GOP Debate Thread 1: Clown Car Getting Lighter

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We’re down to five passengers in the GOP clown car now: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson. Carson’s sleeping in the backseat, Kasich is sitting as far away from Trump as he can get, Rubio’s installing the latest OS in his debating card, and Cruz is totally creeping everyone out as usual.

They’re showing this debacle, I mean debate, on cnn.com and supposedly you can watch it stream over the web without logging in to a cable account tonight.

Here’s out first thread to point and laugh. Donald Trump’s going to be on the attack and under attack, and the other candidates are really getting desperate now; it should be … colorful. With any luck a fist fight will break out.

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511 comments
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:34:33pm

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:34:55pm
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Dr. Matt  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:36:10pm
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:36:11pm

It’s an opera house… why not an opera singer?

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:36:33pm

I tuned into a debate and got the start to the Daytona 500 by mistake.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:36:49pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

I tuned into a debate and got the start to the Daytona 500 by mistake.

That’s quite an improvement.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:37:01pm

Carson hit his mark this time. Progress!

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Belafon  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:37:02pm

re: #4 freetoken

It’s an opera house… why not an opera singer?

Because it’s not over until Super Tuesday.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:37:48pm

re: #6 thedopefishlives

That’s quite an improvement.

Same level of carnage, but Daytona still makes far more sense.

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:37:48pm

re: #4 freetoken

It’s an opera house… why not an opera singer?

The show’s over when the fat ass claims victory?

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:38:15pm

Now that we’ve had the intro, on to commercials.

Yegods.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:38:26pm

re: #9 Targetpractice

Same level of carnage, but Daytona still makes far more sense.

Oh, trust me, I’d much rather watch a car wreck - slow-motion or NASCAR speed - than watch the impending disaster that is the debate.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:38:32pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

I tuned into a debate and got the start to the Daytona 500 by mistake.

The big difference is, unlike the Daytona 500, you won’t see anyone turning left at the debate.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:38:34pm

“I could shoot Marco on stage right now and I’d still get all the votes. Hell, I’d get more votes, because I’d take his. And I should shoot him, because he’s Mexican. I don’t even know how he got here.”

//he didn’t really say that

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BeachDem  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:38:36pm

Repeating from TWO threads ago—because we probably all need a little Democratic “stuff” while the clowns are performing:

Wow—I have some serious catching up to do here, folks. But just got back from the Hillary GOTV rally. Woman is amazing—don’t know how she does it. The photo somebody took of her with me didn’t come out (of course) but I got several good shots—front row, baby.

After she talked, she went around the room shaking hands, taking photos with anyone who asked (the woman is a selfie queen!) and talking to everyone. There were about 500 in the room, and probably another 4-500 outside—they only had one scanner thingy, so many didn’t make it in time. Not bad for an event they put together less than 2 days ago.

A few of my pics:

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:38:38pm

“USA” chant breaks out… just like on a wrestling show…

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:39:09pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

I tuned into a debate and got the start to the Daytona 500 by mistake.

I think demolition derby might be a closer analogue.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:39:31pm

re: #16 freetoken

“USA” chant breaks out… just like on a wrestling show…

No right-wing event is complete without faux patriotism.

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Skip Intro  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:39:53pm

re: #14 Pawn of the Oppressor

“I could shoot Marco on stage right now and I’d still get all the votes. Hell, I’d get more votes, because I’d take his. And I should shoot him, because he’s Mexican. I don’t even know how he got here.”

He could say that and the crowd would cheer for five straight minutes. Then CNN would ask Marco “how do you feel about that?”.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:40:20pm

re: #15 BeachDem

The quick eye test says a lot of diversity in the crowd there. Good.

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:40:31pm

When the candidates start shaving their chests and oiling their bodies, then you know things have gone a wee bit too far into the wrestling paradigm.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:40:35pm

re: #19 Skip Intro

He could say that and the crowd would cheer for five straight minutes. Then CNN would ask Marco “how do you feel about that?”.

“I’m a Cuban!”/

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:41:25pm

Will Scalia-worship take more time… or terrorism mongering?

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:41:32pm

I’m watching a hockey game and I keep flipping to CNN and all I see is commercials. There is a sign in that I think. Our media doesn’t take this any more serious than a stupid sitcom that sucks.

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Skip Intro  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:41:57pm

re: #22 Big Beautiful Door

“I’m a Cuban!”/

“So you’re a wet foot instead of a wetback. No difference.”

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:42:13pm
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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:42:34pm

I think these debate rules will be among the many casualties of this primary season.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:42:38pm

re: #22 Big Beautiful Door

“I’m a Cuban!”/

“I’d smoke him like one. I would. I’ve got my gun. I call her Ivana. Haha! I’d shoot Marco, but he’s a nice guy… He is, really, folks. He’s a nice guy but he’s kind of girly. And I’m afraid if I shot him, the other Cuban over there would hump his corpse. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. Make America great again!”

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:42:39pm

blah blah blah, talk as long as you want you will anyway.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:42:53pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:42:53pm

re: #21 freetoken

When the candidates start shaving their chests and oiling their bodies, then you know things have gone a wee bit too far into the wrestling paradigm.

I’d really like to see mayhem with folding steel chairs at this GOP debate.

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Belafon  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:43:02pm

re: #26 jaunte

You know, going backwards is also a direction.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:43:21pm

re: #26 jaunte

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The kind you acquire when you jump out of an airplane with no parachute.

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:43:31pm

“the abyss of destruction!…”

Sounds like a good lyric in a late 1960’s rock hit.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:43:56pm

Ah yes, another round of “America is falling into the abyss, but it’s the greatest country on Earth and I want to be the president of it.”

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:43:57pm

Did you know Kasich is the son of a mailman?

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:20pm

re: #34 freetoken

“the abyss of destruction!…”

Sounds like a good lyric in a late 1960’s rock hit.

A bad one. Eve of Destruction, yes, but “heading off the abyss”? That makes no damn sense.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:22pm

This is a must read by Matt Taibi.

Try this link:

rollingstone.com

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:23pm

re: #33 Brian J.

The kind you acquire when you jump out of an airplane with no parachute.

That one had me laughing out loud. Well done.

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:24pm

re: #34 freetoken

“the abyss of destruction!…”

Sounds like a good lyric in a late 1960’s rock hit.

Getting to the abyss of destruction is going to be a plank of the 2016 GOP platform.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:31pm

Abyss of Destruction would be a good band name.

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lawhawk  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:35pm

re: #2 freetoken

Think Trump was both the babyface and the heel.

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bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:47pm
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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:49pm

Marco, Reagan and Bush won by preying on America’s fears. It has been the bedrock of the Republican Party since 1964.

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:52pm

Trump should say,

Me, good. Them, bad. You’re welcome, America.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:44:55pm

Is Rubio talking about New American Century?

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:05pm

The “young, charismatic” candidate talking about the Reagan Revolution.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:14pm

Texas provided Ted’s family with hope. As if we didn’t have enough reasons to loathe the place.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:15pm

Wolf Blitzer and Hugh Hewitt on the same stage asking questions.

My brain cells won’t survive the night.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:23pm

re: #31 EPR-radar

I’d really like to see mayhem with folding steel chairs at this GOP debate.

If nobody’s gutted before I run out of Samoas and Yoo-Hoo, I’m outta here.

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:29pm

If a young kid wants to be like Kasich will they have to lie, deceive people, be uncaring and a general overall dick?

I wouldn’t recommend that to the kids…and I think all the GOP candidates set a bad example for anyone to shoot for.

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bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:36pm

re: #36 freetoken

Did you know Kasich is the son of a mailman?

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:54pm

Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:45:56pm

Cruz gets in lots of trigger words in his little intro.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:46:04pm

Trump pretty much saying we’re all a bunch of losers.

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:46:21pm

I am a robot, we are great. please plug me in

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:46:40pm

If we’re listening to him, then he’s right.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:46:48pm

I’m actually looking forward to voting for Trump on Tuesday!*

We are go for Operation Ratfuck Cruz

*I am in the Holy Texas Empire, for anyone thinking I’ve lost my fucking mind

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Belafon  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:46:59pm

re: #48 Brian J.

Texas provided Ted’s family with hope. As if we didn’t have enough reasons to loathe the place.

