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| Courtesy of CNN |
Fox News has announced the line-up for the prime-time Republican presidential debate this Thursday, and here's who qualified:
Real estate magnate Donald Trump; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The roster of 10 candidates was determined based on an average of the five most recent national polls. Trump as expected made the cut, securing the top slot. Right behind him were Bush and Walker, who each have posted strong numbers in recent surveys.
Those not included in this first debate, and who will show up for a "kid's table" debate that will come later.
Among those are former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal; former HP head Carly Fiorina; South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham; former New York Gov. George Pataki; and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.
So to be clear they left out of the first debate the runner up from last year and the only woman in the race. Well so much for political credibility and gender diversity folks.
Remember that in the book "The Loudest Voice in the Room" the author quoted Roger Ailes as saying that he wanted to pick the next President.
Now that may have been back in 2012, and we all know how that went, but this time he could finally get his way.
IF the Democrats do not come out in force to vote that is.
Personally I think that we will, especially after we spend the next year and half watching this clown car drunkenly careen from debate to debate leaving seltzer bottles, over sized shoes, and a path of destruction in their wake.
Fox will pick the Koch Bros. or Bubba Bush.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Gladiator: The GOP edition.
ReplyDeleteCome on, this is all Drama and BS for ratings. The Donald is good for ratings because he's so outrageous.
ReplyDeleteShall we start the pool...who gets fired first...
DeleteThe Huckster?
DeleteCarson and Rubio.
Deleteevery last one of them is despicable.
ReplyDeleteChristie says he's practiced birth control and it wasn't the rhythm method. So now all of us can comptemplate Christie's sex life as we listen to the "debate". And Christie's wife's sex life.
ReplyDeleteWith luck, the debate moderator will delve into the bedroom behavior of each candidate. Condoms might be compared. A vasectomy touted. Spermicides praised.
It would be epic.
Wags are suggesting that the birth control Christie practiced was "get naked in front of a woman".
DeleteFunny!
DeletePass the eye bleach. Some "images" can't be unimagined. Chis, laying on his back, his cpap apnea mask on full force, Mary Pat hoisting the girth with the help of two wide spatulas...... think I'm going to hurl!!!
DeleteWhy did he "go there"? Seriously, is this because of the attention PP's been getting? Women's health? He truly jumped the shark, big time. In the video, no one asked, and birth control nor religion weren't the topic.
ROFL Anita! His CPA mask on full force! You may be responsible for possibly causing me to bruise a few ribs from laughing!
DeleteAfter seeing his photo in that baseball uniform,all I ask is "What sex life?" Nothing of any significance can be detected. He has not lost enough weight yet to be able to look down and see "it".
DeleteIn my dream 2016 matchup, it's Trump/Palin vs Clinton/Sanders. And then about a month before the election a sex tape emerges starring The Donald and a couple of hookers.
DeleteWhose army is going to be guarding the buffet from Christie?
Delete3:05, hasn't lost weight "yet'? I think it's safe to say he has withstood the intended purpose of having a stapled/bypassed/otherwise shrunken stomach. If he hasn't lost some serious weight by now, he's not going to. And 6:00, all Christie thinks about from the moment he opens his eyes every morning is what he's going to eat. Yes, the buffet will be in jeopardy.
DeleteJust picture Chris and Mary Pat getting down and dirty to the sweet sounds of Marvin Gaye! Haha!
DeleteWith my deepest apologies to the late, great Marvin Gaye, who may be spinning in his grave at the suggestion.
Well if this is a precursor for that fateful event, then this country is in a whole lot more trouble than we can imagine!
ReplyDeleteUneven Performances in Trump-less Republican Forum
Jeb Bush stumbled through a familiar question about his brother and father, struggling for the right words as he cracked a joke about duking it out with anyone who questioned the legacy of his aging dad.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey awkwardly said aloud what many have been wondering about his candidacy: “Am I washed up?”
And Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina reached back to the 1990s to attack Hillary Rodham Clinton’s credibility by dredging up her husband’s dishonesty about a sexual affair.
Mischievously promising to translate “Clinton-speak” for the audience, Mr. Graham explained, “When Bill says, ‘I didn’t have sex with that woman,’ he did.”
After weeks of preparing for a smash-mouth debate with Donald J. Trump, 14 Republican candidates found themselves instead Trump-less but sandwiched into a constricting format on Monday night, delivering strikingly uneven performances just days before the first big test of the presidential primary contest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/politics/confrontation-is-avoided-in-forum-for-republican-presidential-candidates.html
The Bush lagacy has been wonderful for the entire family. Jeb! is as dumb as W, yet his father's connections made him a wealthy man. Will Cruz be cooking bacon with his gun, for the snak? Oh, and IF Graham ever says "I did not have sex with that woman" believe him, he is telling the truth. How many are in this for the money they make from donations?
DeleteDid Rick Perry have another brain fart?
DeleteInteresting that right at the last possible minute, former Fox News contributor and present governor of the state where the debate is being held, made it in. No special treatment or poll manipulation there, right? And Governor Big Bully made it too. I want to see he and Trump try and out tough guy each other.
ReplyDeleteWinner!!!! Coincidence????
DeleteI don't have Fox so I'll be watching online at http://is.gd/GetDebate
ReplyDeleteWhatever for?
DeleteDr Carson? Kasik? Shuckabee? Rubio? Paul? Any of them all of them...Give me a frickin' break.
ReplyDeleteAnd leaving the red bozo noses In that same path of destruction.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely delighted that Rick Perry is sitting at the kid's table. Exactly where the idiot belongs!
ReplyDeleteAccording to TRMS Fox used a poll from Quinipiac instead of the more recent NBC/WSJ poll. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.
ReplyDeleteLove your kitty's pic, Scorpie :-)
DeleteThey used the poll that gave them the outcome they wanted.
DeleteBig surprise.
I can't wait to watch the circus. Hope I can get some popcorn. I'm thinking Trump will bail at the last minute. Anyone want to place odds on that.
ReplyDeleteTrump will be there and I'll bet he comes prepared.
DeleteHe exaggerate and promote himself, talk over other candidates, be chastised lightly by the interviews, and give that shark smile that people seem to love.
DeleteAnd, somewhere in there, if the interviewers are doing their job, they'll ask him a question that he can't or won't answer. That probably will be the headline.
Not only will he be there, he'll try to take over the whole thing.
DeleteI didn't see Sarah Palin’s name listed in the 2016 presidential debates, does this mean
ReplyDeleteSarah "Never Say Never" Palin
finally said "Never"?
No one in the Republican party invited her to be part of the clown car, but she truly should have a place on the second level with the likes of Rick Perry from TX!!! They kind of match in the 'idiocy' category!
DeleteNo, according to the cult, she is waiting for the thinning of the herd. If anything, she would be avoiding as many interviews and debates as possible, in an effort to hide her lack of intelligence as long as she can.
DeleteI don't think she will run, but I am not an obsessed Palin fanbot.
6:28 pm. The screech and Perry rilly are on the same level. Dumb and Dumber.
DeleteI'm sure she's counting on Donald getting the nomination and then picking her for VP.
DeleteSarah always takes the lazy shortcut.
Where is the announcement that cait teased us with yesterday? #?
ReplyDeleteCait Elliott has been an employee of mine for almost 3yrs but sadly she lost a parent last night who had been battling a long illness. I don't know when she'll return to work. I know she reads this blog quite regularly so I assume she will post again whenever she is ready to do so.
DeleteMaggie
Our thoughts are with you Cait
DeleteBoy, I bet the local bakery will be working overtime between now and then to make enough custard pies for the candidates!
