Trump Triumphs At GOP Debate. Rivals And Moderators Can't Lay A Glove On Front-Runner

foxnews.com ^ | March 11 | Julie Roginsky

[Helicondelta]

It only benefitted the front-runner.

Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Governor John Kasich did their best to underscore their policy acumen and to highlight Donald Trump’s lack of substance.

It backfired.

Neither his opponents on stage nor the debate moderators laid a glove on Trump. When Trump repeatedly called Putin a “strong leader” without refusing to place a value judgment on his leadership, neither moderator Jake Tapper nor his opponents on stage pressed him. When Tapper asked Trump about his violence-inciting rhetoric at rallies, none of Trump’s opponents called him out for refusing to disavow it.

There is no bigger indicator that Trump’s opponents on stage were simply going through the motions. Trump spent the night running down the clock and the remaining candidates spent the night checking the boxes. For at least two of them, this was their last chance to distinguish themselves in advance of what will likely be the most crucial primary day of the cycle next Tuesday.

Rubio, in particular, seemed most chastened by his earlier decision to get in the gutter with Trump. Gone were the snide remarks about genitalia

[mkjessup]

“...send the word out to the Rick Wilsons and Glenn Becks of the political world...”
What do you mean here?

I mean that the GOPe wants Trump dead. (see previous posts above)

[rurgan]

Anyone know how to post an article?

Sarah Palin exposes Ted Cruz today on Facebook.The following is just some of Sarah Palin’s post :

Sarah Palin:

https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10154013835098588:0

” * Where’s information on any Cruz success whilst in his short, half-term U.S. Senate seat, proving his resume’s advantage over another career politicians’s lawyerly executive inexperience that includes never having created a single private sector job, but boasting of his constitutional law teacher creds? (Remember America experimented with that resume before; how’d that work out for the country?)

* Where’s info on his reasoning in inviting more illegal aliens to flood our porous borders by enticing families with benefits and literal gifts (like teddy bears and soccer balls)? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/…/ted-cruz-visits-texa…/

* Any info on why he won’t denounce his highest-profile campaign buddy, despite Glenn Beck’s proclamation that he “hates” America’s innocent victims of 9/11 and calls the families crybabies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf33g9ep4YU, nor hold accountable his campaign manager for abhorrent tactics that mirror Alinsky’s Politics of Personal Destruction? http://www.mediaite.com/…/ted-cruz-adviser-admits-to-makin…/

* Info on why he continues to stand on stage with that most prominent supporter who slurs millions of patriotic Americans supporting the GOP frontrunner, calling them Nazi “brown shirts”? http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/…/glenn-beck-loses-fans-an…/

* Info on consistency with his big endorsement this week, as Carly tells it like it is so very recently?
“Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. He says one thing in Manhattan, he says another thing in Iowa. He says whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he’s going to do as he pleases. I think people are tired of a political class that promises much and delivers much of the same.” - Carly Fiorina 1/2/16

* Info on his support for his crony capitalists’ insistence that he fast-track Obama’s unbalanced trade agenda, then lied about it? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/…/yes-unfortunately-te…/

* Info on why he’s fine with increasing U.S. debt? http://truthinmedia.com/cruz-rubio-vote-increase-debt-ceil…/

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[mac_truck]

Interesting!

[mkjessup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_C9vGEJXTU

[Stand Watch Listen]

Drudge has revised numbers, it’s 66% to 22% Trump/Cruz. Look to Twitter for his explanation of bot attacks to the poll.

Interesting development yesterday, where thousands of mass duplicate votes (for Cruz) on the 'Drudge Poll' originated from this island (Sea Island) off Georgia. Below is the FR thread with some of the salient posts

**DRUDGE POLL** WHO WON THE 12TH REPUBLICAN DEBATE '16?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407746/posts?page=221#221
I did some more analysis. Besides Shanghai, like I said, I noticed a big "data dump" coming in from a small island off of Georgia, which via a Palo Alto Firewall got over to Delaware.
When mapping this out, I found it here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407746/posts?page=236#236

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407746/posts?page=243#243

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407746/posts?page=304#304

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407746/posts?page=315#315

Which ties into this previous story earlier this week…

Meeting for the Washington DC powers that be, was supposed to get together to figure out ways to stop Trump, was supposed to be on an island off Georgia.

Huffington Post: At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump
"Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering. The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

[Ciexyz]

My grandparents explained the Great Depression this way. If you had spent all you had, you could get help, from charity and government programs. If you had even a little bit, you got nothing. When the banks finally settled the depositor’s accounts after the bank failures, people got ten percent on their account. For my grandparents, it was enough to buy a child’s coat. Life savings gone, wiped out, but the kid got a coat.

[tlozo]

Trump:”I want to leave Social Security as it is.”

[central_va]

All due to the Smoot-Hawley Act. /sarc

[wardaddy]

And from my favorite little liberal kiut meydl

[onyx]

Posted yesterday ... GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz (Sarah Palin)

[wardaddy]

She’s cute though in an elfin way and like another cute libchick she will occasionally say something lucid

[spokeshave]

I look forward to having an experienced, accomplished businessman in the office of president

Two serious dudes for very serious times.

[onyx]

You did a great job.

All you needed to do was to post the article.

[Publius22]

Did anyone notice Cruz wearing a prepper rope bracelet?

?

Cruz is obviously pandering to the fringe. Really bizarre. He needs to be broadening his coalition beyond the true believers.

[spokeshave]

Besides I think that Trump wants an adult and a real political partner for a vp,

Ditto that,,,,,maybe Senator Sessions.

[MortMan]

There are other stories this morning about a Delaware based bot-attack on the Drudge poll to significantly bolster Cruz. That is what I took the comment about Drudge to mean.

The Blaze is another matter entirely.

[rurgan]

Thanks! I couldn’t it but you gave me the link! Thank you!

GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz (Sarah Palin):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3407615/posts

[spokeshave]

Rubio’s only chance is to stay in to block Cruz and trade for the veep slot.....

...This far in, I'm soured on either one of the Cubans being VP. But politically for the ticket, Rubio has more to offer than Cruz of the two.

Sorry ...but it would be a disaster for Robio to be on the ticket.

Trump can find a much better candidate for VP....think "unexpected"

[UCANSEE2]

There is only one way, and that is to quietly and below the radar, send the word out to the Rick Wilsons and Glenn Becks of the political world, that perhaps it’s time for Trump to meet the same fate as another populist did

Like at a AEI meeting on SEA ISLAND ? Pat Buchanan: The Sea Island Conspiracy Against Donald Trump

[a fool in paradise]

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