There are a lot of Texans on LGF, but Texas did show the Cruz family that, no matter how crazy you are, you too can become senator if you just put an R after your name.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:47:01pm

And 20,000 Karma! Thanks, Decauter Deb!

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:47:24pm

re: #58 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m actually looking forward to voting for Trump on Tuesday!

We are go for Operation Ratfuck Cruz

When the War Crimes Trials start, this post will be submitted as evidence against you.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:47:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:47:57pm

Trump taking credit for immigration being talked about it because nobody was talking about it before he did…

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:48:10pm

WOO! PROCESS!!

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:48:24pm

His mouth moves yet he says nothng….

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Belafon  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:48:32pm

re: #58 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m actually looking forward to voting for Trump on Tuesday!

We are go for Operation Ratfuck Cruz

I’m voting Democratic, because the Democratic primaries are proportional, and I want Clinton to win Texas by the largest vote possible.

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:48:40pm

re: #59 Belafon

Texas showed the Cruz family that a little false piety will take you a long long way.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:48:57pm
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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:49:26pm

re: #58 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m actually looking forward to voting for Trump on Tuesday!

We are go for Operation Ratfuck Cruz

I cast my ballot today in the TN primary (Early voting). I decided that since Hillary was a given, and TN isn’t going to go blue anytime in a geologic timescale, I cast mine for Trump. Figured it was the best way to help the Democratic Party.

RBS

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:49:45pm
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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:49:54pm

re: #57 Brian J.

If we’re listening to him, then he’s right.

I heard Kasich’s intro and went back to hockey. You folks outside Ohio want to know how many times we Ohioans have been reminded Johnny Kasich had a mailman dad. I lost count…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:50:00pm

Ef these cretins. Not going to watch or listen. Reading the live commentary here is hard enough to stomach.

Re: the mass shooting. I had to.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:50:00pm

So Ted, why not just grant them all citizenship and put the same pressure on employers? Oh wait, makes too much sense.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:50:06pm

re: #38 thecommodore

Link is broken

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:50:13pm

Cruz: Arizona is spending hundreds of millions of dollars less now on prisons and welfare because Arizona made tough immigration laws and all the illegals left. And wages went up and all is now wonderful in Arizona.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:50:31pm
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:50:51pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:51:04pm

Rubio has totally flipped on immigration, now pushing the empty “Secure the Border First!” BS.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:51:08pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cruz: Arizona is spending hundreds of millions of dollars less now on prisons and welfare because Arizona made tough immigration laws and all the illegals left. And wages went up and all is now wonderful in Arizona.

He still wouldn’t move there though. Plenty of desert to bury the bodies, but Arizonan souls are kind of dry and crunchy.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:51:17pm

Mentions of Arizona immigration policy -
Trump brings up his endorsement by Sheriff Joe “Stormfront” Arpaio… to audience cheers.

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:51:39pm

re: #38 thecommodore

This is a must read by Matt Taibi.

Bad link, good article. This bit is a real gem:

Moreover, there’s evidence that human polling undercounts Trump’s votes, as people support him in larger numbers when they don’t have to admit their leanings to a live human being. Like autoerotic asphyxiation, supporting Donald Trump is an activity many people prefer to enjoy in a private setting, like in a shower or a voting booth.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:52:01pm

AH!!!! I was waiting for someone to call trump on the hotel thing.

RBS

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:52:08pm

Why isn’t Donny politically incorrect (TM) enough to call Ike’s operation by its name- Operation Wetback!

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:52:12pm

Sons of illegal immigrants bitching that immigration is broken.

Oy fuckin’ vey.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:52:24pm

“Shitty jobs nobody else wanted to do”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:52:38pm

Apparently Trump justifies hiring immigrants at his place in Florida because it’s so hot hot hot there and nobody else will work there.
Or something like that.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:52:58pm

And now The Donald drags Willard onto stage and eviscerates him for all to see.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:09pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently Trump justifies hiring immigrants at his place in Florida because it’s so hot hot hot there and nobody else will work there.
Or something like that.

bullshit.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:18pm

re: #14 Pawn of the Oppressor

“I could shoot Marco on stage right now and I’d still get all the votes. Hell, I’d get more votes, because I’d take his. And I should shoot him, because he’s Mexican. I don’t even know how he got here.”

//he didn’t really say that

Yet.

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:21pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:24pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently Trump justifies hiring immigrants at his place in Florida because it’s so hot hot hot there and nobody else will work there.
Or something like that.

But yet, their suggestion is that we fire all the illegals and somehow people will magically want to work these jobs because, uhhh… America fuck yeah or something like that. They’re kind of vague on that point.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:30pm

re: #81 EPR-radar

Bad link, good article. This bit is a real gem:

This is a must read by Matt Taibi.

re: #38 thecommodore

Try this link:

rollingstone.com

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:49pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:51pm

LOL. Trump says it’s ok for him to hire illegals because he actually hires people and Rubio hasn’t hired anyone.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:51pm

Trump now turns to eviscerated Rubio by pointing out he’s hired tens of thousands of people.

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b.d.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:53pm

MITTENS SUCKED!

GOP crowd cheers.

Strange days indeed.

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:53:59pm

So, I take it no shots fired on dreadnought SMS Trump?

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:01pm

re: #89 Romantic Heretic

Yet.

Trump is giving Rubio some seriously side-eye

RBS

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:05pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently Trump justifies hiring immigrants at his place in Florida because it’s so hot hot hot there and nobody else will work there.
Or something like that.

They used to say something like that about Louisiana plantations.

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:11pm

You have also fired and send thousands of jobs overseas, you big mouthed jerk.

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TedStriker  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:16pm

re: #62 thecommodore

“Excuse me while I whip this out” from Blazing Saddles

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:29pm
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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:43pm

re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth

And the clueless crowd eats it up.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:54:46pm

re: #80 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Mentions of Arizona immigration policy -
Trump brings up his endorsement by Sheriff Joe “Stormfront” Arpaio… to audience cheers.

And the Arizona Dept. of Corrections has seen its budget rise from $948 million in FY 2012 to $1,049 million in FY 16.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:55:03pm

celebrity apprentice…

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:55:14pm

Now Ted playing to the cheap seats.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:55:27pm

re: #99 Decatur Deb

They used to say something like that about Louisiana plantations.

The expression “sold down the river” comes from those days. A fate to be dreaded and avoided at all costs.

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lawhawk  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:55:55pm

re: #95 Targetpractice

Trump now turns to eviscerated Rubio by pointing out he’s hired tens of thousands of people.

And had to fire tens of thousands too. Those four corporate bankruptcies come complete with mass layoffs. Atlantic City couldn’t be reached for comment.

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:04pm

The CNN video hasn’t shown the outer two wannabes in this whole discussion…

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:08pm

“They say Mexicans give us our food and that goes away if we build my wall. Well folks I have a solution. We’ll eat them. That’s right… And look, I know what you’re saying, they taste terrible and they’re stringy and tough, but that’s because of all that running they do! The wall will slow them down. They’ll be tender and juicy and cook up just right. Trust me, Trump has a plan.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:23pm

Cruz accuses Trump of contributing to politicians who came up with the immigration policies that Trump now rails against.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:25pm

We’ve got candidates on stage literally sprinting toward nationalism.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:39pm

When trump is elected, he’s going to appoint Cruz ambassador to Canada //So_Nice_if_true

RBS

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:41pm

re: #109 freetoken

The CNN video hasn’t shown the outer two wannabes in this whole discussion…

$20 has it they’re the next two to drop out. And then there were three…

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:45pm

Cruz now finally finds his spine, but a little too late to make much difference.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:49pm

Trump is complaining about the audience, not enough of his cheerleaders.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:56:51pm

Liked how Cruz gave some details about something, whereas Rubio only said “google it.”

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:57:17pm

re: #117 De Kolta Chair

Liked how Cruz gave some details on something, whereas Rubio said “google it.”

“I googled your mom.”

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:57:41pm
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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:57:48pm

re: #116 The Vicious Babushka

Trump is complaining about the audience, not enough of his cheerleaders.

Everybody realizes what a raging douchecanoe you are, you stupid shit. Hell, even half your “fans” are only voting for you because you’re not a Democrat. Grow a pair and stop being so vain.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:57:51pm

Nothing but mudslinging.
I love it!

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:58:02pm

Does Cruz really not know that the Gang of 8 isn’t a permanent institution but an ad hoc group cooperating on a single bill?

