Fox News 2016 Republican presidential debate in Cleveland - Official Thread

[BSU kid]

I am not hating on Rand, but if Ron was on that stage he would have schooled these neocon candidates.

 

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

I will believe it when I see it. The man has an emotional bond with his supporters. Its not what he says but how he says it that counts for them. He could answer all the question they ask him with nursery rhymes and he would still be leading after the debates.

So yes, I will believe when it happens, my money is on his lead increasing come tomorrow.

This would be a good youtube satire series. Rhyming Trump

 

[DFF]

I am not hating on Rand, but if Ron was on that stage he would have schooled these neocon candidates.

He would have indeed, Rand is NO Ron.

 

[Legend1104]

By the way Walker is going to sink like a stone. He was soooo boring.

 

[euphemia]

They were definitely planned to be that way. Concise soundbites that are not drawn out with rambling and rushing to get as many words in.

I'm kind of glad about that because Rand often gets bogged down in details. He could have spoken a little more slowly. In my experience, if there is a time limit, then responses have to be practiced with a stopwatch. He should be able to deliver one minute or two minutes without trying to read it off the ceiling, as is his habit. This looks smirky. Rubio looked directly at the questioner and gave the answer. Mike Huckabee addressed the audience. Walker was very relaxed and ticked off the bullet points.

 

[Sola_Fide]

"Rand was a little fiery ton......UH AHH How about Bush? He was the supposed frontrunner blah blah blah. ..."

 

[KingNothing]

krauthammer calls this the "Collapse of Trump".
Whatever.

There's literally no reason to think that. He did what he always does. And there were two people who looked awful tonight - Walker and Jeb. Everyone else performed as expected, and will be stuck in the muck behind Trump.

Trump is the guy for now, until some scandal brings him down. Until that happens, these debates are going to resemble something you'd see on a VH1 reality show than in a traditional political competition.

 

[Brett85]

wow...good thing rand spoke out of turn...they tried to shut him up...how could they say christie won the exchange with rand...weird...i thought the opposite

Because they agree with Christie on the issue of the NSA surveillance program.

 

[BSU kid]

Walker might as well just bow out of the race and endorse Ben Carson, every time Carson talked, Walker was smiling and nodding his head. It was actually pretty creepy.

 

[kahless]

The postmortem is surprisingly Jeb-free so far. They just said he looked pale.

Notice how quickly the subject was changed after Wallace said that. One must not say anything negative Jeb.

 

[Brett85]

"Rand was a little fiery ton......UH AHH How about Bush? He was the supposed frontrunner blah blah blah. ..."

Ha ha, yeah. They mentioned Rand for 5 seconds and immediately the subject was changed to Bush.

 

[Liberty74]

Krauthammer and Hume think that Christie won the exchange with Rand. Drudge readers think differently if you look at the comments on the linked theblaze article
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...-christie-on-govt-surveillance-get-a-warrant/

That's because those two twits are establishment asses while the real voters remember that HUG that helped Obama win.

 

[Badger Paul]

In these early debates, the less time Rand Paul gets, the more hardened his supporters become. The rEVOLution becomes more united when we see these things happen

Indeed, we can't help it. It's not so much the less time, that's not surprising. It's the nonsensical spin, as if you watched two hours of the debate and Fox's flunkies try to tell you what you saw wasn't real and they'll happily tell you what happened according to their point of view. Yup, you're sure fair and balanced.

 

[AuH20]

As much of a court jester as Trump is, rooting for him just to stick to those arseholes at Fox is fun. What does it say about having the right enemies? My lord they'd support Hilary over him.

Yup. Some people have no clue what's going on. You learn very quickly who to support by the attackers.

 

[V3n]

Huckabee is a rerun we changed the channel on 8 years ago.

 

[AuH20]

They want to hang Megyn Kelly per the comments! I knew the ascendancy of Trump would draw out the true face of Faux!

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/06/watch-trump-hits-back-at-megyn-kelly-for-sexism-question/

 

[adam220891]

Jeb and Walker were very forgettable. Huckabee is not electable. Yet, hardly any mention of Rand in the post-debate coverage.

 

[Liberty74]

Walker might as well just bow out of the race and endorse Ben Carson, every time Carson talked, Walker was smiling and nodding his head. It was actually pretty creepy.

That's because one believes in killing a mother and the other one said something really stupid about gay people a while back...

 

[RPfan1992]

Luntz' analysis group probably isn't randomly sampled so its opinion is meaningless.

 

[KingNothing]

He would have indeed, Rand is NO Ron.

Rand had less than 5 minutes to speak, and he got into a heated argument with Christie over the Bill of Rights and immediately jumped into the fire by calling out Trump.

What more could he have possibly done? He was better in this debate than Ron ever was during his GOP runs. You have to recognize that we watched reality television, not a debate. It was a joke. It was a mess. There can be no winners when the game is played under that circus tent.