Give your quick take on each of the republican presidential candidates.

[lovemydog]

I just watched the second debate. Here's my quick take.

Walker - Koch brothers. Union buster. Boring.
Carson - Nice guy but pretty whacky.
Huckabee - Evangelical. Abortion. Kill Muslims.
Rubio - Cuba!
Christie - New Jersey. 9/11.
Trump - Wild Card. Is he the only republican who doesn't want to cut taxes on the rich? Build a fence.
Bush - George W. Barf.
Fiorina - Pretty cold. Memorizing lines about Lady Liberty and Lady Justice.
Cruz - Nerd. Mean. War!
Paul - Frat boy libertarian.
Kasich - Ohio! Looks like a traveling salesman.

They're promoting failed policies.

Cut taxes on the rich, spend more on the military, no diplomacy, repeal the ACA, more war. No legitimate plan to improve jobs or wages. Blame immigrants and Isis and Obama for our challenges. Appoint right wing ideologues to the Supreme Court.

[onecaliberal]

1. Evil, lying, bigoted, lying, racist pigs.

All of them. Oh and did I mention the pathological lying?!?

[lovemydog]

3. Oh yes, that too!

It's pretty funny watching them debate.

They talk about reducing the deficit. While promising to cut taxes on the rich and increase military spending.

Same crap that got us into the mess when President Obama took office.

The W. Administration's policies drove us into a ditch. They are talking about driving us off a cliff.

[onecaliberal]

11. It's really hard to understand how these people think.

I don't know how their voters remember to breathe. The breathtaking stupidity is just mind numbing. They are truly frightening.

[lovemydog]

14. Agree. My buddy & I were watching it,

talking back to the candidates. We swore a lot.

[onecaliberal]

17. I think we all were. We thought about playing a drinking game but need to work in the a.m.

[lovemydog]

20. We were predicting stuff.

I said Cuba! right before Rubio mentioned it.

My friend said Benghazi right before Fiorina mentioned it.

I said Abortion right before Huckabee mentioned it.

My friend said 9/11 right before Christie mentioned it.

I said Make American Great right before Trump mentioned it.

When Walker or Bush talked we usually went 'blah blah blah.'

When they were talking about who they'd want on the twenty dollar bill and Huckabee said his wife we made barfing noises. When Carson said his mom we laughed. When Bush said Margaret Thatcher we both yelled 'Your mom!' When Fiorina said she wouldn't change it and started blabbing about Lady Justice and Lady Liberty I said it sounded like she was running for sixth grade Chalk Board Monitor.

[onecaliberal]

23. At least you guys had fun watching.

It really is hard to wrap your mind around the fact that these people are running to be the most powerful individual in the free world, when they should really be in an insane asylum.

[lovemydog]

30. No kidding. They should all be in straightjackets.

Go back to W's policies?

No way!

[olddots]

2. all of them should be crying in a beer they are nursing in a sad little bar

while the other drunks avoid them .

[lovemydog]

4. Haha! I like your analogy.

They all say we're going in a bad direction and that the 'cure' is to go back to the much worse direction of the failed W. Administration.

[hedda_foil]

28. I'm sure they'd be welcome at Boehner's dad's bar

If they didn't mind all the vomit on the floor.

[lovemydog]

6. Nice. Thanks.

Sleep well!

[Aerows]

7. My take on each of the republican candidates.

All of them need to be locked up as the hazard to public good they represent.

[lovemydog]

8. They represent the absolute worst

in our country. American exceptionalism. Oligarchs. War. Scapegoating. Not doing a damn thing to help the poor or middle class.

[akbacchus_BC]

9. They all suck as far as am concerned, especially when they are blaming

everything on President Obama administration and bringing up shit about Mrs. Clinton on Bengazi and the email.

Those puckers need to get a life and stop blaming the administration that got the US out of a recession.

[lovemydog]

10. So true.

Benghazi!

(I love saying that.)

[akbacchus_BC]

35. Thank you for your response. So true, those clowns in the big bus

are comedic galore. Bet Stewart and Colbert want to come back for silly season. I miss them very much.

Is Bravenak still on time out?

[yuiyoshida]

12. okay i will play

Walker - Koch brothers. dead eyes.
Carson - Are you sure you are a doctor?
Huckabee - Evangelical, the BIBLE! THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE..
Rubio - hE will always be the water boy.
Christie -Bridge gate...yeh he handled that well. Mcdonalds.
Trump - not a fence, a WALL... A 20 MILE HIGH WALL TO KEEP DINOSAURS OUT!
Bush - CRIME FAMILY-
Fiorina - ICE QUEEN
cruz - mR. HANEY WILL sell you anything in Bugtussel
Paul - hAS NOTHING TO OFFER. nothing.
Kasich - Turn coat...

[lovemydog]

15. Perfect.

Bonus points for humor!

[Frustratedlady]

18. Rubio is forever sweating. He was even flipping droplets off his sideburns.

Did Walker have an operation on his one eye? It seems different from a year ago.

[lovemydog]

26. Rubio is thinking about Fidel Castro.

That makes him sweat.

Walker looks like Lurch from the Addams Family.

Cruz looks like the guy who got bullied in school but turned into an even bigger bully. His eyes are beady and his ears are pointed. My friend said he looks like Grandpa from The Munsters.



