“Ten Republican presidential candidates wanting to replace President Bush embraced a more popular president, conservative icon Ronald Reagan, at every turn in their first debate of the 2008 race. ‘Ronald Reagan was a president of strength,’ Mitt Romney intoned. ‘Ronald Reagan used to say, we spend money like a drunken sailor,’ said John McCain. And Rudy Giuliani praised ‘that Ronald Reagan optimism.’” [editor’s note: Not a lot of surprises here. Ron Paul offered strong pro-liberty answers, but his delivery was somewhat shrill and he didn’t get much face time. IMO, the only one of the ten who came off as even remotely “presidential” in demeanor was former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore - TLK] (05/04/07)