If you do not watch a single other clip from the 2d GOP debate, watch this one!
GOP Debate: Fiorina on Israel, Iran and Planned Parenthood
If you’ve got time, also watch this one too.
Carly Fiorina gets personal discussing drugs
H/t Pistol Pete
Category Archives: Debates
Carly Fiorina for President!
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Filed under Carly Fiorina, Debates, Iran, Israel, Planned Parenthood
ABOUT LAST NIGHT
There is an old canard that says ‘opinions are like anal orifices…everybody has one.’ I certainly have my opinions and you are totally entitled to them.
CNN knew last night would be a ratings bonanza, starring Trump the Insult Dog, so they stretched the misery out for a full three hours. Seriously,the only purpose served by having debates a year out is to narrow the field and for entertainment of the chattering class. I didn’t take notes, but I made a valiant effort at surving, the fact that I’m up at 12:30 every day notwithstanding.
Of the reviews I’ve seen, Carly was definitely the runaway winner. Rubio helped himself as, I feel, Christie did. Trump showed he is in his element when he has the stage to himself to deliver his speeches unchallenged. His mask seemed to be slipping a bit as he looked unprepared next to people who knew about policy and was laid low on several occasions, particularly by Ms. Fiorina.
From the beginning, Joke Tapper and Dana Gash got the food fight going and fed off it like a couple parasites on roadkill.
‘So and so said this about you… do you want to respond?’
‘He said you were ugly and smelled bad. Do you have anything to say?’
44% of the debate was centered around The Donald. It was a full 40 minutes (I checked) before Cruz had a chance to say a word. It took 50 for Huckabee to join the fray.
After Chris Christie brought a little sanity to the show they started discussing issues people are actually concerned about. That left Trump with pretty much little to say.
My previous post has some of the more memorable highlights. There are sure to be more. I’m just waiting to see when the democrats put their sorry-ass candidates on a platform for the country to see.
I CAN’T HELP IT… I WAS BROUGHT UP BAD
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A VIDEO REVIEW OF LAST NIGHT’S CIRCUS
Full confession: I was up late trying to watch the canine and equine performance and didn’t quite make it. There’s so much to cover I’m going to break it into two parts. Most of you have seen some or all of the debate, others may have a life and actually missed it. This is the entire nearly three hour show for the truly masochistic and a lot of short segments with highlights broken down into very short soundbites. If you only have a short time to browse I urge you to watch the exchange between The Donald and Carly Fiorina, who was absolutely amazing. Her comment on Iran and Planned Parenthood was the absolute best.
This is the NY Slimes idea of highlights of the food fight
This got the highst meter rating:
She butchers him like a trussed-up cow
THIS IS IT!!!!
RAND PAUL AND ONE OF THE AMNESTY TWINS, JEB OR MARCO, I DON’T RECALL WHICH, WERE DISCUSSING DRUG TREATMENT. CARLY SHUT THE WHOLE TOPIC DOWN WHEN SHE REVEALED SOMETHING I NEVER KNEW
THIS BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN…DON’T MESS WITH W!!!
Bush: 40 years ago I smoked marijuana, I admit it…
THIS WAS OUTSTANDING FROM CHRISTIE
Chris Christie talks about defunding Planned Parenthood
Fiorina: I wouldn’t change the 10 or 20 dollar bill
Sen. Cruz: Planned Parenthood a ‘criminal enterprise…
Trump, Bush square off over casinos in Florida
Walker to Trump: ‘We don’t need an apprentice in the White House
Bush: Trump should apologize to my wife
Gov. Mike Huckabee compares Donald Trump to Mr. T
Donald Trump: ‘Rand Paul should not be on this stage…’
THE DEBATE HADN’T EVEN STARTED BEFORE HE STARTED TAKING SHOTS
Christie: ‘More than just a wall’ needed to sec…
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Fiorina: Shame on us if we don’t force Obama to veto Planned Parenthood
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THE TRUMPETEER GAZETTE
Well, that’s what the Donald fan club has taken to calling itself. Relax, there’s so much Trump stuff I’m doing two separate posts. As you can well imagine, Trump was all over the talking heads shows yesterday. They love him. They can make fun of him while he’s beating up on other republicans so they don’t need to do it.
I for one took issue with the verbal attacks launched by the Fox inquisitors. I always thought debates were questions posed to some or all of the participants, not singling out one candidate for examination. I wish Trump would have said: Megyn, I’ll be happy to come on your show to answer personal questions, but a debate should be an open forum. Of course, he didn’t, because he craves the attention.
