# Who do you think will do well in the debate tonight (8/6/15)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 6, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146 "2015-08-06T12:28:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/61 "2015-08-07T02:48:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Huckabee thinks that still flying B-52s is a sign of our weakened military. I can’t believe Carson busted out Mitt’s navy talking points. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/62 "2015-08-07T02:48:47Z")
Huck did okay, Carson did terrible, Kasich did pretty well, probably the best of the 10. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/63 "2015-08-07T02:48:50Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Rubio is wet behind the ears. I’d never noticed before, but that guy has got some BIG ears. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/64 "2015-08-07T02:48:51Z")
This is the Trump show. People probably expected him to get stumbled, and only Jebya is doing that. Trump always has a comeback, a retort, you name it. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/65 "2015-08-07T02:51:54Z")
Good on Trump for daring to call the Bush administration a disaster. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/66 "2015-08-07T02:54:50Z")
God hates every single one of these mother-fuckers. She told me so. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/67 "2015-08-07T02:56:43Z")
Ben Carson just came out against driving wedges into people. I can get behind that. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/68 "2015-08-07T02:58:32Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Do you feel the Nazis and Japanese were overly demonized? The Communists? Saddam Hussein? Do you read as accurately as you predict? Yes, you do. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/69 "2015-08-07T02:58:40Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Ben Carson just came out against driving wedges into people. > > I can get behind that. A wedge might kill those things growing on Paul’s and Trump’s heads. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/70 "2015-08-07T03:01:33Z")
I think Ted Cruz just said he’ll tell the IRS and the Justice Dept. to persecute religion. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/71 "2015-08-07T03:08:09Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The winner of the night was actually one of the Kiddie Table performers: Carly Fiorina. > > Not that it matters. Despite her political skill, she’s still a failure as a leader. I’d be very disappointed if Republicans let her talking skill convince them that her leadership skills don’t matter. Let Democrats do that sort of thing, that shouldn’t be us. VP material. Who cares about a Vice President’s “leadership skills”. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/72 "2015-08-07T03:08:41Z")
Well, in the first debate Pataki did threaten to shut down mosques in America. Maybe that’s what he meant. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/73 "2015-08-07T03:09:43Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > A wedge might kill those things growing on Paul’s and Trump’s heads. I was half expecting them to leave their respective domes and mate. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/74 "2015-08-07T03:25:56Z")
So, will the Democratic debate moderators ask such tough questions? BTW, when is the first Democratic debate? ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/75 "2015-08-07T03:53:13Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > So, will the Democratic debate moderators ask such tough questions? I hope they ask Hillary how much Donald Trump had to pay her to attend his wedding. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/76 "2015-08-07T03:56:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > So, will the Democratic debate moderators ask such tough questions? BTW, when is the first Democratic debate? [October 13](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/democrats-debate-schedule-nevada-october-13-121092.html) ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/77 "2015-08-07T04:01:16Z")
If Walker or Rubio somehow get the nomination, their position on abortion will sink them. I don’t believe I have EVER heard a politician not at least reluctantly support abortion to save the life of the mother. I am pro-life, but that is a ridiculously extreme position. I am also concerned with this new “conservative judicial activism” of giving 14th amendment rights to the unborn. It is clearly unsupported and unnecessary. Abortion will be the same importance in this election as in all of the others: not much at all unless you insert your foot in your mouth. Rubio and Walker did in a very bad way. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/78 "2015-08-07T04:16:11Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > If Walker or Rubio somehow get the nomination, their position on abortion will sink them. I don’t believe I have EVER heard a politician not at least reluctantly support abortion to save the life of the mother. I am pro-life, but that is a ridiculously extreme position. I am also concerned with this new “conservative judicial activism” of giving 14th amendment rights to the unborn. It is clearly unsupported and unnecessary. Abortion will be the same importance in this election as in all of the others: not much at all unless you insert your foot in your mouth. Rubio and Walker did in a very bad way. Rubio said everyone in the US should be given rights, even if they don’t have birth certificates. I thought “how about undocumented immigrants?” ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/79 "2015-08-07T04:20:05Z")
They do have rights. Just not the right to stay in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146/80 "2015-08-07T04:32:05Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Rubio said everyone in the US should be given rights, even if they don’t have birth certificates. I thought “how about undocumented immigrants?” I saw that part. Does it include the right to vote? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-think-will-do-well-in-the-debate-tonight-8-6-15/727146.md?page=5)