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Is anyone watching the GOP debate on CNN?

Posted: Feb 22, 2012

What are your thoughts about the questions and how the candidates are answering them? Has anyone decided for sure who to vote for (if you're voting in the primaries or caucuses)? I'm still undecided, so if you have decided, I would appreciate some input as to why you chose that candidate.

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I am voting for the green party, Roseann Barr - sm

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This is the only candidate that makes any sense!!!!

Has she for sure been nominated by them? - Zville MT

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Last I heard she was definitely running, but didn't have the nomination yet. Never heard who else was running under this party, though, so I have no idea who her competition is.

Or, as a friend put it, "The Committee - alana

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to Re-Elect Barak Obama."

Any of them would be better than Obama. nm - Independent

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So you haven't decided either? - Zville MT

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Is there anyone you're leaning towards or someone you definitely won't vote for (other than Obama - lol)?

Fascinating that two people would vote your fairly innocuous post down. - me

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People love to be offended.

I was thinking the same thing-LOL - CryBabyLibs

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You could post only the word "the" and someone would be offended...just watch...LOL

I'm not watching the debate - Trigger Happy

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The only thing I know 100% is that I will not vote for President Obama. In saying that, I would like to vote in the primaries but I'm still not happy with any one of our choices here. Mitt the flipper, IMO, isn't much different than Obama. Newt should be stuck with a fork cause he's done. I really like what Ron Paul says domestically but he cares the bejesus out of me with his foreign policy viewpoints. As for Santorum....I'm wishy washy about him too.

So a short answer to your question...no..I don't know who I'm gonna vote for in the primaries. I just know I won't vote for Obama come presidential election time.

Didn't watch the debate - sm

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I am going to vote for Obama, but I am interested in which candidate on the republican side has the possibility of being president. I'm not party faithful and vote by who I feel will do the best job.

If I were a die-hard Republican and had to pick one, I would be unhappy with my choices. I realize one of the candidates has to be chosen, but I just see the two top guys as flip-flopping on the issues and more interested in gouging each other, as Obama has been accused of, and if I truly were against Obama for those reasons among others, I would have to be upset with the republicans also.

I have to say, I like Ron Paul. Don't agree with all of his policies (don't with Obama either) but he does seem like he has stuck with his beliefs through his career and has some good ideas.

I believe politics is about who has the most money and who does the best mud-slinging and that truly is a shame for all of us. We can blame Bush, we can blame Obama for the horrible shape our country is in, but it truly is due to the fact that politics is a name-calling, mud-slinging game and winning the game is the only thing that is important to any of them instead of trying to fix this country.

Voting for Ron Paul, and reasons why - wrkn4pnuts

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I did not watch any of the debate, but made up my mind a long time ago that I am voting for Ron Paul. Check out his website: www.ronpaul2012.com (especially under "Issues," see "Plan to Restore America"). He's the only candidate who has asked that his pay as president be made comparable to the earnings of an average middle class American, at about $39K a year. He has a plan to balance the budget - drastic, yes, but drastic circumstances require drastic solutions! Anybody that can't see the U.S. is on the brink of complete economic disaster is hiding their head in the sand.

As an aside, have you noticed in the recent debates, how every candidate is given equal time to answer questions - except Ron Paul? The moderators are often noticeably rude to him. Pull up some YouTube videos. You'll see what I mean.

I believe both the main political parties are corrupt. They're in it for money and power and control. Interestingly (but not surprisingly) our sitting president has just come up with a multitude of ways to save our economy and improve things. Go figure, it's an election year! Why wasn't any of this considered when bailing out Wall Street and billion-dollar corporations was more important?

I think with the sorry state of our economy, people are finally starting to wake up and pay attention, to the fact that the powers that be are running our country into the ground, as well as the previous administrations. We the People need to be more active and involved in our government. It has become way too big and needs to be minimized and controlled.

Sorry, this was a little bit longer than I intended, but I get fired up about this stuff. I hope that you will too.

And if Ron Paul were president in the 1940s - Glenn Dreck

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we would all probably be living under the rule of one of the descendants of Adolf Hitler.

You are entitled to your opinion - but I disagree.

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More I hear Republicans,more I like Obama - 4MoreYears

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