Trump switches gears and attacks him with a legitimate criticism.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:58:04pm

Like Ted knows what it’s like to be liked in Washington.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:58:24pm

CRUZ is giving advice on how to be liked in washington. Excuse me while I wipe the soda off my monitor

RBS

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:58:39pm

This is the sort of fighting that might have made a different months ago, Ted. Now, you’ve spent so much time with your head up Donald’s ass for anybody to want to settle for you.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:20pm
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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:31pm

Thus far I have heard nothing of issue.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:37pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:46pm
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:55pm

Kasich wants a permanent non-citizen population?

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:56pm

Kasich trying to be the sane man amongst the lunatics.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 5:59:56pm

Kasich sounding somewhat sane.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:00:11pm

Presidential candidates who received a lower share of the vote than George HW Bush’s 1992 share (37.45%) in the last 100 years:

Alf Landon, R 1936
John Davis, D 1924
James Cox, D 1920

McGovern, Mondale, and Goldwater all did better.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:00:22pm

There is some weird vibration going through my house that sounds like a snow blower (none of the neighbors are running a snow blower)

It must be all the hot air coming over the Internets.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:00:32pm

Carson: “Blame Canada!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:00:40pm

re: #134 The Vicious Babushka

There is some weird vibration going through my house that sounds like a snow blower (none of the neighbors are running a snow blower)

It must be all the hot air coming over the Internets.

Fish Farts.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:00:42pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s pandering to the wrong crowd. Sanity may get you points in the general election, but apparently, to win the GOP nomination, you have to jam the rudder hard right until the ship keels over.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:01:05pm

re: #130 freetoken

Kasich wants a permanent non-citizen population?

Service Guarantees Citizenship.

RBS

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:01:07pm

“Look at this guy over here. This yutz. This creepy cadaver guy, folks do you trust him? If I had a guy not show up to work as often as him, I’d fire him. You’re fired, Ted! America says you’re fired. I mean honestly, doesn’t he look like a dead body? Do you trust a guy who looks like that? Really, just look. LOOK. Camera guy, hey! Psst! *snaps* Zoom in on that and look real close. Creepy folks. Just creepy.”

(I’m not even watching, I’m just channeling Double Evil With Cheese Trump.)

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:01:08pm

re: #130 freetoken

Kasich wants a permanent non-citizen population?

It’s been done.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:01:58pm

Kasich and now Carson pushing for creating a non-citizen worker class. Good enough to do our dirty work, not to be a citizen.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:02:23pm

Nicely played, Kragar!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:02:37pm

the fucking wall…

Just got 10 feet taller.

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

144
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:02:55pm

Wolf, you should have asked that question eight goddamn months ago!

145
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:03:06pm

“The wall got 10 feet taller”

What an asshole.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:03:06pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

Kasich trying to be the sane man amongst the lunatics.

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kasich sounding somewhat sane.

“Sincerity Sanity is the key. If you can fake that, you’ve got it knocked.”

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:03:19pm

re: #129 klys (maker of Silmarils)

[Embedded content]

Damn. Another bad day in American.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:03:43pm

$10-$12 Billion?

BULLSHIT!

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:03:59pm

re: #148 Targetpractice

$10-$12 Billion?

BULLSHIT!

$10-$12B for what?

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:06pm

re: #148 Targetpractice

$10-$12 Billion?

BULLSHIT!

Prefab concrete?

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:10pm

Trump, who repeated a woman who called Ted Cruz a “pussy,” just denounced Vincente Fox for saying, “I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,”

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:16pm

re: #146 Decatur Deb

“Sincerity Sanity is the key. If you can fake that, you’ve got it knocked.”

I think you mean “If you can fake not having it, you’ve got it made.”

With Trump as Commander in Chief, I look forward to the Mexican army invading my home.

CHYNA

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:17pm

Trump has no problems with trade wars.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:25pm

Umm… Donald? The Great Wall of China was built with slave labor. Then again, you probably don’t have a problem with that.

155
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:27pm

“The wall just got 10 feet taller.” There’s a Masonic conspiracy joke in there somewhere.

156
Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:44pm
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:47pm

They are all giving Trump a lot of time to play strongman.

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:48pm

good one there Marco

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:04:49pm

And we’ll have an elite force to guard the wall, and they will have their own code of conduct, and be a YUGE legend /Game_of_Trumps

RBS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:03pm

another good one Marco.

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:12pm

re: #130 freetoken

Kasich wants a permanent non-citizen population?

re: #131 Targetpractice

Kasich trying to be the sane man amongst the lunatics.

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kasich sounding somewhat sane.

Dnn’t be fooled. He is the devil! It always sounds good. Wait until the legislation is written and then you’ll see the meanie details. He’ll take some souls…

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:19pm

SLAP!!!!

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MsJ  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:24pm

re: #151 thecommodore

Trump, who repeated a woman who called Ted Cruz a “pussy,” just denounced Vincente Fox for saying, “I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,”

Trump has dropped the F bomb on the campaign trail. There’s video on YouTube.

Fuck Trump. Sideways.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:33pm

re: #150 freetoken

Prefab concrete?

Won’t even cover all the land he’ll have to buy to build that wall, assuming nobody refuses to sell or takes him to court over it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:37pm

oooh, I like this Marco.

167
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:05:45pm

Watch out, Marco. The ladies are going to start throwing their panties on the stage.

168
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:00pm

Donny, if they all devalue their currency, then our currency is strong. Isn’t that winning? Or do real winners need wheelbarrows to carry their cash?

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:15pm

Marco is bringing the PAIN.

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Skip Intro  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:19pm

re: #139 Pawn of the Oppressor

I really like your description of the “debate”. You cut right through the bullshit and get to the essence.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:23pm

Marco 3.0 apparently came with a testicles.exe file.

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:24pm

re: #164 MsJ

Trump has dropped the F bomb on the campaign trail. There’s video on YouTube.

Fuck Trump. Sideways.

The F-bomb from Trump was just a matter of time. The N-bomb will be news, if/when it happens.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:45pm

The audience needs less squeal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:49pm

Trump is losing it.

hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:06:55pm

And Marco is getting ready to deliver his trademark “Cuban Crusher”…. and the count is 1, 2 and Trump kicks out at the last second.

RBS

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:05pm

re: #171 Targetpractice

Marco 3.0 apparently came with a testicles.exe file.

Apparently the robot was able to sense its impending doom.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:14pm

It’s just a screamfest now.

178
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:16pm

gads he is so full of crap!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:33pm

re: #171 Targetpractice

Marco 3.0 apparently came with a testicles.exe file.

Rat. Corner.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:36pm

re: #177 The Vicious Babushka

It’s just a screamfest now.

So just like listening to a Rush Limbaugh episode.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:51pm

re: #170 Skip Intro

Playing with language is good writing practice. Trump is pretty easy :D I’m feeding off of what you all post though… I can’t poison myself with the live video.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:07:53pm

re: #169 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Marco is bringing the PAIN.

Is that 32-bit or 64-bit?

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:06pm

re: #178 LiberalGal

gads he is so full of crap!

I’d ask which he, but they all are. Rubio has his words flung back at him en espanol, and will probably lose the points he just earned.

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:06pm

Is this the Republican debate or the Trump debate?????

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:23pm

Unconstitushunul eggs ecutiv ordurz

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:26pm

re: #184 LiberalGal

Is this the Republican debate or the Trump debate?????

Yes.

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:28pm
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MsJ  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:30pm

re: #172 EPR-radar

The F-bomb from Trump was just a matter of time. The N-bomb will be news, if/when it happens.

It’s the hypocrisy that chaps my ass. He’s soooooo offended by the word Fuck, a word he uses.

I don’t think he’ll ever drop the N word. He’s not that stupid.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:08:46pm

re: #185 StephenMeansMe

Unconstitushunul eggs ecutiv ordurz

And yet, should one of these fucktards get elected, what exactly do you think will be the first thing they do?

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:01pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

Kasich trying to be the sane man amongst the lunatics.

Trying and failing, because he is just as extreme.

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:07pm

“I’m not unsympathetic to the plight of someone who came here when they were 2 years old” is the “Obama knows exactly what he is doing” of the night.

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b.d.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:17pm

re: #184 LiberalGal

Is this the Republican debate or the Trump debate?????

