Overall perfomance: LUKEWARM
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Main issues: Iraq war, abortion
Romney: changed from pro-choice to pro-life, "We keep our options quiet. We don't go out to say to a nation that's working with us that we intend to go in there and bring on a unilateral attack," "The only people who can defeat radical jihadists are Muslims themselves." "People like to criticize the president and vice president, and they have made mistakes, but they've kept us safe," "growing the American economy" is the core of improving national infrastructure,
Brownback: pro-life stance = core issue, promised to appoint a judge to the supreme court that would overturn Roe v. Wade, criticized Bush allowing Cheney too much power and influence, "You need somebody coming in with foreign policy experience so they don't have to depend on the vice president as much,"
Giuliani: pro-choice, "a decision that a woman should make with her conscience and her doctor," invading Pakistan "an option that should remain open," "I would take that option if there was no other way to crush al Qaeda, no other way to crush the Taliban, no other way to catch bin Laden," on the bridge collapse ""The way to do it is to reduce taxes and raise more money," (scattered applause), "against the liberal Democratic assumption that you have to raise taxes to raise mone,"
Hunter: "When you have a country that is cooperating, you don't tell them you are going to unilaterally move against them,"
Paul: Believes Cheney to be more powerful than Bush, supports an ammendment defining Vice President's duties, in support of immediate withdrawal of Iraq troops, "We went in illegally, and we ought to just come home," (to audible applause), is currently co-author (with Kucinich) of a House resolution to bring troops home immediately, only one of two Republican candidates that supports withdrawal,
McCain: "We do now have a strategy that is succeeding. We do have a military whose morale is up because they see this success," looks to generals to decide whether we should leave or not, chastised congressional pork barrel spending, implying it was a fiscal roadblock to improvements in national infrastructure, and he promised to veto every bill of its kind "that comes across my desk."
Huckabee: "[We have] better navigation in our rental cars than we do running the country today," "We have to start addressing building this country, and not everybody else's,"
DRUDGE REPORT POLL ON WINNER OF DEBATE:
Brownback
34% 19,640
Giuliani
12% 6,792
Huckabee
3% 1,489
Hunter
1% 851
McCain
1% 846
Paul
36% 20,878
Romney
10% 5,732
Tancredo
2% 1,307
Tommy Thompson
2% 885
Total Votes: 58,420
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Main issues: Iraq war, abortion
Romney: changed from pro-choice to pro-life, "We keep our options quiet. We don't go out to say to a nation that's working with us that we intend to go in there and bring on a unilateral attack," "The only people who can defeat radical jihadists are Muslims themselves." "People like to criticize the president and vice president, and they have made mistakes, but they've kept us safe," "growing the American economy" is the core of improving national infrastructure,
Brownback: pro-life stance = core issue, promised to appoint a judge to the supreme court that would overturn Roe v. Wade, criticized Bush allowing Cheney too much power and influence, "You need somebody coming in with foreign policy experience so they don't have to depend on the vice president as much,"
Giuliani: pro-choice, "a decision that a woman should make with her conscience and her doctor," invading Pakistan "an option that should remain open," "I would take that option if there was no other way to crush al Qaeda, no other way to crush the Taliban, no other way to catch bin Laden," on the bridge collapse ""The way to do it is to reduce taxes and raise more money," (scattered applause), "against the liberal Democratic assumption that you have to raise taxes to raise mone,"
Hunter: "When you have a country that is cooperating, you don't tell them you are going to unilaterally move against them,"
Paul: Believes Cheney to be more powerful than Bush, supports an ammendment defining Vice President's duties, in support of immediate withdrawal of Iraq troops, "We went in illegally, and we ought to just come home," (to audible applause), is currently co-author (with Kucinich) of a House resolution to bring troops home immediately, only one of two Republican candidates that supports withdrawal,
McCain: "We do now have a strategy that is succeeding. We do have a military whose morale is up because they see this success," looks to generals to decide whether we should leave or not, chastised congressional pork barrel spending, implying it was a fiscal roadblock to improvements in national infrastructure, and he promised to veto every bill of its kind "that comes across my desk."
Huckabee: "[We have] better navigation in our rental cars than we do running the country today," "We have to start addressing building this country, and not everybody else's,"
DRUDGE REPORT POLL ON WINNER OF DEBATE:
Brownback
34% 19,640
Giuliani
12% 6,792
Huckabee
3% 1,489
Hunter
1% 851
McCain
1% 846
Paul
36% 20,878
Romney
10% 5,732
Tancredo
2% 1,307
Tommy Thompson
2% 885
Total Votes: 58,420
