Repug debate on CNN

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Fiorina Surges To Second Place Among Republican Candidates In Poll


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total lies, total bull from her, just like pitbull (but less word salad), so the ignorant Repug base love her.

She'll be encouraged to keep lying, bull ting, conning, etc, etc.

[ChumpDumper]

Man, CNN trolled all the candidates into a "who can sell the most ridiculous lie" contest.

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I remember clearly, HP, maybe CF, saying "we need more profits, so we're firing 30K people"

[ElNono]

I'm surprised at the naivete of your post, actually expecting serious govt, serious discussion from the Repugs. The last 35 years, esp the last 15, should have proven to you to expect nothing good from the Repugs.

If anything, it's them missing an opportunity. Barrycare is certainly something that can be improved.

As terrible as dubya was, he had a comprehensive policy towards illegal immigrants that never really materialized, but did make almost half of latinos vote for him, twice.

Like I said, maybe it's early, and since the target is the base, this is enough. But I don't think it's enough to win the general election. We'll see also what the message from the Dems is.

[Splits]

I just don't know that the tale of "we're wayyyyyyy worse than 7 years ago" really resonates. Maybe it does among the GOP base, which they're targeting now, but I don't think they can win the general election with that.

It's not that right now it's all roses, but 7 years ago, coming out of the bailouts, the economy was really ed up. Recession, unemployment was higher, gas prices were higher. We still had boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Large companies (ie: auto industry) were bankrupting. We're now much more energy independent than we were then (and back then, with $4/gallon, that was a big concern. A fart in Saudi Arabia showed up immediately at the pump). Even Wall Street made a killing with this guy.

We can certainly be a lot better, but worse than 7 years ago? I don't know about that.

The rest of the message is some variation of 'military weak, need more money', 'christians are under attack', 'supreme court justices are not above god', or the wedge topic of the moment (ie: 'evil planned parenthood', 'hillary emails', etc).

I'd like to hear a more positive message from the candidates, something beyond the rehashed 'trickle down', about how they plan to shape the future. The 'wouldn't it be nice to be back to the 80's?' narrative is a cliché at this point (and I loved the '80s).

I want to hear what's their plan for replacing Barrycare. Everybody (except Trump) seems to want to have a 'flat tax', ok, what do the numbers look like with it? Does it add up? If it doesn't, what are you going to gut, besides the IRS?, etc

Maybe it's too early to get into policy and specifics, but without them, it's just a popularity contest.

solid post. History will judge Obummer well. The complete ude mess he inherited, to leave the country on solid footing while insuring millions and neutralizing Iran... Historians will rank him quite high. , Romney was promising 6% unemployment by the end of his first term. Look at Reagan's jobs numbers and it isn't even close.

[DarrinS]

solid post. History will judge Obummer well. The complete ude mess he inherited, to leave the country on solid footing while insuring millions and neutralizing Iran... Historians will rank him quite high. , Romney was promising 6% unemployment by the end of his first term. Look at Reagan's jobs numbers and it isn't even close.

Best president ever.

[djohn2oo8]

Lol Ben Carson and his Muslim comments.

[Blake]

Lol Ben Carson and his Muslim comments.

Damn smh...

seriously, could this group of Republican nominees get any more re ed? . I'm embarrassed as an American.

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Carson is obviously free-lancing, making up , way way way out of his depth in politics.

Carson Was Dropped From Christian Event Over His Own Religious Beliefs

several organizations and individuals within the Southern Baptist community publicly expressed their displeasure with having Carson, a Seventh-day Adventist, address the conference. Those complaints, in addition to Carson's expected presidential campaign launch, led Carson and the conference organizers to mutually agree to not have him speak at the event.

Rice wrote on his blog in late April that while he didn't share other people's concerns about Carson's faith, "I have heard and respect their concerns and for the sake of unity we have reached a mutual decision with Dr. Carson’s team to forgo his appearance at our Pastors' Conference."

"As a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Dr. Carson is publicly identified with theological positions that differ from those of Southern Baptists,"

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