Posted on 01/16/2016 4:14:16 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Donald Trump got a few boos from the audience at Thursday night's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, and conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is blaming North Carolina Republicans. Limbaugh didn't offer a source for his claim, which N.C. Republican Party leaders say is completely false.
"I'll tell you where the boo birds were coming from," Limbaugh said Friday, according to a transcript of his show. "They were coming from North Carolina.
"The North Carolina GOP bused a bunch of people down there, and their express purpose was to try to show that there is no massive support for Trump. They wanted to do some damage. They are grudgingly accepting Ted Cruz now."
NCGOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse said he and about 20 or 30 people affiliated with the state party attended the debate in North Charleston, S.C. He said none of them booed Trump, and said many of the party members traveled to South Carolina separately and didn't sit together.
"I have no earthly idea where this came from, or whether he just misspoke," Woodhouse said. "There's no coordinated effort to even bring anybody here. It's ludicrous to think we would pick a dog in the fight, because that would be a losing game for us."
Two Republican state legislators attended the debate: Rep. David Lewis of Dunn and Rep. Jason Saine of Lincolnton. Saine is a state co-chairman for Marco Rubio's campaign, and Lewis has not publicly endorsed a presidential candidate.
"Our activists are all over the map on who they support on this thing," Woodhouse said, adding that he expects party members will strongly back the winner. "I don't think there will be any problem getting behind whoever the nominee is in North Carolina."
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He’s been boo’ed at all the debates - especially the first one. The house is packed with GOPees. Trump does very well when they boo. He certainly shut them down the other night with his heartfelt remarks about 9/11.
Perhaps Rush meant SC instead of NC.
The booing lasted about five seconds. There was cheering other 2726 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zN5k4Gu40
Nope but he will say he will and we will have FReepers backing him gleefully.
Give ya a tingle?
The problem with your theory is that trump has a 40+ year track record of ‘hiring great people’ who can ‘do great things, the greatest of things’. all accomplished by ‘the greatest of people’.
And, he has over $10 billion dollars to show that he can find and hire ‘the greatest of people to do the greatest of things’.
Not that you’ll stop the specious line of attack, but at least know that I’m not the only one who sees right through it.
If Trump can run as a conservative, Kardashians, Kanye West, Bernie Sanders... they can all run as conservatives.
Cruz? No. But I will vote for him if he’s the nominee.
I’m with ya
Jamie Dimon is highly successful as is Warren Buffet, Oprah too. If they ran and said hey I’ll be a Republican you’d vote for them too? Because they can hire great great people and do great great things?
Not only did Cruz’s speech not give me a tingle it didn’t give the audience much of a tingle either - even when he belittled Trump. The audience response was very tepid.
“Jamie Dimon is highly successful as is Warren Buffet, Oprah too. If they ran and said hey I’ll be a Republican you’d vote for them too?”
The problem with that argument is they would never say they would deport illegals, build a wall and halt muslim immigration. However, they might say the are Republican, just because that seems to be no different that being a Democrat these days.
there you go again
Your Ronald Reagan Impression simply isn’t that good!
wanna try Tweety..?
wow....surprised you even know about Ronald Reagan. Just look him up on Wikipaedia?
I voted for Ronald Reagan and your boy Don Trump...is No Ronald Reagan
That’s a truck-load of fecal material. Are you a DU troll?
If Trump can run as a conservative, Kardashians, Kanye West, Bernie Sanders... they can all run as conservatives.
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True dat...but only if they FIRST travel the narrow road with DONALD TRUMP and serve as his disciples and APPRENTICES.
BLESSED IS THE NAME OF DONALD TRUMP AND BLESSED ARE THE NAMES OF HIS COMING DISCIPLES.
never said RR was Trump.....happy to hear you voted for Reagan though, that will make it easier for you to vote for Trump.
It would make it extremely painful were I forced to vote for the liberal New Yorker
Dons going to drop out before the race
yes you read that right.. now go bank on it
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