At least seven GOP candidates will take the stage tonight at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, for a debate sponsored by NBC News, Politico and the Reagan Library Foundation. Originally billed as Rick Perry's debate debut, his attendance is now in question due to the expanding wildfire disaster in Texas. However, a spokesman for the Governor has indicated recently that he does plan to attend the debate.
Entire Video: Full Reagan Library GOP Debate Video
Original Air Time: Wednesday, September 7th at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT on MSNBC
Participants: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum
Report from the Washington Post:
New polling out today supports this reading of the contest. And the truth is that the other candidates — the fringe candidates — are rapidly running out of time to change this.
If any of these remaining candidates is serious about trying to change it, we should know tomorrow night at the debate at the Reagan Library. If we see real fireworks, it will suggest that the fringe candidates are still serious about trying to win. But if we don’t see serious attacks, it will be good evidence that the fringe candidates aren’t really seeking the nomination, and that the shape of the contest has now more or less been determined.
Not all debates are equal. This one looms large for several reasons. The Reagan Library debate has become a bit of a tradition, and that, plus the ever-magic Reagan name, makes this one stand out from others in the endless series of Republican clashes. This debate is also notable because it will be new frontrunner Perry’s first time on the stage. On top of that, Barack Obama’s job speech and scheduling flap wound up pushing a bit more publicity onto the event. Put it all together, and this will probably wind up the most-hyped, and therefore most-noticed, debate up until the primaries actually start.
For the two frontrunners, Romney and Perry, the obvious debate strategy is to survive without any damage. You probably won’t see them attack each other. Indeed, Romney’s job plan is basically the kind of stuff you expect from a leading candidate: nothing too startling.
For the others, this debate is a good chance to get noticed. And the best way to get noticed is to attack. But who to attack?
Clearly the story line to watch will be the Perry/Bachmann/Romney trifecta. These three will be looking to make headlines and stand out from the pack. For Bachmann, the coming months will be crucial given her recent drop in poll numbers since Perry's entrance. For Romney, his goal will be to hit back at some of Perry's criticisms and present himself as the electable of the group who can appeal to conservative and moderate Republicans. Perry simply has to come in and either strengthen his position or at least escape unscathed to continue his lead in most GOP primary polls.
The other candidates, of course, will be looking for their breakout moments as well, however, if past debates are any indicator, don't look for Santorum, Huntsman, or Cain to take too much question time.
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I was wondering that myself Bing.
Very odd.
MSNBC's guests are saying that the Republicans are looking for common sense. Well, if anyone or everyone has been listening to the only two who make commom sense is: Mr Herman Cain for President and Rep Ron Paul for Vice President. Will your vote be common sense vote?
Does anyone know where we can watch this debate on the internet? My teacher assigned us to watch it, but I do not have cable. Thanks!
At the top of the page it says…Live Stream: Politico (live around 7:30 pm ET)
hit the link (politico), it should take you there.
MSNBC's guests are saying that the Republicans are looking for common sense. Well, if anyone or everyone has been listening to the only two who make commom sense is: Mr Herman Cain for President and Rep Ron Paul for Vice President. Will your vote be a common sense vote?
MSNBC's guests are saying that the Republicans are looking for common sense. Well, if anyone or everyone has been listening to the only two who make commom sense is: Mr Herman Cain for President and Rep Ron Paul for Vice President. Will your vote be a common sense vote? I'm a registered Democrat and I'm voting for Mr Cain.
Vote for Ron Paul because Herman Cain was the Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Kansas. Which is a sign he's in with the bankers.
Ron Paul 2012 or kiss america good bye.
I love the dreams of libs, I respect conservatisim, the tea party rocks, and most americans are afraid to think RON PAUL, people Ron, Mitt, Rick, Newt, with Michelle & Sarah, should be all in charge for us. Obama wow where the f**** are you coming from other than George Soros, eventhough I under stand your debt to that pcs of sh***t.
I just missed 50 minutes of the debate. Well, I never watch or knew where MSNBC was located on cable. This is a funny channel to have a Republican debate.
