Yes Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Fred Thompson all skipped the debate citing “scheduling conflicts”. However, Giuliani was in Ft. Lauderdale (where the debate was held) just hours before the debate and Thompson was in Florida over the weekend and is due back Tuesday. Now scheduling conflicts can be a legitimate excuse, but when they didn’t even answer questions that were sent to them ahead of time to at least act like they cared about this group of voters, that ought to tell us something. It’s not like this debate was just about abortion and gay marriage. They were also asked questions about combating radical Islam and their positions on free trade and open borders between Mexico and Canada. No, I think, “scheduling conflicts” aside, it was the audience that kept the top candidates away from the Values Voter Debate.

Jan Folger, president of Faith2Action said,

“They will regret the decision…Because they snubbed us, they will not win, because we will not follow their lead.”

Them’s fightin’ words!