Which is exactly why we have FreeRepublic!
There is something quite odd when a guy who was a Mondale hack is given a top seat at FOX as a conservative commentator.
I would take it one step further: the Media is Leftist. It is in their interest for the GOP candidate to get gutted even before the convention.
All of these maneuvers are to get Yeb! as the nominee, so he can take a dive against the annointed Leftist successor to The Obama, The Messiah, The Won.
Fio-RINO is the new Jeb Bush and she won’t attract 1000’s of people to her campaign events either.
I got sick of watching bush smirk, how did the debate turn out last night?
The other thing was that cnn broadcast in such high def that those of us with FairPoint in rural areas, could not get it. It keep buffering.
So between fairpoint, in rural Maine, and cnn, the debate might not of even been on the internet in places other than big cities.
Trump won the debate with “Carly, you’re beautiful.”
FauxSnooze lost me years ago.
Discernment is a wonderful thing.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 only reason they are propping this woman up is because they know she is a 'lightweight', she has no 'following', she is not a 'true believer' like Sarah Palin!
They are propping her up because they know she doesn't have the staying power that Sarah Palin would have had.
We don’t need anyone that is for building coalitions now. We need a guy like Trump who we can follow while he is kicking you know what. Churchill was a man of his times as was Ronald Reagan. It’s like a job interview. It’s important; but their work history matters more. Besides insulting Barbara Boxers hair when running against in much the same way Carly says Trump did to her; she worked as an economic political advisor to John McCain 2012 election bid. Said Sarah Palin was not qualified to run a business; than said McCain, Biden and Obama weren’t either. (I can understand those three). She was shoved to the side after that remark. It has also been said she is a shill for Jeb Bush. I just won’t vote for her because I think she is establishment Republican.