Posted on 08/06/2015 8:10:06 PM PDT by mystery-ak
Cristi, Kascish, Paul should consider another line of work.
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Agrees with the way I ranked them.
Fiorina, Perry and Jindal should replace them in top 10.
I am happy to report that Foxnews and Kelly in particular are getting reamed and I mean absolutely reamed on facebook.
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I rated the moderators regarding, IMO, good questions or snarky/attacking questions.
Baer... 19/4
McCallum... 15/3
Hemmer... 10/7
Wallace... 17/13
Kelly... 18/16
The last two had almost as many SNARKY questions as valid ones; mostly due to their lead-ins to the actual questions. Kelly was, by far, the very worst!
The fact is, Mexico is actually doing just that.
The Spanish Mexicans do not want the native Mexicans and it is exactly what they are doing. You, being from CA must know that.
There are two groups of Mexicans, the Spanish European Mexicans, and the Mexicans with native blood. The Euro Mexicans want them OUT.
It is in fact the largest ethnic mass forced migration in the history of the continent. The criminals are an added extra bonus.
Trump is not wrong.
1) Kasich deftly dodged Medicare and somehow made it about crime and drugs. Home field AstroTurf crowd helped.
2) Trump gave very honest and compelling answers about his move to pro-life, the bankruptcies. His wrap up probably connected with average America far more than people think. His somewhat broad answer on the "gotcha" of ISIS general was that he tied everything back to Iran negotiations. "I don't have time for political correctness and neither does this country" will resonate. But early sandbag was vicious. Does Trump come off as honest, though? I think so.
3) Right about Rubio. He got softballs but looked calm, professional. Other than Fiorina, gained the most last night, probably saved his campaign.
4) Carson stumbled at many points, esp on the economy/taxes. He said "proportional" when he meant "flat." However, he finally got rolling and was brilliant in last five minutes. Not a president but a great man who needs a spot in the cabinet.
5) Paul had some very weak moments, despite having great points about domestic snooping. Christie was clearly there to take him out, but looked like a bully, especially visually.
6) Huckabee had some terrific points (especially on military and transgendered) but Fair Tax has had its time and didn't catch on.
7) Bush deftly turned Common Core into an "I care about education". Was browbeat by moderators to kiss and make up with Trump. Often (surprisingly) looked hesitant and uncomfortable. Didn't score like he needed too. One more performance like that and his donors will go to Rubio.
8) Cruz had a VERY slow start, combined with being frozen out along with Carson. His "God" answer was good, but his "first day in office" was awesome. Still, crowd, surprisingly didn't like him---probably because they were stacked for Kasich.
9) Christie got blindsided by Trump's casino comment. While he gave a good answer on the military, it was over people's heads---too early to talk "carrier groups."
10) Walker is a mystery, says most of the right things---but didn't handle job projections question well. I don't know. He just doesn't have "it" and I can't pin it down.
Overall, reading "inside beltway Twitterers, they thought Trump hurt himself. But I don't think so. They want to hear Heritage Foundation solutions that they wrote. But Trump had "Trumpspeak," which just connects. He was the ONLY one all night who mentioned Berghdahl, trade with Mexico and Japan, senators like Cruz and Paul talked "I sponsored this or that legislation." Trump says, "Build the Wall." Walker and Bush talk job numbers---IRRELEVANT to someone out of.a job. Trump says "I'm a businessman who knows how to win."
Classic example of how Trumpspeak connects was his answer on bankruptcy: Wallace said several lenders lost money, and Trump essentially said "so what?" Most Americans say, "Yeah, so what if big banks lost money?" Trump "beat" them without involving gubment.
We will have to see how this plays out in the polls but insiders thinking Trump didn't connect are probably wrong.
Oh, and Martha McCallum in first debate looked like she hadn't even read the questions beforehand, while Megyn Kelly was just rude and nasty. There is a difference between tough questions and constant, deliberate set-ups. "Insiders" will say that it toughened our guys---but Dems will NEVER get these questions.
Your analysis of post 32 looked spot on to me.
>>1st debate - Carly Fiorina<<
She really was spectacular. I enjoyed the undercard debate more than the Main Event. The contestants/combatants left nothing on the field.
Carson in the ME was as quiet as he is on the stump trail. Very likable but not my guy this time.
I noticed Kacich pointed out a few times that his daddy was a mailman. My question is, who was his mother MARRIED to at the time he was conceived? :)
Don’t know, but his dad probably always rang twice.
Trump is single handedly responsible for about 15-20 of 24 million
viewers who tuned in for the debates.
As a result, your candidate, whoever they may be, benefited from those
large viewer numbers too.
Yet, you are so simple minded, you can not understand.
Trump won. He is not a politician! He will not be a puppet for the GOPE. I trust him and will vote for him.
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