Our troops are every bit of professionalism which WE understand.

The reason we were so long to allow women among those troops arraigned on the fronts, is the same reason. These professional are not asked to deploy with gays.

Women, within our forces are not asked to shower with men. Women within the forces are not asked to be sexual objects within their ranks.

It is not about our services not being professional enough. It is about about the professionalism we attribute to our servicemen.

Our men deserve to not be held as sexual objects, by those others in the shower.

if planted questions were allowed to be asked, then it is reasonable to imagine that ALL future questions would come from the opposing party. at this point in the campaign, Reps and Dems are NOT debating the other party - they are debating each other. in plain terms, such questions are inappropriate workarounds to the nature of the debate.

so if you're not a fan of the process, let's just throw out all the rules, skip over examining candidate differences and go straight to a 15-head battle royal! tragedy and bloodshed always makes good television - better television, at least, than the "boring" presidential debate that you all must suffer through.

it might also look like a CNN democratic Hillary love fest debate. CNN has no credibility when it comes to political news. I was disappointed I wanted to find out what the candidates like most diamonds or pearls. Now I don't know who to vote for. arrrgh.

Much ado about nothing.

I applaud the Republican candidates for going on a CNN sponsered debate. We certainly don't agree with everything they say, but at least they are willing to subject themselves to this sort of bias. The Democratic candidates won't go to a Fox sponsered debate because they are "to biased".

It just goes to show you that the Republican Party is still the party with answers. They may not be the right answers all the time, but they are still answers to questions from both sides of the aisle. Shame on the Democratic Party for not having the courage to do the same.

Yeah, CNN should have been been more stringent in its vetting of campaign affiliations, just to avoid this kind of dust-up. But debates, live or YouTubed, SHOULD be open to anyone. I'd hate for only hand-picked Republicans to be permitted to ask questions of Republican candidates. It would look to much like a George W. Bush "townhall" event!

Shame on you once again CNN for another attempt at trying to fool the American people. And beyond that, to act as if you had no knowledge about who this guy really was. He's all over the internet.

Kerr said that CNN "never asked" him about his parties preference so he "never told" them he is a member of Hillary's campaign.

Image that, and coming from the very ones that are complaining about "don't ask, don't tell" policies..

This is a complete joke, only thing is we as Americans are not laughing, I will put my money where my mouth is and start looking for other news channels to get unbiased information as best I can.
Good job CNN, no wonder you keep losing more viewers!

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Um, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was Bill Clinton's baby. I'm surprised that you think Bill Clinton is a homophobe, but he does fit the profile.

No one questions his military prowess, his ability to motivate a small army across the known world to India, nor his ability to make peace among those he conquered...

Let any of those on the stage claim that manlove hindered the abilities of Alexander the Great...

Still a silly wedge issue that the "base" loves to talk about...Haven't we had enough of the "base" over the past few years?

give me a break...

Either he is lying or Mrs. Clinton is lying.

Who do you'all think is telling the truth?

Anyone can ask questions. Although I think the republicans answered correctly, the audience was terrible to him.

I'd smack each and every one of them for their non-patriotism.

Now I know why my friends call CNN the Clinton nextwork and the democrat candidates don"t want Fox News to host one of their debates. It might actually be fair and balanced.

Exactly what we come to expect from the liberal monkey group like CNN. NO LONGER the most trusted name in news..

The questions chosen for this debate were extremely disappointing and left out a plethera of important issues. Many of the questions appeared to come from liberal democrats than republicans. As a matter of fact, after the democratic debate, CNN talked about the debate for hours it seemed. CNN had a disappointingly brief panel following the republican debate and let the liberals in the panel speak more than the republicans. CNN – here's a tip. If you have conservatives watching, they would rather hear from Bill Bennett and other conservatives about their candidates. Not the radical left-wing, or is this by design????

As far as the question, why an apology, there should have been more of them to cath those empty suits off guard and see if they can truthfully answer the questions...any way, the circus was in town.