October 29, 2007
Posted: October 29th, 2007 09:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) - All eight major Republican presidential candidates will participate in the CNN/YouTube/Republican Party of Florida debate scheduled for November 28 in St. Petersburg, Florida, organizers of the event announced Monday.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, California Rep. Duncan Hunter, Arizona Sen. John McCain, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson have confirmed they will take part in this innovative, live forum that will feature user-generated video questions submitted to YouTube's Web site.

CNN's Anderson Cooper will moderate the two hour debate that will begin at 8 p.m. ET.

CNN and YouTube teamed up with the South Carolina Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee in July for a similar debate held in Charleston.

Filed under: CNN/YouTube Debate


John Foster, Varnville, SC   November 28th, 2007 4:27 am ET

Will we see McCain finally call out chickenhawks Giuliani and Romney? My guess is yes.

Josh , Tamarac , FL   November 17th, 2007 1:26 pm ET

Rupert Murdoch Loves Hillary Clinton
Posted by CBS NEWS http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/09/politics/main1600694.shtml

FOX IS BEHIND HILLARY! This is against the law.

candi, nyc   October 30th, 2007 8:28 am ET

Laurinda,
Your complete lack of education and common sense is apparent. I'm sure that there is a nice community college somewhere near you, perhaps enrolling in a political science or world history class would help you understand this crazy mixed up world in which you live. it might even help you understand how your girl could have voted for a war (and to fund it) and now that it's not going so well, she is opposed to it.

ronnie - knoxville, tn.   October 30th, 2007 12:31 am ET

p.s. is brandi the re-incarnation of the infamous laurinda/karen? now that's scary ! ;)

ronnie - knoxville, tn.   October 30th, 2007 12:30 am ET

see, brandi's comments sort of typify the liberal self-loathing. how many times the word hate appears, the words "I never...", the general vitriol. Let's not mention name-calling. Also, the refusal of liberals to tune into Repub. debates tells you they are uninformed voters. Most conservatives DO tune into CNN and the Democratic debates, fyi; and most conservative posts are far more grammatically correct and intelligible. just my opin.

Mrs. Jackie B., Murfreesboro, TN   October 29th, 2007 6:11 pm ET

Let's hope that Jackie and Dunlap get to ask these suits a bone-jarring question that'll make them think and answer intelligently for a change. Am I asking too much?

Nancy Flagstaff AZ   October 29th, 2007 5:51 pm ET

I implore the CNN debate moderators to ask the R candidates why they think Ron Paul beats them all in military donations.

Paul has garnered more military donations than all of them, combined!

Please, I beg you, CNN. Ask them.

joseph, austin, tx   October 29th, 2007 5:14 pm ET

Brandi
I notice you hate hannity but not colmes, a little insight into your bias maybe. Remind me who is olbermans conservative counterpart on his show, what about matheuws? At least oreilly can say he regularly has geraldo on. Yes, libs I watch more than fox news for my news.

Tom Dedham, Mass   October 29th, 2007 4:44 pm ET

laurinda, brandi whomever.

When you say you watch Hannity did you notice who his sidekick is?

A gentleman called Colmes who is as Liberal as they come.

Everyone that I mentioned is on O'Reilly and H&C all the time.

Reminds me of when David Lettermen, tried to setup O'Reilly when he appeared on the Late show.

Lettermen was spewing the liberal talking points about O'Reilly and O'Reilly looked him in the eye and asked him point blank, "Do you watch the show" and dumb-ass Lettermen responded, "No I am going by what people tell me".

Bah, bah, bah, Lettermen bleated.

For the record, I disagree with O'Reilly more than I agree with him, but his actions to get Jessica's law passed where IMMENSE.

LoooseyGoosey   October 29th, 2007 4:25 pm ET

One is either born a homosexual or a heterosexual; can't have it both ways. - Kathryn, Metairie, LA

And why not? I prefer it both ways.., by choice.

Brandi,ny   October 29th, 2007 3:17 pm ET

Tom Dedham..I've watched Fox before and I detest it. I don't know any of those people you are talking about nor do I want to. I can't stand that hannity or that oreilly. The only time I would watch that garbage is if there was a war and it had better pictures than CNN.

Sam, Plymouth, MN   October 29th, 2007 3:06 pm ET

I would pay to see Stephen Colbert take part in that debate...

ronnie - knoxville, tn.   October 29th, 2007 2:23 pm ET

don't mean to pick on "brandi" but if you look up to which party the majority of "reporters" donate money, most of the media are liberal. Just google 'media campaign contributions' or go to newsmeat.com to search by donor name

Chris, Pensacola FL   October 29th, 2007 2:08 pm ET

I agree with that thought Eric, but I think it would limit our choices in the end. Right now, the media and government commies would have Rudy and Clinton on your chats. How are we supposed to know about the real candidates when all we see are the same two fools?

