GOP Debate: Fox News Down; Cruz, Walker Up

GOP USA ^ | 8/7/2015 | Bobby Eberle

[HomerBohn]

Eberle's right. The main purpose of the Fox 'debates' was to garner as much advertising dollars as possible.

With the exception of Baier, the other two seemed, at times, smarmy. Listing to Wallace made me remember his cruel, asinine comment to the vey honorable Michelle Bachman, "Are you a flake?"

It was clear to me from the outset that Megyn's primary mission was to go after Trump.

[TBP]

Cruz-Walker wouldn’t be a bad ticket.

[Sopater]

Yeah, I didn’t bother to watch. I might still go back and watch it, but I don’t know.

[HomerBohn]

Voila!

My thinking as well!

[skeeter]

Moderators cease being moderators when its clear they're pushing an agenda. And Wallace and Kelly definitely had agendas.

They could've at least tried to conceal their expressions.

[freespirit2012]

I would go— 1-Trump 2-Kasich 3-Cruz 4-Carson 5-Huckabee 6-Rubio 7- Christie 8-Walker 9-Bush 10-Paul

[Kartographer]

"He made it appear that he was talking about Trump, but then said "Hillary Clinton" at the end. Nice."

Huck sure did have me going! I wasn't sure who he was talking about.

[DoughtyOne]

Trump, to his discredit, could have handled the whole debate much better. The opening pledge was a set-up, and he fell right into it. He could have done much better by not raising his hand.

Trump has been saying that if the GOPe froze him out, he would consider running third party. He raises his hand to be truthful, and this ass-hat trashes him for it.

And of course if he didn't raise his hand, this ass-hat would have been calling him a liar.

The subsequent comments were just blather.

These writers are worthless.

[dead]

I’ve been Cruz-Walker for a while, but I would also love Cruz-Carson.

[pa_dweller]

As the debate was about to start, the Fox News team of Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace seemed almost giddy. It was a strange tone, as if they were the stars, and they were about to have fun grilling the candidates. When they fired off their first question, it was obvious that it was a "ratings moment."

Rush noted today that of the roughly hour and forty minutes devoted to the 'debate', thirty-one minutes and change went to Kelly.

[DoughtyOne]

Hope the Trumps took a batch soon afterwards. Alone...

[hosepipe]

Cruz-Walker wouldn’t be a bad ticket.

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I agree, Walker lifted his appeal to me..
Maybe as Veep... not as Prez..

A clear winner in this debate.. i.e. Walker...
Cruz did as expected.. clear, concise.. cogent as always..
Walker added value..

It was Cruz-Walker.. stole the show.. all others were pap copy..
Christy was rice-cake.. i.e. no taste, round, crunchy.. weak..
Bush was a Weed.. in a garden..

[JediJones]

Congrads to Fox on asking tough questions. We need to whittle down this oversized field. Whoever can’t take the heat needs to get out of the kitchen. Shoot ‘em all with everything we got. The strongest one is the one left standing.

[hosepipe]

Carson Surpise repartee’...

[hoosiermama]

Journalist cease to be journalist when the story become about themselves. Rule 1 Journalism 101.

[kidd]

I didn’t think Walker did all that well, and I had Walker at the top of my list before the debate. OTOH, I was very impressed with Cruz. Statesman like.

I am left with the impression that Cruz can handle ANY question and will win a lot of voters from the squishy middle. I think we are looking at a GREAT president.

Kasich had home field advantage. He lost me at his attendance at a gay wedding and the whole gay marriage unintelligible blurb.

Christie is a pure RINO. Paul’s attack on Christie was appropriate.

[Iscool]

He scored good points for sticking to his "the system is broken" message, but didn't seem to grasp foreign policy.

What foreign policy questions were asked of Trump???

My ranking is Trump was the winner...Cruz second and Huckabee was third...The rest of them repeated exactly the same things we've been hearing for the last 40 years in the Presidential debates...Except for the brain surgeon...

I'm wondering if Rubio has bionic ears...

[JediJones]

Strategically, I think Rubio makes the best V.P. choice. I actually think a female candidate is a liability. Lots of people won’t vote for a female president, including women. So let Hillary have that liability, don’t put Fiorina on the ticket thinking she counteracts Hillary somehow. Rubio is an appealing candidate to women, one of the often successful strategies for choosing a Veep. He makes the ticket more latino. He can give vapid, uplifting speeches that would do the ticket no harm. He can shore up the swing state Florida.

[hoosiermama]

Rush said others were asked by major contributor to go after Trump. Their obvious use of women make this even more significant
In the early segment (so he couldn’t get his 30.second response) Carly attacked Trump
She is funded by the company that Trump recently had conflict with and dropped him.
Her comment was regarding trumps relationship (phone call) donating money to Clinton’s

It seems she too has quite a history with foundation. Is she also receiving money from them. FOX set her up with extra time etc and sure enough she soared. Trump would be petty to respond to this “sweet” deceptive female.
Picture at link

Http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/02/26/3627744/gop-hopeful-slams-hillary-clinton-foundation-forgets-mention-extensive-involvement

[flaglady47]

“Congrads to Fox on asking tough questions.”

Tough questions okay, biased against mainly only one of the candidates, Donald Trump, no. That sucks.