Are we to expect any kind of factual and knowledgeable discourse when all of these candidates don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground except Huntsman?
Time and time again we hear the gaffs, the pregnant pauses, the exaggerations and the total lack of knowledge that these Republican President-wannabees are spewing out.
The debate that took place Nov. 12 at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., among eight candidates: Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. It was sponsored by CBS News, the National Journal and the South Carolina Republican Party. The first hour of the 90-minute event was carried live on CBS, which said it planned to broadcast the final 30 minutes the following day on its Sunday show "Face the Nation." Questions were focused on foreign policy. (obviously the last 30 minutes postponed since the whole affair was a waste of time)
At least Gov. Perry didn’t have one of those senior moments, endless pregnant pause but that is because he said very little…he knows he is toast as does Mr. Cain. But the usual suspects made blunders of enormous proportions. Their lack of knowledge and common sense leaves us with the question: Are any of these guys/gal seriously thinking they can actually head the government of this nation?
These are some of the misrepresentations, exaggerations and outright lies they unveiled, one by one they made an ass out of themselves:
•Romney issued a hollow threat to take China's currency manipulation to a world body that doesn't actually deal with overvalued money, and he claimed federal spending consumes more of the nation's economic output than it really does. Huntsman set Mitt Romney straight on that: “Huntsman: … First of all, I don't think, Mitt, you can take China to the WTO on currency-related issues.” He is right of course (Congressional Research Service
•Gingrich overstated U.S. aid to Egypt by a factor of two, and he claimed Obama repudiated former president Mubarak "overnight," when in fact the president took seven days before he publicly urged Mubarak to begin an "orderly transition" of power.
•And Bachmann claimed that "we have no jail" for terrorists captured on "the battlefield," overlooking the 1,700 men being held without trial at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
There was a lot more, like: Romney Exaggerates on Spending, Bachmann's Welfare Time Warp •she also said that it was "quite likely" under President Obama that Medicare and the military's Tricare program "will collapse," and "everyone will be put into Obamacare."
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SOURCES: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-11-13/south-carolina-debate/51186850/1
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