Kiss the SDMB goodbye before the combined dirty bomb + EMP pulse + cyber attack hits.
Well, at least it’s been . . . lively, so far.
Lively like electric eels on acid and crystal meth being electrocuted lively.
What does he plan on doing about the 95,000 employees abolishing the IRS would render unemployed?
But Trump held his own . . . and America got facialed . . .
Couldn’t they just go work for WalMart like the others whose jobs were eliminated?
Looks like TRUMP won again as usual. He’ll probably being polling above 50 soon.
Government employees aren’t people, like corporations are.
The first 30 - 45 minutes were mildly entertaining for the Trump/Cruz face off. Each got a couple good quips in there. There were a couple other points of amusement. Ben Carson had an Admiral Stockdale moment where he couldn’t hear the question. You’d think Carson would improve as we do more of these things but he looked as lost as ever. I expect his numbers to take a beating. Cruz is probably the best debater in the group. Agree with him or not, he does well every time.
People all over the world aren’t afraid of us any more, and we’ve got to fix that.
I think it was Rubio that repeated over and over that Obama tried to change America instead of fixing it (and that was a bad thing).
So he was admitting that the last Republican administration left America broken?
Yeah, but Trump took Cruz’ “New York values” comment, and slam-dunked the response. Someone came at the king, and missed.
One more thought: Cruz is the best debater out there. But in a post-policy GOP, what we have is something that is a bit removed from debate, and a lot closer to repartee.
And Trump is quite good at repartee. You can envision him more than holding his own at the Algonquin Round Table, trading quips and barbs with Dorothy Parker and the like. I can’t envision any of the others in this group managing that.
I couldn’t bear to watch. Cruz gets the first question on the economy, then immediately starts masturbating about the ten sailors held overnight by Iran. By God, if he was president he’d fucking launch the nukes if they did something like that. Then Rubio says Hillary is disqualified because of Benghazi. This even though they STILL haven’t pointed out anything she did wrong. Fuck all of these guys.
I started to watch it and you were right, even if you underestimated the comparable experience.
I came in to post exactly that. I lasted maybe 10 minutes. Ugh. And Bush was tongue-tied. That’s not gonna help him…
Trump won this debate, hands down.
When he loses debates (which really only happened during the very first one), his numbers improve, and when he wins debates his numbers friggin’ soar.
I agree with Qin; expect him to command majority support in the polls pretty soon.
Same with the birther nonsense when he could not stop himself at good enough. Not only came at the king and missed, but then just stood there awaiting the kick in the delicates.
Boy, he was on an anti-Obama kick, wasn’t he? Rubio kept going on about how Obama was deliberately undermining the country and Constitution. And how he was going to repeal EVERYTHING Obama has done.
Yep. They can’t be satisfied to point out policy differences, or even competency differences. They have to resort to “he hates America and is trying to ruin it.” If they believe what they are saying, they’re idiots. If they don’t, they’re worse.
I think GWB was a complete disaster on many levels, but I don’t think he was *trying *to fuck up the country.
It’s kinda funny: for 30 years, I was sure that we’d never have a worse President than Nixon. Then about this time in 2004, I realized that we did.
And now this crew of Republicans is making GWB look good by comparison. I don’t know how you limbo under a bar that low, but this bunch are managing it quite effortlessly, really.