[US Election 2016] Republican Primary Megathread

[Soames]

If there was a winner it would be Lindsey Graham for the first round. And Carly and Carson won the second. More Carly tho

There was a whiner category?

Carly will fail as she failed as a CEO and failed trying to become a senator.

Well in regards to her Senate campaign, I think any GOP candidate in California knows their place. I think it's more just to have the message represented than it is a genuine attempt at winning.

[May Mays]

"I'm going to make sure kids coming out of college who have student loans up to their eyeballs will have not 2 job offerings, but 3, 4, 5 job offerings. How am I going to do that? With tax cuts..."

"I'm gonna cut your taxes so clean and quick it'll make my bob cut look like a mullet done with a rusty spoon!"

That was an almost direct quote from Cruz's closing statement but that was still just as funny.

I don't know why everybody is saying the Republican Primaries are so boring and uninspiring. It's more entertaining than anything else cable offers year round.

[Marylandonia]

"I'm gonna cut your taxes so clean and quick it'll make my bob cut look like a mullet done with a rusty spoon!"

That was an almost direct quote from Cruz's closing statement but that was still just as funny.

I don't know why everybody is saying the Republican Primaries are so boring and uninspiring. It's more entertaining than anything else cable offers year round.

Trump's contribution entirely.

Reince Priebus is probably somewhere throwing down bottles of xanax and Johnie Walker. Trump did well enough to keep his base support.

[AiliailiA]

There was a whiner category?

Carly will fail as she failed as a CEO and failed trying to become a senator.

Well in regards to her Senate campaign, I think any GOP candidate in California knows their place. I think it's more just to have the message represented than it is a genuine attempt at winning.

Yeah. Losing to Barbara Boxer by ten percentage points is a GOOD result. The time before Bill Jones lost by twenty!

[Eol Sha]

I watched the post-debate analysis done by The Young Turks. Jimmy Dore, who is a comedian for those not in the know, predicted that Trump will see a slight drop (1% or 2%) in the polls and that the media will swarm like piranhas on him, declaring that he is vulnerable. He reasoned that this'll happen because he thinks that Fiorina and Carson will see a bump in their poll numbers and that there are very few Republicans left who are on the fence about Trump that don't already support him.

Thoughts?

[The Land Fomerly Known as Ligerplace]

I watched the post-debate analysis done by The Young Turks. Jimmy Dore, who is a comedian for those not in the know, predicted that Trump will see a slight drop (1% or 2%) in the polls and that the media will swarm like piranhas on him, declaring that he is vulnerable. He reasoned that this'll happen because he thinks that Fiorina and Carson will see a bump in their poll numbers and that there are very few Republicans left who are on the fence about Trump that don't already support him.

Thoughts?

...I agree?

[The Black Forrest]

There was a whiner category?

Carly will fail as she failed as a CEO and failed trying to become a senator.

Well in regards to her Senate campaign, I think any GOP candidate in California knows their place. I think it's more just to have the message represented than it is a genuine attempt at winning.

Usually you put in somebody who will never have a hope in hell of winning anything........oh....never mind.

[The Liberated Territories]

He's center-right, at best.

You think Bernie Sanders is center-right?

Social democracy is a very center-right wing ideology.

[Soames]

Well in regards to her Senate campaign, I think any GOP candidate in California knows their place. I think it's more just to have the message represented than it is a genuine attempt at winning.

Usually you put in somebody who will never have a hope in hell of winning anything........oh....never mind.

I mean it's great that you can be sarcastic and rhetorical but my statement is true. No GOP Senate candidate in that election cycle was winning anyway.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

My first question for the next GOP debate: "You have all stated that the repeal of Obamacare would be either your first task as President, or one of your first tasks in that role. What, if anything, would you replace it with, and please know that if any of you say 'Tax incentives', I will leap across this desk, lean across the podium, and smack the living shit out of you. You don't have Secret Service protection yet, so don't pretend that this won't happen. You first, Governor Bush."