It's amazing that so many Americans speak in terms of "fact" when they have no fact to back what they say up. I can't believe people are more concerned about these ridiculous scare tactics perpetuated by the media and DC about Iran. I can't believe Americans who crave liberty would actually consider Perry, with his record, a viable candidate. It truly is beyond comprehension. Maybe the powers that be want to see a real revolution in this country. Maybe that would give them just the justification they need to just go off on the Citizens of this once great nation. It's so unreal to see where we have become. There is no right or left. Just a distraction. There is no such thing as conservatism anymore. There is no such thing as government by and for the people. We are fodder for the machine. It's over folks, if your only concern is Iran or some other inane distraction. Wake up people! Wake up!
I'm not telling you to support anyone candidate, although Ron Paul has my 100% support, but stop being dumb. Stop being naive. Read for the love of this nations future. Stop acting like 2nd graders. Educate yourselves. Make informed decisions. Look at candidates records and stop just believing what you believe because someone told you to believe it. Wake up!!!
Perry scares me. I don't care if he did create all those jobs, Texas has one of the lowest or THE lowest average wage. They have the lowest percentage of high school grads…so what jobs did he create? Flipping burgers at minimum? Perry says more than minimum…remember all 25 cents over minimum is more than minimum. No thanks Perry, we need REAL jobs and educated American workers to fill them.
I am liking Ron Paul more every day!
I am college educated and have a great job and the minimum wage job helped me to get there. Since when is having a minimum wage job lower than a government hand out? People poo poo burger flipping but I happen to think any job is a good place to start.
We have 8 Republican candidates that represent a broad spectrum of conservative thought. The bjust had a discusiion of illegal aliens in the country andf it evolved to the need for 1000's additional
border securitty quards and a big expensive fence. Let's get real. First they want to cut the federal government to cut spending … yet out the other side of their mouths. they want to spend much, mush more. Perhaps the Republicans will justify the expenditure of funds for a ffurutre Hadrian's wall on our southern bord. The second task is to give the power to the states to administer this which have neither the funding, nor the inclination, to tackle this problem. How do we resolve such problems if all the Repub licams propose is anarchy.
I love listening to the conservative radio personalities scream about constitutional governance and free markets and they endorse these Neo-Con thugs (Bachmann, Perry, Romney). The only person who legislates in line with the Constitution is Ron Paul. The only person who wants you to be free is Ron Paul. The only person on that stage tonight who isn't acting, isn't spinning the truth and won't lie is Ron Paul. See you at the primaries!
Ron Paul 2012 or kiss america good bye.
I SAY open the borders, let people come and thrive among us. The more foreigners the more money circulates the more money in our pockets.
This is getting ridiculous because they are not giving Newt Gingrich, Cain and Huntsmon enough time for this debate versus the other candidates. These are the people I want to hear from. They have been in places where the other candidates have been. These are the ones who make the most sense.
I can't believe they put it on MSNBC. Some of us don't believe in paying the rates Sat or cable. Hopefully they'll put it o free TV.
That's about as worthless as Obama's speach tomorrow.
Lets see, Dr Paul wants to stop borrowing money from china to fund the unsustainable wars, stop policing the world on our dime (thus stopping extremism), give us a strong dollar (keeping us from defaulting through inflation), letting people keep there hard earned money to invest how they want for retirement. Letting local government handle education (we all know big government control is better LOL), He wants to stay out of peoples business of sex, religion, habits (Don't we need Government to tell us what is right for us).he also wants to stop the FED and walstreet from controlling our economy by artificially controlling interest rates (thus making a good idea to save some money).Also he wants to balance the federal budget. Oh yeah, he also would allow the free market to work. And this ”crazy" guy has 30 years of voting record to prove it. Ron Paul 2012 !!!!!
Jon Huntsman believes in science — poor guy doesn't stand a chance with that crowd
Well I'm voting for Ron Paul. He's the only one that truly wants a free market and has the track record to prove it. Perry will force vaccinate, force mandates, and has spent Texas till they're in deeper debt per capita than California, him and Romney are both complete hacks. Santorum wants to spend our country broke supporting special interests around the world while calling it "spreading our goodness", well Santorum, murder and theft aren't goodness.
