Live Blog: Live Blog Republican Debate Hell Realm
Posted: March 10, 2016 Filed under: 2016 elections, Live, Live Blog, right wing hate grouups | Tags: 2016, Democratic Debate from Florida, live blog, Republican 128 Comments
Good Evening!
Well, if last night’s Democratic Debate wasn’t enough over kill for you, tonight’s Republican debate should do you in.
The debate is hosted by CNN and takes place in the battleground state of Florida which is basically Rubio’s Last Stand or (hmmm) the Rubiocon. Did that come off more like a convention for dimbulbs or as I intended?
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Marco Rubio will face off at CNN’s presidential debate on Thursday night in a state that could make one of the four men virtually unstoppable — and spell doom for another.
Thursday’s debate here comes just five days ahead of the next week’s “Super Tuesday 3,” when there are more than 350 delegates up for grabs, including in winner-take-all contests in Florida and Ohio.
Both Trump and Rubio are predicting that they will be victorious here in the Sunshine State, and fully aware of how much is riding on Florida. For Trump, a win here would fuel his growing momentum and further grow his delegate lead; for Rubio, losing his home state could be the death knell for his campaign.
Cruz and Kasich will also take the debate stage at a crucial moment in their campaigns. Cruz is aggressively trying to convince the Republican Party to coalesce around him, arguing he is the only candidate other than Trump capable of reaching 1,237 delegates; Kasich, who still has not won a single state, is eying his home state of Ohio with fresh optimism after a new poll this week showed him ahead of Rubio nationally. A Fox News poll released Wednesday showed Kasich leading Trump in Ohio, but the front-runner topping Rubio in Florida.
How will Little Marcio and Lying Ted stand up against Big Donald? Also, is this just an opportunity for Kasich to apply for the VP slot?
Donald Trump is leading two of his Republican presidential rivals in their home states,topping Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida and Gov. John Kasich in Ohio, new CNN/ORC polls show.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is far ahead of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in both states.
In Ohio, Trump holds 41% to Kasich’s 35%, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in third at 15% and Rubio in fourth with 7%.
And in Florida, Trump holds 40% to Rubio’s 24%, with Cruz at 19% and Kasich at 5%.
This debate could be ugly. Here’s our check off list per Gizmo.
The nuanced language and posture of each candidate.
Each candidate’s stated position on national security.
Dangerous rhetorical slip ups that could tilt the public’s perception.
Cruz’s aggressiveness towards Trump.
Rubio’s decision to dial back his negative attacks on Trump.
Underhanded compliments.
Zest for life from any of the four potential nominees.
Illness resulting from a grueling campaign schedule.
Statements about immigration.
The amount of perspiration coming from each candidate.
Hillary’s tweets during the debate.
Every time Cruz looks directly at the camera.
Zealous fans of establishment candidates in the audience.
Oligarchy.
Discussion of gun deaths in America and around the world.
International trade agreements.
Any direct attacks on Bernie rather than Hillary.
Cautious wording about deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Killer apps.
Interest in anything besides yelling.
Loud cheers for Kasich on moderate policy positions.
Love.
Every time Ted Cruz, a sitting Senator, says the word “establishment”
Racist stuff and all that.
Okay, that wasn’t serious. Well, kinda sorta. Let’s try that again.
Here’s the information on how to watch the Zodiac Killer Senator Ted Cruz and the others debate. If the others are still alive after Ted’s Dominionist Demons get to them.
Tonight’s Republican debate will air on CNN. But don’t worry: If you don’t have cable, you’ll still be able to tune in — an online live stream will be free and available to all at CNN.com. The network has said the event will kick off at 8:30 pm Eastern in Miami, Florida.
This debate is the final one before a crucial day of voting in the GOP race on Tuesday, March 15. Five states — Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, and Missouri — will go to the polls that day, and about 15 percent of overall Republican delegates will be up for grabs. Even more importantly, both Florida and Ohio allot all their delegates to whichever candidate comes in first, so Donald Trump has a big opportunity to expand his already sizable delegate lead.
Trump also has the chance to knock Marco Rubio and John Kasich out of the race, which he’d likely do if he beats each man in his home state. And he could well pull it off. Polls show Trump up big in Florida and neck and neck with Kasich in Ohio.Rubio’s campaign appears to be in free fall lately — his performance in Tuesday’s elections was simply disastrous, and there’s been increasing speculation that he’ll drop out of the race soon. This debate is likely his last chance to turn his prospects around.
Do you think I’m tired of these freaking things yet?
