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As a republican and after the debate --

Posted: Aug 6, 2015

I must say I was impressed with Bush and Rubio. Trump, though, was a joke. I think his numbers are going to come down now.

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Chiming in on debate - sm

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I agree with you regarding Trump. I was most impressed with Carson and Bush.

I hope Fiorina rises up. I really like her.

As an independent - and after the debate

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I must say I was impressed with Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace. Donald Trump came off as a petulant bully, especially his answers about women & directed at Ms. Kelly. I don't like Huckabee, but he had a couple of good statements. I actually liked Rubio. I'm looking forward to the next debate.

My opinions is Carly won the first one, Cruz the second. - I agree, I liked Rubio and what

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Huckabee said, although I'm not a fan of his. BTW,

I actually liked the early show better without the audience. - Carly seemd well prepared and

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relaxed during her responses and didn't seem easily flustered. I liked what she said about the phone calls, one to Israel and one to Iran.

In the first debate the candidates were focused on putting the - Hildabeast out to pasture and

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had more gravity to it, and Carly, IMO, outperformed everyone across both debates.

I was disappointed that Fox virtually ignored Cruz - for 40 minutes straight,

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skipping him on topics such as Iran and even Obamacare.

Trump winning the Drudge poll by a huge margin. - Not "scientific", of course.

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Pretty sure the poll is more about "shock" or "entertainment" value than anything else.

It's becoming difficult to believe that even Trump takes his own candidacy very seriously. Just the fact that he didn't think it worth his time to prepare for the debate will turn even some of his own supporters off (it's rather insulting not only to the other candidates, but also to the voters/viewers who invest their time to watch the debate).

And then there's the continual stream of very intemperate and un-statesmanlike language, etc. He seems to be treating it all more like one of his reality TV shows than anything else - and he's really not looking very "chief-executive-like", much less Presidential. No one wants a President who is crude, rude and undiplomatic, however they might agree with his positions.

Rand was awful. Rubio did himself some good, as did Carson. The rest were just treading water, IMHO.

Prediction: Carly Fiorina will be at the "grown-up table" for the next debates. Hoo-boy would I LOVE to see a race between Hillary and Carly! It would shoot down about half of Hillary's campaign. If Republicans have any politcal acumen at all (and I'm not sure we do), Carly should be at least the VP on the Republican ticket.

That is scary--Fiorina doesn't belong on the - stage-as to not being scientific

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Shouldn't bother the Republicans. They gave up logic and science a long time ago.

Some of Donald's appeal is his "Art of the Deal" logic, he's - aware of this selling point, but I do think

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he takes jabs at people and doesn't need to, then comes across as a bully.

I found him to have no depth whatsoever. I still like - Cruz, but was impressed with Rubio. nm

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I liked what Carson said about Alinsky and progressives. - He was superb last night.

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I've sort of watched him with half-interest because I haven't seen much passion. I saw the passion last night and I liked it. The following is from the Washington Post.

CARSON: If Hillary is the candidate, which I doubt, that would be a dream come true.

(LAUGHTER)

But you know, the fact of the matter is, she is the epitome of the progressive -- the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.

Well, I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

(APPLAUSE) And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.

You know, you look at the -- the national debt and how it's being driven up. If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what she's doing.

"Useful idiots" - LOL

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Too funny!! And sadly, SO TRUE!!!!!

Great comment by Ben. The Hildabeast is the - epitome of self inflicated pathologies

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of the Alinsky left.

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