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. —— George Bernard Shaw

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:29pm

Good for Rubio. Finally, someone going after him.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:33pm

re: #188 MsJ

It’s the hypocrisy that chaps my ass. He’s soooooo offended by the word Fuck, a word he uses.

I don’t think he’ll ever drop the N word. He’s not that stupid.

I see him dropping the c-word by April 16th.

195
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:41pm

This is hysterical

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:49pm

I’m not going to deport anybody, I’m just not going to let them stay any longer.

Totally different./////

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:53pm

Keep it down, fellas. Doctor Carson is trying to sleep.

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:09:58pm

re: #154 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Umm… Donald? The Great Wall of China was built with slave labor. Then again, you probably don’t have a problem with that.

Well, it would be Mexican slave labor…that is how Mexico will pay for it. He’ll get something out of those illegals.

We’re going to pay for it too. And not just in treasury. Something more important.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:10:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:10:22pm

you lied.
no you lied

Marco to Trump: well I guess there’s a statute of limitations on lying.

201
Dave In Austin  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:10:27pm

BaM!

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darthstar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:10:32pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:10:38pm

re: #197 De Kolta Chair

Keep it down, fellas. Doctor Carson is trying to sleep.

” *snnnerk* LIQUOR AND SNACKS uhmmmm huh what? *cough* I’m sorry did somebody ask me a question?”

204
freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:10:42pm

Marco is wearing that blue shirt again. It doesn’t help him.

205
Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:00pm

Rubio is landing some blows on Trump tonight.

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lawhawk  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:01pm

Hey CNN. Trump already explicitly stated that his “wall” wouldn’t need to run the entire distance of the US-Mexico border because natural barriers like deserts and rivers.

In other words, not much different than the existing situation. So his baffling BS over building a wall remains BS that the rubes will lap up uncritically and without hesitation.

I fully expect Trump to announce that the United States Police Force will begin deportations to the island of San Angeles at 0600. Alternatively, you can opt for execution by the electric chair. A priest will be available for last rights … /Snake Plissken need not apply.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:02pm

re: #203 Pawn of the Oppressor

” *snnnerk* LIQUOR AND SNACKS uhmmmm huh what? *cough* I’m sorry did somebody ask me a question?”

No, Ben, no one asked you a question. Go back to sleep, it will all be over soon.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:17pm

When Cruz says “I’m reminded of” he means “I memorized this.”

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:47pm

re: #208 De Kolta Chair

When Cruz says “I’m reminded of” he means “I memorized this.”

He’s “reminded of” it because someone said the trigger word or phrase that activated the bot.

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:49pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

Rubio’s rehearsed canned soundbites are an excellent match-up against Trump’s one-note improvisation.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:50pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

Rubio is landing some blows on Trump tonight.

But he’s already a litre low.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:53pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

Rubio is landing some blows on Trump tonight.

And Cruz is going for some body blows to Rubio to remain relevant.

Amazing what being one or two races from being handed their hat can do to sharpen a candidate’s mind and rhetoric.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:53pm

Shit, maybe I should watch, if somebody’s really going after Trump.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:56pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

Rubio is landing some blows on Trump tonight.

Just got in a good left jab against Cruz too.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:11:58pm
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lawhawk  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:12:00pm

re: #203 Pawn of the Oppressor

Carson’s going to pull an Admiral Stockdale (not Stockwell) any moment.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:12:31pm
218
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:12:54pm

The Telemundo lady is setting Rubio and Cruz against each other. How much is Trump paying her?

219
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:12:58pm

re: #216 lawhawk

Carson’s going to pull an Admiral Stockwell any moment.

Do you mean Stockdale?

220
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:13:36pm

I’d love to be in the room with Hillary while she watches this. They are making such fools of themselves

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:13:57pm

re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth

oooh, I like this Marco.

Hockey game is in commercial…so I flipped over and did I just hear Rubotio doing the President Obama knows what he is doing thing again, slightly changed? I flipped back fast to the ice…I didn’t have a barf bag.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:13:58pm

Cruz’s mention of his father’s underwear peaked Carson’s interest, and then he dozed off again.

223
jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:14:01pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:14:02pm

Hispanic values are also family, community, and giving, things that the GOP considers to be buzz words.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:14:03pm

Cruz congratulates himself for losing 60% of Texas’ Hispanic vote to a Democratic candidate he outspent 20-1. (Probably more; there were no exit polls.)

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:14:33pm

Rubio’s “diversity” is everyone else’s “tokenism.”

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lawhawk  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:14:36pm

re: #219 thecommodore

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:14:36pm
229
Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:15:00pm

I will mail Rubio a check for $50 if he starts after Cruz with “Lemme tell you sumthin Pendejo…”

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:15:02pm

The GOP is “the party of diversity,” which is why it lost every minority demographic in the last two elections.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:15:25pm

re: #230 Targetpractice

The GOP is “the party of diversity,” which is why it lost every minority demographic in the last two elections.

They’re diverse. They each have a black friend.

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lawhawk  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:15:34pm

Rubio-bot decided today was the day that they finally launched Skynet:

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:15:47pm

The Autopsy report!

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:05pm

re: #182 De Kolta Chair

Is that 32-bit or 64-bit?

What do you need..They’ll say they have it.

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:06pm

Have any of these idiots ever read the Constitution? Obama knows exactly what is in it and knows what he can and cannot do.

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darthstar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:08pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:22pm

Kasich asked about what the candidates thinks and whether it’s hurting the party with minorities, proceeds to natter about economics instead.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:37pm

re: #231 thedopefishlives

They’re diverse. They each have a black friend.

Same black friend.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:43pm

re: #226 StephenMeansMe

Rubio’s “diversity” is everyone else’s “tokenism.”

DUH DEMS IS DUH REEL RAZISTS!1!1!!!

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:44pm
241
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:52pm

re: #237 Targetpractice

Kasich asked about what the candidates thinks and whether it’s hurting the party with minorities, proceeds to natter about economics instead.

Dodging like Bernie, and for the same reasons.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:16:59pm

The Hispanic community likes Kasich.
He just said it, so it must be true.

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:17:01pm

Who coughed?

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:17:21pm

re: #241 Brian J.

Not the same reasons, I think Bernie actually genuinely cares about economic issues.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:17:32pm

re: #238 Decatur Deb

Same black friend.

That would be Ben Carson…

246
Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:17:36pm

ROFL at Ben

RBS

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:17:47pm

re: #238 Decatur Deb

Same black friend.

That poor guy.

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darthstar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:18:05pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:18:09pm

re: #241 Brian J.

Dodging like Bernie, and for the same reasons.

Ayep, that was my first thought, that he can’t handle racial issues without seguing into something totally unrelated. It is, as somebody noted to me the other day, a very white privileged viewpoint, that the problems in minority communities can be addressed by colorblind policies.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:18:26pm
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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:18:40pm

Ben is really hooked on that Pledge of Allegiance line, isn’t he?

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:19:02pm

re: #230 Targetpractice

The GOP is “the party of diversity,” which is why it lost every minority demographic in the last two elections.

GOP diversity: 57 varieties of Grade A crank.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:19:14pm

Trump tells the Telemundo reporter that he doesn’t believe anything Telemundo says.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:19:19pm

re: #247 thedopefishlives

That poor guy.

He doesn’t know he’s the guy they’re all referring to.

Trump decides to dig himself deeper in reference to the Telemundo poll.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:19:42pm
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:20:05pm

re: #224 Targetpractice

Hispanic values are also family, community, and giving, things that the GOP considers to be buzz words.

Rove and Bush knew that and used it to good advantage in 2000, and they did the same with Muslim voters. And then, when September 2001 rolled around, they dropped them like so many hot potatoes.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:20:37pm

Donny, Hillary and Bernie each got more votes, and more Hispanic votes, in Nevada than you did.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:20:39pm

Trump is building a new Republican party.

Yes, we know that…

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jaunte  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:20:46pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:03pm

“We’re building a new Republican Party,” which looks oddly like the Nazi Party circa 1934.

261
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:11pm

Hi my name is Ben

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:27pm

Trump “We’re building a new Republican Party”.

No, you’re rebuilding the old Confederacy.

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:45pm

I will win so much with Hispanics that you’ll get tired of Hispanics! GRAAANDE! ///

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:58pm

re: #262 Bill and Opus for 2016!

