Every Republican on Debate Stage Refuses to Name One Democrat They Admire

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/11/11/every-republican-on-debate-stage-refuses-to-name-one-democrat-they-admire/

During the first round of the fourth Republican presidential primary debate on Tuesday — consisting of the four candidates with poll numbers to low to qualify for the main stage — Fox Business Channel moderators asked each contender to name one Democrat in Congress whom they admire. Noting that if elected president, they would have to work with Democrats in some capacity to “get things done in Washington,” the moderators said: “I need one name from each of you.”

All four candidates refused.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called the question “silly,” then declared: “I want to fire everybody in D.C.”

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was up next. “Since we’re not going to answer the question,” he began, before launching into a rambling response about the Department of Veterans Affairs. “The VA has been a disaster in large part because the people in Congress have never bothered to fix it,” he said.

“What would happen if the Congress and the president had to get their health care from the VA? We would
fix the problem and we would fix Congress.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum similarly refused to name a single Democrat with whom they could envision working. Christie used the question to declare that all

Democrats are “not standing behind our police officers,” while Santorum threw out a non sequitur about highway funding.

[JonathanRackham]

1. That's Silly

I can't name one Republican.

[eridani]

2. I can. Teddy Roosevelt

And locally, Dan Evans was a very popular governor in WA State who once said that his major regret was not pushing harder for a state income tax.

[pnwmom]

3. Those were the days. It was a different party back then,

when there was such a thing as a moderate or even "liberal" Republican. Impossible to imagine Dan Evans in the party, today.

[Octafish]

4. Abe Lincoln.

Living? There are more than a couple, including former Michigan Gov. Bill Milliken, a person of integrity.