Was anyone else under the impression that this debate was completely bias in procedure. There was no equal talk time, hell Ron had to interject just to speak medically when he's the only candidate with the credentials to actually cover this topic, they ignored him completely. I noted the time and it was half an hour in before Ron had one word to get in, that was a third of the debate, how is that equal. Oh, and I'm not only in Ron's defense here, a lot of the other media considered "low running" candidates did not get much talk time either. However, it seems Romney and Perry got plenty of airtime to cover their issues. I am however, glad that Perry finally had to face a little amount of the major screw ups that he has caused down here. I like that they didn't even mention the 75% cut that he made to our firemen down here last year, I suppose it could have been in poor taste but still…. and we wonder why we still have fires going on. I propose that no longer can media direct these debates, they should be allowed to air it but that is it, there is obviously way too much political interest for the stations involved.
I Love how Ron Paul has so many supporters. He makes the most sense of any candidate out there. The majority of the candidates are running off his philosophies. Ron Paul is the total package he has the best domestic and foreign policy of any candidate.
Ron Paul 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Once again, we were cheated out of hearing more from Herman Cain! Is the media so afraid of truth and logic, as to simply disregard it?
I guess i wish most of you would step back for just a moment and compare and contrast the group of potential nomonies to Obama's record behind the wheel thus far. All would likely support private sector job growth over tax payer sponsored. Most would consider regulatory easing to encourage our private sector. Most would support personal responsibility over the 'right to being taken care of'. All would commit to reductions in spending, like most of us have in order to keep our individual households afloat. You folks need to consider only one thing…the candidates up there may be a lot of things, some same, some different; but their NOT BO! And that's a very comforting thing!
I think Ron Paul won the debate. He is truthful and strait foreword.
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It is sad to see the direction this country is going. We have allowed the richest bank and major corporations owners the "Filthy Rich" to gain so much power, that they can control the majority of people with the media or information they give us and manipulate us to do or think the way they want us to. It's obvious the debate was set-up to lean towards a couple of nominees. Just one thing obvious to me is how they left Ron Paul out of the Health Care discussion when he is clearly the most knowlegable in this category. But they have been leaving Ron Paul out of the Mainstream for a long time now. He clearly has the most knowledge on most if not all categories of discussion. His views have been the same for many years. The other nominees seem to be adopting some of the views Ron Paul has had for many many years, because they see how his views are the best. The only thing is some of the ideas they are adopting from Ron Paul, they didn't support or have just a short while back. The Iran War debate, sure we can go bomb them, try to take out thier leaders, that may prevent casualties here in the future, but how many we will be hurting if it drains our already on the brink of disaster economy, war creates jobs, but we would have to create more money to pay the workers and hyper-inflation would be much more likely to happen. How much good will it do if it creates World War 3? What if other more powerful countries than Iran, see us as a threat, because of how we are trying to shape other countries into how or what we want them to be, and target us before they themselves are targets? We must be on the side of Peace. We have been at war for over 10 years now with countries that were barely even a threat in the first place and its ruining our economy and is Evil. You can say 9/11 was a big attack on us, but we have seen similar attacks here from our own Americans. Bombing for Peace is like having sex for Virginity. But I suppose all great nations fall because of the "Power" currency creates. What we need is a Resourced-Based economy, well have to see a great disaster with our currency system to start such a thing, although by then it may be too late. Just wiki The Venus Project to learn more on this. We as humans have to come together as one anyway, of course that would probaly mean more power for the people in charge, and most of the time a man with power becomes greedy and the poor start to seem meaningless.
In the complicated world we live in, it's good to find simple sltouions.
Nice that you make no mention of RON PAUL The debate winner in the New Hanpshire event.
The People are hip to the game, Why you omit the Name of Ron Paul in EVERY NEWS REEL AND BROADCAST!
I know why Because HE IS RIGHT- ON EVERYTHING
HERMAN CAIN IS A FEDERAL RESERVE CONFORMIST. GO RON PAUL