Republican Presidential Debates: Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney

Republican Presidential Candidate Dept: WASHINGTON - Texas Gov. Rick Perry bemoaned he felt like "a pinata here at the party" at one of his first Republican presidential debates two months ago. Herman Cain complained that he had a "bull's eye on my back" following another recent verbal showdown, according to Winnipeg Free Press. He even took a dangerous dip into the rough waters of illegal immigration, a hot-button issue for Republican primary voters, saying it would be inhumane to deport people who have been in the United States illegally for decades and republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question during a Republican presidential debate in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. AP Photo/Evan Vucci But a typically confident Newt Gingrich faced no such pile-on Tuesday night in CNN's debate on national security, breezing through the sparring match as a handful of new polls suggest he's the latest candidate to edge ahead of frontrunner Mitt Romney. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.