“Exhuming” more like.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:58pm

re: #260 Targetpractice

“We’re building a new Republican Party,” which looks oddly like the Nazi Party circa 1934.

Well, it’d be new for the Republican Party, at least.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:21:59pm

SCOTUS

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:22:09pm

I swear Trump is becoming more and more snakelike in his appearance by the moment. It’s like the scene from Conan.

RBS

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:22:11pm

Gee Donald, could you be any more fucking patronizing?

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:22:26pm

re: #249 Targetpractice

Ayep, that was my first thought, that he can’t handle racial issues without seguing into something totally unrelated. It is, as somebody noted to me the other day, a very white privileged viewpoint, that the problems in minority communities can be addressed by colorblind policies.

A common conservative talking point is that affirmative action should be color blind and just focus on giving the economically disadvantaged a leg up. In practice, that color blindness would last about 3 seconds in many places.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:22:39pm

Oh God, Hugh Hewitt. Kill me now.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:22:56pm

Nobody wanted you to sit with them at Scalia’s funeral, Ted.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:23:02pm

LOL, Cruz privileged to have known Scalia for 20 years and be at his funeral (the funeral where nobody wanted him to sit with them).

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:23:07pm

re: #262 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Trump “We’re building a new Republican Party”.

No, you’re rebuilding the old Confederacy.

An awful lot of Confederate territory won’t be supporting the GOP- Virginia, North Carolina, south Florida, south Texas, New Orleans…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:23:18pm

I AM DOING TERRIFIC WITH THE HISPANICS
But the Telemundo poll said Hispanics all hate you.
I AM DOING TERRIFIC WITH THE HISPANICS
But the Univision poll said Hispanics all hate you
I AM DOING TERRIFIC WITH THE HISPANICS

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:23:19pm
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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:23:43pm

Hugh Hewitt on panel.

I suppose that Jim Hoft wasn’t available - or had trouble finding Texas on a map.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:05pm

I think the way HIllary or Bernie can stop Trump is to not react to his outrageousness, and instead treat him like a serious candidate - and force him to give specifics. It’s how Obama treated Palin 2008, and by so doing, he gave her the rope to hang herself. I think this is how Trump can be shown to be an emperor with no clothes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:06pm

asking Trump about religious liberty and SCOTUS

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:06pm

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

I AM DOING TERRIFIC WITH THE HISPANICS
But the Telemundo poll said Hispanics all hate you.
I AM DOING TERRIFIC WITH THE HISPANICS
But the Univision poll said Hispanics all hate you
I AM DOING TERRIFIC WITH THE HISPANICS

And your networks sucks!!!!

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:08pm

re: #276 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Salem Communications (HotAir, etc.) are co-sponsors.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:11pm

Hey Ted, two words: Robert Bork.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:12pm
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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:16pm

“The Bill of Rights” really just the First (for his brand of religion) and Second. Everything else is fungible to Ted.

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Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:26pm

Go Maria.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:28pm

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

asking Trump about religious liberty and SCOTUS

Dis gonna be good.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:24:49pm

Trump throwing Justice Roberts at Cruz.

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Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:25:06pm

I remember when ‘religious litmus test’ was considered a bad thing.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:25:20pm

re: #275 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

*flips desk, lights on fire*

That’s it, fucking rant time! I HAVE FUCKING HAD IT with the “If X happens, America is DOOMED!” talk. I can’t take it anymore! America has been doomed since the goddamn revolutionaries shoved those tea crates into Boston Harbor. I don’t give a shit about your goddamn scare tactics, I care about doing the RIGHT FUCKING THING. And electing any of you stupid dumbshit Republicans ain’t it! End. Of. Story.

*drops mic*

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:25:26pm

“Justice Roberts should never have raised his hand about …” what the fuck is Trump talking about?

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:25:36pm

“We” don’t want Obamacare, but Trump supports universal healthcare. Probably hates Obamacare because his name isn’t on it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:26:28pm

Cruz just threw some shade on Jimmy Carter regarding religious liberty.

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:26:38pm

re: #289 De Kolta Chair

When you find out let us know, k

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:26:41pm
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:26:43pm

Roberts’ title is Chief Justice, maroons.

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Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:26:50pm

re: #290 StephenMeansMe

“We” don’t want Obamacare, but Trump supports universal healthcare. Probably hates Obamacare because his name isn’t on it.

“I’m going to provide the biggest, classiest health care system, gold fuckin’ plated TrumpCare.”

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:27:16pm

re: #290 StephenMeansMe

“We” don’t want Obamacare, but Trump supports universal healthcare. Probably hates Obamacare because his name isn’t on it.

We voted for all the people who passed it, had the opportunity to rescind it in 2012, rejected that idea, and now even those who hate it like Governor Bevin know it’s now too entrenched to repeal. When Trumpy Dumpy says We to refer to himself and his tapeworm, he is talking gibberish.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:27:24pm

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cruz just threw some shade on Jimmy Carter regarding religious liberty.

Jimmy can still run.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:07pm

The current topic is “religious liberty” - to the GOP “religious liberty” means forcing everyone in America to adhere to religious right dogma.

299
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:08pm

Trump: are you a crazy zealot?
Cruz (mumbling): give me a break…

300
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:14pm

Ted Cruz admits to being a crazy religious zealot.

301
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:20pm

Trump is getting pounded.

302
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:33pm

Trump moving away from “high-schooler forced to give a class presentation that he didn’t prepare” to “drunk frat bro in an argument with his friend, or a wall”

303
Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:37pm
304
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:41pm

I can’t listen to this shit anymore.

305
Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:43pm

re: #301 thecommodore

Trump is getting pounded.

Little late to make much difference.

306
Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:48pm

OT, but I missed an article sometime ago, from December.

FF7: Part 1’s revamped storyline is complete, and apparently development has been going for a little while now

307
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:28:59pm

Oh, I don’t know, Ted. Roger Taney was just as strongly “conservative” as Scalia.

308
Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:29:22pm

re: #305 Targetpractice

Are we sure? This has potential to get stranger.

309
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:29:54pm

re: #305 Targetpractice

True, the KKK members will vote for him anyway.

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:29:57pm

re: #273 Brian J.

An awful lot of Confederate territory won’t be supporting the GOP- Virginia, North Carolina, south Florida, south Texas, New Orleans…

Actually, most territory everywhere in the US supports the GOP (rural counties usually have large area). It is the people concentrated in the cities that tend to not like what they see from the GOP. That’s why GOP idiots are so very fond of their maps where they get to color huge empty counties red.

I think within 10 years a GOP apparatchik will provide the following obvious proposal: Disenfranchise the blacks, and record votes from cows that agree with their owner’s votes.

Setting morality aside, it is a logical thing for team (R) to do to increase its power.

311
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:30:02pm

To Trump’s dubious credit, he probably doesn’t believe in a literal coming Apocalypse that hinges on Israel existing only to get destroyed in a global conflict against the Antichrist. Can’t say the same about other pretenders to the nuclear throne, as it were.

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:30:08pm

re: #308 Ziggy_TARDIS

Are we sure? This has potential to get stranger.

Five days from now, we’ll be watching the SEC Tuesday returns come in. Not much time to make up a double-digit deficit in multiple states.

313
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:30:11pm
314
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:30:19pm

gay cupcakes!

315
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:30:37pm

“CUPCAKE!!!” Is Hewitt well? Do I care?

316
Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:30:37pm

We’ve switched the Republican candidate’s closing remarks with the lyrics for “Holiday In Cambodia” by the Dead Kennedys. Let’s see if anyone notices.

317
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:00pm

Kasich, homosexuals and heterosexuals are TOTALLY DIFFERENT in that regard. It’s not fucking zero sum. You can “favor” both.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:05pm

re: #311 StephenMeansMe

To Trump’s dubious credit, he probably doesn’t believe in a literal coming Apocalypse that hinges on Israel existing only to get destroyed in a global conflict against the Antichrist. Can’t say the same about other pretenders to the nuclear throne, as it were.

I like this. We don’t have the Iron Throne, we have the Nuclear Throne. And as the saying goes, in the game of thrones, you win or you die. I think my Thunderdome idea might just have some merit…

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:31pm

Kasich actin’ all moderatey, y’all.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:45pm

BRIT Awards Tribute to David Bowie.

I haven’t gone a day without listening to his music since he died.

