"I'll build a wall that works and get Trump to pay for it!"
Best line ever
michael
: "That's like saying the fireman and the arsonist have the same record because they both showed up at the scene of the fire".
I believe in the end if the voters have their say it will be a combination of Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump
And when Cruz made the comment ""I'll build a wall that works and get Trump to pay for it!" Trump said he would. Which tells me both may actually be serious but only time will tell.
I think Carson may jump a couple points..maybe.
Like the ad says, "priceless"!
Ted took Marco to the woodshed too and overall had a great night.
Carly had moments as did Christie and I thought Kasich actually had a pretty good night.
Trump had his moments but in my opinion was up and down tonight.
Carson got lost a lot tonight.
Jeb and Rand Paul are dead men walking.
Did you actually read what I posted? What I said was not in Paul's favor. What you say is correct. I supported Paul from the get go back in 2010 when he made his Senate run. At that time McConnell was opposed to Paul. Since then Paul has gotten lost somewhere in MCConnell's deep monetary pockets.
In 2014 I worked hard on getting Bevin elected to the Senate over McConnell. Unlucky for the US but lucky for Ky. Bevin lost. Lucky for Ky. Bevin is now our Governor.
Carly seems to have smart clear solutions to many issues, but a bit robotic delivery. Christie had a good night for his part talking tough.
Total waste - Bush. And Kasinich who waves his hands around like karate chops
Carson had some good answers but he seemed disengaged. He knows he's toast. Trump stating that he will remain on the Republican ticket was a great question and an even better answer.
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I never put faith in polls...ever.
Christie
Cruz
Carly
Rubio
Trump
Carson
Bush
Kasich
Trump coasted and aside from whining about the media picking on him, didn't hurt himself.
Rubio was off his game, I am wondering how he will be looked at a week from now?
Cruz did ok but ran the buzzer a bit too much.
Bush was as petulant as always. If I were a world leader, I could not seriously look at this guy as someone as strong.
I am sorry if I offended you,that was never my intent nor was I claiming you were in Paul's camp and I should have been more clear. I was referring to "What surprised me was Paul jumping on Trump from the get go" that is why he is still there with the pathic polling numbers he has. I will give him kudos for this hit on Rubio.
""He thinks he wants to be “I’m great and strong on national defense.” But he’s the weakest on all the candidates on immigration. He is the one for an open border that is leaving us defenseless. Marco Rubio has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to this party.""
Double Ouch....
Carson is clearly out. Christy is a person I would never trust with a red button. What he was saying about shooting down a Russian Jet is just crazy. We need someone with more of a head on his shoulders that that. Rand Paul comes off as a whiner. Fiorina is great on foreign policy and no doubt would be great in a Sec. of State position Kasich is a waffler that cannot maintain a consistant policy from debate to debate completely caving on what he said about immigration last time plus his attitude just plain turns a lot of people I talk to off.
Tonight was a really dry, kind of dead debate with Trump making way too many faces and looking like a loser when he was attacked but coming back strongly when he spoke. Cruz was the man though ,. Had the tude, the brains and said the right things.
God bless, steve
Having said all that...I thought Cruz won, hands down. Cruz is what we need in a time of moral decay, uncertain leadership in a time that our Country is under attack by ISIS. Paul was and is certainly weak.
I thought Cruz won the debate.
I think Cruz is great but Rubio is right that we need ground troops to destroy ISIS and I give Rubio a lot of credit with being honest with the American people on this since it will probably hurt him.
Face it, we need to unleash hell on Isis and wipe every single one of them out with armoured battalions and the Marines. Then come home, we do that and then the muslim world will take notice.
Trump's simple approach is what brings him to the top alot of times.
Rand - this may have been his best debate yet, but his base of voters in the GOP is too small, and he's too little, too late. Still comes across as not very likeable, also. Helped Cruz out by hitting both Rubio and Trump multiple times.
Christie - thought he had some good moments, but got tired of him putting down other participants who were having substantive debate about things he didn't want to talk about. Also got tired of hearing about his career as a federal prosecutor in NJ. We already know that, have heard it 500 times.
Jeb - thought Jeb had some of his best debate moments of the whole campaign so far. But he also had some real duds, including some clashes with Trump where they both looked childish and petulant. Only group that Jeb's performance moved the needle for was the Establishment "Punditocracy" who were already for him.
Cruz - I didn't think Cruz hit many out of the park homers tonight, but he did hit a lot of nice line drives and overall I thought he did very well. Had some intense back and forth with Rubio where I thought he had Rubio on the defensive. Frank Luntz focus group picked Cruz and Christie as the big winners of the debate, multiple people said they switched to those guys during debate.
Trump - Trump was Trump. A plethora of circus clown faces, heavy on the insults, wimped out on opportunity to reiterate attacks on Cruz, BS'ed his way through multiple answers, and showed little knowledge of or respect for the Constitution. So, in other words, like Trump at every other debate. I also found it highly amusing to see him complain about so many questions at debate being about him. If he wants to dominate every news cycle with his latest outrageous statement, he shouldn't be surprised if a lot of debate questions focus on those statements. Wants to get free media attention for outrageous statements, but doesn't want to answer for them.
Rubio - Rubio was the punching bag tonight, taking flak on multiple fronts. I thought it was deserved, and I thought he spent a lot of time on the Defensive. This was the first big discussion on Gang of 8 bill in 5 debates. Incredible, really. He did have some good moments, but overall, not his best performance. Re-iterated lies about Cruz being weak on National Security issues.
