Definitely True!!! Last night’s debate was a disaster for the Republican brand

[RKP5637]

Definitely!!! Great!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/04/daily-202-last-night-s-debate-was-a-disaster-for-the-republican-brand/56d8fb8c981b92a22d67e91a/

The Republican Party does not look prepared to come out of the wilderness after eight years of Barack Obama.

That’s the takeaway of many leading conservatives after last night’s 11th Republican debate.

Just when you probably thought the presidential nominating contest had hit rock bottom, Donald Trump joked about the size of his genitalia.

“The spectacle made me ill,” writes the conservative Free Beacon’s Matthew Continetti. “On screen I watched decades of work by conservative institutions, activists, and elected officials being lit aflame not only by the New York demagogue but by his enablers who waited until the last possible moment to try and stop him.”

I’ll explain further down why Ted Cruz and John Kasich probably won the Fox News debate on points, and Marco Rubio came out worse for wear, but it’s myopic to think about last night in those terms. Because, in reality, everyone lost.

“Designed to define candidates’ differences, the debates have become tedious and repetitious rather than enlightening or illuminating,” The Post’s chief correspondent, Dan Balz, writes. “No new information was imparted, no truly new arguments advanced. Even the insults have grown tiresome. … Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who drew criticism earlier for trying to limit the number of debates, must be wishing he had pushed for even fewer, given the tone and tenor of Thursday’s forum and last week’s mud bath in Houston.” That’s not to mention the debate before that in South Carolina…

[Chemisse]

1. It couldn't be happening to a more deserving party.

I am torn between being aghast at how low a candidate can get and still be viable - and being utterly delighted that all the unspoken racist and sexist and just downright stupid thoughts that exist in the Republican Party are right out there being illuminated for all to see.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. how low a candidate can get and still be viable

A direst result of the decades long "dumbing down of amurkkka".

[AxionExcel]

2. Oh, come on. The Repubes love this. All their sick ideas getting free TV

They piss and whine and complain, but secretly they love rolling around in the gutter, and trying to drag the rest of America down down down to their level...

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

3. Couldn't happen to a nicer buncha creeps

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[randr]

5. This is only important if

the Democrats can give those disgusted and disenfranchised Republicans a reason to vote for the Democratic Candidate.
Who is more likely to draw their interest that we know of?

[Zambero]

6. Calling Jerry Springer

He is desperately needed to moderate the remaining GOP debates, although in doing so he would appear infinitely more dignified than the carnival sideshow over which he would officiate.

[underpants]

7. The Free Beacon is itself a perfect example of decades of work by conservatives

It has no real purpose other than to be a voice in the choir.

[mazzarro]

8. B-I-N-G-O x 100% n/t