# Third Republican Debate **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155 "2015-10-01T16:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [October 29, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/41 "2015-10-29T00:31:02Z")
Kaisch just said some reasonable stuff. I expect him to be expelled from party any second. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/42 "2015-10-29T00:34:29Z")
Ms Fiorina looks better, perhaps she has recently fed on the blood of the innocent. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/43 "2015-10-29T00:37:06Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Ms Fiorina looks better, perhaps she has recently fed on the blood of the innocent. If she’s spending a lot of time in Washington, I presume they’re shipping it in. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/44 "2015-10-29T00:37:30Z")
Did Rubio just chug some water but erased my memory of it with his HypnoToad staring power? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/45 "2015-10-29T00:44:57Z")
Ted Cruz invented a new type of flat tax. His has two different brackets. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/46 "2015-10-29T00:45:44Z")
Ted Cruz is killing 'em! No, really, couple folks in the front row, dead as a doornail. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/47 "2015-10-29T00:49:28Z")
the flies are circling Kasich… ---
**Author:** ![Human\_Action](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@Human\_Action](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Human_Action)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/48 "2015-10-29T00:50:45Z")
Rand Paul’s coming off as the most mature and sensible, imho. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/49 "2015-10-29T00:51:27Z")
I made it through a half hour: a personal record that I’m quite proud of. I turned it off when Cruz started his martyr speech, after having heard more voodoo bullshit than any person should have to hear from the rest of them. Holy shit. The only decent thing to come from this up to this point was Carson showing that he really has no fucking clue, and will buy into whatever crackpot economic model is presented to him. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/50 "2015-10-29T01:27:13Z")
> [@Human\_Action](#): > > Rand Paul’s coming off as the most mature and sensible, imho. Like winning a mambo contest against Steven Hawking. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/51 "2015-10-29T01:28:48Z")
Gold, Mr. Cruz? Gold? Seriously, gold? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/52 "2015-10-29T01:38:47Z")
I think Fiorina looks like a walking corpse. Very robotic and unappealing. Cruz whined about the moderation instead of answering a question about the budget deal. What an ass. Not impressed at all with Bush or Rubio. Trump seems to be making a bit of a comeback tonight. I think he’ll be the consensus winner. Kasich is mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Yeah, right, okay. Still gonna drop out before Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/53 "2015-10-29T01:43:15Z")
Rubio is getting a lot of applause. I think he handled the missing vote issue pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/54 "2015-10-29T01:49:27Z")
“Donald Trump would be a better President every day of the week, and twice on Sunday, than Hillary Clinton.” --Governor Huckabee Wild applause! ---
**Author:** ![cutman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@cutman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cutman74)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/55 "2015-10-29T01:50:10Z")
I realize that I could be an anomaly, but I went from making roughly $24,000/ yr to making around $39,000/ yr from 2008 to 2015. I was making about 60,000 before people stopped building things in 2008, but I got health insurance again in 2014. Something I was lacking in the intervening years. Now my family is also insured, which makes it a lot easier to survive. It seems amazing to me that these people would run on trying to “take this country back!” (Country!?) not sure whether or not that should be capitalized. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/56 "2015-10-29T01:51:47Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > “Donald Trump would be a better President every day of the week, and twice on Sunday, than Hillary Clinton.” --Governor Huckabee > > Wild applause! Really? He really said that? (I’m not watching, cause I don’t have tv) ---
**Author:** ![Donald\_Rump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Donald\_Rump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donald_Rump)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/57 "2015-10-29T02:02:09Z")
Seems to me Bush is circling the toilet after turning in a third horrendously weak performance. I think he’ll most likely drop out after losing NH. The novelty of buffoonish Trump has worn off, and his new somewhat more serious persona makes him just another candidate. After his poll numbers fall back to Earth he’ll lose interest and drop out. Carson will win Iowa and then blow up spectacularly thereafter. I think this race will eventually whittle down to Kasich vs Rubio with a bunch of unelectable barnacles hanging on as long as possible. You heard it here first, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/58 "2015-10-29T02:08:08Z")
McCain! McCain! McCain! > **[For those in the know: Is McCain trying to pull strings to get the nomination...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=773578)** > > Basically, the title is the question. I have no reason to think so other than his foolishness; which, I believe, is considerable. Thanks, hh Or maybe Romney. Oh, lordy. I’m so pleased, I’m going to go touch myself. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/59 "2015-10-29T02:11:04Z")
Pics, or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155/60 "2015-10-29T02:29:01Z")
I saw the first half (ex-New Yorker ex-Kansan here, so, like Jeb, I had cooler things to do)… I thought Fiorina and Trump came across as pretty reasonable and articulate (makes sense in a economically focused debate) – she might get a slight bump out of this. Rubio did well, I thought. For once, Kasich’s “this is what I did in Ohio” schtick was relevant to the question asked – but it sounded like he was running to be Hillary’s running mate! Jeb had the best “answer” to the opening question about weaknesses – but he didn’t have much to contribute after that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-republican-debate/733155.md?page=4)