The Texas GOP Debate

~ Clarissa

I’m back to the world of presidential debating, people. Yay! Let’s see if our opinions on the debate coincide.

19:43 – Carson can afford to be conciliatory since he lost the race.

19:48 – “We either do or don’t have a country,” Trump said. And he’s right, this is the central question of this election cycle. What does a nation-state mean any longer?

19:53 – Trump said that Romney ran a horrible campaign. Which is true.

19:54 – wow, Trump is on a roll. He wiped the floor with Rubio with his “I’m the only person here who hired anybody.” The fellow is deadly in a debate.

19:58 – Cruz is promising to stand up for the working men and women. What a fool. This is the perfect entry for Trump to hit him with Goldman Sachs.

20:02 – now they are actually discussing Vicente Fox’s “fucking wall” comment. Classy as always.

20:06 – everybody is yelling over everybody else. I so hope somebody gets socked in the face.

20:09 – Rubio is such a sleaze ball. He doesn’t even have the courage of his opinions and can’t say honestly that he will get the children of immigrants deported.

20:15 – Rubio uses himself and Cruz as proof that GOP is diverse. And then he’ll wonder why Hispanics hate his pasty mug.

20:17 – Kasich: “I think Hispanics like me!” That’s simply pathetic. Do they know who you are, boring fellow with zero recognition value?

20:26 – Trump ridicules Cruz’s pathetic filibuster. Good for him. “We should get an apology from Ted.” Hear, hear!

20:28 – Trump called Cruz “a crazy zealot.” That’s exactly why I detest Cruz. He looks like a crazy zealot.

20:38 – Rubio is actually right when he makes fun of Trump’s obsession with “lines around the states.”

20:40 – Finally, Rubio manages to get in a few punches against Trump.

20:44 – Carson sounds like a sociopath. “Healthcare is not a right”? Who the hell says this kind of thing?

20:50 – will these people ever wake up and notice that nobody is dying on the sidewalks because of the already existing Medicaid and Medicare?

20:59 – is it true what Rubio is saying about 83% of the budget going to Social Security, Medicaid and debt servicing?

21:04 – so I hate Trump, right? But I see him battle these slick, smug idiots Cruz and Rubio, and I want him to beat them badly. I’m not surprised he’s winning the nomination.

21:11 – oh, enough with Israel already. It’s becoming creepy.

21:16 – if Rubio can’t win a state even after all the effort he put into this debate, he’s hopeless.

21:24 – Of course, the Syria ceasefire is a joke. Putin is laughing his head off.

21:27 – Rubio is absolutely right: the people of Libya removed Gaddafi. They hated him so much that they dragged him out of his palace and raped him with the handle of a shovel. Only America-centrist degenerates pretend that the removal of Gaddafi was up to Americans. Good job, Rubio!

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47 thoughts on “The Texas GOP Debate”

  2. Trump’s answer on ‘seasonal’ migrant workers was incoherent.

    ‘If I can’t even hire worker from abroad in the up-season then might as well close the doors’.

    Motherfucker that’s EXACTLY what you propose!

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  3. Trump is coming across as calm and reasonable in tone, so he’s winning the debate so far.

    If Cruz and Rubio want to knock Trump off first place in the primary election, they’ve GOT to go after him much more effectively than they’re doing right now.

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        1. Since when is the truth a mantra? The Democrats will either run Hillary, and lose in a moderately close election, or run Bernie and lose in a landslide. 🙂

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  6. “Mexico says a bad thing? Make the wall 10 feet taller!”

    Jesus, these idiots and the idiots who support them.

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    2. Trump is not so secretly trying to win a federal government bid for a very huge construction project by undercutting his imaginary competition.
      Also the only way Mexico pays for a wall is to prevent Americans from crossing the border, which Trump apparently thinks will happen? Trump keeps saying the country is like Weimar Germany but people keep coming in — which is it?

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      1. “Also the only way Mexico pays for a wall is to prevent Americans from crossing the border,”

        Or to prevent Mexicans from reentering the country. I don’t know much about the current situation but as late as the 1990s returning to Mexico was far more difficult for illegals than crossing into the US. It was also financially risky because Mexican officials tended to confiscate everything from those they caught.

        I really doubt if things are better now….

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  9. “Rubio uses himself and Cruz as proof that GOP is diverse.”

    Just like Hillary uses her gender as proof that she’s an outsider?

