We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
The Republican primary season begins today. The five candidates on show tonight - Cain, Johnson, Paul, Pawlenty, and Santorum - have a lot to prove at this point. I'm arriving home a wee bit late after some Cinco de Mayo revelry. The margaritas will definitely help me get through the right-wing rhetoric to come. Join me if you're watching....
posted by The Blue Devil @ 9:35 PM
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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As I walk in the door, former NM governor Johnson is already having a whinge about not getting fair treatment from Chris Wallace and his team.
We're turning the corner from tax policy into immigration now.
Gary Johnson is carving out a niche as the pro-immigration candidate on the GOP dais. He's apparently in favor of a guest worker policy, which is basically where Barack Obama is.
Now we're on to Libya....
The critique of the Obama strategy seems to be that he waited to long to act against Gadaffi. I'm not sure that's a sharp enough wedge.
Rick Santorum wants to get tough with Pakistan.
"Leading from behind" seems to be the phrase of the evening when it comes to drawing distinctions with the Obama administration.
Ron Paul gets a lot of applause there for calling for the end to all foreign aid - essentially his usual isolationist position.
After the commercial break, they're moving on to Wisconsin and public sector unions. Could get interesting.
Obama is for a guest worker policy? Let's see some action. He is in the drivers seat. Do something or get out of the way.
Ron Paul is consistent. State by state for decisions
Evening, AZ. How are you, mate?
Cain is pretty cool. You can tell he knows how to run large organizations. Hopefully you taped the first hour
Yes, I agree. I don't share many of his ideas, but I do have to give Ron Paul credit for his ideological consistency and honesty. He's an Ayn Rand follower down the line.
Obama's "Dream Act," which has been stalled in Congress by Republican opposition is a guest worker plan. It would "create a path to citizenship" for illegals already here and set up a limited guest visa policy with Mexico.
I did - I'll run it back later. Anything particularly spicy?
Is Godfather's Pizza really a large organization? Didn't it go bust?
Jobs, unions and education coming up....
Good question from Juan about the GOP's union-busting profile.
"Government doesn't create jobs," says Herman Cain? Someone should tell the guy who signs my checks then.
"The union wage is an artificial wage," according to Ron Paul. Typical stuff here.
Good, hard question about teaching Creationism for Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty waffles with an answer about Intelligent Design. I'm not sure that will appease social conservatives.
Juan presses again and Pawlenty comes with an answer that violates the Supreme Court standard from Lemon v. Kurtzman. He thinks that it should be up to parents and local districts. Supremes say "no."
Now Pawlenty is getting roasted for his support of "Cap and Trade." I didn't realize that; that's going to be difficult to explain to a GOP primary audience, even if he apologizes now. It'll be the John Kerry "I was before it before I was against it."
Doing well. May need to break early. Playing tennis with the wife. She is watching as well..so maybe I can stay til the end
I'm missing the Donald Trump wild-card factor in this debate. The format is a bit staid.
Sounds like fun. Definitely more fun that this lot.
Missed to much. Union busting? I call it allowing individuals to make choices and not be coerced into another tax. All in how you frame the question.
I suppose so. But how am I as an individual with little job security supposed to negotiate effectively with my superiors who have a lot more power. This applies to both private and public sector.
Staid? I call it sanity after 20 years of typical politicians. There is exciting stuff being said. With the tea party, we may be able to have policies that free all people to excel - not just the few (like you and me)
Whoops. Time for tennis. Need to tape it. Ciao.
The candidates are doing a manful job trying to chip away at the issue of Obama's post-Bin Laden popularity. It's going to be tough for them.
Cheerio, mate. Enjoy your tennis!
Hermain Cain is being asked about his previous support of Mitt Romney. Awkward!
TPaw is "in to win it."
Good one-liner from Ron Paul about Michelle Bachmann.
Cute question for Gary Johnson:
"If you had a reality tv show, what would it be?"
He goes with a vague notion of some kind of athletics oriented show. Lame. No tv exec is going to be interested.
Closing remarks in 30 seconds now.
Paul first - "big issue if the budget. It's a philosophical one."
Herman Cain now is in favor of "economic growth." D'uh....
Pawlenty thinks that America's best days are ahead of us. Pure pablum.
Rick Santorum thinks he's led on all of the key issues on the right.
Gary Johnson - "common sense business approach to government." Yuck!
And that's that. A fairly tepid first debate with few fireworks. I'm going to hit the rewind button and see what the first half hour was like.
Frank Luntz is standing by with some South Carolina GOP voters now.
The majority think that Herman Cain was the winner tonight.
Lots of praise for Herman Cain now. That's quite interesting.
This reaction is bad, bad news for the obvious front-runner Tim Pawlenty.
Sean Hannity looks a bit scared now. He's asking if the audience doesn't want to see some of the bigger candidates in the later debates before they decide.
So, expect a big bump for Herman Cain coming out of this debate.
Wow, Sean Hannity is defending the candidates who didn't show tonight and the audience of voters is laughing at him.
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