Missed Monday’s GOP Debate? Here It Is In 100 Seconds — Worth Every One
Tuesday night the GOP held the 14th Tea Party and Republican Party debate, this time sponsored by CNN, the very conservative Heritage Foundation and equally-​conservative American Enterprise Institute. The debate focused on national defense, the economy, international relations, and terrorism issues. Needless to say, most of the candidates drowned in their own ignorance. Only Jon Huntsman had any real grasp of the issues, and, of course, Herman Cain displayed a total lack of understanding, as well as explained his answers in opposite world. Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsmann all participated in the debate. Of course, each candidate made a point of saying how bad President Obama is.
Herman Cain called for “targeted identification” by the TSA, but then told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer (whom he called “Blitz” a few times,) that he wasn’t talking about profiling one group over another, in direct contradiction of the very definition of “targeted identification.”
Huffington Post’s Andrea Stone writes,
One of the most devout Christians in the GOP field endorsed singling out Muslims for extra screening by the Transportation Security Administration while the only African-American candidate called for racial profiling by another name.
“Obviously, Muslims would be someone you look at, absolutely,” said former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum. “The radical Muslims are the people committing these crimes, by and large, with younger males” also deserving of more scrutiny at airport checkpoints.
Herman Cain said he was in favor of “targeted identification,” another way of saying some people look more suspicious than others. “If you take a look at the people who have tried to kill us it would be easy to identify what that profile looks like.” But when moderator Wolf Blitzer suggested that focusing on one sort of person would be like sngling out Christians or Jews, Cain rejected the premise as “simplifying.”
In “Newt Gingrich Falls Into The Immigrant Compassion Trap,” TPM writes:
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the many Republican presidential debates this year, it’s that frontrunners should do their best not to tell the GOP base how it should feel about illegal immigrants.
His full quote:
“I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families and expel them. I do believe if you’ve been here recently and have no ties to the U.S., we should deport you. I do believe we should control the border. I do believe we have various penalties for employers, but i urge you to look at the Krieble Foundation plan. The party that says it’s the party of the family is not going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families who have been here a quarter century. I’m prepared to take the heat for saying, let’s be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their families.”
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