• Moderator: OK, let me go to a question that's more ephemeral and it is passing and it will decided in the next several months. We'll go down the line again. This isn't as much fun as cutting taxes. Do you think Scooter Libby should be pardoned.

• Romney **: I don't think somebody who is running for president, let alone someone who is president, should make that decision until the judicial process is complete. I can tell you that I think it was outrageous for the prosecutor, knowing that Scooter Libby was not the source of the leak, to go ahead and begin interviewing him, gathering information, setting up a case against him.

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1. Romney won the first debate (click to see reasons to agree and disagree).

Questions for Governor Mitt Romney from the 1st debate:

1. What do you dislike most about America?
2. Would it be a good day for America if Roe v Wade was repealed.
3. Have you always been for life or effectively pro-choice?
4. When you said that being a pro-life president entails more than just appointing strict constructionist judges, was that directed at Giuliani?
5. Should Scooter Libby should be pardoned?
6. Which current cabinet official would you keep?
7. Would it be good for America to have Bill Clinton back living in the White House?
8. Are you embarrased of your health care program?
9. Should we be in Iraq when the American people do not victory is possible?
10. Do you support a tamper-proof work status ID card?
11. Should Congress have acted in the Terri Schiavo case?
12. Is it worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars to get Osama?
13. Should we change our Constitution to allow foreign born citizens to become president?
14. What do you say to bishops who deny Communion to elected officials who support abortion rights?
15. Do you accept Huckabee's statement that he wasn't talking about you?
16. Will you expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research?
17. What tax would you like to cut?