Seven GOP candidates traded barbs last night at the CNN Western Republican Debate from Las Vegas, Nevada. The debate was part of the Western Republican Leadership Conference. Herman Cain and Mitt Romney took the brunt of the attacks which made for a very lively discussion.
Original Air Time: Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 on CNN
Participants: Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Paul, Perry, Romney, Santorum
Here is the entire video in 4 parts via YouTube.
Report from CNN:
Las Vegas (CNN) — Tuesday night was fight night in Las Vegas.
Seven Republican presidential candidates clashed sharply over issues such as illegal immigration, taxes and health care at a presidential debate in Nevada sponsored by CNN and the Western Republican Leadership Conference.
But it was the three Republican frontrunners — former Godfather's Pizza executive Herman Cain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov Rick Perry — who came under frequent attack.
The long-standing bad blood between Romney and Perry boiled over in the debate's first hour as the two GOP heavyweights traded harsh accusations and showed flashes of anger.
Romney laughed in Perry's face when the Texan criticized his rival for hiring illegal immigrants to work on his lawn, a controversy uncovered by The Boston Globe during Romney's first presidential bid in 2008.
"Mitt, you lose all of your standing, from my perspective, because you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year," Perry said, turning straight to Romney. "And the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy."
It seems to me at least that Rick Perry carried the illegal immigrant issue a little too far with Romney and I don't think that did anything but reflect badly on Perry.
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Herman is likeable but for a simple tax plan it seems pretty hard to explain simply. Tho Mitt's point about adding it to the state sales tax is stupid as we will indeed pay sales tax on top of income tax as we already do! What the states do is outside the debate as it about the fed alone. Newt isn't radical enough in his cuts. Perry is a jerk from the start, masquerading as a southren gentleman but obviously a churlish and thinskinned man. He's like Bush Jr. again with a mean streak Bush didn't have. And when Paul and Santorum think the 999 plan isn't' good, chances are, as much as I have liked Cain, it might need to be redone from the ground up,
RON PAUL WINS AGAIN!!! HE'S GOT MY VOTE..
People may be mad at Rick for interruptomg Mitt, but it is hard not to interrupt someone telling a blatant lie. And the point about manufacturing he made is a good point.
I am a Pennsylvanian stuck in Mass. and Romney was a sucky governour. His solutions for problems like MCAST tests and replacing a rotary at Cape Cod's entrance with an ugly superhighway overkill cloverleaf offramp were like amputating a fingre with a cut on it and replacing it with a wooden limb. Romney and Perry epitomise (OE spelling) the proverb "People in glass houses…"
Anybody supporting anyone other than Ron Paul needs to have their head examined.
It is great to see all the support for Ron Paul - DO NOT let the media/establishment choose your candidate for you - every single one of them are so full of BS with the exception of Paul who has been unwavering in his beliefs/ideals and has voted accordingly everytime. I like how somebody said all the attention goes to Romney and Perry, and now Herman Cain - they are SO AFRAID of Paul because he actually will change the system - he is virtually the #1 enemy of the entire structure of fraud/deceit/corruption that is now known as the United States government and financial system. He has gone against the grain for so long he has actually changed the direction of the river's flow - people forget that with the exception of Paul the G.O.P would continue to be the war-mongering Neo-Con party for AIPAC and willingly sell out our country to the highest bidder, Zionism, and the New World Order. Without Paul NOBODY would be actually considering an audit of the FEDERAL RESERVE system cabal that is indeed the shadow government of this nation. RON PAUL 2012 - or bust. God Help America if he doesn't make it, ignore this man at your own peril!
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