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Republican Fault Lines: The debate exposed where the candidates differ on economics.
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 12, 2015 | Editorial

Posted on 11/12/2015 1:41:20 PM PST by EveningStar

Tuesday's Republican presidential debate wasn't the most entertaining, but it was the most educational. The two-hour session gave the candidates a chance to critique the Obama record, as well as tease out the GOP's economic fault lines.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debates; economics; elections
Related thread: Trump picks fight with WSJ editorial board
1 posted on 11/12/2015 1:41:20 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

If there are no disagreements, we are said to be “monolithic,” to hold “cookie-cutter positions.”


2 posted on 11/12/2015 1:43:19 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

Unlike the Democrats who walk goosestep on everything.


3 posted on 11/12/2015 1:45:14 PM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: EveningStar

The WSJ attacks Trump between one and three times in it’s editorial section EVERY SINGLE DAY.


4 posted on 11/12/2015 1:51:45 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Catsrus

Thanks to the Chamber of Commerce buying the rubber-stamping of it’s entire Wish List for the past twenty years (whether it was good for the country or not), classic free market Conservative Republican economics are all but unsellable to the general population.

Trump is about as close as we can come and hope to win IMO.


5 posted on 11/12/2015 2:09:10 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You are right on. Conservative economics with a win/win spirit, of a balance of power between unions and capital, with an understanding that with the greed of today’s Rino economists that soon no one willbe able to buy Capital’s productions is lost on the WSJ. Cruz, Rubio, et al. Trump is close, imperfect as he is.


6 posted on 11/12/2015 2:16:42 PM PST by amihow
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To: EveningStar

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gop-on-economics-1447224376


7 posted on 11/12/2015 3:17:44 PM PST by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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