Posted on 09/17/2015 4:50:57 AM PDT by Nextrush
Do we even NEED these “debates” anymore? This was for a time when people didn’t have access to their candidates’ opinions, and now we have the mighty, mighty internet, and can practically see them from all sides. I just see it as pointless when the lib media sets the rules and tone, then they spin it and pick it apart.
Lol...smug look? She looked like she bit into a lemon. It was the same look one sees on a po’d ex you try to avoid like the plague.
Trump is way above the media and the audience as a “pick up artist” here:
https://reason.com/blog/2015/09/15/trump-as-political-pick-up-artist-the-do
The “Carly you’re beautiful” was a double neg in that Trump was being sarcastic but he knew it would be taken as sarcasm by the audience and Carly.
Carly “won” this ridiculous “debate” but she came off looking like Cruella DeVille with her plastered scowl facial expression. She may draw some of Jeb’s votes.
Mark Steyn described this “debate” perfectly:
A schoolyard tattle-tale(CNN)saying “Did you hear what so-and-so said about you?” “What are you going to do, slug him?” And then candidates would disappear for long stretches, gone from the screen so long that Ben Carson(or Ted Cruz)could have left the stage, won the Canadian election, and returned to the “debate” without being missed.
Paul, Huckabee, Walker, and Kasich need to call it a day and go home so the next “debate” might actually resemble one.
As for the Jeb News Channel, it’s dead to me.
“Alesksandr Solzhenitsyn warned Americans when he spoke to us about the dangers facing the West in the 1970’s that while we thought we had a free media with many outlets the truth was there wasn’t much difference between the way the Western media operated and the way media in the Soviet Union he came from operated. All the different media outlets said the same thing.”
Thanks for posting this. I wish everyone could realize that this is where we are right now and we need to stand against it or we’re done.
Trump hammered the 14th Amendment question and surprised everyone. He is right.
Pray America is waking
Well, if it was any consolation, the Fox morning hacks are in full RINO support, ass-licking mode this morning declaring Trump lost, Fiorina won, and Bush looked good.
First, I didn't watch: I read thread by thread Freepers' comments. So I think I have a good grasp of who did what. I wanted to see if that lined up with what people actually saw. So far, it does.
Second, everyone agrees Cruz was head and shoulders above everyone in terms of content and mastery of the issues from a Constitutional standpoint. It seems Rubio, Huckabee, Christie, and Fiorina had some very good moments. Trump's best sections, of course, were on immigration and on Jeb/Paul bashing. Carson agreed with him on the vaccines.
To me all that is irrelevant, because if I'm Trump's campaign manager---and it's still September---you still don't have the "world" watching and no great performance will save you and no bad performance will kill you. (Witness the rebirth of Rubio, whom I left for dead three months ago).
Instead, if I'm Trump's manager, I'm telling him, "Cement the idea of inevitability. Grow your lead." Now, some of you would say, "Well, if he didn't do great, how could he grow his lead?" Easy.
His ONLY close competitor was Ben Carson.
How did Gentle Ben do last night? Consensus seems to be he lost some ground, looked tired, non-energetic, not crisp in answers, not motivating, did well (obviously) on the vaccine question. Trump did not attack him, and even high fived him.
Watch Carson's poll numbers dip. Trump's will stay about the same. The number 2 competitor, and the only close competitor, falls back. Two of the dwarves (Rubio and Fiorina) will gain, maybe move to low double digits. Cruz will gain, likely to about 10% where I think he will plateau.
That is because unlike Rubio or Fiorina, the GOPe will NEVER back him as the "anti-Trump." So they will dump money and publicity into Rubio and Fiorina (my guess is that, unable to make a clear decision, they will dilute their efforts and both will hover at 10-15%).
Mission accomplished for Trump. He gets at least another month with double digit leads over #2 . . . whoever that is next.
> “All the different media outlets said the same thing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_Kx7UKndI
Yes, we still need them. Not because they help with anything policy-related but because we get to see how well the candidates present themselves. Especially under fire. That sort of thing can swing elections.
In 1980 it was the single, and late, debate with Carter that pushed Reagan over the top and into the White House. I’m still convinced that George W Bush won in 2000 because Al Gore kept sighing and trying to physically intimidate Bush by encroaching on his space. Gore looked like an a****le, and Bush drove that home by throwing that stare and nod back at Gore.
Tokyo Rove was leg humpin iCarly on Faux News after the debate. That’s how desperate the Gelded Old Pansies are to take out Trump.
It would be a real kick-in-the-ass for the RNC if Trump wins those Democrat States and Bush does not get his 8 majorities. The rules will then be reinterpreted to get Bush into the Convention and then the fight begins. The RNC has control of a mass of Superdelegates that are not chosen in primaries and does not need to get a terribly large percentage of the primary delegates to put Bush over. Remember the goal is not to win any election, just the Nomination. If Bush is nominated with truly minority support he won't even have to take a dive in the election. He can feign actually contending.
She looked like she was about to cry.
Poor thing looks like she was botoxed to within an inch of her life.
I think folks are waking up. That is why the “anesthesiologists” are having a fit. LOL.
To those Trump fans in the beautiful state of New Hampshire, Donald has a Town Hall event tonight from 7-8PM Eastern. Not sure yet which network might cover the town hall, but sure there will be a live feed on line.
Sign up for tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/donald-j-trump-new-hampshire-town-hall-tickets-18563405646
Good post.
It’s obvious all the media , all of the establishment are all together against Trump and against us the American citizens because Trump is fighting for who for Us , for America, the only one.
It should be obvious they are all one against us, Americans , American interests.
The nomination is Trumps to lose now.
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