So, here’s some good stuff to cheer you up about last night’s miserable excuse for a panel of human beings/journos asking questions of 
Democratic Presidential Candidates.
what the hell did we just watch?!
Dear Univision: Show Us On The Doll Where Hillary And Bernie Hurt You“Interrumpiendo La Vaca MUUUUUUUUUU!!!!”
It wasn’t just the questions themselves, either. Remember when Evan made that hilarious interrupting cow en Español joke yesterday? Yeah, so did the Univision debate moderators, apparently, because they spent the entire night doing it, repeatedly cutting off both candidates halfway through (not unreasonably long!) responses. Any time Bernie and Hillary started to go back and forth on a subject — y’know, to have a fucking debate — all three moderators brusquely attempted to force them to move on. At two separate points, Ramos told Bernie “You have 30 seconds,” then tried to cut him off before he hit 15. Even Hillary looked like she wanted to say “For fuck’s sake, let the man speak.”It wasn’t just that they were interrupted, either, it was how relentlessly dickish the moderators were about it. Four separate times (three for Bernie, one for Hillary), the candidates had clearly finished speaking, but the moderators made it a point to snap “YOUR TIME IS UP” anyway.So That Was The Most Badly Moderated Debate We’ll Ever See, Right?
God, we hope so.
Please make these debates stop. I’m not having fun any more. Please let me out of this deep well. And stop giving me lotion. I don’t want any more lotion. I just want to go one night without watching a dang debate. Here is my recap of the last one. Won’t that suffice?
If not, here is the Wednesday night Univision/Washington Post debate summarized for those of you who were not unexpectedly trapped when helping a seemingly friendly stranger move a large unwieldy piece of furniture into a van and forced to watch these debates FOREVER PLEASE HAVE MERCY SEND SNACKS AT LEAST.
Clinton: Thank you for having me. I’ve been looking forward to this debate.
Maria Elena Salinas: Secretary Clinton, why don’t people trust you?
Clinton: Maybe it’s because I just said that I was looking forward to this debate, which is either a bald-faced lie or a sign that I am some kind of a sociopath. We had one of these three days ago. Why would we have another one now? Did you just want to torment me by putting me in another situation where a man makes unrealistic promises and waves his arms while I have to smile and look unruffled, all the while living with the knowledge that somehow he was what the people of Michigan wanted, not me? What does he have that I do not have? Does this answer your question?
Salinas: Maybe?
Salinas: Secretary Clinton, why don’t people like you?
Clinton: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ANSWER THAT
SERIOUSLY
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Ben Carson will endorse Donald Trump. There must be the Surgeon General’s job up for sale.
Ahh. I was thinking SOS.
Holy crap! You thought of Ben Carson as SOS!?!?!?! I’m sorry, that made me laugh out loud! 😀
heehee
Good grief! Hope not!
Hahahaha!
Really, he’s our secret doomsday weapon; Trump will send him out and Rubio and Cruz will get it passed through Congress. As usual, Fiorina picked the wrong side. They will keep Christie for that unfilled SCOTUS position.
The debate was advertised as starting at 8:30 Eastern, but it actually won’t start until nine. Anderson Cooper and several talking heads will fill the time until then.
Thanks, I was getting tire of the ads.
Yea. Something weird must’ve happened.
“Rubio’s Last Stand or (hmmm) the Rubiocon” … maybe crossing (off) the Rubicon.
Lol
Kasich is trying to come across as approachable, it’s not working.
Here goes Trump. He knows “The H1B, the H2B…” He knows better than anyone else.
He’s snide.
Trump: Believe me, only I can do it, I’m the only one who know how. I wear a t-shirt, and it says G O D
Cruz just suggested Tariffs. Yup. Trade war …that’s not very Republican of him. I bet the Kochs just choked on their 509 year old imported sherry.
Wow, compared to Kasich and Trump, Rubio sounds like a genius.
His smile was stiff and his opening comments were wooden. I’m looking for the strings.
Ah, I missed the opening statements.
LOL! Trump is coughing to throw Rubio off his stride.
Lol
Has anyone mentioned the size of his Johnson? This is boring.
400 jobs since Kasich has been governor? That’s paltry compared to McAuliffe in Virginia.
Trump says he hires the H1B’s but he should be stopped.
What the hell is Cruz talking about? We’re bringing in too many low skilled workers and that’s driving wages down? I think it’s just the opposite.
Too much of anything lowers it price.
My thinking was that the low skilled workers can’t drive our lowest wages down since they are so low already but that bringing in skilled workers is driving middle class wages down, but you’re right about that.
