Originally aired on Monday, September 12th, 2011, the CNN Tea Party Republican debate featured eight candidates vying for the 2012 nomination. Here is the entire video in four parts courtesy of CNN.
Participants: Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum
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Report from CNN:
Tampa, Florida (CNN) — With Texas Gov. Rick Perry threatening to cement his standing atop the national polls, his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination aggressively sought to undermine his conservative credentials on Monday during the first-ever CNN/Tea Party Debate in Florida.
Perry repeatedly found himself in the crosshairs, as the field of candidates took turns attacking his positions on illegal immigration, Social Security, and his controversial 2007 push to vaccinate Texas schoolgirls against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted that can lead to cervical cancer.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose standing among Republicans has slipped dramatically since Perry entered the race, said she was "offended" by Perry's executive order, which included an opt-out provision for parents who did not want the vaccine.
"To have innocent little 12 year old girls to be forced to have government injections through an executive order is just flat-out wrong," Bachmann said.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum — like Bachmann, a staunch social conservative struggling to gain traction in the polls — also pounced.
"This is big government run amok," Santorum said to applause. "It is bad policy and it should not have been done."
Perry said he regretted his decision to push for the vaccine using an executive order, but said he was standing up against cancer.
Perry and Romney dominated the first 15 minutes of this debate just like last time, however, the knives for Perry came out early and often from many of his lower tier rivals. Specifically Paul, Bachmann and Santorum all went hard after Perry on the issues of taxes, the role of government and anything they perceived as a weakness. The one benefiting the most from the attacks on Perry was, of course, Mitt Romney who walked away largely unscathed. Newt Gingrich also had some memorable lines.
All of these candidates have brought somehing to the table. Even nutty Ron Paul. I would love to see the future president (hopefully) build his cabinet using some of this talent. This would also enhance the resume of these future Republican presidential hopefuls. The office of Vice-President should not be wasted on a "Dan Quale", or Secretary of State appointed to a political light-weight like Hillary Clinton. As for questions to ask the hopefuls, how about this one……."On your last day in office, would you sell pardons to finance your future presidential library, like former president Bill Clinton did?"
Why is it that everytime they talk about balancing the budget they talk about how it will making more jobs? This kills me. Bill Gates did not build Microsoft so people would have jobs. He did it to make money. Giving people jobs is a bi-product of his goals. I'm not saying our govt doesn't over spend. I'm just saying if you make it easy for business to do business here they will come. That will make jobs! Its that easy…….really!
Ron Paul speaks the truth whether others want to believe it or admit it and for that he is considered radical and extreme. In my opinion he is brave and honest. We need someone like that in office, someone who don't back down if they are right no matter what others think, and someone who has the balls to enforce the laws no matter what. I thought I was going to like Perry until I heard some of his answers, you can really tell he used to be a DemoRAT.
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Notch Social Security recipients receive less benefits for money earned. Born between 1920-25 this is a terrible discrimination against US citizens is this a relative of the Ponci scheme? These unfortunate recipients receive less benefits for money earned.
Will this ever be corrected??
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You guys are stupid.
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Part 1 is no longer working properly. I did not try the others. I watched the full version on YouTube. They have video from the first audience question on.
I check them all and they still work. CNN's video player is not the greatest. Sometimes need to refresh the page to make it load the video.