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Camille Paglia: John Kasich Won the Debate (Guest Column)
hollywood reporter ^ | 8/7/2015 | Camille Paglia

Posted on 08/09/2015 5:16:18 AM PDT by dontreadthis

(snip) Jeb Bush

Is there a blander, more boring personality in American politics? The guy looks like the runny yolk of a fried egg. He's trying to be assertive tonight because he's been told he needs to project "passion." But when his lips move, there's still a big blank. Why the heck the major media hails him as the GOP frontrunner is beyond comprehension — except that big money has been showering down on him like powdered sugar on a donut. Why do Jeb's smiles remind me of a dimply grandmother? He could and should have been a high school principal. I don't see him on the world stage, holding the line against ISIS. (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016debates; 2016polls; paglia
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the snips are predictable
1 posted on 08/09/2015 5:16:18 AM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: dontreadthis

I like Camille but she’s off base in some of this analysis. I mean she’s supporting O’Malley - how boring can you get? But while I admire Trump and wish him well in this run, he does need to lose the beetle-brow during debates.


2 posted on 08/09/2015 5:18:08 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: dontreadthis

I think of four things when I think of Jeb!, and that is he’s gone non-native in his own HOUSE(!); he has his brothers liar-face; $5.00 gasoline, guaranteed; and Terry Schiavo.


3 posted on 08/09/2015 5:29:14 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (Trump 2016)
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To: dontreadthis

? I used the Fox election app, and in my book he did the worst. Even worse than Christie.


4 posted on 08/09/2015 5:40:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: BlackAdderess

Yep, I saw his nose grow on that stage when he beat his chest about his protecting all life when Governor. He had the singular authority to set the custody of Terry Schiavo to her birth family and did the typical compassionate, moderate thing, PUNTED.

I still say that woman was beaten to withing an inch of her life by the one person that fought the hardest to kill her through legal means. He had no option but to call 911 because he was smart enough to realize a death investigation was far more intrusive than a call for help for an “accident”?


5 posted on 08/09/2015 5:43:55 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: dontreadthis
Camille Paglia: John Kasich Won the Debate

No he did not. Sorry Camille. When I watched Kasich, I saw a Me-Too GOPe clone. Repeating canned lines. In my view he came out worse then he started.

6 posted on 08/09/2015 5:45:48 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: mazda77

I’m not that fond of Kasich. I’m in Ohio. The economy is still pretty lousy despite all his claims.


7 posted on 08/09/2015 5:46:28 AM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: dontreadthis

That’s a great excerpt. Best description of Bush yet.


8 posted on 08/09/2015 5:50:42 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: dontreadthis
I thought Kasich did the worst. He was proud of throwing Republican Ohio legislators under the bus on Obamacare then effectively called them unchristian. Then he took money from the feds to temporarily balance Ohio's budget and brag about how fiscally responsible he was. Then he claimed to have old time values and flipped to say how Christian and enlightened he was because he went to a gay wedding.
9 posted on 08/09/2015 5:51:36 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: CharlotteVRWC
"I’m not that fond of Kasich."

His dad was a mailman.
He gave non responsive answers. He didn't really address the questions directly but soft peddled whatever he wanted to say as if it was the answer to the question that was asked.

10 posted on 08/09/2015 5:59:00 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: dontreadthis

They live in an insulated bubble of like-minded elitist and have no clue at all, none.


11 posted on 08/09/2015 6:00:31 AM PDT by TexasCajun (I'll believe in man-made global warming when those that believe it, act like it.)
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To: dontreadthis

He sunk his campaign when he touted his pro-homo position.

I want someone for president who doesn’t accept evil in any of its forms.


12 posted on 08/09/2015 6:03:54 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: dontreadthis

Like Camille. She’s smart and novel. But she’s quite a bit toonie when it comes to politics and whom she supports.


13 posted on 08/09/2015 6:12:37 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: alternatives?
I thought Kasich did the worst. He was proud of throwing Republican Ohio legislators under the bus on Obamacare then effectively called them unchristian.

Sounds like big government Huckabee.

14 posted on 08/09/2015 6:13:56 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: CharlotteVRWC

I agree. I have two sons living in Ohio and both are looking to leave, after living virtually all of their lives there.

I detest Rubio for lying directly to my face at one of his first campaign appearances in 2010. He told the group gathered in Lake City that his view was that nothing happens until the border is secured. He repeated the same when I asked the question again while he was signing the copy of his “book” (pamphlet) for me. His BS about border security in the “debates” only, and only, comes after all of the illegals are given amnesty, in his co-authored Bill with Schmuckie. Been there, done that, and it is just a promise just like it was in 1986. Lucy; football.


15 posted on 08/09/2015 6:14:39 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: dontreadthis
Camille thought Kasich gave the best answer concerning homosexuality. So she thinks he "won". The end.

Most of the rest of us understand the nation will not rise and fall on the issue of gay marriage.

16 posted on 08/09/2015 6:20:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: dontreadthis

It is in the HOLLYWOOD Reporter, Camille, so fantasy is always acceptable.


17 posted on 08/09/2015 6:53:29 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: dontreadthis
Why the heck the major media hails him as the GOP frontrunner is beyond comprehension

Only because of his last name.

18 posted on 08/09/2015 6:57:16 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: mazda77

I don’t remember hearing there were signs of domestic abuse.


19 posted on 08/09/2015 6:57:33 AM PDT by Fhios (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal)
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To: miss marmelstein

So she doesn’t like Trumps game face and flat out accuses him of being in cahoots with the Clintons. Which now puts me in a quandary as I love what Trump is doing, but I also have some grudging respect for Camille Paglia. It’s unlikely that the Clintons have tipped their hand to Camille, as she is persona non-grata to the progressives — who Clinton is establishing as her base so I wonder how she has come to that conclusion and how much truth is in it, as I believe coming from her there is probably some truth to it.

We’ll see. Maybe Trump has tapped into something so strong that he’ll overcome his stupid statement vis-a-vis ‘or wherever’ and come out the stronger. Perhaps he’s leading the great non-political correctness push-back we’ve all been waiting for.


20 posted on 08/09/2015 7:06:24 AM PDT by Fhios (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal)
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