David Bowie Tribute l The BRIT Awards 2016

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:47pm

re: #318 thedopefishlives

Making a throne out of our defeated enemies’ nuclear materiel would certainly impose term limits on the executive.

322
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:47pm

Kasich is trying to talk sense. It’s much too late for that, buddy.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:31:56pm
324
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:32:01pm

Okay…hockey over…so, has Trumped been hammered pretty good so far?

Changing over now…and I am already queasy!

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:32:13pm

re: #321 StephenMeansMe

Making a throne out of our defeated enemies’ nuclear materiel would certainly impose term limits on the executive.

This has me literally giggling behind my keyboard.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:32:46pm

Carson: everybody gets equal right, nobody get extra right.

idiot.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:32:57pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:02pm

re: #324 ObserverArt

Okay…hockey over…so, has Trumped been hammered pretty good so far?

Changing over now…and I am already queasy!

Yes Rubio really went after him.

329
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:10pm

President Carson would divine moral character by reading the entrails “fruit salad” of a person.

330
bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:15pm

The “fruit salad of their life”?!?!?!?

331
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:21pm

“The Fruit Salad of Their Life” is a good name for a memoir.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:27pm

re: #330 bratwurst

The “fruit salad of their life”?!?!?!?

The hell?

333
Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:30pm

re: #324 ObserverArt

Okay…hockey over…so, has Trumped been hammered pretty good so far?

Changing over now…and I am already queasy!

Cruz, Trump and Rubio dropped the gloves before the first faceoff and the refs are busy egging them on.

RBS

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:33:41pm

re: #331 Brian J.

Or a tagline for a Fruit of the Loom commercial.

335
EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:34:09pm

re: #330 bratwurst

The “fruit salad of their life”?!?!?!?

Is this a garbled attempt to use that “by their fruits you shall know them” religious language?

336
TedStriker  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:34:12pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

Is it wrong to want El Chapo to bust out of prison again to make Trump shit his pants?

337
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:34:18pm

Just a reminder: Those individuals claiming that the Constitution is not a living document specifically are talking about getting rid of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:34:36pm

re: #331 Brian J.

“The Fruit Salad of Their Life” is a good name for a memoir.

By: Sarah Palin.

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ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:35:13pm

re: #328 Big Beautiful Door

Yes Rubio really went after him.

re: #333 Reality Based Steve

Cruz, Trump and Rubio dropped the gloves before the first faceoff and the refs are busy egging them on.

RBS

Thanks.

340
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:35:17pm

And Marco Rubio lies through his teeth about the effects of Obamacare on our economy.

341
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:35:48pm
342
Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:35:52pm

“Doctor Carson has been drinking the Flint water. HEYOOOO! UP TOP!”

*applause*

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:00pm

Trump talking about erasing borders. Ha.

344
Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:03pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:14pm

Did somebody spike my drink or did Trump just say the insurance companies are lying when they say the only way preexisting conditions works is if everybody has insurance?

346
Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:18pm

Trump is basically making the case for Obamacare. Mandates, Pre-exisiting conditions.

RBS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:26pm

Trump says there are insurance company people and insurance lobbyists in the room.
We have to get rid of the lines around the states.

He’s gonna make the insurance companies pay.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:34pm

re: #343 StephenMeansMe

Trump talking about erasing borders. Ha.

Erasing borders and building walls don’t mix, Donald.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:36:51pm

The insurance companies are Trump’s friends!

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:05pm

re: #344 Charles Johnson

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Ben’s having trouble waking up on cue.

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thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:24pm

Restore pre-existing conditions?

Seriously?

Removing them is one of the more popular aspects of Obamacare.

352
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:35pm

Someone needs to explain to Trump that the state line barriers were insisted on by the Republican Party to get the ACA passed. Obama and the Democrats were dead set against this provision.

353
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:38pm

re: #340 Ubiq

And Marco Rubio lies through his teeth about the effects of Obamacare on our economy.

Next week will be the 52nd week of layoffs under 300k, a level so low it hasn’t been matched in decades.

354
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:40pm

re: #348 thedopefishlives

Strong external borders + strong internal homogenization = fascist policy, pretty much.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:55pm

“Bailout money” BS.

356
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:37:55pm

More yelling

357
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:38:00pm
358
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:38:25pm

Rubio, you lie thru your teeth, Obamacare has made jobs.

359
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:38:38pm

“Lines around the states” appears to be Trump dispelling with the idea…

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:38:48pm

re: #345 Targetpractice

Did somebody spike my drink or did Trump just say the insurance companies are lying when they say the only way preexisting conditions works is if everybody has insurance?

Yes, yes he did.

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:01pm

We’re all cartographers now.

362
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:10pm

and the crowd goes wild!

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EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:18pm

re: #337 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Just a reminder: Those individuals claiming that the Constitution is not a living document specifically are talking about getting rid of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

I think wingnut fever dreams are on a larger scale. Remove all amendments after the second. Make the second amendment first on the list and change its text to read “GUNZ GR8. NO LIMITS.” The new second amendment would read “Freedom of speech is only for Republicans. We can practice our religion as we please. Your religious freedom consists of a choice to convert or die.”

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:20pm

re: #357 The Vicious Babushka

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Dr. Ben’s allowed to stab people—he has a paper.

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bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:38pm

Sheesh, these people SCREAMING for Rubio are way too obvious.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:40pm
367
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:41pm

Rubio brings in a line about Trump repeating himself.

368
freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:53pm

Rubio just did a flying head scissors on Trump.

369
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:39:57pm

Ben Carson’s favorite album

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:40:01pm

Rubio v. Trump: Dawn of Jabbering.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:40:04pm

And apparently Rubiobot 3.0 was also upgraded with a sick_burn.exe file as well.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:40:06pm

re: #354 StephenMeansMe

Strong external borders + strong internal homogenization = fascist policy, pretty much.

Ein Volk, ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!

RBS

373
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:40:15pm

What a freaking mess. These guys want to make America great again? Fucking act like damn leaders.

374
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:40:28pm

Rubio actually gets in a hard shot about his five lines. Of course, it probably is too late for him to win even if he can make Trump lose. I see Mitt Romney throwing in the bullpen.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:40:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:41:15pm

Kasich trying to be sane again.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:41:24pm

re: #374 Brian J.

Rubio actually gets in a hard shot about his five lines. Of course, it probably is too late for him to win even if he can make Trump lose. I see Mitt Romney throwing in the bullpen.

Romney vs Carter 2016.

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LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:41:24pm

Trump you have no idea what you are talking about, good grief. Health Insurance companies should not be profit making business’s. At least not they are making less now.

379
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:41:53pm

Kasich: Heritage Foundation had the same plan.

380
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:42:17pm

John Kasich. Are you going to be able to talk to your buddies here in Columbus at Cardinal Health? After that, there will be questions…from all sides.

381
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:42:21pm

Now Kasich proposing destroying Obamacare and rewarding doctors based on their performance. Which is one of the key components of Obamacare.

382
freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:42:43pm

*gasp* Kasich just admitted that the whole ACA thing started off as a Heritage scheme…

383
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:42:48pm

You go Rubio!

384
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:43:04pm
385
Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:43:13pm

Where was this Rubio months ago???

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:43:31pm

re: #382 freetoken

*gasp* Kasich just admitted that the whole ACA thing started off as a Heritage scheme…

Noted Liberal Fascist thinktank.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:43:32pm

re: #385 Jenner7

Where was this Rubio months ago???

Beta-testing.

388
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:43:50pm

And where has this Kasich been hiding? Oh, here comes Carson. There goes the sane portion of the program.

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:00pm

re: #386 Decatur Deb

No, see, it was fine when it was a Heritage plan, because Heritage is not a black President. /

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:01pm

Carson says health care is not a right.

391
Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:07pm

I’d give my left nut if they’d start shutting off the mics instead of ringing a damn bell.

392
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:17pm

Rubio got huge applause by slamming Trump for not providing details re health care, though he provided zero details himself. Amercia!

393
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:28pm

re: #385 Jenner7

Where was this Rubio months ago???

They rewrote the “Attack Obama” procedure to “Attack Trump”

394
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:35pm

How big do you think the typical family is, Carson?

395
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:42pm

re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth

These men for the most part have no idea what religious liberty is.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:58pm

So…these “Health Empowerment Accounts”…are government entitlements? After all, where’s the money coming from otherwise, Ben?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:44:59pm

Carson wants families to be their own insurance carrier.
O_o

398
Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:45:02pm

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carson says health care is not a right.

