Title: Anyone watching the debate? You can post thoughts here Source:
Fox News URL Source:http://n/a Published:Aug 6, 2015 Author:n/a Post Date:2015-08-06 20:56:58 by Rufus T Firefly Keywords:None Views:32099 Comments:185
Kasich - big government republican. Strike 3 - he's outta there.
DrewM at AoS is convinced Kasich will be Bush's running mate. Depressing, eh?
A lot of others seem to think that is the natural ticket because the GOP must win FL and they must win OH or they can't win at all. Much as I dislike Bush and Kasich, I'm not totally convinced they are wrong.
The Dems get 242 electoral votes if they just flip off their voters and don't even campaign. So the EC is slanted against the GOP.
I am still not impressed by Cruz's stage ability. He is smart and probably a great court lawyer but he is trying to dumb it down and seem sincere (does he look like that always with the attempt to make an earnest face or is that an act?). Anyway, as a marketing guy myself I see Cruz as Joe Isuzu....
The rest kind of did as good as I expected and I think Dr Carson redeemed himself in my eyes. For a long time, this very smart neurosurgeon always sounded like a retard Freeper - and not know the Baltic countries were in NATO would just have me wondering if he was really smart or just an affirmative action doctor?
But last night Carson spoke in a way that redeemed him in my eyes. He is a smart guy but knows jack about foreign policy and politics so he was copying talk show radio points (like Trump did).
Also, why are we calling these debates "debates" - they are question and answer sessions. Trump did OK - no knockout tonight by him on the others but I think he won't be hurt too much by how new he was to the process.
Chris Christie's support for the Patriot Act and mentioning 9/10 and 9/11 over and over made me sick. I fucking hate Republicans invoking 9/11 after the shit those morons did under retard Bush. Paul had it right - get a warrant from a judge you fat piece of shit. Paul seemed combative but that is not his strength.
Oh, and Bush looked puzzled. Like he was not expecting it to be this hard or something.
Chris Christie's support for the Patriot Act and mentioning 9/10 and 9/11 over and over made me sick. I fucking hate Republicans invoking 9/11 after the shit those morons did under retard Bush. Paul had it right - get a warrant from a judge you fat piece of shit. Paul seemed combative but that is not his strength.
Paul had good positions but he was way too eager to jump in on the attack, especially going after Trump right out of the gate as a Xlinton puppet.
Christie, like most of the others, want to declare war on Rand Paul and anyone who doesn't want to invade Syria/Iraq/Iran.
The GOP is delusional if they think they will win by promising more wars in the Mideast. The public will not sign up for it. Inasmuch as Rand Paul is the only GOP candidate who isn't promising war, he did okay. But I doubt he gained many votes last night so the debate did nothing to move him up the list.
I agree with you - at least you saw it like I did - Paul was eager to jump in but it does not always work for him - not his style.
Trump needs to prepare more. Just bar room talk about building Mexican walls (which I support) is not enough.
Debates never sway me because I am political junkie and already have my mind made up unless the person is a drooling idiot on stage.
Trump being anti-free trade and saying so on TV really made me feel good. I am an old school conservative and patriot even when I am doing my anti-American trolling. I fucking hate the idea of open borders and free trade. It's become a GOP ideology because they are so pro business it hurts but it was not always the case.
Debates never sway me because I am political junkie and already have my mind made up unless the person is a drooling idiot on stage.
They're kind of dumb. Does anyone imagine that our presidents are hosting a debating society in the White Hut?
I was surprised at how brazen the GOP candidates were in promising a ground invasion of Syria and a second invasion of Iraq.
How can they possibly think they can win the general election when the voters are so opposed to more Mideast wars? Only a 9/11-style attack could move the public to support the foreign policy of the Stain/Lieberman/Graham/Krauthammer and the other neocon belligerents. I'm not sure even another 9/11 could get the public on board for another Mideast war.
They sound way too eager to find any pretext to invade the Mideast again.