Carson, is something wrong with his eyes too. Or maybe he's sleeping. I'd sleep too listening to those doofuses.

Huckabee looks like the minister who terrifies your kids at Sunday School and steals money from the congregation.

[steve2470]

13. I love threads like this, you rock! nt

[lovemydog]

16. They're fun.

Play along steve. I'd love to hear your quick takes.

[steve2470]

19. I didn't watch

I would have gotten angry and depressed all night. I don't need that, so thanks to you and other DU'ers, I have the gist. More depressed than angry, actually.

[lovemydog]

21. Ah, okay. I understand that.

For some reason I was in a good mood when I watched it. Otherwise I couldn't stomach it. Glad you enjoy the thread. Hope you enjoy a great day tomorrow.

[steve2470]

22. you as well :) nt

[cyberswede]

24. Yours are right on - well done!

[lovemydog]

27. That may be the last I can watch them

for a long time.

Are they going to vote some of those clowns off the island?

[cyberswede]

31. I wish they could vote thenm ALL off.

The follow-up interviews with regular voters at Drake Univ in Iowa made me depressed - how could ANYONE take any of these clown seriously?

[hedda_foil]

25. Kasich, the Koch brothers latest purchase.

Sorry, no link, but it was discussed on a couple of liberal radio shows today. I get WCPT in Chicago, so the sourcing tends to be impeccable.

[lovemydog]

29. Interesting.

It did seem Kasich was being more 'right wing tool' tonight than in the past.

[Jamaal510]

32. ...

Walker: "Don't speak of my union-busting record, and we're cool."
Carson: Speaking about butterflies and everything else in a soft voice.
Huckabee: He's still running?
Rubio: "Do I really believe everyone should be forced to speak English?"
Christie: "How do I get people to forget that I hugged Obama?"
Trump: Is this a presidential debate or is this Bad Girls Club?
Bush: "2000-2008 never happened, and if it did, nothing bad happened!"
Fiorina: "I hope people don't look up Hillary's record now that I lied that she accomplished nothing..."
Cruz: Return of the screechy voice.
Paul: Got called "1% by Donald Trump as a way of mocking his poll numbers. Will he let this "sophomoric" insult get to him?
Kasich: Can pass as a moderate compared to the rest.

[lovemydog]

33. Good ones Jamaal510!

When Bush talks it's like a scene from a horror movie.

'Don't go back in the basement!'

[PatrickforO]

34. And yet, they all believe in these failed policies, because to them the policies haven't failed

at all. You've got to look at it from the neoliberal point of view. The reallocation of wealth and resources to the corporatists is seen by neoliberals as a good thing, because they ultimately want to privatize everything that can be privatized, and deregulate everything else. Gutting the New Deal is the capstone of the philosophy, which calls for a return to a purer version of capitalism. They hold the belief that an unrestrained capitalist society is the epitome of human evolution because they are truly social Darwinists. To them, we are nothing, merely 'hands' to help earn a profit at the lowest possible cost. A worker is an expendable commodity, to be used like a sheet of toilet paper and then discarded when no longer useful.

So in the eyes of these criminal sociopaths, those policies haven't failed at all. To the committed neoliberal, we are only halfway there, and additional effort is needed for the plan to come to complete fruition.

In short, put these people in power and 99% of us are truly fucked.

[Gloria]

36. Icing on the cake...

Fiorina makes sure she is the only one to nix the idea of a woman on currency...

[Frustratedlady]

37. What a cold and calculating female.

She even talks in icy tones, throwing out her vision of solving the issues with each country of calling more troops, equipment and training to kill off ISIS and other factions.

Being a woman, she would scare the beejeebers out of me if I were to work with her. She seems to have an inflated view of herself and her accomplishments. Those may have been huge, but all I remember is the mess she made of HP. Those are hard to forget, Carly.

As for the rest of the debaters, I was amazed at how easily they passed over George's mess as though it was an "eh" moment. Gee, I remember 9/11, Katrina and the economy crashing. It was as though they had forgotten all about those issues.

When the low ratings of Congresscritters was brought up, the moderator started interrupting (which happened a lot on hot-button issues) to bring up another subject or change debaters. I found that irritating. Same with failure to accomplish anything in the last 6 years. Zoom! On to another interruption.

Now, I hope the Democrats come out in force to refute the lies and numbers they used...charts would be nice, except I don't think Republicans can interpret them. Maybe toons? Certainly shaming.

[Gloria]

39. I think Fiorina has issues...

She lost a child to drugs and survived cancer. She is tough as nails, but there is something on the edge about her.
It's as if she if fighting to control her own fears and life via politics now.

I think she's on this fierce "power trip" thing because she's afraid of something. There is certainly no lifelong committment to government service, that's for sure....

[Frustratedlady]

40. Yes, I agree. While watching her during the PP speech, there was a hatred that came out

not only for PP, but also she seemed to enjoy the telling of the gory details of the "harvest" to put everyone on to the so-called policies they had. My mind kept going back to Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) of "Damages" and the power that corrupted her.

[lovemydog]

38. Yeah, that cracked me up.

Even when asked what woman she would put on the $20 bill she said she wouldn't put a woman on it.