ReplyDeleteTom, in Fl, where we still seethe at what John Ellis Bush Bush did to us
Uh Oh :(
ReplyDeletethe IRS is about to find itself in contempt if it keeps stalling on releasing appropriate docs in the Lerner ordeal. Democrat judge appointed by Bill.
And the Hillary email fiasco is also drawing ire from a judge.
This is not right scoop or gretawire. Try again!
DeleteLink please, or is this another one or your fantasies.
DeleteWell then go cry in your corner.
DeleteAfter watching a Trump/O'Reilly interview, I just realized how much Trump looks like GRUMPY cat. So, now we have GRUMPY cat, GRUMPY dog and GRUMPY TRUMPY!
ReplyDeleteThis country is in real trouble if the Grand Old Party can only come up with Christie, bragging about his sex life; the "smart" Bush stumbling and bumbling and clearly not ready for prime time; a real estate shill who's gone bankrupt four times, married three times, and thinks he's the smartest guy in the room; Ted Cruz makin' a makin' bacon video; Scott Walker, who's so scared of his shadow he won't support any idea -- or its opposite; and the Huckster, who's thrown away his pretense at being a nice down-home boy and hopes to up his value to Fox News once his campaign takes a dive. And the Kentucky eye doctor who certifies himself as "board certified," because, hmmm, he objects to the real board certification for some libertarian reason that lets him make up his own test -- and pass it!
ReplyDeleteNot a gentleman or a scholar among them.
Then there are the kiddy clowns at the kiddy table.
You are SO right…in the best sense of the word :-]
DeleteA+++++
DeleteScotty Walker is probably giggling to himself he made it into the debate....right before he bursts into crying hysteria.
DeleteThe Best Of Jon Stewart Taking On Fox News
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/Mediamatters/videos/10153092758041167/
And when they all start pandering to Israel and use it to bash President Obama just remember how our 'ally' in the middle east behaved.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5mu79ygShs
A couple of weeks ago, Fox News invented a scandal surrounding the allegedly “secret” meetings that Jon Stewart had with President Obama. The truth of the matter was far less scandalous than Fox News tried to make it appear. There were only two meetings over seven years and neither of them were secret.
ReplyDeleteStewart, of course, mocked the the Fox News segment that appeared on MediaBuzz with Fox’s chief hack, Howard Kurtz. With his characteristic exasperated wit he demonstrated the utter foolishness of Kurtz and his lame attempt to portray Stewart as a White House pawn. But that only stirred Kurtz up even more.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=29353
At 6:10 "50 lies in a six second vine"
DeleteFeaturing Sarah like 5 times.
Let the fun begin, how many bumper sticker slogans can one candidate spew in 9 mins. This isn't a debate, this is a joke.
ReplyDeleteGood old Jeb has been spending his time doing damage control, good try Jebbie, sorry you lose.
I image the billions your brother wasted on two illegal wars was money well spent.
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Dems hit Bush after comments on funding for women's health
By SERGIO BUSTOS and ERIK SCHELZIG - The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Tuesday to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood if elected to the White House, but drew immediate fire from Democrats for adding, "I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues."....
...But his comments about money for women's health left Bush and his campaign cleaning up his remarks just hours later. He issued a statement saying he "misspoke" when speaking about women's health funding and was referring only to the "hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding" for Planned Parenthood.
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Sorry don't have a link b/c it was on my homepage.
He "misspeaks" a lot.
DeleteBut at least he admits it. I guess that does make him the smarter brother.
"Thunderdome" Part two.
ReplyDeleteNo one loves a circus more than I, but a word of advice,
Don't get close to the front without wearing a hazmat suit, when those elephants swing around, their poo gets slimed on those the closest.
I'll pass this one, watching it live with plenty of popcorn and champagne. Will "the kid's table" debate be televised live, or will we get the edited version?
Please let Sarah moderate the kiddie table. please please please lmao
I'll have to rely on John Oliver to give me the rundown since Stewart will be gone and Colbert hasn't come back yet.
