Pivotal Debate For Republicans Tonight

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Tonight's republican debate should be interesting. The main two questions are will Rubio continue to go after Trump in demeaning terms and will Megyn Kelly be able to control her Trump derangement syndrome?

After a humiliating Super Tuesday, Rubio faces a crossroads. His personalized attacks on Trump have received poor reviews from the conservative commentariat and risk turning Rubio from a generally well-liked figure into a pariah. Other than his amnesty betrayal, I think the general opinion of him was that he was a budding star but a bit too green for president. After all, we have suffered through seven years of Obama's on the job training. Do we really want another small time local pol who decides to run for president 15 minutes after getting sworn in as a junior senator? His recent over the top attacks on Trump threaten this image. Calling the presumptive nominee a "con man" is not helpful. It sounds more like sour grapes than campaigning.

Trump's responses to Rubio will also be interesting. if I were Trump, I would just sneer at him and ignore him. Maybe make the point that Rubio is such a sore loser he would rather see Hillary win. Of course, we know that is totally accurate, as the republican insiders and party hacks would prefer a Hillary victory. Then we would be treated to pompous postmortems pointing out the foolishness of ignoring them and listening to actual voters.

As for Megyn, she has looked absolutely fabulous lately. Maybe she got a face lift or some vitamin injections, and her new hair style is awesome. It really separated her from the other talking blondes on Fox. She needs to be very careful tonight with Trump. The last thing she needs to do is upset her remaining audience and remind them how angry we all were at Fox.

Hannity was distancing himself from Rubio last night. Even Murdoch seems to have resigned himself to Trump. I am predicting a far different tone than the first Fox debate. We'll see.
 
If I was advising Trump, just admit you are not a good debater. Something like, "I don't like debates. Most of the time you just stand there waitng for someone to attack you. That's all these guys do is talk. They're politicians. I'm ready to get working!"
 

Romney attacks Trump.

I'll say this for Romney, he gives a good speech. Of course, his first career was a management consultant and making polished pitches was what he known for. As Rick Santelli pointed out however, when the chips were down, he shriveled up like a raisin. He let that fat cow Candy Crowley bully him when she thought it necessary to jump into the debate and take over for the stumbling Obama. Then he totally wimped out when he was given a chance at a do-over in the next debate.

He attacks Trump for not being a good businessman on the basis of a few flops. How many of Romney's PE deals were big successes? A couple? Trump tried to build things, not go in, fire people who had worked at a company their whole lives, load it up with debt, then IPO it.

It's really a shocking performance by Romney, who seems to think three career pols have better business chops than Trump. And isn't it amazing that Romney, who was for strict immigration enforcement, etc, now sides with chief amnesty boy Rubio and the ever compassionate Kasich, who doesn't want anyone sent home. It's almost enough to make you wonder how truthful Romney was being with us.

The whole point of the Romney speech however is that it foreshadows the line of attack we will see tonight on Trump. I actually hope it turns into a fight over free( ie one-sided)) trade versus economic nationalism. That should get Trump more Reagan democrats.
 
Romney is just another milquetoast establishment shill. That's all he ever was.

Im not surprised by this at all. Im surprised you didn't see this to begin with, AAA
 
achilles28 said:
Romney is just another milquetoast establishment shill. That's all he ever was.

Im not surprised by this at all. Im surprised you didn't see this to begin with, AAA
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I suppose you're right, but I thought Romney had too much class for something like this. Boy was I wrong.
 
Apparently the republican party is prepared to forfeit the election to Hillary if that is what it takes to keep Trump out. Why are they so damned desperate?

Is it because he is out of reach for the big donors and thus cannot be controlled? Is it just that they are furious that a non-career pol is beating them at their own game? Are they so desperate to cram amnesty and 30 million new Hispanic voters down our throats?

I certainly don't buy the idea that Trump's business record embarrasses them. They weren't embarrassed by Romney's PE career, which arguably hurt a lot more little people than anything Trump has done.

The rational thing to do now is for them to unite behind Trump. They have a great shot at winning if they do. They know full well that if they screw Trump, his voters will stay home and they have no chance. Moreover, we will take it out on their officeholders. If we can't primary then, we can just vote for the democrat and take satisfaction in seeing them defeated. Every republican in a swing district, many of them moderates, are vulnerable to this. Paul Ryan is vulnerable, yet he is trying to undermine Trump. Rubio himself is likely a one term senator now, thanks to his antics.

It's either mass insanity or something very powerful pulling levers behind the scenes.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
Apparently the republican party is prepared to forfeit the election to Hillary if that is what it takes to keep Trump out. Why are they so damned desperate?
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Because they love America more than winning. It's tough, but it's respectable.
 
“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.”
 
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