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FOX GOP Debate ‘Firsts’ 9/5/7

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Thompson skips debate but gets the first question

The Republicans really must be desperate for former Sen. Fred Thompson. The first question to the GOP presidential candidates was about Fred Thompson not choosing to participate in the FOX GOP debate.

John McCain on Fred Thompson not participating in the debate:

“Maybe we’re up past his bedtime.”

Great and ironic line from the elder McCain.

FOX GOP DEBATE FIRSTS

• First to put down Democrats: Giuliani
• First to get a laugh from the audience: McCain
• First to go over alloted response time: Giuliani
• First to suggest FedEx & UPS should be outsourced to control border security: Huckabee
• First to attack the other Republican presidential candidates: Tancredo (Looking more like Gravel every debate)
• 9:20 EST
• First to go over alloted response time twice: Giuliani
• First to wear an ugly tie: Wendell Goler (FOX NEWS)
• First to sport an afro at a Republican presidential debate: Brownback
• First to mention ‘family values’: Brownback
• First to say Sen. Larry Craig should resign: Hunter
• First to mention his dad: Hunter
• First to get a question about abortion: Romney (no surprise there)
• QUOTE: “One of the things I accomplished as the Mayor of New York was the impossible”: Giuliani
• First to say a host was quoting him incorrectly: Paul
• 9:33 EST
• Best line of the night thus far, in response to the question if gay marriage be illegal: “Absolutely not. We’re the State of live free or die and people should be able to marry the person they love.” –Wendy, Young’s Restaurant patron
• First to decline an opportunity to confront an opponent: McCain (refusing to back up statements against Giuliani)
• QUOTE: “I know conflict, I know war”: McCain
• QUOTE: “I’m not running on what I did on September 11″: Giuliani
• First to say the word ‘apple’: Giuliani
• First to go over his alloted response time thrice: Giuliani
• First to get Hillary Clinton mentioned in a question to him and not take an opportunity to bash her: Romney
• First to argue with another candidate: McCain (telling Romney the ‘Surge’ is working, not apparently working, but is working)
• First to say the word ‘honor’: McCain
• 9:45 EST
• First to elicit equally strong boos and cheers: Paul
• First to talk about himself as a child: Huckabee
• First to compare McCain and ‘honor’: Huckabee
• First to say we broke Iraq: Huckabee
• First candidates to have a real debate: Paul & Huckabee

Summary: Paul: Let’s fix our mistake. Huckabee: It’s dishonorable to fix our mistake

• First to say ‘Hallelujah’: Hunter
• First to say ‘victory’: Hunter
• First to say the war is with ‘radical Islam’ and not in Iraq: Tancredo
• First to say he didn’t believe the obvious that the 9/11 attacks had to do with U.S. troops being in Saudi Arabia: Tancredo
• First to think it: Giuliani
• First to get called out for saying something offensive by a Young’s Restaurant patron: Romney (comparing his son’s patriotism in getting him elected to U.S. military troops)
• 10:00 EST
• First to say the most important civil liberty is the right to be kept alive: Romney
• First to say water boarding isn’t torture: Tancredo

• First to say ‘liberal media’: Giuliani
• First to mention honey glazed chicken: Hunter
• First to say no one has ever been murdered in Guantanamo: Hunter (wth?)
• First to mention a hay field: Brownback
• First to remind the Garling Gauge of ‘Droopy Dog’: McCain

• First to say ‘taxed to the max’: Brownback
• First to say the word ‘23′: Giuliani
• First to mention former Sen. John Edwards: Romney
• First to say the average American is more afraid of an IRS audit than getting mugged: Huckabee
• First to get laughed about by other candidates: Paul
• First to be uncertain if a question was directed towards him: Giuliani
• First to be accused by a Young’s Restaurant patron of not having family values: Giuliani
• First to say people are writing books about him: Giuliani
• 10:24 EST
• First to mention the Air Force: Paul
• First to say the word ‘button’: Tancredo
• First to completely fumble a question about Iran: Tancredo (sounding like Miss S.C. Teen USA)

What Tancredo sounded like

• First to say ‘Allah’: Brownback
• First to quote another candidate: Giuliani (quoting McCain)
• First to mention Ronald Reagan: Giuliani (1.5 hours into the debate. Amazing!)
• First to say good Democrats love America: Romney (name a Democrat that doesn’t)

End Debate

• First to be interviewed by Sean Hannity: Giuliani
• First place debate winner in the FOX News cell phone poll: Paul

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