It’s about time to drop Walker and Huckabee from the race. They add nothing.
Fiorina is incredibly sharp and her HP defense (her biggest weakness) came across well. Her weakest moment for me was her rehearsed speech at the end about lady liberty.
I thought Rubio had the best night. My prediction is a Rubio/Fiorina ticket.
Carson is just too much of a nice guy. He had such a softball with the vaccine stuff, and he just refused to bury Trump. They gave him multiple opportunities, and he just wouldn’t take the shot.
Regardless of her overall performance, you can stick a fork in Fiorina just for that alone. Now everyone’s either going to associate her with a secretary or a horse. Or a secretary-horse!
I was just going to note that in all I’ve read about the debate (LA Times today, CNN online, mostly), I haven’t seen Jindal’s name even mentioned. I predict he’s the next one gone.
Interesting article, thanks** BG**. I guess I’m still not paying much attention… At this point, if I had to cast one of these clowns as the GOP nominee, it would be Fiorina, and we rejected her pretty soundly here in Calif when she ran for Governor.
Agreed. And to think Walker was the GOP candidate I was most worried about, until just the past couple of months. Boy, did I call that one wrong!
No matter how well she did, she’s got no business having even a remote chance of being on the ticket. And I say that with full awareness of the quality of the competition here.
If the GOP had any interest at all in being a governing party, they’d regard the fact that Fiorina won their little talent show last night as incontrovertible evidence that their nominating process was totally FUBAR, and they’d be having an anxious debate over how to fix it ASAP.
On the Dem side, he’s wrong – Clinton and Sanders have so much momentum already that I really can’t see any path to nomination for O’Malley or Biden, and the rest are hardly worth mentioning. On the Pub side, he’s right – the establishment will find a way, some way, to keep Trump or Carson from representing their party in 2016, because if they don’t the establishment is toast and the party is a laughingstock.
The richest bit was when he boasted of beating the recall despite all the people who came in from out of state to defeat him – perfectly true, but there were at least as many out-of-staters supporting him and funding him. And now he’s the Kochs’ pet, and Wisconsinites they ain’t.
I was able to get through the first hour of posturing, character assassination, and demagoguery before I started feeling ill and had to turn it off. The majority of these people have no business being in the White House. Impulsive behavior is not a positive trait, particularly in a president. Happily, most of the wackos will not get within an arm’s length of the job.
What is with Rubio and the flop sweats? Whenever the camera was elsewhere, he was furiously mopping his face and gulping water.
I do love Walker’s shiny bald spot, which he tries unsuccessfully to block with his “young stud” haircut.
The shitty thinking and idiocy are richly seasoned with desperation in its attempt to equate the Republican clown-car show with the Democratic contest. As one commentator put it, imagine a world where the Democratic contest actually was a mirror image of the Republican one:
Bill Maher 32%
Dr. Oz 19%
Ed Rendell 9%
Dennis Kucinich 7%
Keith Olbermann 5%
John Hickenlooper 5%
Wendy Davis 3%
Bernie Sanders 3%
Martin Heinrich 3%
Jay Nixon 2%
Steve Beshear 2%
I watched a fair bit of the debate, about what was expected. Boy, those people really really hate the Iran deal, for totally unspecified reasons. It was morbidly hilarious when they got into a “who defunded Planned Parenthood the mostest and the firstest” contest.
Donald Trump did impress me once, by clearly and unapologetically stating that the rich should pay more taxes than the poor, as opposed to whoever he was arguing with at the time (Huckabee), who was saying “I don’t see why we should punish them for being successful” or some such nonsense.
