# 9th Republican presidential debate tonight 02/13/16 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 13, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063 "2016-02-13T23:26:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/41 "2016-02-14T03:50:27Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Trump came across as nearly unhinged most of the time. > Cruz came across well but he’s still a lunatic. > Rubio just lost the gay vote with his closing remarks. > Carson is a mild-mannered delusional idiot and he came across like one. > Kasich consistently seemed like the adult in the room. > > I think Kasich won this debate. I agree, but Trump supporters don’t seem to care what he does, so he seems to “win” by default. ETA: Surprisingly good closing statement by Trump! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/42 "2016-02-14T03:51:30Z")
Rubio is going to repeal gay marriage? Wow. OK then Marco smooth move! ---
**Author:** ![Danja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@Danja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danja)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/43 "2016-02-14T03:54:09Z")
I defy you to find me 10 gay people who would have voted for Rubio to begin with. He lost nothing. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/44 "2016-02-14T03:57:01Z")
Huh, Chris Cilizza ranked him last (though he didn’t rank Carson at all). ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/45 "2016-02-14T07:34:04Z")
Do the Pubs have more debates scheduled after this one? Are they going to keep doing this until there’s a consensus winner? ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/46 "2016-02-14T10:54:09Z")
I think three debates left. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/47 "2016-02-14T12:01:23Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Out of control! I’m waiting for one of them to tear off their mask and show the alien underneath. What do you mean, ‘one’? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/48 "2016-02-14T12:45:37Z")
Did anyone notice that Trump’s more liberal side came out a little more? He praised Planned Parenthood and slammed Bush over 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/49 "2016-02-14T14:08:48Z")
Yeah, that’s big. Even very few Dem officeholders go so far as to blame Dubya for 9/11 itself, despite the fact that the infamous August 6, 2001 PDB was something like the sixth in an increasingly hair-on-fire series of PDB warnings to him from our intel community that something like this was coming. So for the leading candidate for the **GOP** nomination to say that - that’s quite something. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/50 "2016-02-14T15:33:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > WTF is Trump saying about Jeb mooning people? > > Kasich sounding like the adult in the room, IMO. I didn’t watch the debate, but this part of [the transcript](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/13/the-cbs-republican-debate-transcript-annotated/) is cracking me up: > [@](#): > > BUSH: (INAUDIBLE) Just, for the record (INAUDIBLE) make sure my mother’s listening, if she’s watching the debate. I didn’t say that I was going to moon somebody… > > TRUMP: … You did say it, You did say it. Been reported in 10 different news… > > GARRET: … We will leave the moon metaphors to be adjudicated later, I assure you. I also like that Trump says no one reported on Bush saying he could moon everyone, then almost immediately after says it was reported in 10 different places. [Here’s what Trump was referencing if anyone is interested:](https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/02/06/jeb-bush-fighting-for-survival-new-hampshire-symbol-gop-establishment-weakness/u0eRx0ydhhl29N3qrhmqnM/story.html) > [@](#): > > Sitting on his campaign bus — laptop, turkey jerky, and coffee all nearby — Jeb Bush was befuddled over his campaign’s failure to capture more attention from the news media. > > “I could drop my pants,” he said in an interview. “Moon the whole crowd. Everybody would be aghast, except the press guys would never notice.” [I also love how Carson used a fake quote from Stalin in his closing statement](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/13/ben-carson-used-an-apparently-fake-joseph-stalin-quote-tonight/). And since it was in his closing statement, it wouldn’t have been out of nowhere, it was prepared, though evidently not researched. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/51 "2016-02-14T15:46:11Z")
**Sam** , the Washington Post blocks people from seeing their website more than a couple of times in a month unless they are subscribers. This means that some of us (like me) can’t see your links. Just FYI. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/52 "2016-02-14T16:06:50Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And then Bernie and Hillary will have to cover it on 03/06/16 in Flint, MI. They’ll have more time to think about it. What’s there to think about? All the need to do is state the obvious reality (Barack Obama is the President, it is therefore his privilege and duty to select a nominee, and the Senate can either consider the nomination on its merits or act like a bunch of petulant toddlers who don’t want to eat their broccoli). ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/53 "2016-02-14T16:09:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > What’s there to think about? All the need to do is state the obvious reality (Barack Obama is the President, it is therefore his privilege and duty to select a nominee, and the Senate can either consider the nomination on its merits or act like a bunch of petulant toddlers who don’t want to eat their broccoli). Fifteen quatloos on “act like a bunch of petulant toddlers.” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/54 "2016-02-14T16:20:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **Sam** , the Washington Post blocks people from seeing their website more than a couple of times in a month unless they are subscribers. This means that some of us (like me) can’t see your links. Just FYI. Oh strange, I feel like I’ve been going there a lot in the past few months for election stuff and it’s never blocked me. Anyway, the first link is just to the transcript, which I just excerpted the part where Trump and Bush were fighting about if anyone was going to moon anyone else and the moderator had to stop it. The second link is about the “Stalin quote” that Carson referenced, [something that Snopes covered as being false.](http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/undermine.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/55 "2016-02-14T16:22:52Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > This is extremely fascinating. It’s like watching a giant multivehicle crash in which the emergency response crews are a bunch of inept numbnuts who cause an even bigger multivehicle crash while trying to reach the site. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/56 "2016-02-14T16:23:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **Sam** , the Washington Post blocks people from seeing their website more than a couple of times in a month unless they are subscribers. This means that some of us (like me) can’t see your links. Just FYI. They sure do, and they can tell who you are because of cookies on your website. Definitely don’t open their links in a private/anonymous/secret window or whatever your browser calls it, or else they won’t be able to cut you off after a couple of articles. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/57 "2016-02-14T16:26:27Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > They sure do, and they can tell who you are because of cookies on your website. Definitely don’t open their links in a private/anonymous/secret window or whatever your browser calls it, or else they won’t be able to cut you off after a couple of articles. Are those the technical terms for “porn mode”? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/58 "2016-02-14T16:54:14Z")
Wait… my browser has a “porn mode”? WHY HAVEN’T I BEEN TOLD OF THIS? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/59 "2016-02-14T17:06:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Wait… my browser has a “porn mode”? WHY HAVEN’T I BEEN TOLD OF THIS? Did you ever consider asking your teen-age son or nephew? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063/60 "2016-02-14T17:08:20Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I expect the moderator to drop green slime on Cruz the next time he tells a lie, and I think the finale may be an actual cage match between Trump and Bush. But first, it’s time for Wangernumb! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9th-republican-presidential-debate-tonight-02-13-16/746063.md?page=4)