I still agree with the idea, but perhaps make it more like speed dating in 15 minute increments.

We need 24+ choices as all we get are the hand picked commies most of the time.

spinstopper   October 29th, 2007 1:57 pm ET

Yes, let's all watch Anderson Cooper's unbiased performance in Flordia and compare it to his unbiased performance in South Carolina..

Kathryn - Metairie, LA   October 29th, 2007 1:00 pm ET

Right! And God delivered me from heterosexuality! I don't think so! That is quite an ignorant comment, to say the least. One is either born a homosexual or a heterosexual; can't have it both ways.

Tom Dedham, Mass   October 29th, 2007 12:28 pm ET

Hi "brandy", how you doing?

If you ever even watched Fox, you would KNOW that EVERY single panel discussion they have on, has BOTH sides represented and that is why they are number one by a HUGE margin.

Juan Williams, Ellis Henican, Bob Beckel, Geraldine Ferraro and Kirsten Powers to just name a few liberals that are on Fox each and every day.

I challenge you so original "Faux news, Fox noise" haters to prove me wrong with the following statement:

There are far more LIBERALS on Fox news than there are CONSERVATIVES on the other "news" networks.

Fox dominates because they used the old "Crossfire" setup, a group of political pundits from BOTH sides discussing the issues, it worked for Crossfire and it is obviously working for Fox.

Doremus Jessup   October 29th, 2007 12:11 pm ET

Wouldn't it be great to hear a debate from some of the real overseers of our great society? For example, CEO's from Westinghouse, Walmart, Blackwater, Nissan, Microsoft, General Motors, Phillip Morris,Haliburton, etc. After all, this is where the real decision making is done that impact our lives, health and well being.

pat huntington ny   October 29th, 2007 11:42 am ET

I have better things to do then watch the rethuglicans debate...like washing my eyes out with battery acid!

Brandi,ny   October 29th, 2007 11:33 am ET

"Mike"..calling Hillary..Shrillary is pretty childish.

Eric, from the Republic of Texas   October 29th, 2007 11:28 am ET

You Tube? Really?

Is this really what the selection of America's leader has come down to? You Tube?

I, for one, am sick and tired of "everyman-as-expert," a situation we see now in the age of Web 2.0.

While I am a proud conservative, and obviously want my candidates to prevail, I hold the sanctity of the process in higher regard than any personal political disposition. Love him or hate him, Newt Gingrich has some great ideas regarding debates and how they can become more relevant and actually worth the network airtime they're burning.

He basically proposes a revisit of Fireside Chats whereby the American populace gets to see the TWO candidates (not 24) actually speak with one another for an hour or two a session, for a series of 10 or so weekly sessions. We would actually get to see what the candidates are made of, what they believe, not just hear their latest snappy soundbite.

Outside of a major revamp of the debate process, I think someone earlier said it best: Isn't it time we start voting these people off the Island?

Mike Nakagita, Green Bay, Wisconsin   October 29th, 2007 11:09 am ET

Brandi, calling your political opponents "retardians" is pretty childish. Whatever name you choose to use for yourself.

Stephen, Naples, Florida   October 29th, 2007 11:05 am ET

jw = and I'll bet you're planning to record the program so you can watch it in bed late at night when no one else is around.

jw, canadian,ok   October 29th, 2007 10:49 am ET

Oh gosh, I hate to miss the debate, but there's a special on the Discovery Channel at the same time about how rhinos mate. When are they going to start voting some these contestants off?

pat huntington ny   October 29th, 2007 10:47 am ET

another meeting of the rethuglican idiots...

Mike Nakagita, Green Bay, Wisconsin   October 29th, 2007 10:26 am ET

So when is the next Florida debate for Democrats going to be?

Brandi   October 29th, 2007 10:01 am ET

Fox news is so anti-Democrat, the Dems wouldn't want to be associated with that station. At least CNN has Retardians on their programs and treats them with respect!!!

Brandi   October 29th, 2007 9:42 am ET

Well, that sure will be enjoyable watching them attack each other. I look forward to that. Anderson Cooper won't let them get away with avoiding the questions, that's for sure.

Brian   October 29th, 2007 9:39 am ET

To bad the same can't be said about Dems and Fox News. If they are so smart and so right why don't they let Britt Hume ask them some questions.

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