Saturday, November 5th: Gingrich-Cain debate in Houston (on C-Span)

[Tx4obama]

Houston – You could call it a debate in the style of America’s most famous series of oratorical confrontations — but only if Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had addressed each other from comfy, high-backed armchairs.

And spectators had been willing to shell out at least $200.

Georgia’s two Republican candidates for president, friends who have watched each other’s back during much of the early campaign, will go toe to toe Saturday evening in a two-man debate ....

SNIP

C-SPAN has decided to broadcast the debate live, as has AM750 and 95.5FM News/Talk WSB, where Cain once had an evening talk show — and Gingrich often chats with morning host Neal Boortz. The debate will also be streamed live over the Internet at www.wsbradio.com.

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/11/04/headed-for-the-gingrich-cain-debate-in-houston/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway


p.s. Has anyone heard if this is still going to happened tomorrow?


Edited to add more info from C-Span.org

Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate
Sponsored by: Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC
Airing Time: 8:00:00 PM - 9:30:00 PM --- (Eastern time, on C-Span1)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/schedule?zoom=0&timezone=Eastern&date=Nov+5%2C+2011

[rurallib]

1. Will this be on women's issues?

that seems to be a specialty with these two.

[Tx4obama]

2. That would be great, wouldn't it :)

The debate is sponsored by:
Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC
so it probably will be pretty wacky :)

[Tx4obama]

3. The debate starts at 8pm ET

Anyone gonna watch?

Live stream links below

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/

http://www.rentadrone.tv/world-news-stream/cspan/

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. thanx..been working all night..but will try to stay up and watch it..

now why would anyone unrec. this post?

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. STARTI NG NOW!!! should be very interesting

[Kingofalldems]

6. I bet Newty uses the word 'grotesque'

It's his favorite.

[Tx4obama]

7. Harassment claim off limits in Gingrich-Cain forum

Harassment claim off limits in Gingrich-Cain forum
http://news.yahoo.com/harassment-claim-off-limits-gingrich-cain-forum-154125419.html

p.s. Well that's going to take the fun out of it ;(

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. I'm watching the Oklahoma Aggies football game.

Because Aggie football looks quite intellectual compared to those two idiots.

[secondwind]

9. We found it laughable and even boring... have switched to college football.

[Tx4obama]

10. This debate is so unimportant that....

folks at Wikipedia has removed it from their GOP debate tracking CHART! LOL
It was on there a day or two ago when I looked over there, now it's gone!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_republican_debates

[Mz Pip]

11. I watched a bit of it

and caught Gingrich in some long winded pompous assed rant about health care and the free market.

I wonder if he really gets it that we have let the "free market" dictate health care for decades. But he had government sponsored health care and is now a rich fuck so he really is pretty clueless as to what ordinary people have to go through.

[Mosaic]

12. bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla

I've got it on in the background. Doing much more important reading about the Occupy Movement.

[JoePhilly]

13. Let us know when they start to debate which of them has the best pick up lines.

[Enrique]

14. dont these people feel ripped off?

how is this any kind of a debate, much less a Lincoln-Douglas debate?

[boppers]

15. Re-running now. eom

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. Poor Newt, still seeking relevance. I guess any attention is better than none. (nt)

[Tx4obama]

17. What Cain did/said AFTER the debate was more interesting than the actual debate ...

See here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/herman-cain-asked-about-harassment-charges-dont-even-go-there/2011/11/05/gIQAZtTpqM_blog.html

So, Cain will get all the press and no one will be talking about Newt tomorrow.
CNN showed a video twice late Saturday night of Cain getting into it with the reporters,
but I haven't found a video clip of it online yet.