Thread: Sept. 12th Tea Party GOP debate tonight from Tampa, Florida,

NOTE: This CNN-sponsored debate started at 8:15 EST instead of the advertised 7:30

Sept. 12th Tea Party GOP debate tonight from Tampa, Florida,

2012presidentialelectionnews.com
By Nate, on September 12th, 2011

Live Stream: CNN (Live around 7:30pm ET)
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/

Tonight in Tampa, Florida, eight Republican candidates will take the stage in a debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express. Questions will come from moderator Wolf Blitzer, however, questions will also be delivered by citizens in the audience and from Tea Party events around the country.

Air Time: Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 8pm ET on CNN

Report from the Miami Herald:

WASHINGTON — The tea party movement roars into the Republican presidential spotlight Monday night, as grassroots conservative-coalition members are scheduled to question GOP candidates at a Tampa, Fla., debate.

The two-hour debate, co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express and CNN, promises to include some topics that rarely come up in national political forums, such as the candidates' views of the Constitution and the Federal Reserve.

The debate, which begins at 8 p.m. EDT, will be closely watched because the tea party movement, through a loose collection of grassroots groups barely two years old, helped elect scores of Republicans to Congress last year.

This year, Republican presidential candidates are aggressively courting the movement's eager-to-work followers and trying to tap into their influential social and fundraising networks.

Coming on the heels of the Reagan Library GOP debate, this Tea Party-centered event could have a different flavor than previous debates. I'm hoping that audience questions will lead to an even more substantive discussion than we just witnessed at the Reagan Library, which in itself was fairly good.

Look for entitlement reform to be a lengthy discussion especially considering the eruption over Rick Perry's assertion that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme." Michele Bachmann will also be looking to get back into the forefront after she was essentially shut out of the discussion in the Reagan Library debate which was dominated by Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. Ron Paul also was a bit jilted on many topics last time around and I will assume that he will field more questions tonight from the audience.

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45 minutes into the debate and of course pro-amnesty CNN hasn't breathed a word on illegal immigration or amnesty.

One hour and nothing ..

9:25 EST

Wolf Blitzer just said illegal immigration will be the LAST debate topic.

What did we have... 2 questions and only ONE of them asked about illegal immigration, the other was how to pander to latino voters.

Illegal immigration was covered from 9:30 to 9:37.

Perry got nailed when he said he did not support a physical border fence and also on his granting college tuition to illegal aliens.

Illegal immigration issues were answered by Perry, Romney, Bachmann, and Huntsman and Romney.

The word 'deportation' was never uttered once.

Originally Posted by florgal

What did we have... 2 questions and only ONE of them asked about illegal immigration, the other was how to pander to latino voters.

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Lots of smoke, bells, and whistles.

Perry tap danced the most, even stalling to try and come up with an 'acceptable' answer. Perry flat out stated Texas had an 'clear and long relationship' to give illegal aliens college tuition instead of putting them on 'the government dole' the rest of their lives.

Weak, weak, weak!