The Official Fox News/Google Debate Discussion Thread

[Mr. Morden]

With regard to the in-state tuition for illegal immigrants living in Texas question, here's an interesting clip from a Reagan vs. Bush primary debate in 1980:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi9_cciy8w&feature=player_embedded

I can only imagine how CARLHAYDEN would have reacted if he'd been watching that debate.

[Mr. Morden]

With regard to the in-state tuition for illegal immigrants living in Texas question, here's an interesting clip from a Reagan vs. Bush primary debate in 1980:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi9_cciy8w&feature=player_embedded

I can only imagine how CARLHAYDEN would have reacted if he'd been watching that debate.

This is also a good response clip whenever J.J. and lesser Republicans around here comment about how Reagan was not considered Presidential material in 1979 and comparing Bachmann/Perry/whatever to them.  Reagan may or may not have been considered Presidential in 1979, but he could complete a sentence without tearing up basic grammar or dropping an attack ad soundbite in 1979.  That's more than two-thirds of the 2012 GOP field's capabilities.

The standards for "presidential material" have sunk much farther in the past 30 years.  The level of policy detail covered in these debates used to be much greater.  Here's another clip from that same Bush vs. Reagan debate, on taxes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edchtf9MS7g

The Reagan from that era would have destroyed any of the current 2012 Republican candidates in a debate.