It’s not as long as you can charge for it.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:45:05pm

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carson says health care is not a right.

Maybe not as written in the Constitution, but it’s certainly a basic human right, or it would be in a just society. We should have the right to live a long, healthy life.

400
freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:45:07pm

re: #394 StephenMeansMe

How big do you think the typical family is, Carson?

19 kids?

401
bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:45:35pm

How is this idiot allowed on the stage?

402
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:45:42pm

Carson makes no sense, but at least he won’t shut up.

403
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:45:48pm

Uncle Joe and cigarettes. WTF???

What are you smoking Ben? Or, would that be ingesting?

404
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:00pm

Carson: $5,000 per man, woman and child and there will be money left over for catastrophic insurance.
Easy Peasy!

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StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:03pm

re: #397 Backwoods_Sleuth

IIRC there used to be small sorts of mutual co-op-style insurance organizations, but they got destroyed by legislation. I’m guessing it was GOP-sponsored.

That said, they weren’t insane mom-and-pop family plans.

406
Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:10pm

re: #401 bratwurst

How is this idiot allowed on the stage?

He just wandered in when nobody was looking.

407
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:12pm

re: #401 bratwurst

Whih idiot would that be?

408
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:17pm

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

Carson says health care is not a right.

Private, for profit health care is immoral.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:24pm

re: #403 ObserverArt

Uncle Joe and cigarettes. WTF???

What are you smoking Ben? Or, would that be ingesting?

He’s on some heavy opiods. Needs moar fruit salad.

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Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:24pm

re: #402 Brian J.

Carson makes no sense, but at least he won’t shut up.

And yet, he’s the only one that’s shown any compassion at all to the idea that someone might end up sick.

411
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:39pm

Wolf Blitzer rolls for Cruz.

*facepalm*

412
bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:51pm

re: #407 LiberalGal

Whih idiot would that be?

Carson. All of the others have gotten more than a handful of people to vote for them…somehow.

413
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:46:52pm

Wolf Blitzer lets himself get bullied into letting Cruz spout his stump speech.

414
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:47:26pm

Donald has his Mussolini face on.

415
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:47:33pm

Cruz is so full of shit

416
Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:01pm
417
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:05pm

Wolf (sp?) said the economy is the next subject, which means the defense budget will come up, right?

Right?

418
Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:07pm

And here’s Havana Ted with “Death Panels” and “Pulling The Plug On Granny!!!”

419
Belafon  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:14pm

re: #400 freetoken

19 kids?

That would be 19 pregnancies. 5 of which were stillbirths. After the 6th pregnancy, the first wife died. The new wife nearly died with the second set of twins. One the twins, and a younger sibling, died from the flu. 4 were lost in accidents on the farm.

420
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:20pm

Cruz make me want to hurl. That is all.

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Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:37pm

re: #417 De Kolta Chair

Wolf (sp?) said the economy is the next subject, which means the defense budget will come up, right?

Right?

It will, namely how it’s way too little because of how small the military is.

422
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:38pm

Isn’t it time for a beak

423
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:48:49pm

And Donald insists that our economy will crash in 2017. Better sell your stocks and real estate, Trumpy Dumpy.

424
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:49:00pm

As someone who has run a small business, socialized medicine would actually have saved my business. My largest expenditure was health care, and it was a bill I dare not miss or people would lose their coverage.

In related news, fuck Ted Cruz.

425
Jenner7  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:49:20pm

re: #422 LiberalGal

Too many drinks? :)

426
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:49:30pm

and MORE YELLING!

427
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:49:43pm

re: #422 LiberalGl

Oh hell

428
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:49:54pm

I wonder what percentage of the closed captions for this debate are just

429
Targetpractice  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:01pm

MORE POPCORN!

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Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:01pm

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

and MORE YELLING!

Good Lord, that was ridiculous.

Anchorman Brick Tamland: I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT / LOUD NOISES

431
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:20pm

#MakeAmericaDynamicAgain

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Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:22pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:24pm

Trump is channeling Romney, remember “When you have a heart attack you don’t have to stay in your apartment and die, you call 911 and they take you to the emergency room”

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weave  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:25pm

Why the hell don’t they just cut their mics if they keep yammering like that?

435
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:38pm

Make America Dynamic Again.

436
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:40pm

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to realize that “I’m not going to let people die on the streets” is actually a relatively compelling stand to take to the lower/middle class in the Republican base.

437
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:50:45pm

Trump says we have the highest taxes in the world.

NO WE DON’T YOU FREAKING LIAR!!!!

438
Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:04pm

So… I guess from that exchange, Cruz IS in favor of people dying in the streets?

RBS

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freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:13pm

re: #436 Ubiq

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to realize that “I’m not going to let people die on the streets” is actually a relatively compelling stand to take to the lower/middle class in the Republican base.

Which is why Trump does so well with the “Reagan Democrats”.

440
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:25pm

“FREE BIRD!!!!”

441
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:25pm

“We waste all this money” on environmental protection, so “send it back to the states” which would go bankrupt trying to do the same job

442
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:29pm

Getting rid of the EPA, Donny? You might want to ponder how many landfills are in New Jersey, and what they’ll be like when abandoned.

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thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:32pm

re: #436 Ubiq

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to realize that “I’m not going to let people die on the streets” is actually a relatively compelling stand to take to the lower/middle class in the Republican base.

Yeah, but it doesn’t play well to the uber-rich and powerful, who line the candidates’ pockets.

444
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:33pm

LIES

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Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:43pm

re: #438 Reality Based Steve

So… I guess from that exchange, Cruz IS in favor of people dying in the streets?

RBS

I could name 4 or 5.

446
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:51:53pm

Waste, fraud, and abuse - the most hackneyed politician’s answer for budget cutting.

447
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:01pm

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

and MORE YELLING!

They all need pillows to toss at each other. Maybe put them all in their jammies and play some music and serve brownies and they can all stay up late tonight. It’s a teenage political party!

448
EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:05pm

re: #417 De Kolta Chair

Wolf (sp?) said the economy is the next subject, which means the defense budget will come up, right?

Right?

Deficit hawks and chicken hawks are both irritating pests in the Republican party.

I refuse to take any GOP deficit hawk seriously unless they admit that the Republicans spent like drunken sailors in the W Bush years while cutting taxes and fighting a stupid, wasteful and ill-run war/occupation in Iraq on the credit card.

Saves effort.

449
MsJ  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:07pm

re: #392 De Kolta Chair

Rubio got huge applause by slamming Trump for not providing details re health care, though he provided zero details himself. Amercia!

Just tweeted that. Bravo!

450
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:27pm

re: #436 Ubiq

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to realize that “I’m not going to let people die on the streets” is actually a relatively compelling stand to take to the lower/middle class in the Republican base.

Cruz wasted a lot of breath clumsily trying to score a point there.

Good times.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:29pm

Make America Dynamic!!!!

RBS

452
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:41pm

re: #442 Brian J.

Getting rid of the EPA, Donny? You might want to ponder how many landfills are in New Jersey, and what they’ll be like when abandoned.

We can have smog choked cities just like CHYNA!

453
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:52:51pm
454
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:53:17pm

Interesting that Trump hasn’t (AFAIK) mentioned cutting overseas defense spending, you’d think that would be a nice component to his “screw everyone but the people I like” crypto-fascist policy platform.

455
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:53:21pm

WASTE FRAUD AND ABUSE!

456
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:53:27pm

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, DEPORT ALL THESE FOOLS NOW AND MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT

457
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:53:51pm

Kasich again hopes no one knows that 49 states are legally required to balance their budget every year.

458
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:53:52pm

re: #452 Big Beautiful Door

There could be a smog gap!

459
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:53:58pm

No, Donald, we do NOT hive the highest tax rate in the world. We have one of the most regressive, but by all means our rates aren’t the highest.

And every candidate on stage is talking about cutting taxes on the rich.

460
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:54:37pm

Ohio’s oil production is about 80,000 barrels per day, less than 1% of the US total.

461
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:54:37pm
462
thedopefishlives  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:54:58pm

re: #459 Bill and Opus for 2016!

No, Donald, we do NOT hive the highest tax rate in the world. We have one of the most regressive, but by all means our rates aren’t the highest.

