Republican Primary Debate-Firsts 6/13/11, New Hampshire

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Here we go again!

It’s time for the second round of the 2012 Republican presidential debates, this time with the big guns, staring Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Michele Bachmann, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and pizza-Noid Herman Cain.

Polderdash will be watching the event live, updating you with all the ‘debate-firsts’ you’ve come to expect.

On your mark,

Get set…

6/13/11 Debate Firsts

First to put his hands in his pockets: Romney
First to put his hands behind his back: Cain
First to mention the Red Sox: John King
First to be asked to speak: Santorum
First to say he has seven children: Santorum
First to wear way, way, WAY too much makeup: Bachman
First to wear an ugly yellow tie: Gingrich
First to call America the ‘hope of the Earth’: Romney
First to say he has delivered 4000 babies: Paul
First to wear an effeminate tie: Pawlenty
First to say the election was about ‘grandkids’: Cain
First to answer a question: Cain
First to say ‘caboose’: Cain

First to sport a moustache: Cain
First to think wearing a purple tie to a political debate is a good idea: King
First candidate who should rethink his hair stylist: Santorum
First to say ‘stop sign’: Santorum
First to break the debate rules by not answering in time: Santorum
First to say Pawlenty has the ‘right instincts’: Romney
First to say the president has failed: Romney
First to mention Pelosi and Reid: Romney
First to be outright rude to John King by interrupting: Romney
First to mention Ronald Reagan: Gingrich

First to announce on air that she was running for president: Bachmann
First to say “That’s a tough question”: Paul
First to say ‘bubble’, twice: Paul
First to make a promise (repealing health care): Bachmann
First to mention senior citizens: Bachmann
First to wear a shirt without a collar: Bachmann
First to wear an askew tie: King
First to agree with another candidate: Romney
First to say President Obama should have given him a call: Romney
First to look bored: Paul
First to say this election is not just about the presidency: Gingrich

First to say the Tea Party is ‘essential’: Santorum
First to blame the media for the perception of the Tea Party: Bachmann
First to say Obama has a failing report card: Bachmann
First to gesture her hands like two pistols: Bachmann
First to take a drink of water: Santorum
First to steal Gingrich’s ‘common sense solutions’ line: Cain
First to mention meat: Pawlenty
First to say he was in a union: Pawlenty
First to say he’s ‘not for being stupid, not for being a chump’: Pawlenty
First to say ‘a big backpack full of rocks’: Pawlenty
First to give a presidential-sounding answer: Surprise! Pawlenty
First to make us dizzy with her hand gestures: Bachmann
First to say the Environmental Protection Agency is bad: Bachmann
First to mention Rush Limbaugh: Pawlenty
First to recommend defunding the National Labor-Relations Board: Gingrich
First to stutter: Cain
First to say Leno over Conan: Santorum

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First to choose BOTH Elvis and Johnny Cash: Bachmann
First to have a question from the audience directed at him: Paul
First to say “nothin’: Cain
First to mention a human body part: King
First to say ‘behind closed doors’ twice: Bachmann
First to say he’s a fan of going into space: Gingrich
First to say NASA should have space stations on the moon: Gingrich
First to say ‘we’re not a developed country’: Gingrich
First, and only candidate, to say he’d support the space program: Pawlenty
First to allow the moderator to cut him off: Romney
First to wear the largest American flag: Pawlenty
First to hunch: Paul
First to mention the Japanese: Paul
First to mention e coli: King
First to wear a double-breasted suit: Cain
First to say ‘multiplicity’: Cain
First to put one hand in his pocket and one hand on the podium: Pawlenty
First to choose American Idol over Dancing with the stars: Gingrich
First to whisper in another candidate’s ear: Pawlenty to Cain

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First to dis the iPhone: Paul (siding with Blackberry)
First to mention the ‘military industrial complex’: Paul
First to suggest ‘opting out’ of entitlements would help us take care of ourselves: Paul
First to address the moderator by his first name: Pawlenty
First to say he’ll lead: Pawlenty
First to say his words were taken out of context: Gingrich
First to say Obama ran over us: Gingrich

