Posted on 08/07/2015 12:22:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush and Scott Walker, two of the leading establishment candidates in the Republican primary, turned in deeply unimpressive performances Thursday evening in the GOP debate, further casting the race for the nomination into uncertainty.
Earlier Thursday, Carly Fiorina, who'd been barred by polling averages from the primetime debate, seized her moment, while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and casino entertainer Donald Trump commanded the stage later that evening.
Walker, the Wisconsin governor, came off flat, while Bush seemed himself unconvinced by his own lines. "Looks like he wouldn't vote for himself up there," quipped one unaligned GOP operative.
In Bush's closing statement, he asked people to vote for him "whenever the primary is." He meant to nod to the different dates of primaries in different states, but it sounded more like a statement of ultimate ambivalence.
Walker, meanwhile, returned with predictable regularity to his vanquishing of teachers in Wisconsin, which he called "big government union bosses." In his closing argument, he offered humbly, "I'm a guy with a wife and two kids and a Harley."(continued)
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and i don’t remember him being an establishment candidate either....
He has the backing of major lobbyists and coordinates strategery with Karl Rove-- as emails have shown. So yeah, he's establishment.
Carson would be a good head of HHS or Surgeon General.
I think the issue of not turning towards the camera and looking into it was a problem for him.
Since he kept his focus on the questioner, he looked doopy even though his answers were good.
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