GOP debate fact check: Errant claims on bailout, taxes

CNN GOP Debate – Candidates Use One Word to Describe Self (Video). Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 8:36 PM. Candidates use one word to describe themselves at CNN GOP Debate. Newt says he's cheerful.

Republican presidential candidates, from left, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sit together at the start of a Republican presidential debate

There was something old, something new in the misstatements of the candidates Wednesday in what was possibly the last GOP debate. ROMNEY to Santorum: "You voted to raise the debt ceiling five times without compensating cuts in spending.

If you look at LA Unified, it is almost criminal what we do to the poorest children of America,” he said. “If a foreign nation did this to our children, we would declare it an act of war because they are doing so much damage.” GOP debate : Ron Paul

Three of the four Republican presidential candidates endorsed regime change in Syria during last night's debate, with Ron Paul being the lone exception. These candidates were quick to call for action against the Iranian ally but failed to mention some