First to give Jon King a stop gesture: Gingrich
First to say he knows what seniors like: Santorum
First to say the word ‘please’: Santorum
First to point up into the air: Santorum
First to say “the problem hadn’t been solved”: Cain
First to say Medi-scare: Cain
First to talk about grandkids being thrown off bridges: Cain
First candidate to be called ‘fired-up’: Cain
First to mention the country of Chile: Cain
First to say ‘way back in the 70’s’: Cain
First to say ‘that’s a big piece, that’s a big chunk’: Romney
First to say ‘finally’ and ‘leading three times in the same answer: Romney
First to talk about hitting walls: Romney
First to misspeak twice in two seconds: Romney

First to say Obama is more eloquent than she is: Bachmann
First to say God gives us our right: Pawlenty
First to say ‘if your faith is pure and your reason is right, you’ll end up in the same place’: Santorum (Scary!!!)
First to connect faith to morality: Paul
First to say you can’t teach people how to be moral: Paul
First to say ‘militant Muslims’: Cain
First to correct John King’s interpretation of his answer: Cain
First to say Sharia Law will never happen in America: Romney
First to say he would know everyone in his administration: Romney
First to mention car bombs: Gingrich
First to say he’s going out on a limb: Gingrich
First to mention the Nazis: Gingrich (someone always does)
First to choose deep-dish over thin-crust: Cain

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First to mention the current score of a sports team: Romney
First to grimace at a question: Bachmann on gay marriage
First to say her parents were divorced: Bachmann
First to say she’s taken 23 foster children into her home: Bachmann
First to say she’s running for the president of the United States: Bachmann
First to mention George W. Bush: King
First to say government should not give you the right to marriage: Paul
First to make a break dancing wave gesture: Bachmann
First to mention his druthers: Cain
First to wear a lapel pin that looks like a fly: Santorum
First to say he’s taken the bullets: Santorum
First to say ‘folks’: Santorum
First to say he’s support pro-life justices: Romney
First to quote the Declaration of Independence: Bachmann

First to quote the National Review: Pawlenty
First to say immigration is a wellspring: Santorum
First to say anti-immigrants are against the Catholic church: Paul
First to say the premise of a question isn’t true: Paul
First to say being born in America by illegal immigrants shouldn’t make you a US citizen: Cain
First to pause for applause: Pawlenty
First to mention Tom Tancredo: King (oh John, did you have to?)
First to mention the political elites: Gingrich
First to say ‘nonsense’: Gingrich
First to lick his lips on camera: Romney
First to say we don’t own our land, we rent it: Paul
First to squint: Romney
First to take the Pepsi challenge: Pawlenty

First to say ‘thank you’: Romney
First to say we’re not making friends we bomb: Paul
First candidate to refuse to stand up straight when answering a question: Paul
First to say ‘we are the head we are not the tail’: Bachmann
First to mention France: Bachmann
First to mention former Gov. Huntsman: King
First to mention Abraham Lincoln: Gingrich
First to mention George Washington: Gingrich
First to say American intelligence is inadequate: Gingrich
First to paraphrase his grandmother: Cain
First to count on his fingers: Santorum
First to say the president has embraced our enemies: Santorum
First to say ‘fecklessness’: Santorum

First to say ‘time flies when you’re having fun’: King
First to say that he’s part of a good field of Republican candidates: Cain
First to say Vice President Biden has wrong about every modern strategic decision: Pawlenty
First to say Sarah Palin is qualified to be president: Pawlenty
First to congratulate Obama on the death of bin Laden: Romney
First to suggest we could have an American Idol contest to choose the Republican VP: Bachmann
First to say he was impressed that the candidates answered the questions: Santorum
First to say he didn’t mean to interrupt: King
First to say the people of New Hampshire loves the future: Romney
First to mention Anderson Cooper: King
First to sound consistently presidential throughout the entire debate: Surprise! Pawlenty (who’d a’ thunk it?)