Six GOP candidates will be participating in a forum focused on social issues hosted by The Family Leader this afternoon at 5pm ET. The event takes place at the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa. There will be no television broadcast since C-SPAN reversed its decision to broadcast the event citing budgetry reasons. Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were also invited, however, both declined the invitation.
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Participants: Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Paul, Perry, Santorum
Details from The Family Leader:
Pleasant Hill, IOWA. – The FAMiLY LEADER, in conjunction with CitizenLink (the family advocacy arm of Focus on the Family) and the National Organization for Marriage, is pleased to announce that political pollster, Dr. Frank Luntz, will moderate the “Thanksgiving Family Forum – A Family Discussion with the Republican Candidates” on Saturday, Nov. 19. The forum will take place in Des Moines, Iowa at First Federated Church from 5:00-7:00 p.m ET.
The FAMiLY LEADER has received event confirmations from Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum. Invitations were sent to those candidates who finished in the top 5 of The Iowa Straw Poll or who polled 5 percent or above in the RealClearPolitics Poll as of Aug. 28.
The forum’s goal is to allow Iowans an opportunity to further vet the candidates on matters related to the family. “This is not a debate,” said Bob Vander Plaats, President and CEO of The FAMiLY LEADER. “Our purpose is simply to learn about their worldviews and to listen to their hearts on key family issues. The discussion will allow us to see a more personal side of the candidates.”
“We are thrilled that Frank Luntz has agreed to team up with us for the forum,” said Vander Plaats. “We believe his unique style, audience participation, and expertise in communication will drive the discussion in a direction unlike any other forum or debate.”
More details on the event are available from the Des Moines Register.
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This debate highlights why I will not vote for anyone but Dr Paul. You could almost feel the religious zeal pouring out of the audience for war with Iran as soon as Santorum and Grinch started revving up. For a group of people supposedly worried about life,and morals, they sure don't live by them. Same with the Constitution where they praise it and defer to it, but only when it is convenient for them. If it comes to killing someone then all bets are off…unless the person is a fetus.
I know you rather wait until they can deliver the bomb and all hell breaks lose then what
Gingrich kept saying that 'the pursuit of happiness' meant a duty to obtain moral wisdom, and not the ability to make choices and accept their consequences, for good or bad, and certainly not fulfilling one's needs. The logical conclusion to what Gingrich said would be a belief that the right to live in peace, own property, etc. come from GOVERNMENT, and not either God (for Theists), our Personhood (for Deists) or necessity to survive (for atheists). Jefferson (author of Declaration in question) never would have meant that there was a positive 'right' to pursue knowledge in a way comporting only with conventional morality, his being okay with the fact that some people could care less about morality, but were still capable of not violating the rights of others. Cain thought that the right to defend ones person and ones property was not implicit in 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'. Santorum said that the Federal Government could restrict the States from doing those things not prohibited to them, despite the fact that the Tenth Amendment makes it explicit that this is not the case. Doctor Paul is the only one who understands the Declaration and the Constitution. The Right to life is universal to all, whether they happen to be born or not, whether they happen to live in Iran or not, etc., implicit in this right is the right to 'live' your life, i.e., exercise your faculties and abilities, including the ability to do those things that can not justifiably be prohibited to you, including work and the acquisition of property at no one else's expense. This is more or less the same as the right to liberty. The right to liberty is the right to live your life in a way that has no purposeful, direct, and/or physical negative impact on others or society. the pursuit of happiness was meant especially to exercise the liberties associated with furthering ones well being, i.e., the right to acquire, sell, defend property, whether land or possessions, including the right to commerce and trade, for or to goods and services. And we all know what Paul thinks about the Tenth Amendment. As a Christian and a Pro-Lifer, I could not be more ashamed of my fellow 'believers' that seem to hate their neighbors and their enemies, in a hypocritical fashion that makes me look past their ramblings on about the right to life and see that they don't really mean it. By no means am I a pacifist. Self-defense, an invasion, an insurrection, and a declaration of war must all be present to justify any conflict. None are present in our relations to Iran.
Hank,
You are so right! Give me the freedom of self-determination. My ancestors fought for it and I reclaim it! Give me Ron Paul!
I missed the debate, will there be a replay?
