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What's at Stake in the Second Republican Debate: Full Panic in the GOP
The New Republic ^ | September 16, 2015 | Brian Beutler, senior editor

Posted on 09/16/2015 7:47:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Menthops

Carson is a really great guy, but he also seems like he’s on valium. Trump and Cruz were both good, and I think Huckabee was better than expected for the second time.

Rubio is extolled as some kind of foreign policy expert, but he really couldn’t explain how overthrowing Assad would do anything but help ISIS. His answer that we could of found moderates two years ago shows he doesn’t really think about anything. Trump, Cruz and Paul all ate his lunch on that.


41 posted on 09/16/2015 9:09:47 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a fire"arm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: MrShoop
When he had a chance, he was very good, as usual, but nothing memorable.

I thought his summary of the Bush SC losers -Souter and Roberts- was memorable, but above the heads of most of the audience.


42 posted on 09/16/2015 9:10:25 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, if nothing else, establishmentarian is the biggest word I’ve heard this week. :)


43 posted on 09/16/2015 9:10:31 PM PDT by W. (I piss on your stupid, violence-inciting koran!)
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To: scooby321
Carly has replaced Jeb as their Candidate

Think so? Yikes!

They're in worse shape than I thought. She doesn't have a hundred Mil to spend, and a horse-face besides.

(expressing my inner Trump)


44 posted on 09/16/2015 9:16:23 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: 867V309

You are right, that was a good moment, but like you said, if it goes over the audience’s head, it isn’t going to propel him to winning. You have to win over the audience, which is why Trump is doing so well.


45 posted on 09/16/2015 9:17:27 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: tennmountainman

the problem is the establishment want bush and grass root republicans look at bush and see someone that came into the process thinking his name would be enough to get him in. while I dont suport Trump I think his entering the ring had the fect of getting the electrat to look at who the cantadates are and those voters dont like what they see nd are suporting trump just becouse they dont like the polititions that the big money packs are trying to pick.


46 posted on 09/16/2015 9:23:28 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: MrShoop
You have to win over the audience, which is why Trump is doing so well.

And this is the golden nugget of Trump. His heart is in the right place; he is pure showbiz and can sell it to the audience. The EBTers living in their Chicago and New York City hovels can relate to his celebrity, just like a rap crapper.

No stuffed-shirt Republican rhetoric rat is going to touch Trump.


47 posted on 09/16/2015 9:28:32 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: 867V309

I don’t think Trump did such a great job tonight, however I am STILL with him because he CAN NOT be bought!!!! Campaign Karl is having a melt down I can’t stand him!!!!


48 posted on 09/16/2015 9:38:58 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: sten

They left Carly Fiorina off the list of “establishment-friendly” candidates.

If Bush and Rubio collapse, the GOPE will consolidate around fiorina.


49 posted on 09/16/2015 9:43:37 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: Kit cat
Campaign Karl is having a melt down I can’t stand him!!!!

Sorry, I missed that...


50 posted on 09/16/2015 9:44:08 PM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: GilGil

Fiorina is an “outsider” only in the sense that she has not held office before. She is as moderate a candidate as anyone in the race. If she keeps tearing up the speeches and debates, she may become the GOP-E choice.


51 posted on 09/16/2015 9:46:23 PM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: timestax
here ssomething to analzye

that trump image is ...even more presumptuous than the one above it..and thats going a very long way indeed..as Obie was indeed at least the President Elect at the time that image was published




52 posted on 09/16/2015 9:46:47 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Sontagged

I was a Cain supporter. He was submarined by the GOPee Uniparty because he wasn’t Romney. He was the designated divide and conquer, conservative du jour.


53 posted on 09/16/2015 11:35:10 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: bigbob
Trump will want an active VP, and she’d be a good choice to head up the downsizing of the federal government.

Just as Obama was a blank canvass upon which leftist voters projected their dreams in 2008, Trump is providing the same service for the right in 2016.

Thus far, Mr. Trump has given us no reason to believe that he intends to shrink government. Indeed, the opposite is a more likely outcome.

54 posted on 09/17/2015 12:10:02 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Carson doesn’t have “religious bonafides”.
He is one of the end customers of Planned Parenthood’s baby part selling business.

Ben Carson has religious bonafides in the same way Ted Bundy had religious bonafides.


55 posted on 09/17/2015 3:13:26 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: marron

Kasich reminds me of my inebriated Uncle Baxter, who is in a “Gollum/Smeagle” conflict battle between his right side vs. left side, exhibiting jittery motor skills as a result. Then, sometimes he is thrusting outward on tippy-toes from one side only, his left arm limp at his side.

What is it with his constantly puckering lower lip, like he is trying to keep his dentures from popping out. He just looks like he is marginally able enough to keep from drooling out the side of his mouth.


56 posted on 09/17/2015 4:08:43 AM PDT by AlexisHeavyMetal1981 (Z)
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To: bigbob

“The key to this election is “outsider”, Trump would gain nothing by picking a politician.”

Carly is a politician, just not one who’s been elected. 2006 McCain campaign and a losing 2010 Calif senatoral bid against Boxer. After working for and addressing the RNC convention in 08, she said that neither Palin nor McCain were capable of running a corporation. She has some interesting nonprofits mentioned in the wiki article about her.


57 posted on 09/17/2015 4:39:50 AM PDT by blueplum (ue)
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To: 867V309

Not horse face... eagle beak. Get your insults straight... ;-)


58 posted on 09/17/2015 6:24:13 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools)
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To: LS

Carson basically took himself out. That answer about Afghanistan is going to haunt him.


59 posted on 09/17/2015 8:59:14 AM PDT by brothers4thID (I owe my life to the brave passengers of Flight 93. Let's Roll.)
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