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A Debate Postscript: How Ignorant Is Trump?
Powerline ^ | 2-26-16 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 02/27/2016 6:07:37 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Paul (Mirengoff) has already noted one of the strangest incidents in last night’s debate, when Donald Trump repeatedly talked about judges signing “bills.” Before the debate fades into history, let’s go to the tape. It’s short: (the tape will not play)

Three times, Trump says his sister and Sam Alito signed the same bill. As Paul politely put it, judges don’t sign bills. I would say, how did this knucklehead get through the eighth grade?

We are faced with a likely presidential nominee who has no idea what a bill is, as opposed to a judicial opinion. I never imagined that this could be possible. It is like hiring someone to manage a major league baseball team who is unfamiliar with the terms “hit” and “out.” To the extent that there are know-nothings in the electorate, they obviously have found their candidate.

Hillary Clinton isn’t much of an intellect, but I am afraid she will make Trump look like an idiot. Even in the degraded culture of 21st century America, it is questionable whether someone perceived as an idiot can get more than 46% or 47% of the vote.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; judges; maryannebarry; propaganda; samalito; trump
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I'm sorry, but the tape will not load properly; However, I remember this incident clearly.
1 posted on 02/27/2016 6:07:37 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Related article here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402540/posts


2 posted on 02/27/2016 6:07:55 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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3 posted on 02/27/2016 6:09:41 AM PST by r_barton (Ted Cruz - The charm of Barry Goldwater and the ethics of Richard Nixon. - GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Gomer Pyle is smarter.
4 posted on 02/27/2016 6:10:09 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

We will get your ass on stage in front of 10 million views and 2 A$$ Hole$ screaming at you and we will see how well YOU DO!


5 posted on 02/27/2016 6:10:24 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

You had your little “get Trump” debate. It didn’t change a thing. The next day he upstaged you with Christie and made everyone on earth forget all about the debate. You don’t have anything better to do than try anti-Trump propaganda from the debate?

Pathetic losers.


6 posted on 02/27/2016 6:11:51 AM PST by Pravious
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To: afraidfortherepublic

No president is an expert on everything. That’s why it’s collectively called an ‘Administration’.

I suspect Trump will rely on ‘experts’ with ‘good reputations’; in other words, people with the same thinking that got us into this mess.


7 posted on 02/27/2016 6:11:51 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Do I detect a major effort at Powerline to take down Trump? There seems to be a chorus over there and they’re all singing the same tune...


8 posted on 02/27/2016 6:12:14 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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You are no lady! Clean up your language.


9 posted on 02/27/2016 6:12:47 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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:0)


10 posted on 02/27/2016 6:12:47 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: afraidfortherepublic

How ignorant?.... Bout 10 billion


11 posted on 02/27/2016 6:13:13 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Only as smart or ignorant as his script writers ...


12 posted on 02/27/2016 6:13:15 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Trump’s problem is that whenever he starts speaking the connection with his brain is severed and what comes out of his mouth is whatever disjointed words that were in the pipleline when the link was broken. That’s why he can’t stay on a topic for more than two or three seconds at a time.


13 posted on 02/27/2016 6:13:15 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Heaven forfend anyone should actually say “ass!” GASP! I am mortally offended!

/s


14 posted on 02/27/2016 6:13:43 AM PST by Pravious
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I guess you and PIF aren’t watching the same debates and rallys, then.


15 posted on 02/27/2016 6:15:23 AM PST by Gaffer
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I am beginning to think that Donald Trump does this kind of thing on purpose to provoke these establishment twits into exposing themselves. The “unprotected” as Peggy Noonen now calls us, knew what Donald Trump was talking about without the exact proper legalese nomenclature.


16 posted on 02/27/2016 6:17:14 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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Chihuahua Rubio and Pinocchio Cruz attacking Big Donald.
17 posted on 02/27/2016 6:17:46 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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I guess you and PIF aren’t watching the same debates and rallys, then.

Not watch them? They prove my point.

18 posted on 02/27/2016 6:19:28 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: chicagolady

There was only ONE A$$ Hole on the stage last night, right there in the middle, looking for his apparently misplaced brain.


19 posted on 02/27/2016 6:19:48 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: jjotto

Yes, look how well the experts in the Republican majority Congress has done for us...including Cruz and Rubio.


20 posted on 02/27/2016 6:20:05 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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