Those wages generally only attract undocumenteds, however so there is a feedback loop
Rubio says “…millions of green cards are coming in…” WRONG! It takes a whole lot of money and bullshit to get a green card. They aren’t coming in.
Trump is asked for specifics on education and he responds with “…I want to make education great…” Yeah, that’s specific.
Trump says charter schools work.
Trump don’t know anything about Common Core, and so he can’t change it when he does know it. And he’s going to put Dr. Ben Carson in charge of education, not as his VP.
Sounds as if Trump would make Carson Secretary of Education rather than Surgeon General.
Trump is faking an answer on Common Core. Big Donald, the correct Republican answer is that Education is a state and local government function, get rid of the Department of Education … Ooo Kasich and Cruz have the correct roboanswer …
I wouldn’t want him as dog catcher.
Everything Cruz starts off with is Obama, and I’m going to change Obama’s plans, and all his executive orders.
This raising the retirement age is such bullshit because so few companies will let you work beyond age 58. Just about everyone I know gets laid off at age 58.
Rubio doesn’t know that Social Security has no relationship to the Federal debt. Bad dog! No bone!
Yup. Same with my peers. We’re thrown out like worn out parts.
Just bumped in to a woman I knew from a local grocery store. She was let go because she was making too much money so now she’s working for Walmart and had to take a $6.00/hr cut in pay. You know at that level of earnings, she’s hurting.
What happened to ageism protections in public jobs?
Got to prove it. Hard to do when you’ve been fired or laid off. Plus the employer can deduct all his payments for legal fees to fight claims as “business expenses.”
The company that did it to my ex did it before to another guy. Both of them had strokes. They did not want them on insurance. The spent money on lawyers finding ways to get rid of the jobs then getting rid of them.
Trump: I am going to like the democrats, and just leave Social Security just like it is. Even though the Democrats are boring as hell, I’m going leave it like the way they do.
Hahaha, that was funny.
Trump: I am going to do like the democrats, and just leave Social Security like it is. Even though the Democrats are boring as hell, I’m going leave it the way they have done.
Hahaha, that was funny.
I think Trump made yoooge points by saying he would leave SS alone. Nobody, even the Republicans, wants anyone to mess with SS.
Sounds like Cruz is going to privatize it.
If Cruz gets rid of the payroll tax there will be no SS.
Oops…….corrected version.
Well, drop out Cruz, you are the fucking problem.
I know. How do these government employees dare to say government is the problem?
He’s nuts. He’d say anything.
Geez, Kasich’s face was twitching like a meth head.
He’s suppressing his inner demons.
Hmmm. Maybe Bobby Jindal can do an exorcism.
LOL!
I think its his hair cut.
Kasich, no you haven’t done that before. Social Security has never been cut like that!
Tapper you are changing the Repugs what will happen? Trump really is am the same as much of the party except for trade deals which I abhor. Tax incoming products
Trump, who is going to pay for all those factories to be built here?
Cruz a 45% tariff is a tax is on you and it raise prices. I have a better tax plan. Trump, China won’t let us in but they dump everything here. Cruz how does that help? Trump-Duh you make things at home. 505 billion dollar trade deficit. It’s a bubble and it will explode.
Oh, China will pay for those factories, just like Mexico will pay for the wall. Silly me.
Rubio Trump says what people wish they could say, but as prez they can’t and Rubio is off on a story about Muslim hostility. Anyone who is a military Patriot is good. Trump I don’t want to be politically correct. Women are treated horribly there is hatred. Rubio, I’m not interested in being politically correct, I want to be correct. We must work with muslins, even as it faces its own problems Rubio did a brave and smart thing there considering the audience.
Kasich I agree with what was said.
People in mosques are chanting “Death to the USA” according to Trump. Who knew?
Trump we need waterboarding and torture and families gone. Rubio would you? No. Obama is going to leave us with the smallest military since WW2. Wow, can’t we just declare and get it over with?
I would go insane if any of these idiots became POTUS.
Canada would sure look better than ever.
Maybe Guam, on the stop to AU. The military would be last in power there.
Carter is right. Every time I watch this hot mess I come to the same conclusion. Trump make a dealllllll on Israel, not Iran. Cruz I hate the PA. I thought Hamas was off the terror list. Rubio- we can’t deal with them because there is no one to deal with.
I can’t take how they characterize Israel who is violating a treaty every day by settling areas that are illegal. I’d freaking lob bombs at an occupier …wtf?
I know. Beyond that even, yes, I know Israel is a trigger, but right now this argument sounds like something out of the 80’s. I guess to these guys it’s an example of fine wall building.