It’s looking more and more to me that The Donald is a plant to create chaos and fully intends to go third party if he doesn’t get the nomination, which I don’t see happening. Hopefully he implodes and people see him for the charlatan he is. In an interview he made the comment ‘she had blood coming out of her eyes, she had blood coming out of wherever.’ Of course, people took that as a woman’s monthly cycle. He came back with: if you think that, you have a dirty mind, or something along those lines.
Hopefully the feeding frenzy will subside but given Trump’s reputation for showmanship I don’t see that happening.
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DELAID DEBAYTE ANULLSISSES
Teck gai ficksed comporter. spel chek duznt werk.
Actually, in the Common Core spelling curriculum, this is correct.
Tech guy spent much of Friday trying to resolve the issues I was having. Hopefully he’s cleared them up for now.
I watched part of Thursday’s debate (flipped back and forth, the Cubs-Giants game was on, what can I say?) For the most part, it was well worth the price of admission. You saw the kind of serious questions of the candidates that you would never, ever see CNN or MSDNC deign to ask a democrat. Of course, everybody wanted to see what The Donald would say and they were not disappointed.
I am one of those who never trusted this huckster, and trust him even less now. He wouldn’t commit to not going third party and he responded to questions like Obie from Nairobi does… with petulance and nastiness. Megyn Kelly is a tough interviewer, but there was real animosity between her and Trump. It appeared to me that Fox planned to ambush him all along, some say at the behest of one Jeb Bush.
Carly Fiorina was clearly the winner of the ‘Happy Hour’ debate, which only family and friends of the candidates were allowed in. The next debate is a little over a month away. Whether she polls strong enough to sit at the big boys’ table remains to be seen. After the smoke cleared, it’s not clear if anybody changed hearts and minds. Phony Frankie Luntz had his focus group, of course, but I never paid any attention to that clown anyway.
I’m posting a whole bunch of videos for those without much of a life, like me, who drop by.
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POST#2… OVERACHEIVING
Tomorrow is the first debate for the subculture known as republican candidates for president.
These are the ten who made it to the varsity team:
Just my opinion, but if you eliminated all but Bush and Trump it could still be the highest-rated debate since Nixon-Kennedy in 1960. People who don’t know politics from mud wrestling will tune in just to see what The Donald has to say. I admit I enjoy watching him tweak the media, I just wish I could trust him. And I don’t for a minute.
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THE TUESDAY GRUDGE–WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Posted by Pistol Pete
As I watched the debate last night I was dumbfounded as to why Romney was not blistering Obama on Benghazi,Iran and so many other foreign policy failings.It seemed like he wanted to be his bestest buddy,agreeing on a lot of what Obama was asserting.It was not until later,when numerous pundits offered their opinions and I watched some of the clips that go up on youtube, almost instantly realized what Romney did was pure genius.
Obama came in itching for a fight,wanting to put as much distance as he could between the two of them and labeling Romney as the second coming of George Bush.All he ultimately accomplished was to come across as rude,condescending,ill-tempered and overall a gigantic phallus.As he went through his histrionics,Romney just smiled politely,no doubt thinking:just keep talking,pal,you’re hanging yourself and you don’t even realize it.The far left were hungry for this type of overt aggression,but it could not have played well with more rational people.
Romney managed to steer the debate from foreign policy back to the economy,which is by far the most important consideration for nearly the whole electorate.Still,he did his research and was prepared for any policy question that came up.He came across as calm,rational,intelligent,a far cry from the divisive style of the current occupant of the People’s House.We will know in a short 14 days which path our nation will tread.I’m more optimistic as the time of judgment draws near.
Filed under Barack Obama, Debates, Economy, Elections, Mitt Romney
See you at the debate tonight!
Oct 16, 2012: Las Vegas, NV, Frank Luntz Focus Group: Romney Dominated 2d Debate [3:54]
I counted 16 Obama 2008 voters and 7 not-Obama 2008 voters in the focus group.
I believe the group was all Undecideds when they started and that the same people are watching each debate, then sitting for this post-debate mini-poll.
In 2008, Obama won Nevada by +12.5%. If I did the math right, that group represents a +30% difference for Obama, which in itself is interesting, the whole group having started as Undecided, KWIM?
It’s a little hard to see all the hands in video, but I counted 6 of the Obama 2008 voters saying they’re sticking with Obama and 9 that had decided by the end of the second debate to vote for Romney.
This is worth watching to hear what these folks had to say.