I just checked. I don't think so. You could check out one of the Ron Paul youtube channels. they usually put up the whole debate. Some others might. Also, Focus on the family and affiliated organizations might put it up on their site(s).
Watch the entire video:
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2011/11/video-watch-the-full-iowa-thanksgiving-family-forum/
Newt has baggage, but everyone already knows that. His baggage is old had and will not affect his ratings.
His personal baggage is what makes him human. But his political baggage would make Romney and Obama blush. Couldn't pay me enough to vote for him.
why because your being paid by Obama now get a grip as well as job oh thats right we have Obama for our president and he sent your job overseas
Brian? Is that you?
you got that right and he will put obama to shame in a debate
B Anderson
Newt has very serious political baggage and Newt can't be believed or trusted. You can thank the countless individuals like myself who have done the research and will never vote for him.
I just want to point out to y'all, in case it escaped your notice, that Newt Gingrich just blamed Iran for 9/11. Vote for Ron Paul.
Newt does not just go by current events. If we would have been stronger in the mid 70's against the overthrow of Iran, 9-11 would have not happened. Newt's history is correct.
yes and the middle east wouldn't be in such a mess if they get the bomb we are all in trouble. They will control all of the oil coming out of the middle east and that would be very bad
and you have it on a higher authorty that they wern't envolved
Ron Paul blames The United States for 9/11…
Worst debate on family I've ever seen.
I like Ron Paul, but I have decided I dislike about 3/4 of his supporters. Most of the comments sound like they were written by a college sophomore parroting something they heard.
The comments remind me of the nonsense all over YouTube.
Ron Paul has some good points, but he is an isolationist. Isolation worked at the time the constitution was written, as the oceans protected us from other nations. No longer. The terriorist HAVE declared war on us. We can't just sit back and let them overtake us. In the 70's there was a saying about what if someone gave a war and no one came? The answer is; genocide. Ron Paul would let us be attacked and overtaken by a nucular bomb owning nation. I think we should prevent this from happening.
B Anderson
Please define the label, isolationist and kindly support why isolationism is undesirable.
If you don't care to take the time and thought to do so please don't use labels. One would think you are as troll or worse!
B Anderson
You are misinformed or worse, you have never heard Ron Paul say or have ever read a quote from Ron Paul stating he would permit America to be attacked without immediate retaliation. What Ron Paul does not support are; preemptive missions, military coups, invasion, coercion and force for corporate profiteers in our name and out of our pocket.
Ron Paul is nobody's fool. I have confidence in his competent leadership and resolve to deploy our missiles if necessary and to protect and defend America from attack.
Ron Paul 2012 America's Defender of our National Sovereignty
[...] it. On Saturday night (in the middle of college football season), six of the Republican candidates gathered around a table in an Iowa church to discuss “faith and the family”. Because Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were [...]
[...] it. On Saturday night (in the middle of college football season), six of the Republican candidates gathered around a table in an Iowa church to discuss “faith and the family”. Because Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman were [...]
Well, no one has more baggage than Obama. What the liberal media continues to cover up for him will be uncover years from now when the historian start studying "Obama's policies." Today, God is giving us a second chance, let’s fix this, whether you are democrat, republican or independent, I recommend we should pray for God to help us think with our heads and not let this country continue going the path of destruction. The reason why this country was so successful years back is because; God was part of daily lives, and now, we have removed God from places where he was making a difference, for example, from our homes. Are we teaching our kids the faith the way our grandparents taught our parents, or are we too busy doing what? God was also removed from the schools, and we did nothing to stop it. Now the “corrupted government” is racing our kids. God has also been removed from the colleges and Universities, and our kids are being taught that Socialism, Communism and to have revolutions against our own country is ok. Why is it that Muslims have a place to pray everywhere they want, but not us? Look how successful they are being, they are recruiting our own people, who are now turning against us. I love this country with all my heart; every time I hear “God bless America,” I tear up. I am a naturalized citizen of this beautiful country and proud of it. Please do not waste your vote, try not to make history again, it did not work, the most important, we are all God’s children and he loves us all.
I want to change this sentence: Look how successful they are being, to: look how successful the Radical Muslims are being, they are recuiting our own people,…..
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Pray America, God can help us survive this.
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