINION

   The CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate yielded a predictable rerun of what has become a pattern of responses and results, nonwithstanding the submission of “video questions.”

   As many observers, blogs and alternative news sources point out regularly on the Internet, the economy is teetering, the US national debt is overwhelming, the country is engaged in at least two “hot wars” and threatening a third with Iran, the Patriot Act and other provisions are overturning traditional American civil liberties. Yet the debate did not spend much time on these issues. What was the seeming focus? Immigration, gays in the military, the role of religion in political life, etc.

   What else was predictable? Only limited government candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) seemed engaged and willing to comment on such serious issues. Perhaps for this reason he once again finished ahead of the pack by a wide margin in various Internet polls.

   Over at CNN, the results are (9AM/EST, Nov 29):

   Who do you think won the debate?

   1. Ron Paul 50% 6732 votes
   2. Mike Huckabee 22% 2959 votes
   3. John McCain 11% 1473 votes
   4. Mitt Romney 9% 1242 votes
   5. Rudy Giuliani 5% 703 votes
   6. Fred Thompson 2% 277 votes
   7. Duncan Hunter 1% 91 votes
   8. Tom Tancredo 0% 49 votes

   http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=51978

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