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Gloves Come Off in Republican Debate
Posted On 14 Feb 2016
With the once-crowded Republican field now down to six, Saturday night’s GOP presidential debate became one of the most vicious of the contest. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio were all noticeably more aggressive in Greenville, while John Kasich and Ben Carson made calls for peace that will likely go unheeded.
“I think we’re fixing to lose this election to Hillary Clinton if we don’t stop this,” Kasich said of the infighting.
For the second debate in a row, the audience played a significant role in the tenor of the evening; Trump was booed loudly and repeatedly while Bush appeared to be the crowd favorite. Once again, Trump claimed the reaction was not spontaneous, accusing his rival of packing the crowd with “special interests and lobbyists.” Considering the gulf between Bush’s debate popularity and his poll numbers, it’s not the wildest conspiracy theory in the world.
Trump and Bush clashed fiercely on Middle Eastern policy. “Jeb is so wrong,” Trump said, referring to Bush’s strategy to defeat ISIS and take out the Assad regime in Syria. “You have to knock out ISIS. You decide what you have to do after. You can’t fight two wars at the same time.”
This led both men down the rabbit hole, with Bush openly mocking Trump for getting his foreign policy information from “the shows” and Trump criticizing Jeb’s older brother for lying the country into the Iraq War. Bush defended W., saying he kept the country safe, to which Trump responded: “The World Trade Center came down. That’s not keeping us safe.”
Rubio and Cruz went at each other with nearly the same ferocity, once again battling over their respective records on illegal immigration. Cruz noted a Univision interview where Rubio said he would not tear up Obama’s amnesty order on his first day, setting the Florida senator up for a pithy retort: “I don’t know how he knows what I said on Univision because he doesn’t speak Spanish.” Cruz then spoke some Spanish to prove otherwise. It seems unlikely, though, that South Carolina voters will give much weight to bilingual abilities when they go to the polls.
For much of the night, it seemed like the two frontrunners – Trump and Cruz – were going to avoid locking horns. If that was the plan, it might have been shaken by the breaking news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death. The subject of Scalia’s replacement became instantly relevant, leading Crus to suggest that Trump would put liberals on the court.
“You are the single biggest liar,” Trump replied. “You’re probably worse than Jeb Bush.”
After the first contests in Iowa and New Hampshire gave us wildly varied results, the South Carolina primary could clarify the course of the election. Trump is expected to win the state, but the establishment candidates are fighting hard to build a coalition to take him out. Right now, the smart money is on a Trump/Cruz/Rubio battle royal, but this election has been full of surprises – we’ve probably not seen the last of them.
Trump all the way, he will make the best president since Reagan.. Jeb bush is blank blank bushie
I am with you on that one Bill
You’re going to love this, to bad it has to come to us through an alternative news site. Mainstream hasn’t been given permission to air it yet….. Including FOX even after I sent it to them.
http://americanactionnews.com/articles/donald-trump-buys-jebbush-com-hilarity-ensues
Trump is a natural counter puncher. I doubt the puppet masters that have been in control of our governments elected choices (not really) would be able to pull him around like they’ve been doing for the past couple of decades with what we have now. I can understand why much of the GOP is worried. There’s a surname getting ready to hit the cess pool they’re standing up to their nose in.
America NEEDS leadership in the White House!
All POTUS candidates “claim” to be Leaders.
In addition to Honesty and Integrity, LEADERSHIP demands ONE other personal quality:
HUMILITY …
sad to say, Donald J. Trump lacks that quality …
which Kicked me OFF his bandwagon.
(IMO, Trump is nothing more than a Bully!)
Personally, I wish Scott Waker were still in the race.
btw, Abraham Lincoln was a “reluctant” POTUS candidate … but for Stephen Douglas, we might never have had Lincoln.
Love of self, and Self Righteousness, are not necessarily Leadership
qualities that I admire.
You cannot Sink our Man. He is the Smartest one of the bunch by far. GO—-TRUMP—-GOi
The word is Smartest!!!! Thank You Ellen.
You better check it again you spelled it the same way.
Followers of Trump will not contradict each other.
I love the way that the Kettle(Trump) is always calling the Pot(Cruz or whoever) black. He has a very forked tongue.
Trump has been right about a lot of things and Megyn was trying her best to take him down. It just didn’t work did it it made him more stronger than any of the rest of them.
