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Title: CNN turns GOP debate into aggravating, irrelevant snoozefest -- as planned
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Washington Times
URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... s-gop-debate-aggravating-irre/
Published: Dec 15, 2015
Author: Charles Hurt
Post Date: 2015-12-16 08:22:46 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 5269
Comments: 20
There were, literally, more candidates on stage for Tuesday night’s Republican debate than there were at a Jeb! Bush debate watching “party” in Miami. Once again, in the name of “fairness,” the media has utterly swindled the GOP. By keeping the stage crammed with a couple of actual front-runners and cluttered with has-been also-rans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, debate moderators are managing to do what once seemed impossible: Boring voters even though real estate mogul Donald Trump is still on the debate stage. They will stop at nothing to water down the goliath front-runner for the GOP nomination. Mr. Trump is ahead of the pack by a wider margin than Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton, yet he is stuck scrounging for time on stage with at least five candidates who are getting beat in the polls by “margin of error.” Instead of a substantive debates with actual front-runners, we get these shoutfests with nine people, each one wasting their microphone time to complain about getting short-shrift or barking at one another over irrelevant details. The result is that they sound like a bunch of whining lunatics in an insane asylum having hysterical arguments over the remote control. Think “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” when Randle McMurphy just wants to watch the World Series: “Which one of you nuts has got any guts?” It doesn’t help that just about every question begins with, “Donald Trump said …” It is like some kind of therapy session for a group of people suffering from Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome. It got so bad Tuesday night that Mr. Trump himself finally called out moderators for making him a star of even the undercard GOP debate — that he wasn’t even in! “It was Trump this, Trump that,” Mr. Trump said, rolling his eyes. “I think it was very unprofessional.” Adding to the bizarreness was some person off camera who kept coughing and sniffling into a microphone. Was that one of the candidates? One of the moderators? Or was it some kind of special effect that was piped in from the outside? Message: GOP has sniffling, coughing fits. These people have been standing around on debate stages together so long that they have started morphing into one another — to varying degrees of success. Jeb! Bush tried stealing a page from Mr. Trump’s playbook by insulting his way to his party’s nomination. “He is a chaos candidate,” Jeb! said of Mr. Trump. A bunch of them have even starting dressing alike. Mr. Trump, Jeb!, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were all wearing a white shirt, red tied and blue suit. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, being an executive, eschewed the white shirt for a pale blue one. But everything else was the same. Thankfully, there was Ben Carson, being different and wearing a pinstripe (blue) suit and a patterned blue tie. Then he opened his mouth and sounded like a graduate student badly flunking foreign affairs who had stayed up all night cramming for an exam. But when he started talking about “terrorist malpractice,” it was time to change the channel away from the good doctor and the 2016 GOP field. Just as the media wants.
(1 image) LAS VEGAS — Stop the madness. These debates cannot go on. 
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
I didn't think it was boring. I think it was one of the better debates. Kasich was a dumb ass. Fiorian was like a red bird moving and shaking her beak. Chris Christie looked good, and looked like a mob boss. He did ok, and I don' care for him. Rubio looked like some little gay guy. He is very feminine. He looked pissed and was visibly shaken many times. Paul and Cruz got the best of him. Ben Carson did ok too. I like when he told the moderator to let Ted Cruz and Rubio answer the question of who won their exchange. Bush was a dork. Rand Paul had his best debate yet. I liked the Ted Cruz Rand Pual slugfest on feminine Rubio. Donald Trump did good in the debate too. He had good answers and ideas. Looked like he was in charge. Ted Cruz did better then any of them. He repeatedly hit Rubio. On immigration he made Rubio look like a liar and a liberal. Ted Cruz also probably got some Rand Paul supporters whith his defense of the Bill of Rights. I thought Rubio was starting to cry once in his attempted comeback whith his squeaking like a girl.
Metrosexual is the term, I believe. Rubio was poised and a very good speaker. Plus, he was a human encyclopedia. He delivers his message well ... I just don't like his message.
#9. To: misterwhite (#3)
I keep noticing too. It isn't a bad strategy, given the state of the race. Mentally, he's pretty agile, maybe more so than Cruz is in a political debate. And in interviews, he can be downright charming, even while on the offensive against lib pundits with a list of gotcha questions. In fact, that is the single most effective venue for Rubio. None of the others come close at taking on hostile libmedia interviewers and deflecting them while having some charm. Some serious Teflon. I'm not sure it's such a liability for a candidate like Rubio to have been a handsome young athletic guy. A lot of low-information voters who decide at the last minute decide on likability and who looks good. I always think this can easily account for 5% of the vote, perhaps more when the candidates are quite similar in most of their policy ideas. Here we see Coach Rubio putting his son's team through their drill. I don't like Rubio but I can see why a lot of people would.
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#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)
"Rubio looked like some little gay guy.'
Replies to Comment # 3. Rubio was poised and a very good speaker. Plus, he was a human encyclopedia. He delivers his message well ... I just don't like his message.
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