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Politico: Only six GOP candidates likely to make next main debate stage
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dehydratedbabies
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Get rid of Christie too, please.
RustyNails
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Rand is completely different from Cruz. He does not favor carpetbombing Syria to hell and sending ground troops. He favors least US military entanglements out of everyone on that stage. He also understands how trade works and can probably find south china sea on a map. He's a goldbug though and his domestic policies suck. But I'd rather have him on stage than the buffoonish trigger Happy, shoot down russian planes Chris Christie, aptly labeled the "WW3 candidate" by Rand. He was on the money with that line.
Yellowtail
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If they cut it to 5, it's Jeb! not Christie who'd get kicked out.
Nah, they're in the driver's seat.
Yeah but he aired his grievances during festivus today. I'd rather have some hot zingers like "to my absentee friend @marcorubio, I didn't put your $170k+ salary in my waste report today. But I could have #Festivus" instead of whatever the fuck Carson brings to the table.
Earthstrike
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You posting the cr link implies you feel it has some merit to support your argument. Ted cruz is a disgrace to me (well, anyone who can reason in general) but he rates green in every category and yellow in one other.
What's more is that supporting the gold standard is considered a positive in their free market evaluation.
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
Rommey could announce he's back today and be leading the polls tomorrow.
Transistor
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He wouldn't poll higher than Trump.
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
I think he would. He looks "Presidential" and doesn't sound like a complete buffoon. But alas I have to hear these fools (Not Paul and Rubio they're ok)
Trump would curb stomp Romney like no tomorrow. It wouldn't be pretty at all. Trump's whole things is about winning and you think that loser Romney can take him down? Trump would just talk about how he's a loser over and over again.
I don't get Christie's bump in the pols. I guess bellowing the same few phrases over and over directly into the camera is working for him. I wonder if Jeb would even show up for a kiddie table debate? Rand Paul is already saying he won't participate in it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...6-rivals-annual-festivus-twitter-rant-n485046
Can't kick that man off the stage now!
Can't kick that man off the stage now!
Davey Cakes
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I'd rather Rand Paul and Chris Christie be there than Jeb Bush, honestly.
Jeb is the most pathetic guy up there. The only benefit is seeing Trump rip him apart.
Jeb is the most pathetic guy up there. The only benefit is seeing Trump rip him apart.
Rand is also the only one (on either side as far as I can tell) against NSA spying and bullshit privacy violations.
He is only right on this issue because he basically thinks the federal government should do as little as possible but hey. At least someone is saying it on national TV.
He is only right on this issue because he basically thinks the federal government should do as little as possible but hey. At least someone is saying it on national TV.
Jeb deserves to go.
He knows he should go.
He probably wishes he could go.
But too much money has been spent and now he's trapped.
It's glorious.
gutter_trash
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Not surprised that Roger Aisles kept Jeb!
Black Republican
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i guess he knows the jigs up
It's a position he can take since if his economic policies were implemented we'd spend all of our time in public waiting in bread lines.
Black Republican
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so today is the last day for anymore qualifying polls.
Paul/Fiorina/Kasich maybe on the kiddie table this week.
Paul/Fiorina/Kasich maybe on the kiddie table this week.
Byakuya769
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Does it seem like articles/OPs like this always seem to be missing one major detail--such as the date of the event in question?
Whether debate, election or series premier, I always feel like I read an OP or even follow a link to the article and still am left having to google the time in which the thing is going to happen.
#mondaygrumpiness
Whether debate, election or series premier, I always feel like I read an OP or even follow a link to the article and still am left having to google the time in which the thing is going to happen.
#mondaygrumpiness
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No? He's the third best candidate in Iowa according to most polls and fourth best nationally. He's doing better than Bush, Christie, Kasich, etc. and arguably is running fairly even with Rubio at the moment even if his trend is downwards.
Thought he had sunk a lot lower than he had.
diffusionx
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He actually disagrees with many of his colleagues on actual issues so it looks more like a real debate.
If they want to cut the bullshit, this would be a three-man debate between Rubio, Cruz, and Trump (although with Cruz and Trump on stage, the bullshit would still be at capacity).
Jeb can be king of the goons at the kid's table while he continues to figure out whether or not to market himself as a Bush.
The rest can all fuck off, they're wasting everyone's time.
Rand seems like a breath of fresh air in comparison to the rest of the crazy, until you see the clip of him defending anti-vaccination hysteria... and he's a doctor.
Jeb can be king of the goons at the kid's table while he continues to figure out whether or not to market himself as a Bush.
The rest can all fuck off, they're wasting everyone's time.
Rand seems like a breath of fresh air in comparison to the rest of the crazy, until you see the clip of him defending anti-vaccination hysteria... and he's a doctor.
Bedameister
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Only 6?
Still 6 too many
Bay Maximus
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Are the likes of Kasich, Santorum and Paul really going to hang around until Super Tuesday? If they had any self respect at all they would just suspend now with some dignity intact.
I can't wait for more candidates to drop out, if only so I can see who they endorse and think to myself "yeah, I'm sure they really appreciate getting that .5% poll bump from that".
Seriously, I have no idea how so many of these clowns have stayed in. Any other election and they'd have been dropping like flies, especially with a candidate as dominate as Trump running. What makes them think that they can do it?
Seriously, I have no idea how so many of these clowns have stayed in. Any other election and they'd have been dropping like flies, especially with a candidate as dominate as Trump running. What makes them think that they can do it?
I like it. Trump is a lackluster debater, so having to share so much screen time disguises this to some extent by diluting his speaking time.
By the time he gets to a one-against-one(or two) debating situation, where he's forced to provide voters with more than just vague sound bites, it might be too late on the calendar to stop his momentum in the primaries.
BennyBlanco
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Yeah, not that Paul has a shot at the nomination but he is a really sharp guy and has challenged some BS quotes from the other candidates. He's entertaining.
This made me laugh. It's so true.
I really don't agree with libertarian ideals, but I feel like rand made it an actual debate. I think I also would have preferred Rand against DNC candidate, simply because I think that debate would have whittled down to some more core arguments between the sides than anything the other GOP could have come with. There's some weird stuff that overlaps between libertarians and democrats so we would have been able to see Hillary/Bern/whoever talk about different issues instead of the normal stuff. Dems could have come with sharper knives and better arguments.
But republicans gonna republican, I guess.
Hyperactivity
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I'm gonna miss Rand if only because it was absolutely amazing whenever he attacked one of the others and because those moments when he would say the most sensible things of the debate.
Him getting his turn to speak was always interesting in some way
Him getting his turn to speak was always interesting in some way
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