12/15/15 The final Republican Debate.

That would be the notorious Ralph ‘Baby Face’ Wiggum.

Or grandpa Munster. Either way, he looks like the kind of guy you wouldn’t want to leave your prepubescent children with.

Way to make Little_Pig uncomfortable.

Ben Carson was by far the worst. His opening statement was “Please join me in a moment of silence for those who died in San Bernardino.” Insincere, pandering piece of shit.

His next chance to speak, he complained that other people got questions before he did. There’s absolutely no way that man is going to be president.

The USA held a presidential debate inside a casino?

What, was the race track booked already? Did the local whore house have a block booking? Couldn’t they find a MacDonalds large enough?

Did Bono perform at half time?

Nevada has important caucuses and the list of suitable venues that aren’t casinos is probably pretty short.

Sure is lucky that the San Berardino shooting happened so that everyone can pretend the Planned Parenthood terrorist attack didn’t happen.

Did any candidate wear something other then a dark blue suit and a red tie?

Fiorino. And Carson’s suit had gangster pinstripes.

But yeah, pretty much all that and flag pins. In the left lapel, never the right. Which is odd, considering they’re Republicans.

OK, just went to the video and Kasich had a blue tie and no flag pin. So that’s him out of the race then.

Marco Rubio is very stiff and robotic. Surely he fails on the “I’d like to have a beer with him” scale.

They were saying “booze-urns”.

When Trump and Bush were going at it, and the camera showed both of them, split screen, Trump looked like a confident bully and Bush looked like he was always trying to decide whether to keep confronting the bully or run away in fear.

Lindsay Graham had a good night. I find him to be reasonable on most things. I saw a clip of him being very facially expressive, which I found comical, but there was no audio in the clip so I don’t know what he was rolling his eyes about.

Jeb is getting high marks this morning. I admit, I don’t get it. He just comes across as a big doofus to me. His has a constant “deer in the headlights” expression on his face.

I’m telling ya, you give the man a Tommy gun and have him utter the phrase “take that, ya’ lousy coppers!” and Cruz could find himself with a new career.

Where’s the argument? Bush is a weak candidate who, in my opinion, finally had a decent night… way too late for it to matter.

Trump was confident but stupid. He didn’t know what the “nuclear triad” was and tried to bluff his way through. Didn’t work. All he did was give Rubio (who DID know) a chance to look smarter.

But this is Trump, so you never know if that kind of thing can possibly hurt him among the people who love him. They SHOULD start to wonder if maybe their hero might be an ignoramus… but they might just get angry at Rubio (Damn egghead !).

Because then they don’t get to run debates.

I wonder about Christie in particular harping about how Americans are fearful of ISIS. His comment about parents dropping their children off at the bus stop in the morning particularly bothered me. Of all the things their is to fear, I think an ISIS attack here in the USA is way down on the list. Christie’s particular brand of fear mongering really disturbed me.

And it’s the second time Hugh Hewitt asked him that question. This was a do-over, not an issue Trump was suddenly being surprised with.

Not that I think it will matter. It’s a pretty abstruse issue generally, let alone for the know-nothing wing that Trump is pulling from.

The argument is that he did not, by any definition of the term, a “decent” night. He was repeatedly and completely humiliated by the TRUMP and utterly pulverized much as what happens when a squirrel gets run over by an entire armoured division.

TRUMP was being quite smart here in all seriousness considering it was a ridiculously specific question. Nobody outside of the military and the think tank people know the pros and cons of each part of the nuclear triad and thus whether to focus on improving ballistic missiles, bombers, or submarines. A President’s job isn’t to micromanage this decision but to appoint the right expert to make that decision for him while speaking of the broader principles involved, as TRUMP did.