Donald has tough Jewish friends who love Israel. So there.
So, there! Lol.
Cruz we must defeat ISIS. Idiot, we are arming the Kurds. Ahh here comes the rapture!
I’ve heard this “rules of engagement” complaint from Republicans so many times, does anyone know what they mean? How is the military being held back? I’ve never heard about this even from some of the most conservative military people.
Rubio we need to beat on the VA because we haven’t cut it enough.
Cut it any more and you’ll kill it.
Oh. That’s his plan.
Kasich, downsize and spread out the VA. Link with a job and home. Where is the beef Kasich?
Bed time for me. I can’t stay up any longer. So far, I’d say Rubio scored the most points. Good for him, he needs to win Florida. Night all.
Nite. Don’t let these black sheep keep you awake.
The great Florida Cuba argument Wow, Rubio uses “Burma”…we made a bad deal to open up. Cuba want reparations. 50 years is enough time. Cruz I would reverse course on Cuba, I won’t do a democratic deal. In 50 years Cuba might be under water and all the FL Cubans will be in TX.
Good grief … These folks are awful on foreign affairs. They know absolutely nothing!
Kasich-what are you doing? Support your friends, Chinese must understand they don’t own the South China Sea. Arm the Ukraine. Stop the N Koreans.
Daughter is in ER……out of here.
Ohhh. Take care
Take care, Fannie. Let us know how things went.
Climate change. Rubio is there such a thing? Mitigation is fine but there is no such thing as weather. China will still pollute India will still pollute. There is no law that will change the weather.
Kasich we can enact laws and keep jobs.
I’m amazed they got a climate change question in .
Lol
Cruz- I blacked out. Something about Iran and nuclear.
Trump. Putin is a strong leader for Russia. I usd to think Merkel was a strong leader until what she did ( refugees)
I’m losing signal.
Merkel must have jammed CNN.
I barely have signal for you guys. I think my local hot spot is rebooting. Oh wait now it’s back.
Trump what about all those idiots punching out people at your speeches. They are angry and patriotic. I don’t condone it. We had a few people who were big and bad and hurting people in the speeches so they had to be taken out. LOL CRUZ WE mussst show respect for the peeeople. Trump- it shows the media bias,when I ask people to raise hands they show it as Nazi Germany. Kasich do you worry about these rallies? People are up tight and worried. You can either prey on it or tell them how to fix it. Rubio, I’m concerned about violence in general- use it to motivated us not define us. Well Trump is motivating them.
The math says all could be subject to a contested convention. Kasich if we do it will be fine. Think of Ford. we still have half the delegates to be selected.
Florida is the prize right now.
Yep. Flooded Cubans and all.
Trump-if you have a majority but not plurality will you support the nominee. yes.
Cruz-dreams of a brokered convention. don’t do it. Cruz I will win. If you nominate Trump Clinton will win. Vote for me. I won 6 contests.
Tump I won 13 and I will win.
Rubio yes I was disappointed but I will win.
He’s really pulling straws now.
Trump will you fund your main campaign or use outside. I don’t know yet, but no one will control me.
I’ve lost CNN again
Maybe it’s the rainstorm.
Rubio- raise taxes or weaken our military.
Trump – we had Reagan and Tip O’Neal working together, get out of gridlock.
Kasich- I was there and did it I know how. SS will have to be bipartisan/
Kasich I will send money back to you and you can make the USA great.
Rubio- I was here and now I’m back We stand on the shoulders of our parents and we must go forward.
All I can say is thank you for your heroic service, reporting on this dreck!
Cruz we started poor and now we are great. We can do better than Clinton and keep America safe.
Trump be smart and unify.
They are going to talk to Trump and Cruz. Trump It was a different substantive debate.
Wow.
On that note I think I am done.
Thx so much for hanging in there with us! At least this one was more Civil.
Yes, it was. Thanks for having me!
Urghzk! I don’t know how you can take it, roof-bird! Thx for putting up with that dreck.
Sweet sleep to you all, and dreamless!
All is well with daughter, suffering from infection.
Glad to hear she’s ok.
Ditto! 🙂
Glad to hear she’s ok Fannie. Take care!!!
I sound like your echo Dak! Sorry I should have just typed “ditto”. 🙂
lol
Whew!
You know I am watching the black guy get punched on Wednesday at Trump’s rally………and if you watch that video, 5 white cops go after the black guy, and not the white guy who threw the punch, and said next time we’ll kill me.
Donald Trump blew him off last night didn’t he.