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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMind you I totally ignored the GOP debates (can you blame me) so I have to ask this..
What the fuck did CNBC ask that got everyone's panties in an uproar? If these idiots running for President can't handle 'tough' questions from a debate then how the *)#% do they think they can run a country when the really tough questions are asked.
What a bunch of spoiled brat cry babies.
Rex
(65,616 posts)And the GOP audience ate it up like hotcakes.
randys1
(16,286 posts)I didnt watch it either, just guessing
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)They had the nerve to 1) ask some important questions, 2) persist when the candidates dodged those questions, and 3) adhere to the response/time rules. In a few cases one of them used their time to joust with another and pretended to be upset when they didn't get additional time to answer the question.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Questions so dire as to frighten off people brave enough to call people rapists, lazy, freeloaders, and (gasp) not as *Christian* as me from behind a podium on a locked stage surrounded by security.
4139
(1,893 posts)I also didn't watch, tried googling for a list of questions but could not fine one
Edit adding:
HARWOOD: Let's be honest.
(LAUGHTER)
Is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)they're trying to stop being questioned: Deflect, distract, attack "the media"
Next step: forcing the "establishment" RNC to modify the debate structures - by reducing the number of debates, CHOOSING the moderators, plus the distract/deflect/attack. CHRISTIE learned how to make his blustering eruptions acceptable (compare his & R.PAUL's ridiculous explosion in the 1st debate to his & CRUZ's polished attack on the media this time). TRUMP never gives specifics, just I-the-best/I-will-do-this-that, all non-answers with the cover that he won't tell specifics so as to keep the enemy in the dark.
Plus, this:
It was funny when the Repuke candidates started piling into the clown car, first the sheer NUMBER of them 17 then the ABSURD personalities with an EGO DISEASE making them believe they were fit to be anything in society, much less President.
Then it was more fun when the TeaBagger revolution destroyed the House and CRUZ and Rand PAUL did their number on the Senate all of them with no respect for protocol, like how it started with PALIN running across the debate stage to Vice President BIDEN to bray in his face, Hi, Joe, can I call you Joe?!
So now the Repuke candidates have absorbed the anarchy of the TeaBaggers: CHRISTIE learned from them how to beat up in an acceptable way (remember his/PAUL's shouting debacle in the 1st debate?) . TRUMP and CARSON taught them all to rebel against the Party guidelines for debates. It was just as absurd as having 17 candidates as having TEN debates. They are now organizing a putsch against the debates. The overall goal is TO STOP ALL QUESTIONS THEMSELVES AND NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY SCRUTINY OF ANY KIND. Even now, when any of their lies are raised, they attack the questioner (for now, THE MEDIA) and distract and deflect the questioning.