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Did the first Republican debate effect who you are supporting?

Posted on 08/08/2015 7:47:39 PM PDT by MNDude

This last week the 17 Republican candidates debated one another in hopes of getting us to offer our support to them.

Has watching the debate has changed any of your positions of who you wish to see get the Republican nomination?


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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; MNDude

See my tagline.


41 posted on 08/08/2015 9:02:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: usconservative

Agreed! Right now, today, I don’t have a choice.


42 posted on 08/08/2015 9:05:43 PM PDT by berdie
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To: MNDude
Has watching the debate has changed any of your positions of who you wish to see get the Republican nomination?

Nope, however FOX is now dead to me and a final straw in cutting the cable.

That was not a debate. That was an assassination. A debate is when a moderator asks everyone to respond to the same question. What is your position on common core? Everyone gets a minute to respond. Ten minutes and on to the next.

Thirty one minutes were spent on journalista glamour. We were not there to watch the GOPe and FOX blow-dries. We were there to watch the candidates.
43 posted on 08/08/2015 9:08:07 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: MNDude

Walker, Jindal, Fiorina, Cruz, Trump, Santorum (begin to hold nose - National defense better than donk) Perry, Big Man NJ, Huck... (fading to fog here)


44 posted on 08/08/2015 9:09:35 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: MNDude
No.
Only appalled by Fox's concerted suppression of Cruz.
45 posted on 08/08/2015 9:10:39 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: MNDude

Ted Cruz has far better credentials for taking on the Uniparty that Trump ever dreamt of. Trump has been both a beneficiary and enabler of the Uniparty for his entire career. I fail to understand why everyone seems to have checked their brains at the door.


46 posted on 08/08/2015 9:10:51 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: MNDude
What debate? I did not realize common core was retroactive. What I saw was a ‘reality show’ attempting to bloody one specific person. The others guests were stage props getting a behavior lesson on what to expect if they do not follow the political rules of alinsky.
47 posted on 08/08/2015 9:11:40 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: berdie

Same here, except I know who I won’t vote for. Tijuana Bush for example.


48 posted on 08/08/2015 9:18:48 PM PDT by Catsrus (a and)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

My list exactly like yours. Cruz gets my vote.


49 posted on 08/08/2015 9:27:10 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: PA Engineer

Amen!!


50 posted on 08/08/2015 9:34:22 PM PDT by berdie
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To: MNDude

I’ll vote for Cot Walter or Ted Cross, just as before but I’m fairly flexible if someone else gets the nomination but not Jeb.


51 posted on 08/08/2015 9:40:33 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Amagi

I thought their stiffing of Cruz was much worse than the biased questions thrown at Trump. But of course all the press is about Trump.


52 posted on 08/08/2015 9:44:49 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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To: MNDude

It eliminated two...Trump and paul.


53 posted on 08/08/2015 9:58:13 PM PDT by elder5
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To: Charles Henrickson

Rubio supports illegal immigration. He is establishment all the way. He’ll never get my vote. It’s Trump, Cruz or Carson for me.


54 posted on 08/08/2015 10:13:46 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
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To: MNDude

No, I have been for Cruz all along, Cruz’ performance in the debate only confirmed my support of him. But, I’ll have to say my opinion of Huckabee has been raised a few notches. Huck said some outstanding things. Kasich and Bush made me want to puke.


55 posted on 08/08/2015 10:16:40 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: grey_whiskers

I’m so glad you made your comment. I started reading through the thread to see if anyone else noticed. Thank you.


56 posted on 08/08/2015 10:44:11 PM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: MNDude

Not really, I’ve wanted Cruz or Walker for a while now. I was disappointed Jindal didn’t have a break-out moment in the early debate.


57 posted on 08/08/2015 10:54:33 PM PDT by Reaper19
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To: MNDude
No.
But it did make me MORE ANGRY AT THE LIBERAL MEDIA and AT THE "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" !
I might support Trump IF TED CRUZ does not WIN !

58 posted on 08/08/2015 10:55:11 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: MNDude
Nope - CRUZ is still my main man.

Walker seems to be a bit weaker and Trump a bit more "worthy" than before so 2nd/3rd places may swap soon.

59 posted on 08/09/2015 4:08:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MNDude

Yeah, I was having fun with what Trump was doing to the GOPe and how he was bringing up immigration (despite still actually being for amnesty) up until then.

Defending the single-payer healthcare system (AKA Hillarycare) and not coming out with anything actually conservative frayed my patience with him—added to his having said a week or two before that the economy does better under Democrats, and only economically seeming to offer up protectionism and a weak dollar.

Then his continued nastiness about MK this week sealed the deal for me. The sooner he stops collecting Freeper-like backers that he may well try to peel off for a third-party run the better.

Also, Cruz has no chance in NH, but he’s got to pick up enough Trump supporters to come in second in IA and first in SC in order to have hope as the conservative alternative to the GOPe winner.

I’ve enjoyed the Trump tweaking of the GOPe and I would have liked him to play out as a genuinely conservative Republican winner—but that’s really not a possibility.


60 posted on 08/09/2015 4:22:57 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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