And every candidate on stage is talking about cutting taxes on the rich.

JERB CREATORS!!!!

463
LiberalGal  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:55:20pm

If we had all taken a drink every time Trump said great, we would all have died of alcohol
poisoning.

464
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:55:28pm
465
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:55:35pm

Trump, I do not care about your freaking wealth.
I want to see your tax returns.

466
Decatur Deb  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:55:50pm

Nope, you can’t get through this on Girl Scout cookies and chocolate drink.

467
Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:56:11pm

It cost him BIGLY.

468
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:56:13pm

Trump doesn’t seem to understand that “show us your tax returns” is not the same as “please tell us how YUUUUGE your bank account is”

469
EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:56:24pm

re: #457 Brian J.

Kasich again hopes no one knows that 49 states are legally required to balance their budget every year.

That’s very high on the list of GOP unmentionable facts, along with the fact that the Feds can print money.

I’m nice enough to stop hooting in derision at GOP analogies between household finance and US government finance as soon as the GOP finds me a household that prints its own money.

470
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:56:32pm

Trump whining because he’s being audited and that’s why he can’t release his returns.

471
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:56:34pm

re: #465 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump, I do not care about your freaking wealth.
I want to see your tax returns.

Do you remember Mitt’s tax return being big news in September? Because I don’t. I remember all of the mishegoss being during the primaries.

472
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:57:00pm

Tax returns don’t reflect how much money a person has?

That sounds suspiciously like someone who is illegally hiding income.

473
Charles Johnson  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:57:38pm
474
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:57:40pm

re: #471 Brian J.

Do you remember Mitt’s tax return being big news in September? Because I don’t. I remember all of the mishegoss being during the primaries.

I remember that Mitt had to amend his returns because stuff was “missing”.

475
bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:57:42pm

He could…you know…release the return that is being audited, right?

476
EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:57:54pm

re: #471 Brian J.

Do you remember Mitt’s tax return being big news in September? Because I don’t. I remember all of the mishegoss being during the primaries.

I still want to know how on earth Romney’s $100 million IRA could possibly have been legal. Such things have contribution limits.

477
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:57:54pm

If he’s being audited all the time that means his deductions are triggering red flags.

478
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:10pm

re: #473 Charles Johnson

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This isn’t a first for Trump to Hewitt:

mediaite.com

479
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:11pm

Donald Trump doesn’t seem to realize that “I get audited every year, and no one else does” seems pretty fucking suspicious.

480
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:31pm

Since when does a tax audit prevent one from releasing their returns? I worked for 10 years in the tax industry and never saw that rule.

481
Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:40pm

Ben, staring at his hand, then looking out at the audience

“You know in those cans of fruit salad, when you eat all the cherries and all that’s left is the white bits? You guys look like that. You’re all so… White. I feel funny. Drugs are great. America.”

482
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:40pm

re: #479 Ubiq

The IRS just can’t resist gazing lovingly at his YUUUUGE piles of money.

483
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:47pm

Oh fuck you Kasich. I am in Ohio. I am looking for job and opportunity. Every fucking day. Try it at 61 in a very competitive field in a city with a lot of talent because of all our great colleges. I’m trying to beat the streets, burn the internet and call all over. It is sad I may end up working out of my career.

And taxes are not down. All state fees are up, all local taxes are skyrocketing. The money has to come from somewhere. This is John Kasich. He is taking credit for a shell game. Where is the money? Look over there.

484
De Kolta Chair  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:58:57pm

re: #470 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump whining because he’s being audited and that’s why he can’t release his returns.

“I think people will understand.” What a privileged joke.

485
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:59:35pm

Rubio blathers about a debt crisis. Right now, the US government can borrow money at 1.72% for the next 10 years. Some crisis!

486
weave  Feb 25, 2016 • 6:59:36pm

Of course, reform social security by cutting it. Heaven forbid you think about raising the income cap…. assholes.

487
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:00:17pm

I turned the sound off because I don’t want to give myself an ear abortion.

488
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:00:26pm

Debt crisis is a rightwing fantasy

489
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:01:00pm

Cruz: Hillary went to Trump’s wedding and Trump gave money the the Clinton Foundation!!!

490
goddamnedfrank  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:01:00pm

re: #476 EPR-radar

I still want to know how on earth Romney’s $100 million IRA could possibly have been legal. Such things have contribution limits.

Because the contributions were made in stock in the companies Bain Capital took over. Stock that was grotesquely devalued expressly for this purpose.

At the very least it was fraud, possibly legal fraud, technically, under the law, but fraud nonetheless.

491
EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:01:01pm

re: #483 ObserverArt

Oh fuck you Kasich. I am in Ohio. I am looking for job and opportunity. Every fucking day. Try it at 61 in a very competitive field in a city with a lot of talent because of all our great colleges. I’m trying to beat the streets, burn the internet and call all over. It is sad I may end up working out of my career.

And taxes are not down. All state fees are up, all local taxes are skyrocketing. The money has to come from somewhere. This is John Kasich. He is taking credit for a shell game. Where is the money? Look over there.

It’s not like a Republican official would know anything about honest work or real job hunting. Even when Kasich is no longer in office, he’ll probably get some kind of wingnut welfare position.

492
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:01:45pm

Trump blathering about polls…

493
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:01:50pm

Donald Trump should respond to “Donald can’t beat Hillary!” with “Well, they said I couldn’t beat you, and I’m beating the shit out of you.”

Oh, wait, he just did.

494
goddamnedfrank  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:02:00pm
495
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:02:30pm

re: #460 Brian J.

Ohio’s oil production is about 80,000 barrels per day, less than 1% of the US total.

We do have natural gas though. They found our eastern half of the state is loaded with slate and there are big deposits of natural gas in them. I don’t know, but I bet we do make some money there.

496
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:02:31pm

Donald, sixty-five percent of voters saying they don’t like Ted Cruz doesn’t mean they are going to vote for you.

497
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:02:32pm

Trumpy Dumpy is even more obnoxious when he rants about election returns than when he rants about polls.

Hillary will pick her teeth with any of these asshats.

498
bratwurst  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:03:23pm

Why in the world has this Trump University scam not been brought up much before?

499
EPR-radar  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:03:25pm

re: #490 goddamnedfrank

Because the contributions were made in stock in the companies Bain Capital took over. Stock that was grotesquely devalued expressly for this purpose.

At the very least it was fraud, possibly legal fraud, technically, under the law, but fraud nonetheless.

Precisely. And the gutless wonders in DA offices of all applicable jurisdictions passed on this juicy target. Get it to a jury and try it as a matter of equity rather than law if you have to.

500
StephenMeansMe  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:03:32pm

Nobody in the GOP wants to think about the meaning of Trump walking away with 100% of the delegates in primaries by winning a slim plurality of votes.

501
freetoken  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:03:53pm

Well, looks like the two are taking the advice to go after Trump with a burn-all strategy.

502
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:03:57pm

Did Trump just call Cruz “Mitt”?

503
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:04:05pm

re: #497 Brian J.

Trumpy Dumpy is even more obnoxious when he rants about election returns than when he rants about polls.

Hillary will pick her teeth with any of these asshats.

WAIT TILL TRUMP BRINGS UP BENGHAZI!!!

504
ObserverArt  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:04:23pm

So, Teddy is a great Lawyer? He walked right into that one about Trump beating Hillary.

505
Brian J.  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:04:36pm

re: #500 StephenMeansMe

Nobody in the GOP wants to think about the meaning of Trump walking away with 100% of the delegates in primaries by winning a slim plurality of votes.

That’s just 19 days from now. There’s just no realization of how compressed this schedule is.

My recent work-related experience is that any case can be lost by anyone at any time.

506
Ubiq  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:04:42pm

It appears that Ted Cruz is Trump’s new chew toy in Jeb’s absence.

507
thecommodore  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:04:47pm

Did you know Trump has a large company?

508
weave  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:05:06pm

My God, when Trump goes after Cruz like that it almost makes me like the guy….

509
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:05:36pm
510
Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:05:46pm

“Doctor Carson?”
“This ice cream cone smells like pennies.”
“Doctor Cars..-“
“Momma, why is the loud man orange?”

511
The Engineer Lobuno  Feb 25, 2016 • 7:10:04pm

re: #26 jaunte

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Ah, so that’s Rubio’s OS name? I hope they installed the patches too.


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