I know some of you won't be able to make it to tomorrow's CNN/YouTube Debate - America's Debate Radio Show (you better have a good excuse for not showing!).

I thought it might be fun to open a topic for you to post questions you WISH get asked to the GOP candidates at the debate.

One of my favorites would be to ask each of them the average cost of various grocery items - ie a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, or a loaf of bread. I think their answers would be a good way to determine their grasp on life in the lower and middle classes.

Another good one would be to ask them the last time they balanced their personal checkbook or if they had any idea of the current balance in their account. This would indicate the candidates dedication to fiscal responsibility.

So - what would YOU ask the GOP candidates?

I actually have submitted two questions for the youtube debate. You can view them if you'd like (username: melizcrazy). My first question was if the GOP was still the party of limited government + what they will do to limit the size of federal power. My second question was concerning monetary policy and the weakening dollar. I hope one gets chosen!

Mine is; In an election season in which a black man, and a woman, run for the first time, is anyone apprehensive that America may show its true colors by electing neither?

I can only second your questions - I really hope that at least the first question, if not both, is going to be picked. I would really love to see some answers to those. Thanks very much for submitting them.

1. How does the GOP consistently field such a diverse group of candidates?
2. Name 3 things the GOP has done in the last 12 years that would constitute following through regarding the Contract with America?
3. What does the word 'conservative' mean to you nowadays; if you say 'small government' at any point during your answer you will be tasered.

Those would be some halfway decent starters.

CP

Heh, the answer to the milk price is about the same as a gallon of gas, except you can drink milk. Well, you can drink gas too but it won't build healthy bones and it tastes real bad in coffee.

My excuse for not taking part in AD radio is that I'm up to my ears now in work. It's getting harder to even take a break to post here. So with that in mind, I'd ask a trick question:

"What do you guys do during your time off?"

Then after hearing all the cool things about golf and yachts, the summer place up north, the jaunts to Paris and London, I'd just shake my head and walk away. Of course they can't understand what it's like to scrape for a living. Nor can the Democrats for that matter, they only sort of remember the hard times, and some don't have that memory either.

Oh and bread? The cost of that is what a gallon of gas used to cost, you know, before all that Iraqi oil hit the market. Bread is also better for you.

Well, back at it.

I think you may have missed Geraldine Ferraro (VP candidate) and Jesse Jackson 20 - 25 years ago Not to mention Sharpton, Keyes, Mosley-Braun in 2008.

I'd ask about the war on drugs, the abuse of eminent domain, reforming the tax system and islamic radicalism vs. our support for the saudis.

Boxers or briefs?




Also....what was your first job?
Cat or dog person?
Night or morning person?
What are your personal strengths and weaknesses? (and any candidate who says they're too much of a perfectionist, or too honest, or somesuch rot as their weakness, should be disqualified automatically for being a tool)

Sorry, perhaps i should have written; The first election in which a black man and a woman will run---with any logical chance of winning.

THis time around it actually looks plausible. What frightens me is that this plausibility hangs by so thin a thread.

So - what would YOU ask the GOP candidates?

Id love to be able to ask about a number of things, ranging from the war, to the boarder, to americas space program, to the economy. There are so many issues, but if I had to ask one thing, it would be in relation to the war in Iraq.

Like for example perhaps id ask the following....

Ive heard from many people that the war in Iraq has no legitimate purpose, and never had a clear definitive plan for victory. In a country that exists in such a state of doubt, how would you as president best define what victory is, and how would you achieve victory?

Id ask something like that, although if I was asking a presidential candidate this id probably lengthen the question a bit and go over it several times to make sure its what I'm wanting to ask, to sit in a room and pick the brain of any of the candidates would be awesome.

"What would you do to prevent Global Warming from socializing America?"
(I'm sorry if I may sound intentionally PIC, but I really do believe that it is what Global Warming is bringing with it (not to stir up any minds - nothing wrong with socialism, just GW should not be used as an excuse for more government intervention)).

I have to wonder why it frightens you. Hillary is an ice queen-like statist driven by polls and has sky-high negative. Obama is an inexperienced junior senator prone to mis-statements on the campaign trail. Edwards could probably win the nomination by committing less unforced errors, and by noting that Hillary is un-electable, but it's certainly not because he's awhite male. Anyway, I just don't see anything so sinister as to frighten someone.

By that logic, the fact that the previous 43 presidents were all white, and male, had nothign to do with their elections.

And I'm not frightened of Hillary.

Oh alright, I'm terrified of Hillary. But a good kind of terrified. What she does to her voters, she inflicts upon her enemies tenfold!

What makes me apprehensive, is that every country in the world now labors under the misapprehension that america is an obese, racially prejudiced country that has elected well-to-do white men to lead it since its conception. And now, we finally have the chance to prove them wrong...or right.

I wont be able to listen in (large group meeting here in Sav to watch the debate) but I will have my laptop with me and will be in the group chat.

perhaps after the debate I will be able to make it home in time to listen.