I especially liked the lady in red, middle row, second from the left. She said she was not Undecided between Obama and Romney; she was Undecided between Romney and Not Voting, but she says, very emphatically, that Romney’s performance in the debates had been extremely impressive!
I was saddened by the two Obama ladies who seemed to be clueless about the devastating impact that Obama Democrats’ economic leadership has wrought on American women or that Obama himself oversees what female White House employees describe as a “workplace that is hostile to women.”
Romney SAID in the second debate that his gubernatorial administration had the MOST women of any state in the union! Did they not HEAR THAT?!
As for that lady in green who said, “I never heard Romney say he wants to outlaw abortion,” ……..argh. Is that the measure of women’s rights in this country? We can legally kill our unborn children? On that, I agree with Feminists for Life:
WOMEN DESERVE BETTER THAN ABORTION!
http://www.feministsforlife.org/news/WDBSMF150.pdf
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THE POST-DEBATE GRUDGE
posted by Pistol Pete
First,on a personal note my first Social Security payment was deposited this morning.Kindly tell all your taxpaying acquainyances to keep working since I really need the money.
Graphic added by CtH:
I suspect all of you are coming here looking for some post-debate snark.Well,you’ve come to the right place.I’m posting late today because I was up very late and didn’t get much sleep.Frequent naps are one of the perks of being a retiree and I exercise that benefit liberally.
It was a little disappointing to me that Romney didn’t shred the amateur as we hoped he would,but the feeling is he did OK.I will post a number of highlights from last night and the first item on this thread is the entire debate in case you missed it.I know chrissy is televisually challenged so she can watch the carnage for herself.The left had already predetermined that obama won the debate.That’s no surprise.Tingles almost soiled himself,calling it the best debate he’d ever seen.The bar was set so low compared to the last debacle he’d have been considered victorious if he didn’t end the debate with his pants around his ankles.
Romney fumbled a little,which is understandable given the pressure he was under in a hostile environment.The behavior of Candy ‘Creepy’ Crowley was absolutely appalling.Half the questions she chose were virulently anti-Romney and at the most critical time of the debate interjected herself to save Obama’s ass.The night got off to a bad start when the first shot showed her head seemingly floating in space because she wore a black dress against a dark background.Whoever told that broad black was thinning?
Obama was once again shown to be a small man capable of nothing but big rhetoric and small results.Every time Romney told the truth he kept saying ‘that’s not true’ but could offer nothing substantive to back up his boasts and accusations.Such is often the case when you’re dealing with adolescents.My sense is that a great number of good people who were taken in by the hype have come to see him for what he really is.Nothing he did or said last night did anything to move them.Maybe I’m being overly optimistic but I can sense a possible 40 state blowout in the offing.
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THE MONDAY PRE-DEBATE GRUDGE
Posted by Pistol Pete
Were I a delusional,cold,unfeeling,aloof egomaniac convinced that I alone am the arbiter of all things, I would assume all of you await this post every day with bated breath,marveling at my sage wisdom,hanging on every syllable, just to make you wish you were half as smart as me.But then I would be the _resident and not a pot-bellied old white man trying to do my part to enlighten and entertain my friends.
Tomorrow is round two of the epic shtruggle between good and consummate evil.Barry claims he was ‘too nice’ at the last debacle and I look for him to try to pull a Biden by attacking Romney.This will endear him to the dregs who will vote for him no matter what,but do little,I believe, to help him with the independents he must have to con his way back into office.If Romney is as smart as I think he is,he will be well-prepared for the inevitable attacks on his 47% comments,Bain Capital, and blaming House Republicans for the Benghazi massacre.
Obama is desperate.He’s never faced an actual opponent where he had to stand on his own and not have his victory predetermined.I heard this morning there were rumors that the questions for this townhall-type forum were pre-screened,which is not supposed to happen.It would come as no surprise if it were true,since the media will do anything to save his bacon.In an intimate setting like this,Obama can seem human,almost lifelike, even though his forte is reading prepared speeches to adoring crowds.
Hopefully we see the real Mitt tomorrow night.Humble,resolute,in command of the facts,capable of offering solutions without the ‘malarkey’ we heard so much about from the Mouth That Roared last week.Obama knows he’s losing and desperation breeds contempt.When he starts to stutter and stammer for words he looks like a drowning man grasping for a lifeline.The Crowfoot will doubtless try to help him and Mitt must be ready to answer.This will not be a fair fight.They never are.
A blast from my HB past from CtH: In the spirit of Pete’s graphical contribution 🙂
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