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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2016 / More SC Debate Open Thread

More SC Debate Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  February 13, 201610:01 pm| 253 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!

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The GOP frontrunner is pledging to defend Social Security, minutes after calling Iraq a "big, fat mistake."

— Luke Brinker (@LukeBrinker) February 14, 2016

Jeb Lund, at the Guardian liveblog:

Three times (so far) tonight the audience has lustfully booed the facts:

That the Bush administration lied to the country about an optional war in Iraq.

That he did not keep Americans safe, because over 3,000 people died on 9/11 on his watch.

That he ignored the warnings from the intelligence community.

These three statements were made by Donald Trump, and he might as well have doused the stage in kerosene and set it ablaze.

“Exciting” in politics is an extremely low bar to clear; the slightest side-eye is usually enough to send politicos and political journalists aflutter and especially a-Twitter.

This was far more than that. This was a man burning down a party from the inside.

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253Comments

  1. 1.

    PhoenixRising

    February 13, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    I love this audience. No home training whatever, just hooting and hollering.

  2. 2.

    Trentrunner

    February 13, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    It’s not “burning down the party from the inside.”

    The GOP is not going to EVER let the Iraq debacle trouble its beautiful mind.

    Rubio blamed 9/11 on Clinton

    Carson blamed Iraq on Obama.

    Trump recommended that Barbara Bush run for President.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    @PhoenixRising: It’s what they’re paid to do.

  4. 4.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    Rubio drinks!

    DRINK!

  5. 5.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Rubio has his paid operatives in the audience also.

  6. 6.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    This crowd is so in the fucking tank.

  7. 7.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    Dudes named Cruz and Rubio arguing about who hates Latinos more.

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Why do Cruz and Trump think attacking this home crowd is a net positive?

  9. 9.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    WTF just happened?

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    Cruz speaking Espanol on stage? HOLY SHITBALLS!

  11. 11.

    beltane

    February 13, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    In the thread below AL mentioned that tickets to this debate were issued by the SC Republican party. The audience is going to support Rubio or Bush no matter what. I don’t think they’re listening to the actual answers really.

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    This is CRAZEBALLS!

  13. 13.

    PhoenixRising

    February 13, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @redshirt:

    ¡…ahora en español!

  14. 14.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    @Corner Stone: I heard it! It’s over!

  15. 15.

    beltane

    February 13, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @redshirt: Isn’t America great?

  16. 16.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    My inner Chris Christie?

  17. 17.

    benw

    February 13, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @Corner Stone: Donde esta la casa blanca?

  18. 18.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    February 13, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    Jeb is going to channel his inner Chris Chrisie. Good plan, dude. His campaign is on fire.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @Corner Stone: ¡Ay caramba!

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @redshirt: Noche Buena with the relatives is going to be awkward this year!

  21. 21.

    Mai.naem.mobile

    February 13, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    I thought SC justices got secret service. I’m not saying this as a conspiracy theory, I’m just wondering why the resort staff found Scalia and not his security detail.

  22. 22.

    beltane

    February 13, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Trump really has it in for Jeb and the whole Bush family. He deserves some kind of national service award for this.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile: I don’t think their security is that tight.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Holy Shit this is a complete circus! These people are running for the WH??

  25. 25.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR MAMA, JEB!

  26. 26.

    PhoenixRising

    February 13, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile: you know what this apparent Constitutional crisis in the making needs? A conspiracy theory.

    Because what they’re doing right in plain sight isn’t crazy enough.

  27. 27.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile: I never saw a detail at Scalia’s house, but that was a long time ago. Maybe I missed it too.

  28. 28.

    Mandalay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Trump still winning this despite his magnificent heresy.

    All the rest of them are insulting each other and rolling around in the dirt.

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile: Its already been floated at some of the gun sites in the comments that this is just too too convenient to happen now. That somehow every break seems to go to the President.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Immigration is such a poison pill for the Rs. They are going to eat shit and die over the browns.

  31. 31.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Clown car has now been overrun as a satirical trope for this.

    I don’t know what this is but clown car sounds tame and sensible compared to whatever this is.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    This WSJ lady is just awful. Flat out awful.

  33. 33.

    JPL

    February 13, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Baud: I wonder what Jeb’s wife thinks. Has he mentioned his wife?

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @PhoenixRising: starts with comment #1 and just keeps on going:
    http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/02/robert-farago/breaking-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dies-at-texas-hunting-ranch/#comments

  35. 35.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Corner Stone: She seems like she would be more at home at a swanky Wall Street cocktail party.

