The four Republican candidates for president met tonight in the second of two debates before Florida's primary on Tuesday. The debate was moderated by Wolf Blitzer, and topics ranged from immigration, to health care, to the idea of a colony on the moon.
What did the candidates have to say about their positions on immigration?
This topic was largely debated between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Romney demanded an apology from Gingrich for saying that he was the most "anti-immigrant" of the four GOP candidates.
Romney was asked to discuss claims from his campaign ads that Gingrich had insinuated in a speech from 2007 that Spanish was "the language of living in a ghetto." Romney claimed not to have seen the ads in question. The debate between the two then moved to encompass the topic of self-deportation and amnesty for illegal immigrants who had lived in the United States for 25 years or more.
How did the health care portion of the debate break down?
Rick Santorum challenged Romney on Massachusetts' health care program, drawing parallels between it and President Barack Obama's current health care program. Politico quoted Santorum's claim that Romney favored "government-run, top-down medicine," such as Obama's national health care plan. Romney denied Santorum's assertions, stating that repealing "Obamacare" would be one of his first priorities in office.
Why was the idea of building a colony on the moon part of the debate?
NASA and its future are big issues in Florida. As such, Blitzer asked Gingrich to explain his proposal to build a colony on the moon at the same time that he intended to balance the federal budget.
According to the Washington Post, both Romney and Ron Paul responded negatively to the concept, with Paul stating that he didn't think people should go to the moon, but that "we should send some politicians up there." Romney asserted that as a businessman he would have fired a person that presented the idea of spending billions of dollars to build a moon colony. Gingrich defended himself by saying that candidates should be "responsive to the needs of the states that they campaigned in."
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