To be fair, it doesn’t look like Trump is saying Bush was at fault for 9/11. Rather he’s just saying Bush failed to keep America safe. Subtle distinction.
And as has been the case throughout this entire election season, the pundits are overblowing what impact, if any, this will have on Trump. While denouncing Bush is, I’m sure, still taboo among the establishment, keep in my mind that Trump is drawing most of his support from people who loathe the establishment and who at this point probably don’t give a shit about Bush, even if they voted for the guy twice.
Expect Trump’s poll numbers to go up another few points as a result of this.
Wow! Each GOP debate is stupider than the last. The audience is especially crazed in this one: are they serving liquor? And each GOP contender (except Kasich) acts like a 6th-grade brat.
And of course the moderators are also stupid. I just heard the question “Do you agree with liberals that Wall St. executives should be jailed for causing the financial crash?” Nobody proposes that Wall St. executives be prosecuted for "causing a crash." The foregone prosecutions are for very specific frauds and malfeasance.
Heaven help us if any of these dolts actually wins the Oval.
So good, that if it were fiction, no one would believe it. “You think it’s realistic that one of the major modern parties of the greatest superpower on Earth would field such a group of narcissistic, mendacious imbeciles and losers? Pull the other one.”
As someone else noted, it’s more accurate to say that Trump said Bush didn’t keep us safe, and he was absolutely right. I get so tired of conservatives who pretend that Bush was sworn in on Sept 12.
That aside, his remark still drew a lot of boos from the audience, and I doubt they were all Bush donors. I was sure Trump’s comment (some months ago) about McCain’s war hero status would sink him, and I was wrong, so I won’t say this will sink him nationally.
But I have to think it’s going to hurt him badly in the SC primary, because those people are idiots.
Each candidate had good and weak points, except Kasich who did very well and Carson who was irrelevant and made a false Starling quote.
You could really feel the tensions between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump. I really liked how Bush really put Donald in his place. Cruz also put Trump and Rubio on the defensive beautifully, I found myself actually liking Cruz.
Bush could have given better answers regarding his family, but overall he did well. Trump stupidly mentioned eminent domain when no one had brought it up, and when Jeb mentioned the old lady and failed casino, Donald gave a defeated smile.
The moderators need to take more control. By the way a CNN fact check found that whole Donald spoke out against the Iraq war on March 25, 2003, there is no record of his opposition and warnings prior to the start of the war, so his claims of “warning attacking Iraq are false”.
March 25th was only a few days after the invasion, and things hadn’t totally turned to crap at that point, so I’ll give him a pass on that. Especially when there are people to this day who say it would have been a great success if not for Obama.