This is what happens when you put a bunch of Republicans in a room – Total and utter Confusion, as no one seems to know which way is up.
Watch, as debate moderators race through the introduction for the Republican presidential candidates. That, coupled with the applause of adoring Republican fans and the mindlessness of the candidates themselves, managed to mess up a perfectly ordinary and otherwise uneventful introduction.
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Besides standing on stage next to Donald Trump with his 3 inch heels on and still looking too short for the podium, Marco Rubio had other issues at Saturday’s Republican debate, namely Chris Christie.
On the days leading up to Saturday’s debate, Chris Christie laid focus on Rubio, giving the young Florida Republican some attention Rubio probably didn’t want. Christie actively tried to re-coin the phrase “Boy in the Bubble” to describe Marco Rubio – the robotic Republican presidential candidate, who is apparently well versed in the art of memorizing and regurgitating portions of written speeches to answer questions. Christie zeroed in and chritcized Rubio and an inexperienced first-term senator who has no place running for president.
In the last Republican debate before New Hampshire goes to the polls, Christie seized the opportunity and continued hitting Rubio.
“Marco, the thing is this,” Christie said during one heated exchange early in the night, “when you’re president of the United States, when you’re a governor of a state, the memorized 30-second speech where you talk about how great America is at the end of it doesn’t solve one problem for one person.”
The trouble for Rubio began soon after the debate started when the ABC News moderators asked Christie about Rubio’s experience in the U.S. Senate, and Christie pressed his case.
Rubio critics have made much of the fact that his experience is akin to that of much-derided Democratic President Barack Obama, elected in 2008 when a first-term senator.
Rubio’s defense was that his and Obama’s world views are different, not that Obama has simply led the country down the path it is on because of inexperience.
“Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing,” Rubio said.
When Rubio repeated the same line again, Christie sought to reinforce the charge that Rubio is so inexperienced that he relies on well-worn talking points and cannot think on his feet.
“There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody,” Christie said.
Rubio repeated the line enough that someone created a Twitter profile called
Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore did his best to describe Donald Trump’s performance in the 4th Republican debate on Tuesday and he summed up Mr. Trump as, “Stupid. Plain and simple.”
Wilmore continued;
“Contempt for higher learning, critical thinking — or as they called it, “elitism” — was always a strategy for smart guys to get into office. But now those smart guys are getting buried by their own creation of dumb.”
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“Why does she keeps interrupting everybody?” said Trump, as Carly tried to interject while Rand Paul made a statement about Russia and the ease at which misguided policies like implementing a ‘no fly zone’ over Syria could start a war with Putin. Hearing Trump’s question made some members of the Republican audience applauded, then realizing the nature of Trump’s comment, they began booing… ever so slightly.
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Now, a lot of people don’t like the new trade deal by the Obama administration and 11 other countries, and like Donald Trump ignorantly showed in tonight’s debate, a lot of people don’t like the deal although they have no clue about what the deal entails.
In tonight’s debate, Donald Trump was answering a question about TPP, and he went on a rampage talking about China and how they are using the deal to “manipulate their currency” and how much he hates the deal because “it is a deal designed to allow China to come in, as they always do, through the back door.” After spitting his nonsense for well over the allotted time, Rand Paul casually chimed in with, “we might want to point out that China is not part of the deal.”
Trump had nothing else to say.
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Well, that’s what you get when you’re running for your party’s presidential nomination and can’t even average 3% approval in the polls.
With the next Republican debate happening on Fox Business, the network announced the candidates and Chris Christie, who found himself on the previous three debates, will find himself eating at the kids table this time around.
The Network announced candidates must have a polling average of at least 2.5% in the four most recent polls. To make the earlier debate, candidates must average at least 1% in one of the four most recent polls.
Republicans Lindsey Graham, George Pataki and Jim Gilmore did make the cut.
On the main stage of the Fox Business Network debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be:
Before the announcement was made, Christie spoke with a reporter from NBC and said, “either way, I’ll be in Milwaukee Tuesday night debating the big issues of our country, putting my voice onto those issues and that’s what really matters the most. But would I pick it? No of course not.”
Maybe it’s time you go home Christie!
The questions in the last Republican presidential debate were apparently to hard for the bunch of Republicans wanting to occupy the most powerful office on earth, and those “gotcha” questions? Those questions must go! They cannot be asked because the people wanting to be president are incapable of thinking on their feet.
So the group held a meeting and came up with a list of demands for future networks wanting to ask them questions.
The Republican presidential candidates have finalized a long list of demands and questions for networks hosting debates going forward, according to a copy of a letter obtain by the Washington Post.
In the letter, the candidates demanded that networks communicate with candidates directly (as opposed to the Republican National Committee) and that the networks hold a conference call with candidates about the debate format at least a month before the debate. The candidates would then be able to determine whether they wish to participate in the debate.
The campaigns demanded that the debates include 30-second opening and closing statements, and asked that the networks nix lightning rounds and submit graphics with biographical details about the candidates to the campaigns for approval. The candidates also asked that the moderators ask the same number of questions to each candidate and refrain from “gotcha” questions.
The letter obtained by the Post also includes a long list of questions the campaigns would need the networks to answer. The questions cover who the moderators are, how long the debate is, and who will qualify for the debate. They also list things that networks should not include like “candidate-to-candidate questioning,” “reaction shots of members of the audience or moderators during debates,” and “behind shots of the candidates showing their notes.”
Joe Scarborough is a tried and proven Republican, but after listening to Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio in Wednesday’s debate, Joe went on his MSNBC program and concluded, Marco Rubio “flat-out lied to the American people!”
Scarborough was talking about a question the debate moderator asked Rubio about the way he has mismanaged his money including a foreclosure. And the moderator wanted to know how Rubio would manage a multi-trillion dollar economy, when he can’t even manage his own personal finances.
Rubio tried evading the question, then basically called out the moderator as a liar or more politically correct, misrepresenting the truth. But Scarborough was not about being politically correct, he simply stated the truth, a fact, that Rubio “flat-out lied to the American people.” Scarborough pointed out that Rubio is lying about things that are documented in court records.
““I think it was Becky Quick who went down the list of proven things about Marco’s foreclosures and all of Marco’s economic problems. Talking about lying; Marco said ‘I’m not going to answer those lies they’ve all been discredited.’”
“Marco just flat-out lied to the American people, there,” he continued. “And I was stunned that the moderators didn’t stop there and go, ‘Wait a second, these are court records. What are you talking about?’”
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Yep. That should do it. That should teach Megyn Kelly a lesson – never ask Donald Trump a legitimate question at a Republican debate.
After his personal sexist attack in the Fox News host for asking him to comment on his past sexist statements, Donald Trump took to Twitter and retweeted a tweet calling Kelly a “Bimbo.”
The presidential election is in full swing and tonight, the best the Republicans have to offer will strut their stuff on a stage provided by Fox News. It should be a spectacle. But Democratic candidate for president, Bernie Sanders, is making a pretty good guess as to what will happen when the repubs take the stage – appeasing the rich.
“When you watch that debate just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you’re going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of working people,” Sanders said in a recorded interview with Ari Rabin-Havt on SiriusXM’s Progress Channel.
Sanders continued; “They want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires at a time when the rich are getting much richer,” Sanders said. “They want to cut or privatize Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut education, cut the environmental protection agency.”
I must say, I do believe Sanders is correct. The party of the rich is only interested in one thing, and that is finding ways to give more to the rich. And that has nothing to do with the poor or middle class. The sad thing is the poor and middle class are the ones who putting these people in office.