Carson - Not surprisingly, Carson seemed in way over his head on a lot of Foreign Policy questions. And I have to say that I do really get tired of his insinuation all the time that being a world-renowned surgeon prepares him to be President, prepares him to be Commander in Chief. I think he's a nice guy, has a lot of common sense, is a brilliant doctor, but not qualified to be CIC. I think his slide in the polls will continue.
Fiorina - I think this was one of Carly's worst debates. Wore a scowl for most of the night, kept butting into other discussions to criticize participants, played gender politics card, made dubious insinuation that she is somehow prepared to be Commander in Chief. She tries TOO HARD to look tough. Won't help her.
Kasich - Did anyone know that Kasich is the Governor of Ohio? In case they didn't, he made sure again last night that everyone knew. He wasn't quite as annoying as in some past debates, didn't interrupt quite as much, but still very annoying. He's still counting on NH to keep him in race, but I don't see it. Christie is rising in NH polls, and he comes across as stronger President than Kasich, in my opinion, even though I don't care for Christie overall.
I thought CNN did a good job overall, Wolf Blitzer was pretty good. Being the big Liberal that he is, I thought he would play "gotcha", but he didn't. Hugh Hewitt did, though, on multiple candidates, which surprised and disappointed me. I give no props to him.
Carly had a great line last week saying that Trump was over reacting as much as Obama is under reacting....plus she really understands the tech needed to ferret these bastards out of their digital holes. Good line last night saying your don't force the private sector, you ASK them and they will help.
Several candidates were on the ball with taking land back from ISIS to derail their winning image and cut back recruitment. But I just don't see how the Arab world is so willing to help. Maybe it's because of bad Obama leadership... but maybe the just don't give a flying Fock about us and will never help. In which case we need the balls to go it alone if necessary to beat down the ISIS movement. And Carly may have the biggest balls on that stage
I wouldn't. Three weeks after they would shoot at ISIS, Obama would pull out, and they'd have no support. They'd have to be damn fools to trust him.
This REALLY threw me. Donald Trump patting Ted Cruz on the back and saying Ted Cruz will be fine when questioned about the "maniac" quote.
Did anyone else catch Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in discussion as they went to break?
These guys hate each other. Right? ;-)
No No No. Not my Ted Cruz. ;-)
May I also add what I had previously stated out of the blue last week. That chubby guy from NJ ain't no piker. Last night he showed it.
We may be looking at our card (Cruz/Trump..Trump/Cruz) for the general. This must be driving the GOP and some CF'ers right over the edge.
The Rock
The Rock
No, he knows, he just tries to fool people into thinking he never said so many of the things he's said.
Perhaps just the guy we need if we want to have a full blown war with Russia. Gives me chills to think such a child could follow after the child we have in the WH right now. I honestly would equate his statements last night with Hillerys ridiculous reset button.
We need an adult that will weight the consequences of their actions. Christy very clearly is not that person.
God bless, Steve
Certainly, after the Iowa caucus, things should begin taking shape.
Trump's not worth ten billion, either. Trump knows how to make money, but I'm not sure what else he knows.
I have problems with Trump's habit of paying 80% of a bill, and then daring you to sue for the other 20%. We have that problem with unscrupulous clients all too often.
Carson, liked him but getting tired of everything being compared to a brain operation.
Paul, sick of his whining even though I admire his belief in the Constitution.
Fiorina, smart as hell, but not a chance in hell.
Christie, Nope, No way, No how!
Bush, same as Christie! (get the feeling he thinks the presidency is somehow "owed" to him)
Trump, I'm at a loss as what to say about him, other than I wish you well on your future endeavors...the act can't last forever and the same old responses with no substance have grown thin...at least on me.
Rubio, the verdict is still out, but there's many things I like about him, although he's not perfect.
Cruz, if I voted today he'd get my vote. I hope he can sustain because of all the others I think he stands the best chance of crushing Hillary...and as far as I'm concerned that is the only thing that matters because if she wins NOTHING else will! Stick a fork in us if that happens..
Not a problem. You're not vying to be commander in chief. And if you were, I'd expect that you'd do your homework, and know this stuff. In fact, I'd be shocked if you didn't.
That is up for debate, but what isn't up for debate is that the winners of those early states accumulate some serious positive momentum and increased support in the race.
If things slow down and return to sanity, that would help.
I would like to see Paul, Christie, Carson, Kasich, Jeb, Fiorina and all of the 2nd tier guys drop out because they are just taking up time and space in the debates.
They aren't running for president. I have known about it since I was in grade school.
Subs are super expensive and deliver most bang for the buck in most secure delivery system. But can probably go another 5-10 years pretty easy. I think our ICBM system is strongest and most up to date component. But the answer should be modernizing our strategic bomber force. The B52's are just so damn old!! And while we have added B2's, the cost has got to make them too expensive for primary mass deployment.
Incidentally, a candidate should have mentioned we are even now running out of bombs to continue the random bombing of ISIS. And our subsonic cruise missile force is a generation old with China and Russia fielding super-sonic Cruise missiles more advanced then ours! Rumor is we are heading towards hyper speed missiles and skipping right past super sonic cruise missiles.... but that all goes back to funding cuts and our budget crisis.
This triad question was really YUGE and Donald missed the boat. In fact, they all fell short on this one. Did anyone notice Carly rattled off a list of top generals and correctly identified the cream of the crop? She is the only one who has tapped General Mattis as someone who needs to be involved.