# Republican presidential debate tonight 01/28/16 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 28, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508 "2016-01-28T17:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/21 "2016-01-28T21:22:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Maybe they can beat Fox’ ratings for once. 😉 That’s what I am curious about. Huckabee will be there after the undercard debate. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/22 "2016-01-28T21:47:28Z")
As usual, VICE is on top of things: [What to Expect from Tonight’s Trump-Less GOP Debate in Iowa > [@](#): > > Well, they’ll probably talk about Trump in absentia, for starters. ]([http://www.vice.com/read/what-to-expect-from-tonights-trump-less-gop-debate-in-iowa](http://www.vice.com/read/what-to-expect-from-tonights-trump-less-gop-debate-in-iowa))😛 It’s actually a fairly comprehensive article, but that sentence made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/23 "2016-01-28T21:55:23Z")
Every one of the folks on that stage is fighting against Trump more than they are fighting against anyone else, so of course they’re all going to be talking about him. I wonder if Jebra is going to bring his mommy to back him up this time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/24 "2016-01-28T22:13:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Drink every time you hear “Trump.” Floor open for additional rules. > [@elucidator](#): > > Drink? Like, a shot, every time? Who you trying to kill? > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > As usual, VICE is on top of things: [What to Expect from Tonight’s Trump-Less GOP Debate in Iowa](http://www.vice.com/read/what-to-expect-from-tonights-trump-less-gop-debate-in-iowa)😛 > > It’s actually a fairly comprehensive article, but that sentence made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there. Hmmm . . . OK, new rule: **Sip** every time you hear “Trump.” 10 sips per shot. No, that ain’t really gonna help much, is it? ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/25 "2016-01-28T22:45:20Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > Is Gilmore seriously back in a debate for the first time since August? He is. Got his at least 1% in one of the polls needed. Feel theGilmore momentujm growing!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/26 "2016-01-28T22:56:42Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > What, they thought of Fox News at ‘their’ network? > > I guess they missed the memo about how it was ‘fair and balanced.’ How could that have ever happened? Easy. They think of \*themselves \*as fair and balanced. It’s _the other guys_ who are the wackos. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/27 "2016-01-29T01:11:46Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Trumps not in it, so I wan’t be watching. But I will eagerly get nasty with Megyn Kelly anytime, any place! An elderly Navajo holy man once said to me, a phrase that translates to, “Don’t dump your tadpoles in evil.” ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/28 "2016-01-29T02:02:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Ann Coulter calls FoxNews arrogant…[on MSNBC](https://www.yahoo.com/tv/ann-coulter-calls-arrogant-fox-news-163041009.html) > > Could this election cycle get any more insane? The sales on her latest book must have punted. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/29 "2016-01-29T02:19:36Z")
Paul’s getting the loudest cheers by far, so far. Probably means nothing electorally, but it’s interesting. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/30 "2016-01-29T02:26:47Z")
Lots of talk about ISIS so far and about how weak we supposedly are militarily. Cruz sounds like a cranky idiot, Rubio sounds like a calmer crank. Cruz is now pulling the “you’re so mean I might leave” act, making him seem even more like a loser. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/31 "2016-01-29T02:26:59Z")
Everybody is getting booed including the moderators. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/32 "2016-01-29T02:28:52Z")
Republican debate or Trump making himself into a Old Glory burrito. Poison ivy or painful rectal itch? Cholera or dysentery? Anne Coulter or Meagan Kelly? Stab myself in the eye or smash The Boys with a hammer? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/33 "2016-01-29T02:32:08Z")
What are they getting booed for? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/34 "2016-01-29T02:33:39Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > What are they getting booed for? Anything and everything. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/35 "2016-01-29T03:06:12Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > What, they thought of Fox News at ‘their’ network? > > I guess they missed the memo about how it was ‘fair and balanced.’ How could that have ever happened? No, no – Fox News _ **is** _ fair and balanced – that’s why right-wing types like it so much – because _ **they’re** _ fair and balanced, and they demand truth and fairness in all things. The trouble is that _ **all** _ the other media are liberal mouthpieces controlled by George Soros (with a white cat in his lap) from a vast control room at a secret location deep inside a mountain. Rupert Murdoch hired Roger Ailes to fight this evil when Murdoch learned about Ailes’ magnificent patriotic background as the head of the Ministry of Truth under Nixon, St. Reagan (blessed be His name), and Bush the Elder. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/36 "2016-01-29T03:07:53Z")
I’m watching now and and it’s all clapping and agreeing. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/37 "2016-01-29T03:08:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > But I will eagerly get nasty with Megyn Kelly anytime, any place! > [@elucidator](#): > > What, too lazy to jerk off? > [@John\_Mace](#): > > Yeah, that’s it. 'Luc, that is a violation of the [rule inherited from Great Debates](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4749265#post4749265). John, you do not have to pass him straight lines. . Knock it off. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/38 "2016-01-29T03:14:48Z")
So where on Rushmore is the Trump head going to go? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/39 "2016-01-29T03:20:37Z")
Does a mountain have an asshole? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-presidential-debate-tonight-01-28-16/744508/40 "2016-01-29T03:45:08Z")
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