DeleteI'll patiently await Queen Esther's rebuttal Friday.
ReplyDeleteBecause she's ALL that. lmao
Nation Worried That Rest of World Might See Debate
ReplyDeleteCLEVELAND (The Borowitz Report)—As preparations get under way for the first Republican Presidential debate, on Thursday night, a new poll shows that Americans are deeply concerned that the rest of the world might see it.
According to the poll, there is widespread fear that, if the debate were to be viewed in foreign countries, the cost to the United States’ prestige around the world would be incalculable.
On a more personal level, many expressed concern that any international broadcast of the debate would greatly diminish their desire to ever travel abroad or talk to foreigners.
In another measure of Americans’ discomfort with Thursday’s televised event, two of the TV programs they identified as being the biggest embarrassments to America, “Duck Dynasty” and “Jersey Shore,” still lagged far behind the debate.
Those surveyed strongly agreed that the U.S. government should block the foreign transmission of the debate, or that Fox News should air an explanation of the contest beforehand, but they were at a loss as to what that explanation could possibly be.
And, in a result that seemed to sum up Americans’ anxiety, a broad majority agreed with the statement “God, this is so embarrassing.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/nation-worried-that-rest-of-world-might-see-debate
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I just tell my foreign friends, these are Republicans, they aren't real Americans.
Love me some Andy!
DeleteNails it.
"Last arsehole Standing" might be an appropriate title.If this airs overseas, it will show the state of US education, when people this stupid are applying to be President.
DeleteLOL. They think they are going to keep it private?
DeleteLike someone won't put it on YouTube or post it on the internet for the world to see?
The Donald will come out swinging, start a huge fight with everyone and run off the stage on fire. The other nine clowns are scared to death of the Donald. They wont know what to say or do and will just stand there. Should make for a fun evening of laughter and cheer for all.
ReplyDeleteHe won't run off stage and he won't follow the rules.
DeleteHe'll try to dominate it all.
First, he won't answer the questions but just say whatever he wants a la Palin.
Second, he'll interrupt the other speakers. A lot. That is if he gives them a chance to speak at all.
Third, he'll just keep talking and talking so that it will be two hours of The Donald.
It will be a free for all.
Oh well, guess I'll have to white out the "Oops" square on my Bimgo card and replace it with something else. Anyone got any Kasich ideas? I think I got all the usual suspects: Repeal ObmaCare, Investigate Benghazi, Hillary's emails, Trump insulting someone on stage, Christie insulting the moderator, Jeb saying something in Spanish, ... help me out folks!
ReplyDeleteMarvinM,
DeleteDon't forget Abolish any or all of the following: Planned Parenthood, EPA, Common Core, any minimum wage, abortion and maybe birth control.
Then, there's definitely pull out of the multi-country Iran deal on Day One and possibly Bomb Iran on Day Two.
For sure, someone will mention either jobs or job creators and of course the deficit that our grandchildren will be paying for. So cut Medicare, social security, food stamps, and Medicaid. And also cut taxes.
And there's the Make America great again; maybe some talk about American exceptionalism. Possibly "we the people" and "freedumb."
Hoping none of the above are mentioned and that they spend their time cutting each other to shreds especially the 2 blowhards: tRump and Christie. I also want to see Huckabee, the Duggar apologist, say something so outrageous that we'll never have to hear from him again.
Thanks AKinPA, I did have a version of some of those but I'd forgotten several others.
DeleteAnother small sampling:
Huckabee says he’s been to Auschwitz 3 times
Anyone but Bush or Rubio says something, anything, in Spanish, even “yes”
Carson says anything at all [might be a second Free Space)
IRS Scandal/Lois Lerner
Vouchers
Sanders = Socialism
And I dusted off Job Creators, Activist Supreme Court and No Path to Citizenship
One more day to perfect them! I'm aiming to make four although I will use a lot of the same things among the cards.
Don't forget:
DeleteIraq nuclear deal
More tax cuts for the rich.