Isn’t it strange? The more Trump is attacked, the stronger he becomes, and the more we true conservatives know that he’s our man. Surely, very intelligent Rush knows this too. Thanks for your support, Rush. Go Trump !
Just so you can’t say you never heard: Us “liberal a-holes” are laughing at R’s debates and ego-maniacal mutual destructiveness. They’re on their way to irrelevance, a welcome development as far as I’m concerned.
You DEM’S should be crying at what you have running—–
We’re crying because we can’t choose between two great choices, and you dildo-brains are fighting because you’re stuck with 6 stuffed ducks!
Where are your brains—Clinton heading for jail & Sanders who wants to bankrupt us
We shall see… we shall seeeeeeee…………
Ghostwriter communique’
parallel time 14:13
Input Info Obama the Liberal Idiotic POTUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQDDEuUxQ8c&feature=player_embedded
The DNC are Not DEMS … they are anti-America thugs and LIARS who would subvert the US Constitution for “political success” …
The DNC is a Criminal operation led by D. W-S .. a criminal under 5 USC 2635.101.
LOOK IT UP!
I’ve never seen such a bunch of Republican yo-yos in my life running for a national office! Everyone of them are losers in their chosen fields of expertise!
It has been said that Ted Cruz is looser with the truth than anyone who has ever run for president. If true, that is a remarkable accomplishment because there have been some truly despicable politicians to run in our 230 year history.
TRUMP, I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT KIND OF MORON YOU THINK W IS. HE WOULD NOT HAVE NOT ACTED IN SOME FASHION IF HE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE PLAINS RUNNING INTO THE TWIN TOWERS.
“Plains”???? PLAINS??? My God, you are stupid! The word is “PLANES!” (And they let you asses vote??!!!!).
Don’t you ever question how smart I am. Sometimes my hands don’t work like I would want them to. I may have a physical disability, It is certanly not a mental one. and it’s name is Cerebral Palsy.
I would highly doubt ANYone would pray for a debilitating disease, but for anyone with a debilitating disease to confuse PLAINS with PLANES is not in control of his IQ! An eighth grader knows the difference! And the spelling has a lot more to do with brain function than CP! Take ownership of your weaknesses! TOTAL fail!
MY IQ IS JUST FINE. IF YOU THINK SO OR NOT. SUBJECT IS FINISHED. DON’T SAY ANOTHER WORD IF YOU DON’T WANT ME TO COME BACK AT YOU AGAIN.
OOOoooo… Ah’m jus’ shakin’ in ma boots, PhillyCheese. I’ve had bigger junior high terrorists during teaching than you, little pipsqueak! Now go get some cookies and milk from Mommy and then she can tuck you in for the night. Sleepy times are goood times! Next???
**** OFF
ROFLMBO!!! Oh Baby, THAT was brilliant!!! You just cancelled every past comment you’ve made. I just can’t imagine what **** means… LOLOLOL!
YOU CAN SHAKE HOW AND WHERE EVER HOW YOU LIKE.
Once again, the TEA/REpublican extremists have provided the outside world with mirth and merriment for the day! The “Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest” Award goes to philip meadows • 9 hours ago:
“TRUMP, I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN WHAT KIND OF MORON YOU THINK W IS. HE WOULD NOT HAVE NOT ACTED IN SOME FASHION IF HE HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE PLAINS RUNNING INTO THE TWIN TOWERS.”
Folks, that was the joke that choked the canary! Thank you philip for being the brightest home-fooled student of the decade!
Again, my thanks to you folks for being so cooperative!
Hillary, the most qualified ever. Bernie, the most desirable in my adult lifetime who actually has a chance. We’re gonna leave our even though possibly brokered convention united like never since maybe 1932.
And Trump, or possibly some stop-Trump character, will emerge bloodied by personal attack laden nomination fights. The embittered losers.
The news media just love to stir up thing by being wrong on all the things they talk about which is bull —-
Good Morning Bill, I feel the same way. Can’t believe these people who do not get it.
Looking forward to seeing TRUMP tonight. It should be good.!! He is so far ahead of everyone I should think the others should start dropping out. All this bickering is not good for the Party.
Looking foreward to seeing TRUMP tonight. Should be good.——I can not stand Bush——-