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One of the highlights is that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson was the “single biggest obstacle to tort reform in the Senate.”

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Tancredo: “U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world.”

FDT on his vote for NCLB: “Some of the critics were right.”

Lists school vouchers and charter schools as things the “states should be able to experiment” with.

FDT brings it to the “societal breakdown” and “we need more fathers to stay with their kids.” (Instead of fleeing as deadbeat dads, not stay at home dads.)

Giuliani: School choice is the “single biggest civil rights issue” in the 21st century.

Now they are all talking about Hillary Clinton…

Romney “votes ‘no.’” HRC not fit for commander-in-chief.

“There’s not much difference between Giuliani and Clinton.”

Giuliani responds, “You’ve got to be kidding.”

Remarks “America can’t afford you.”

Giuliani blows a kiss to Florida for not giving Gore Florida.

(Ed. note: That should be the Supreme Court he’s blowing kisses to, not Florida.)

McCain: Something about not being at Woodstock, which was “a cultural and pharmaceutical event” and he couldn’t be there because he was “tied up,” referencing his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Huckabee says military morale will go down with Hillary as president. “Nothing funny about Hillary being president.”

FDT on taxation: “Everybody is rich, according to the Democrats.”

“Democrats say, ‘Bring the troops home and everybody will leave us alone.’”

He also railed against the GOP’s fixation on Hillary.

Ron Paul gets booed for noting political opinion polls that show Americans want to bring U.S. forces home from Iraq.

Giuliani wants to increase the individual buyer market from 17 million to 50 million.

Of course, the individual buyer market is the most expensive, as opposed to group plans.

This is like watching a bad game show from the 80s. The sound sucks, the set looks like something out of the 80s or late 70s, the production values are terrible, and there’s even buzzer bell to let you know when you’re out of time. Not that it matters, because every single person has gone over time and no one has called them on it.

This is my first Republican debate, and I’m struck by just how different it feels than Democratic debates. This time next year it’s going to be like two people from completely different countries on state with each other.

Brit Hume says President Bush tried really hard to bring people together on healthcare. Your thoughts? That’s not how I remember it.

Mike,

How do think I feel? I’ve seen almost every one of these…

Brit Hume was baffled to hear that Duncan Hunter said we could save Social Security and Medicare with trade policy.

Tom Tancredo jumps in and brings up “illegal aliens.”

Now onto foreign policy.

Carl Cameron, who covered Bush in 2000 when his wife was campaigning for him, asks McCain if we are on the verge of a new Cold War with Russia.

McCain says he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw “a letter K, a G and a B.”

FDT brings up Pelosi and the Armenian genocide condemnation resolution.

Tancredo says that the Turks want to invade northern Iraq because of the resolution.

Tancred: “Pelosi is not a good Speaker of the House and an even lousier Secretary of State.”

More boos for Ron Paul when he spoke about noninterventionism, opposition to missile placements in Europe, and suggests talking to and trading with these countries.

Romney brings up the U.N. bogeyman.

Paul says the Republicans have lost their way.

Uh oh, it’s a “Fred Thompson doesn’t know shit” question.

Wow, FDT was a father at 17? I thought I heard some grumbles from the crowd.

FDT was the most conservaitive and understands the people are tired of candidates not being honest. He knows what this country needs and he is most surely the winner tonight.

another debate, another dominating performance for america’s mayor. i wonder if hillary will just skip all the debates with rudy rather then be demolished on national television.

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