[Prussia-Steinbach]

My first question for the next GOP debate: "You have all stated that the repeal of Obamacare would be either your first task as President, or one of your first tasks in that role. What, if anything, would you replace it with, and please know that if any of you say 'Tax incentives', I will leap across this desk, lean across the podium, and smack the living shit out of you. You don't have Secret Service protection yet, so don't pretend that this won't happen. You first, Governor Bush."

*thick wooden cane is laid on the desk in front of him*

"I take it you all know what one of these is used for in politics."

[Idzequitch]

Even if you don't like Carly Fiorina, her retort to Trump's comment about her face was amazing.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Even if you don't like Carly Fiorina, her retort to Trump's comment about her face was amazing.

I strongly disliked her before she ever entered the race, but yes, that was the best moment of the night for me.

[The Archregimancy]

Really, Bush? Margaret Thatcher? Fuck.

Rarely have I been so amused by a moment from a Republican presidential debate.

[Knokkeheist]

So who is the most politicly close to Ronald Reagan? The best president ever.

[AiliailiA]

An odd choice by Jeb but you could see how that might happen standing there surrounded by Reagan memorabilia. "Think of a woman, think of a woman quick! ... what would Reagan do!?"

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Really, Bush? Margaret Thatcher? Fuck.

Rarely have I been so amused by a moment from a Republican presidential debate.

To be fair, he would have suggested his mother, but remembered at the last minute that she's already on the one dollar bill.

And that was my cheap shot of the week.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

So who is the most politicly close to Ronald Reagan? The best president ever.

None of them, really. Times have changed. Kasich comes somewhat close, as does Jeb. The rest of the actual politicians are far to his right.

[AiliailiA]

So who is the most politicly close to Ronald Reagan? The best president ever.

Why settle for "close"? Just nominate Ronald Reagan and be done with it

[The Archregimancy]

Really, Bush? Margaret Thatcher? Fuck.

Rarely have I been so amused by a moment from a Republican presidential debate.

I take it back.

There was an even more amusing moment in the undercard debate, when Rick Santorum pulled the following out of his arse:

“If you poll Iranians and Iraqis, Shias in the region, more than two-thirds of them believe that the end of the world will come in their lifetime. Why? Because their regime preaches it. They believe in bringing about the end of times."

Leaving aside the fact that Santorum is misrepresenting the Pew Research centre data that is apparently underlying this claim, and appreciating that Santorum is a Catholic rather than an Evangelical Protestant, I wonder if I was alone in noting that Islam teaches that the Second Coming of Jesus will precipitate the end of times.

Can anyone else think of a religion that teaches that the Second Coming of Jesus will precipitate the end of times? Or a political party that's strongly supported by a large group of people who think that the latter might be imminent?

The irony; it burns.

[Knokkeheist]

So who is the most politicly close to Ronald Reagan? The best president ever.

None of them, really. Times have changed. Kasich comes somewhat close, as does Jeb. The rest of the actual politicians are far to his right.

How right as in anarchist and libertarians?

[Yumyumsuppertime]

None of them, really. Times have changed. Kasich comes somewhat close, as does Jeb. The rest of the actual politicians are far to his right.

How right as in anarchist and libertarians?

No, of course not. Rand Paul tries to talk a libertarian game, but he doesn't seem to understand that there's more to it than "Back off on the drug war" and "Let's not intervene as much internationally". As far as anarchism goes, I can see any of them inspiring a revolt by people thinking that no government is better than their government, but that's not the same thing.

[Idzequitch]

Is it just me, or did Jake Tapper & Co. purposefully craft each question in an inflammatory way?

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Is it just me, or did Jake Tapper & Co. purposefully craft each question in an inflammatory way?

Debate questions are meant to be provocative as well as informative. These are people who are hoping to take on what is, in many ways, the most powerful position in the world. If they can't handle dealing with a loaded question effectively, then they don't have any place on that stage.

[Cannabis Islands]

While enjoying the entertainment from Trump, I admit I fucking love trash TV. It appears that some of the candidates made some good points on some issues. I believe that both sides of the foreign policy was argued very well, and this is speaking as someone who is a PaleoConservative on this issue big time. I was glad to hear very little about LGBT rights, however they did have to play to the religious crowd on abortion. But all in all, it was not that bad of the debate.