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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX8/7/15 4:31 PM |
GOP Debate
I DVRed and watched the debate hoping the Trump/Christie dynamic would provide some entertainment. They musta had a pact, and did not interact at all. So the NY/NJ bully show was a dud, sigh... ;)
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/7/15 6:54 PM |
There is nobody to vote for.
If Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders could get to together and compromise a bit, I would have ticket I would punch.
Not a single mainstream candidate has my attention.
Damn, I guess I have gone full libertard. The next thing you know I will start riding a bike and shaving my legs like some weird hippie.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT8/7/15 7:10 PM |
Sorry to hafta be the one to tell ya this
Hippies don't shave.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX8/7/15 7:38 PM |
Hipster....
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area8/7/15 9:35 PM |
Carly is smarter than the lot of them ...
...by a factor of 10! Its not even close...
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX8/7/15 10:41 PM |
Seems like a Fox financiers game show. How Carly Fiorina did not make it to the big game table is a shame.
The more I see Trump's antics, the more I think he is a hamstring by proxy for Hilary maybe...
The debate covered taking points pandering to the base only. Seemed like some questions about income equality and little things like voters rights might be appropriate. But I guess those are Democratic talking points.
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/8/15 6:29 AM |
It is all wasted effort at this point in the election. They all threw their names in the hat to early. Any momentum they have now will be gone by the fall of 2016 when it matters. Plus they have way to much time to eff things up for themselves.
The democrats are smart, they aren't going nuts yet and are letting the republicans kill their own chances.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX8/9/15 7:29 PM |
I think dumb ass did it now. Tell every woman you know to mail a tampon or maxi pad to Trump towers. Love to see that go viral! What a colossal piece of shiet! Although the change to back pedaling from doubling down was bound to come sooner or later...
One he burried his foot in his own ass, or mouth... same difference in his case...
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH8/9/15 7:57 PM |
It's only a matter of time
If this doesn't get rid of him, he'll do something else stupid soon. It's obvious that he simply can't help himself, as he apparently has a terminal case of cranial-rectal inversion What I can't figure out is how such a moron got to be so wealthy. Only in America!
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JohnC
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1939
Location: Glastonbury, Ct8/9/15 8:49 PM |
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If this doesn't get rid of him, he'll do something else stupid soon. It's obvious that he simply can't help himself, as he apparently has a terminal case of cranial-rectal inversion What I can't figure out is how such a moron got to be so wealthy.
It's not that he's stupid, or not very stupid. It's his colossal ego and assholity that overwhelm his intelligence in these situations. That particular imbalance is not such a liability in business, once you get to a certain level. To put it differently, you can get rich being pretty smart and a huge asshole, but it's a lot harder to get elected with that combination, unless you're a closet asshole (like Nixon, for example), rather than openly asshole like Trump (credit to Jon Stewart for that insight).
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walter
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 4391
Location: metro-motown-area8/10/15 6:28 AM |
like it or not, being president requires a degree of...
...humility, respect for others, and decorum.
none of which trump possess.
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PLee
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 3713
Location: Brooklyn, NY8/10/15 9:55 AM |
Carly Fiorina - NOT
Carly comes across ok on TV, but talk to anyone who has worked for her and you come away totally unimpressed.
Trump is a bully with an ego and the arrogance to support it, with a modicum of business street smarts. He was lucky to have had a father who gave him money to play around with. After running companies into the ground, he figured out he could make more money licensing out his name, with less risk, than actually building things.
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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3236
Location: Midland, MI8/10/15 4:42 PM |
Talking points
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Seemed like some questions about income equality and little things like voters rights might be appropriate.
Sparky, you have to remember it was Fox "News" that hosted this. Given their editorial position on these two issues you know they're not going to be highlighting either one in their "debate" questions.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX8/10/15 5:22 PM |
Definitely wrong party's talking points...
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real8/11/15 9:18 AM |
Dare I say.
http://www.lp.org
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX8/11/15 10:36 AM |
I hear you Erik. I think I am in the same moderate place I have always been. I had to choose to go a bit to one, voted for Bush Sr. for better or worse.
The big circle of political climate has moved around my little circle now to the extent I am not near that middle anymore. In fact maybe I am in the eye of that hurricane, certainly more left than right anymore...
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