You guys watch the Republican debate last night?

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I don't have the energy or patience to care about a presidential election for longer than a sports season even lasts. Get back to me around January or February and I might start paying attention. But only to the intensity they I pay attention to Spring Training baseball

Turtleneck wrote:

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I don't have the energy or patience to care about a presidential election for longer than a sports season even lasts. Get back to me around January or February and I might start paying attention. But only to the intensity they I pay attention to Spring Training baseball

The Canadian election might suit you. 80 days.

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/6/9109669/2015-canada-federal-election

Ass Dan wrote:Heard Kaschill(sp?) gave great answers but no one gave a shit.

Brock Middlebrook wrote:

Ass Dan wrote:Heard Kaschill(sp?) gave great answers but no one gave a shit.

Was kind of the other way around. He sounded and looked like an idiot (to me), but everyone cheered every time he spoke b/c he's the Gov of Ohio.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:"My dad was a Mailman so I get it"

these fuckin' guys man

Turtleneck wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:"My dad was a Mailman so I get it"

these fuckin' guys man

I love how they all feel the need to remind us about their working class backgrounds. Not just Republicans but all of these candidates.

"Hey, I'm just like you because my grandpa worked in a factory. Yeah, I have a 5000 square foot cottage on an exclusive lake and pal around with the Koch brothers and people from Goldman Sachs, but my dad fixed a radiator once."

LooseGoose wrote:So both debates wrecked the Daily show.....

Charlie Spiering @charliespiering
Jon Stewart Finale: 3.5 million
Fox GOP debate: 24 million

jimgeraghty ‏@jimgeraghty 22m22 minutes ago
Wow. 5 pm undercard debate had 6.1 million total viewers, making it the third-highest primary debate ever on cable. http://bit.ly/1OVCNXq

Aug 7 The finale of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" drew 3.5 million viewers, Comedy Central said on Friday, making it the second most-watched episode for the series.

The finale, which saw Stewart wrap up his long-running popular late night satirical talk show after 16 years on Thursday, also garnered more than 233,000 tweets, according to Nielsen data from Twitter. (Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Diane Craft)

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:"My dad was a bartender"

"My mom was a secretary"

"My dad served in the army"

moderator Megyn Kelly asked the candidate-businessman, "You've called women fat pigs, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals. Your Twitter account has several --"
Trump, who is currently leading in Republican polls, raised his finger with a smirk to interrupt Kelly: "Only Rosie O'Donnell."

CORNER BLITZ wrote:Looked up Trump quotes today because that guys a fucking gold-mine

moderator Megyn Kelly asked the candidate-businessman, "You've called women fat pigs, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals. Your Twitter account has several --"
Trump, who is currently leading in Republican polls, raised his finger with a smirk to interrupt Kelly: "Only Rosie O'Donnell."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/06/donald-trump-rosie-odonnell-debate/31261899/

CORNER BLITZ wrote:Looked up Trump quotes today because that guys a fucking gold-mine

moderator Megyn Kelly asked the candidate-businessman, "You've called women fat pigs, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals. Your Twitter account has several --"
Trump, who is currently leading in Republican polls, raised his finger with a smirk to interrupt Kelly: "Only Rosie O'Donnell."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/06/donald-trump-rosie-odonnell-debate/31261899/

Blanch32 wrote:

CORNER BLITZ wrote:Looked up Trump quotes today because that guys a fucking gold-mine





http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/08/06/donald-trump-rosie-odonnell-debate/31261899/

Good for the donald. Can't stand rosy. She's a loud mouth entitled prick. Bitches about getting free super bowl tickets for her family once and basically described every football game ever for the have not fans

Turtleneck wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:"My dad was a Mailman so I get it"

these fuckin' guys man

I love how they all feel the need to remind us about their working class backgrounds. Not just Republicans but all of these candidates.

"Hey, I'm just like you because my grandpa worked in a factory. Yeah, I have a 5000 square foot cottage on an exclusive lake and pal around with the Koch brothers and people from Goldman Sachs, but my dad fixed a radiator once."

The first top-tier Republican presidential debate of the 2016 cycle was one of the most substantive and entertaining I’ve seen in 20 years.

In the morning I’ll probably regret writing this, but right now I feel confident saying that the first top-tier Republican presidential debate of the 2016 cycle was one of the most substantive, and certainly the most entertaining, I’ve seen in 20 years.


Now, considering how vacuous these political debates can be, this isn’t exactly saying much. But there are a number of reasons why it worked and why people should emulate it.

For one, it featured journalists willing to ask genuinely challenging questions. The performance by the moderators, a fiesty Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace, should put to the rest the notion that Fox News is any less interested in serious political journalism than competing cable news networks. Fact is, it’s difficult to imagine a panel of MSNBC or CNN anchors peppering a slate of Democratic Party candidates featuring Hillary Clinton with comparably vigorous queries.

But even tough questions can be brushed off by a competent politician. What made this debate atypical was that—unlike the GOP JV iteration earlier in the day—moderators deliberately poked at the vulnerabilities of each candidate, bringing up their most inconvenient opinions and statements, and challenging specific contentions rather than teeing up softballs. They acted as if they were the opposition. They reminded us that Chris Christie oversaw numerous credit downgrades in New Jersey, that Scott Walker was not the job creator he claimed to be, that Ted Cruz has a serious people problem, that Ben Carson knows nothing about foreign policy, and that Rand Paul blames Republicans for the creation of ISIS. And, hey, Donald Trump, what’s with the misogyny and bankruptcies?

On and on it went.

The tailored nature of the probing was probably necessitated by the big number of participants. But it helped that Fox bypassed the counterproductive notion of “fairness” that normally dictates all candidates must answer the same exact questions within the same allotted time— as if they were participating in an Oxford debate rather than a larger-than-usual panel discussion on cable television. With this, the Fox moderators helped dial down the platitude quotient somewhat (though, naturally, it was still high) and candidates struggled to slip into their tedious resume recitations.