Debate 3: Ted Cruz Changes the Game

American Thinker ^ | 10/29/2015 | C. Edmund Wright

[abb]

Also, you need to know that LS knows whereof he speaks regarding banking in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Schweikart

California Bankers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).
Banking in the American West from Gold Rush to Deregulation (co-authored with Lynne Doti) (University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).
Making Change: South Carolina Banking in the Twentieth Century (co-authored with John G. Sproat) (Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1990).
Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction (Louisiana State University Press, 1987).
Trident (with D.D. Dalgleish) (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984).
Banking in the West: A Collection of Essays (Editor) (Sunflower University Press, 1984).
History of Banking in Arizona (University of Arizona Press, 1982).

[Servant of the Cross]

I agree that the BIGS need to hold their own debate. And the BIGS include Cruz. I think Carson would be the one not to make the cut ... we’ll see.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm glad someone finally used my description of the GOP debates. From my post 80 minutes after the Fox debate ended. I repeated the sentiment here and here over the next few days.

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That was my position going with the debate, but in my wildest imagination I never expected Fox to stage this debate as a series of 30 second cage fights between the candidates.

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-PJ

[CatherineofAragon]

"I see that Ted Cruz has hijacked Trump’s attack on the media, an attack that has been made in every Trump speech. He has called them liars, and terrible people. What Cruz said was mild in comparison, yet everything is buzzing with Cruz Cruz Cruz."

Cruz has been on the attack for all of his political career while Trump filmed his reality show.

This IS Ted Cruz and always has been. Sorry it doesn't sit well with you.

[C. Edmund Wright]

This may set the stage for that. Remember, everything is a continuum, not a series of unrelated events.

[firebrand]

I give him credit for grabbing this issue from Trump and launching it in front of millions. No, it doesn’t sit well with me. I have always resented people who take someone else’s achievement and leverage it out to their own advantage Trump must be fuming, and rightfully so.

[dennisw]

I am a Trump guy but I love seeing Ted Cruz doing so well and sticking it to these unoriginal hacks. Why is the media so lacking in imagination and creativity!!!
They are so stale and boring.

[Resolute Conservative]

Cruz is the obvious choice if we want steady, conservative leadership.

[CatherineofAragon]

Clearly you didn’t read my post.

Sorry you’re so mad.

[TomGuy]

The candidate attacks on the Media/Moderators were so overt that even CNN is running clips of them this morning.

[dead]

Yet everything is buzzing with Cruz Cruz Cruz

Imagine that! A conservative website rallying around an actual conservative candidate for a change! Will wonders never cease?

[PGalt]

Well said FrankR. Thanks. Control the language, control the questions, interrupt the response, control the debate, control the outcome and have other media sycophants amplify what has just been accomplished in the subsequent days. It continues without possible respond (from the targets) every day in the media using the same words/phrases in their analysis. The “gotchas” become the news (or not) depending on the candidate and what agenda needs to be propagated. The memes get planted and amplified by professional-looking, well-dressed, well-rehearsed familiar faces who program the people watching without rebuttal, without consequences.

(no I did not watch the debate and the last media I watched (FOX) - I quit that 3-4 years ago)

Well said FrankR. Thanks.

[nathanbedford]

Hat tip to Freeper C. Edmund Wright for another excellent article.

While reading it it occurred that there is virtually nothing that the establishment of the Republican Party has succeeded in doing. It has failed in conducting hearings or investigations into the IRS, arms to Mexico, and even managed to lose the propaganda war over Hillary Clinton's appearance before the Benghazi committee. I have alleged for some time that these fumbled hearings are not the results of immutable structural biases but the results of a lack of will on the part of the Republican establishment.

Now the chairman of the RNC has been charged with organizing debates with at least a claim to balance and fairness. Is he inept or was his heart simply not in it?

If a record replete with Republican failure after Republican failure makes credible the allegation that the Republican establishment did not pursue the IRS scandal to the hilt because they were as content to see the Tea Party stymied as were the Democrats, why cannot one believe that conducting the debates by moderators tilted to the left would not be unwelcome by the same establishment? After all, were they not more likely to go after Trump and Ted Cruz than Jeb Bush?

Are they a gang that cannot shoot straight or a pack of Machiavellians?

You decide.

[RitaOK]

The article did lead to the process changes that have got to be addressed, and it would be hard for an observer, journalist, or viewer, to ignore that it was Cruz who was off the charts (literally) in his litany of chapter and verse examples of biased and low blows posing as questions, by this Megyn Kelly styled version of a “moderating” panel. CNBC is toast.

Look who got moderated! HA! Now we have Byron York reporting that Carson is now ready to bolt from further debates and would like to get with the other families for changing things poste haste. He said what the RNC has done, “is not working”.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Last night’s debacle is what happens when you let the cast of Squawk Box moderate a debate. They just are not sharp enough to go 3 rounds with a bunch of incredibly bright politicians.

The good thing that came out of last night is to begin to move this whole thing toward the inevitable two man race of Trump and Cruz. I don’t see Cruz catching Trump but surely Trump will take Cruz along for the ride. Ted is wasting his time in the Senate. We need a dedicated AG to root out the endemic corruption in the govt.

[dead]

LOL! Yeah Trump invented griping about the left wing bias in the media, right after he invented ice cream and waffles. Do you know why this very web forum was created in the previous century?

[RitaOK]

I believe Trump blew the doors off of “politically correct”.
It’s undeniable.

I am delighted that others are following suit.

We know who the leader is. He blazed the trail, making it okay to hit the target, on the national stage and on the debate stage. He is not confined by rules and regulation, nor donors and PACS, nor trussed up RNC crap.

Which if these illustrious candidates was cornered by the FAUX head Brett Baer, first question off the block, demanding who would PROMISE, or would not PROMISE, to support the Republican nominee. Who raised his hand? Baier was on the RNC payroll, or whut?

Again, Leadership.

His name is TRUMP. Go Trump!

[CatherineofAragon]

Clearly all thought and all dialogue originated with Trump. Everyone else should shut their mouths because everything they say is verbal plagiarism.

[Servant of the Cross]

Are they a gang that cannot shoot straight or a pack of Machiavellians?

Yes.

[LS]

I agree Cruz needs to be there, but you cannot exclude the #2 guy in all the polls.