Deregulate everything from Wall Street to the Environment.
Regulate everything from immigration to women's bodies.
Is it too much too hope for a brawl? Clear that "deep bench" and go at each other with fists! Yeah!
ReplyDeleteWe need a drinking game for $arah's inevitable Facebook post after the debate where she pretends like she was a participant.
ReplyDeleteSwigs every time her ghostwriter says the following:
We the people
Common sense conservative
Ronald Reagan
Constitution
Going rogue
Crony capitalists
Joe Six Pack
Salt of the earth
Criminal president
Hillary emails
Don't retreat, reload.
deep bench-what ever that is
DeleteI am very disappointed that I will be missing all the fun, it appears my local fox station, metro Detroit, will not be televising the circus debate !!!
ReplyDeleteIt's on Fox News cable and looks to be live from 8:30-11 Eastern time.
DeleteWhy bother to watch. The highlights will be rebroadcast for laughs by all sorts of outlets. Let the late night guys watch it and pick out the best tidbits.
Link from above for getting Fauxed http://is.gd/GetDebate.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I took an RV trip from Maryland to Las Vegas through the South. Our return trip was through the North. We stayed in a different place almost every day. There was only one campground that has MSNBC in their available television channels either through the air, cable, or satellite. FOX was available every time. This was very telling that the is FOX news lamestream media right wing conspiracy to keep the masses uninformed.
ReplyDelete66gardeners
Ugh, I'm in Cleveland, and someone- pleeeease make it stop. Monday, there were two 'Precious Cargo' busses with "RNC 2015" placards in the front windows driving through downtown, complete with police motorcycle escort. Yesterday morning, I saw what appeared to be Republican operatives/workers in my Starbucks (I don't know what it is about the females, but they have this 'look' about them- the guys just have those ill-fitting suits that and the haircuts that scream Republican), then on my way out of town last night there were 4 of said busses parked. I hate to guess how many there will be tonight. Tomorrow, I'm going to hope we can make it through the affected areas as quickly as possible. I'll take pictures if there's anything interesting going on.
ReplyDeleteTo many Republican presidential contenders, Sarah Palin is a skunk at the party, someone to be handled gingerly and kept at arm’s length.
ReplyDeleteTo Donald Trump, she is Cabinet material, “a special person,” and a worthy presidential contender in her own right....
Indeed, while Palin has high negative ratings among the general public, she also has a large, devoted following among voters that many GOP strategists say have been neglected by the mainstream candidates....
So far, it’s been a down year for Palin. She parted ways with Fox News. Her speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit cattle call last January was derided as “meandering and often bizarre” by The National Review’s John Fund. That same month, a CBS poll indicated that just 30 percent of Republicans wanted to see her run for president, while 59 percent did not.
Those toxic numbers, combined with her low ratings among the moderate voters who often decide general elections, appear to have scared away Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Scott Walker and other mainstream contenders. But Palin still has a whopping 1.16 million followers on Twitter and 4.4 million Facebook likes — only two indicators of her clout in the party’s volatile grass roots...
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/sarah-palin-donald-trump-2016-alliance-120958.html
Below is bullshit. Sarah Retard Palin may have a lot of likes and followers but that doesn't mean they're for her. Sarah Palin is like several cars wrecked on the freeway. People like to slow down on the freeway to see what's going because in nature people are nosey but it doesn't mean they like accidents:
"But Palin still has a whopping 1.16 million followers on Twitter and 4.4 million Facebook likes — only two indicators of her clout in the party’s volatile grass roots."
LOL.
ReplyDeleteIt's on Fox NEWS. That's cable. I have that blocked.
and it's from 5:45 to 8pm because that's primetime on the East Coast. They repeat it starting at 10pm.
Well, I'll just rely on John Oliver to do a recap for me.
Too bad Jon Stewart will be gone and Stephen Colbert isn't back for a month.
I wonder if the two would do a "special" together just for the debate?