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        1. The Democrats have already put a non-pasty guy in the White House. The diversity contest gas been settled. And it won’t be rebrgotiated by the likes of Cruz and Rubio.

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          1. The problem with Cruz and Rubio is that because they’re Cuban their particular immigration experience process (or really that of their parents) is so far removed from how most immigrants who’ve immigrated within the last 40 years experience immigration, whether they get in through work visas, student visas, a refugee program or through family sponsorship. Interestingly enough, Cruz doesn’t mention immigrating as a child now, mostly because of the whole dual citizenship question but also because it’s probably traumatic.

            They are both drinking far too much. They are living a fast life,” he told Liberty University at his campaign launch speech last March. “When I was three, my father decided to leave my mother and me . . . he got on a plane and he flew back to Texas, and he decided he didn’t want to be married anymore and he didn’t want to be a father to his three-year-old son.” The departure caught Wren by surprise: “I had no farewell. It seemed to me that he just disappeared.” The collapse had been a time coming, Gaede says, with Rafael’s habit of being at the bar with a particular work pal. He was fond of Cuba Libre (rum, cola, lime), and tequila in salt-rimmed margaritas. “They almost lived in bars downtown. On paydays, I’d have to go find him in the bar to get my paycheque from him,” Gaede says. Soon after, he left the Cruz company.

            Kasich’s talking about his grandparents: it’s just not the same.

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      2. OT observation: It’s really quite disturbing how quickly their heads (Rubio, Cruz) disappear into their necks for men so relatively young.

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        1. “It’s really quite disturbing how quickly their heads (Rubio, Cruz) disappear into their necks”

          As long as candidates’ physiques are fair game now, at least Cruz and Rubio don’t have cankles like Hillary does.

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          1. :-p
            Ooh cankles! Since when do pants show cankles on anyone?
            I gave the older candidates a pass on their necks (Trump, Kasich, Carson) because they’re old and Carson has a neck. South of 50, you should have a neck, wrinkled or not.
            Also shallow: Rubio kept making death eyes and gripping the podium when he was waiting for others to speak.
            Trump looked unusually peeved when he wasn’t speaking.
            Cruz did quite well.
            Carson was comatose.
            Kasich begged for permission to speak at one point. He’s done.

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            1. “South of 50, you should have a neck, wrinkled or not.”

              Okay, more personal information than you probably want to know: 🙂

              Since you asked, I’m south of 70, but genetic luck has kept me slender all the years, and the skin on my neck has always been as taut as that of a skinny teenager. (Chubby adolescents have more of a double chin than I do.)

              As for cankles, Hillary is 69-years-old and, let’s be honest, rather fat. That extra weight can’t be all above her knees. Not only am I slender, I’m on high-powered diuretics for (well-controlled) hypertension, and I can assure you that there isn’t a single extra drop of water, or edema, anywhere in my body, including my lower extremities. That medication keeps me so dried out that even at my advanced age, I don’t have to get up even once during the night to (ahem) relieve myself. All those fifty-year-old young men in all those advertisements on the cable news shows can eat their hearts out. 🙂

              Someday, when I’m as immodest as commenters Vic Crain and Editor (Retired), I’ll also post a recent photo avatar showing how well preserved I am…

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              1. can assure you that there isn’t a single extra drop of water, or edema, anywhere in my body, including my lower extremities. That medication keeps me so dried out that even at my advanced age, I don’t have to get up even once during the night to (ahem) relieve myself.
                You’re … a raisin?
                Good for you!

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  11. Why didn’t these people attack Trump before? They let him dominate for 6 fucking months. Too little, too late.

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      1. “Only America-centrist degenerates pretend that the removal of Gaddafi was up to Americans.”

        Even Hillary admits that the U.S. bombing of Gaddafi’s defenses led directly to his fall — and to her credit, she acknowledges that urging Obama to do that while she was Secretary of State was a major mistake on her part.

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        1. Gaddafi was doomed, the people had too much rage against him. And if course Hillary blames the US for this. She wants American liberals to vote for her. And nothing enrages them more than the idea that the US might not be to blame for something somewhere on the planet.

          I don’t like Rubio but when he’s right, he’s right.

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          1. “She wants American liberals to vote for her. And nothing enrages them more than the idea that the US might not be to blame for something somewhere on the planet.”

            You certainly won’t get any argument from me about this statement! 🙂

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  21. What incredibly blah! closing speeches! It will be interesting to see how all this turns out on the big primary dates of 1 and 15 March.

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