Republican Debate 10-21

I was watching the Republican debate and during Huckabee's first answer he said that most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were clergy and according to the radicalacademy.com two of the signers were clergy and one was a active clergy member. 3 out of 56 is not most it is not even close.


Ron Paul pointed out that he is the truly anti-war candidate in either party. Ron also said he wanted to allow people to get out of the social security system and I would love to do that. I am in my late 20's and I know there won't be a social security when I get old enough to retire that is why I have a personal retirement account.


Romney said he is happy for the medical plan he created in Massachusetts. I was hearing a radio station from Mass and Hunter actually hit on the health care mandates that the plan. The mandates are that you have to have health care in Mass you are forced to do that even if you cant afford to pay for it.

Rudy made me vomit when he said "I care about the kids" then made me think if he does care about the kids where are his children from some of the things I have read his children don't even like him. Maybe Rudy just wants to replace his own kids.

McCain said he is against wasteful spending but if he was wouldn't he have voted against the spending? The only person that was on that stage who votes consistently against wasteful spending is Dr. No aka Ron Paul

Fred Thompson reminds me of a chicken going after feed.


I was trying to keep a tally of how many time each person got to speak and here is the results
Mitt "cowlick" Romney 9
Rudy "cell phone" Gulliani 8
Fred "I got a hot wife now" Thompson 8
John "war stories" McCain 7
Ron "Constitution" Paul 6
Mike "National Smoking ban" Huckabee 6
Tom "don't call me Tommy" Tancredo 4
Duncan "I but a wall" Hunter 4

I would think since no one in the Republican party is a running away they would want to try and be fair and balanced but who would think of a thing like that on Fox.

All American Presidential Forum

I was watching the Presidential forum and thought the questions were very clear and intelligent. The questions were not softballs at all, they were intelligent and asked about some great topics. I thought that they should have not brought up the names of the 4 morons that did not attend that much.

During the introduction Ron Paul got a loud cheer and I think the directors were shocked about that the first time but did not make that mistake again. I noticed after every answer from Ron Paul the lowered the volume and then when they moved on to the next candidate they raised the volume. This was noticeable a few times because they moved on and raised the volume while the crowd was still cheering.

I was horrified when I heard Hunter say Americans need to be shielded from pornography. Where does he get the gall to say that I need to be shielded from anything let alone people having sex or even the naked human body. If someone does not want to see pornography guess what look away, walk away, and stay in your own little bubble.

I thought Keyes was long winded and Tavis Smiley was getting angry when he said Keyes's time was up and Keyes kept on talking. I do applaud Tavis Smiley for holding Hunters feet to the fire during the question about what reform he would support to make sure people had equal justice in the United States. Tavis seemed to verbally spank Hunter to get him back on point.

For some reason Huckabee thinks that crime is caused by drugs and alcohol cause crime and I was horrified during this answer. The saving grace was Ron Paul answering that the War on Drugs needs to be repealed.

Dr Paul was finally given a question on health care and pointed out the 400 pound gorilla in the room and the problem with health care is the corpritism between insurance companies and the government and the problem with the FDA controlling the drugs that people can use. Also Dr. Paul said a couple times that we need to end the war on drugs, get rid of the welfare, restore property rights, expanding liberty, and letting people keep the fruits of their labor.

Dr. Paul also pointed out the inequities that the War on Drugs has with black people. Ron also reiterated that he is against the National ID cards but would be fine with states requiring identification for people to vote and if Washington DC wanted representation in the House and Senate a constitutional amendment should be submitted to change the constitution.

Overall I think the time was fairly evenly distributed and was fair to all the candidates.