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Two Other Things From That Debate Last Night
The Louisiana Hayride ^ | October 29, 2015 | Scott,McKay, publisher

Posted on 10/29/2015 3:00:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The majority of what I have can be found here, but I’ve neglected to post the video of the two most entertaining parts of the thing.

First, being the best moment of any of the debates – that being Ted Cruz’ glorious vivisection of the CNBC moderators. This is a Ronald Reagan moment to be remembered…

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

What was most brilliant about that was Cruz managed in uncorking that gem to reinforce the attacks CNBC had made on all his opponents, but in a way none of them could possibly complain about – and in fact a few of them said after the debate that they were grateful to him for what he said.

That’s really good. Not to mention Cruz also managed to avoid having to answer a question about the budget/debt ceiling deal disaster in long form which would have exacerbated the hatred the Establishment has for him. Cruz doesn’t need to say much about that deal; everyone knows he’s totally opposed to it, so it doesn’t help him to hammer away at fellow Republicans any more than he already is doing.

But hammering away at obnoxious leftist zealots disguised as objective journalists as they attempt to poleax his fellow GOP candidates not only gives Cruz a victim the entire Republican Party will cheer him on for savaging, it also offers him the ability to cultivate solidarity within the party under his leadership. That’s, as I said above, a Ronald Reagan moment.

Reagan was the too-conservative crazy guy nobody liked at one point as well, you know.

The other clip is from Mike Huckabee, who isn’t going to be the nominee but against a different field could have won the debate with this treasure…

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Huckabee’s appeal comes and goes, but that was him at his best. And if his campaign doesn’t last much longer, he’ll at least be remembered for that one.

There were other moments worth remembering at that debate. I’m of a different mind than most; I have no outrage at all toward Reince Priebus for allowing CNBC a chance to host that debate. In fact, I think it was a brilliant move to schedule this thing exactly how it was scheduled. The three imbeciles hosting that debate were so inartful and asinine in their attempts to ask “gotcha” questions of the candidates that in nearly every case they actually aided the GOP field in looking good. Virtually all of them, with the exception of Jeb Bush and John Kasich, caught stupid questions from the panel and treated them as chew toys at least once.

And now all anyone is talking about is how awful CNBC is and how the leftist media bias can no longer be denied.

That is an unquestioned win for the Republican Party, and if it can escape its label as the Stupid Party with positive action the thing to do from now on is for Republican politicians to seek to eviscerate obnoxious Democrat shill reporters at every opportunity the way Cruz did. Maybe if the GOP were to make sport of such retorts for a cycle or two, enough fear would set in to produce something looking like actual journalism.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: cruz; debates; huckabee; tedcruz
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1 posted on 10/29/2015 3:00:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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What the heck it that?


2 posted on 10/29/2015 3:03:50 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm sure all three CNBC clowns went into the debate and prepared their questions with the thought that they would expose all the Pubbie candidates for what they were: evil, crazy haters who want to install a theocracy, reinstitute slavery, and put all women back in the kitchen.

Their questions revealed them more than whatever answers they got from the candidates. That "debate" last night proved once again that liberals are totally unable to pose questions to conservatives about serious issues. For them it all comes down to "why are conservative Republicans such backwards haters?" They'll never escape that intellectual straightjacked...because they're liberals.

3 posted on 10/29/2015 3:16:30 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: driftless2

You got the part about women wrong. All of us conservatives want them barefoot and pregnant.


4 posted on 10/29/2015 3:18:42 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
if it can escape its label as the Stupid Party with positive action the thing to do from now on is for Republican politicians to seek to eviscerate obnoxious Democrat shill reporters at every opportunity the way Cruz did.

I agree. It is now open season on commie assclown journalists.

5 posted on 10/29/2015 3:29:41 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (No more Bushes. W killed the brand.)
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To: Slyfox

“That” is the CURLY APOSTROPHE BUG.

There have been several threads discussing it.
Jim and John are aware of it and working on a fix.

It is a ‘difficult’ bug to fix.


6 posted on 10/29/2015 3:29:58 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I guess we can no longer use an apostrophe. So sad.


7 posted on 10/29/2015 3:30:48 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: Slyfox
I put that in Google image search and got this...


8 posted on 10/29/2015 3:43:09 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Slyfox

hey, its better than the last bug.


9 posted on 10/29/2015 3:50:53 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: EvilCapitalist

...and in the kitchen, don’t forget!


10 posted on 10/29/2015 4:03:59 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: UCANSEE2

“That” is the CURLY APOSTROPHE BUG.
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Strange that it does not show itself in the thread titles just in the discussion section.


11 posted on 10/29/2015 4:08:37 PM PDT by deport
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To: Boogieman

Ok. I guess you’re correct.


12 posted on 10/29/2015 4:11:39 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: deport

Testing ‘””’

Let’s try to “quote” something ‘too’.


13 posted on 10/29/2015 4:13:25 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: UCANSEE2; Slyfox
When I cut and paste some Alinsky rules (saved on Word) on another thread, I notice the quotation marks, curved at a 45 degree angle, produced the curly apostrophe look when I hit Preview. I deleted the quotation marks and put in straight vertical quotation marks and they were okay.
14 posted on 10/29/2015 4:23:35 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Your “quote” worked fine.
‘I give up’......
Take care!


15 posted on 10/29/2015 4:51:16 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

What if I copy paste it? Below, pasted your reply...

Your “quote” worked fine.
‘I give up’......
Take care!


16 posted on 10/29/2015 5:07:54 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: deport

Yup, that’s it. Copy and pasting does it, but not direct keystrokes!


17 posted on 10/29/2015 5:08:46 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Slyfox

Since a few days ago....when FR was an ATTACK SITE...I’ve not seen that page...but I’ve seen this crazy script...like you have posted.


18 posted on 10/29/2015 5:16:36 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.)
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To: EvilCapitalist
You got the part about women wrong

Sorry....lol

19 posted on 10/29/2015 5:23:12 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: smoothsailing

That is wild, wild stuff.


20 posted on 10/29/2015 9:18:45 PM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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