  36. 36.

    beltane

    February 13, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @Corner Stone: I am here because I can’t stand her.

    This debate is similar in some ways to the livefeed of the Oregon standoff from a few nights ago.

  37. 37.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    So this is the first time I’ve ever seen any of these people speak, and I’m aghast that maybe one of these people (except, gulp, Jeb!) might be President.

    Are they always this terrible?

  38. 38.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @redshirt: Yes.

  39. 39.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Ted Cruz Immigration story….

  40. 40.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    Cruz is so far off the plot it is nuts. NUTS!

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: John Wayne Gacy car?

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    @beltane: Do you need me to get Michelle Fiore to call in with a question on the live feed?

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile: Quick google, not as of 2009 they didn’t.

    I suspect Scalia didn’t want anyone listening in on his bedtime prayers, anyway.

  44. 44.

    beltane

    February 13, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: She was less annoying than this horrible WSJ lady. I also think this debate would be improved if they took prayer breaks every five minutes.

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Didn’t Ted Bundy have a van?

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @Corner Stone: I am getting my fix of crazy by watching Silence of the Lambs.

  47. 47.

    lgerard

    February 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @efgoldman:

    yes it was

  48. 48.

    NotMax

    February 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    El coche de muchos payasos.

  49. 49.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    Donald Trump labor story.

    Wow these debates are a trip.

  50. 50.

    beltane

    February 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @efgoldman: Yes.

  51. 51.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    I would have loved it if Rubio took Cruz’s challenge and responded in Spanish.

    I bet they already loved it in in the control room.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Probably, but I don’t remember the details.

  53. 53.

    hueyplong

    February 13, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    In an earlier, more coarse time with different standards for party standard-bearers, we’d have called this cast of clowns window-lickers. The fact that this evening isn’t considered hair-on-fire shocking is itself a little breathtaking.

    As for Scalia, he was so in-your-face, what-are-you-going-to-do-about-my-unaccountability that it’s almost disrespectful not to dance on his grave. It would mean that the left failed to recognize the threat he posed and his accomplishments in that regard.

    So I guess I’ll raise a glass to him and say, “Fck you, I’m glad you’re dead and that the president gets to have another crack at Supreme Court appointing while black.”

  54. 54.

    Mandalay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Trump seems to be sporting a new set of teeth tonight. They are absurdly white.

  55. 55.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 13, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I’d rather listen to another psychiatric crisis streamed than read comments at that site.

  56. 56.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: That was a surreal moment. Of course, Cruz probably did himself no favors with the base by pretending to speak a language other than English.

  57. 57.

    amk

    February 13, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @beltane: the only good thing about his run.

  58. 58.

    PhoenixRising

    February 13, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @redshirt: Usually they’re only this bad only in English.

    As the late great Molly Ivins would have said, They’re bi-ignorant.

  59. 59.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @efgoldman: The Scalia news piqued interest.

  60. 60.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: He was arrested in Florida while driving a VW bug. If I’m remembering correctly he used a van when he did the kidnapping portions of his serial murders.

  61. 61.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You are so missing out on the pure cray cray. Best theater going.

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    LOLTRUMP!

  63. 63.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Single biggest liar

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Let me see what I can do.

  65. 65.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Trump is doing the damned thing, y’all!!

  66. 66.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    February 13, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    Trump is killing me. Lol…

  67. 67.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:27 pm

    “One Weird Trick for Winning the Conservative Vote”

  68. 68.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Trump pro-women’s health!

  69. 69.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Holy Fuckballs! Loving this.
    Fish & chips you taste so good…

  70. 70.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Its South Carolina, can we just issue these guys dueling pistols?

  71. 71.

    Renie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    this is great – it’s like a schoolyard bully match

    LOL

  72. 72.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    God, you people are sucking me back in. One of my DVR “channels” is going to be free in a couple of minutes, and the debate is calling me.

  73. 73.

    benw

    February 13, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    The dunks going down in the NBA slam dunk contest right now are ASTOUNDING

  74. 74.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Trump has to be some kind of fucking grenade. This is awesome.

  75. 75.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Jerry Springer would be proud.

  76. 76.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    This is the most awesome debate evah!

  77. 77.

    divF

    February 13, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    I don’t know what this is but clown car sounds tame and sensible compared to whatever this is.

    Marat / Sade without Glenda Jackson and the uptempo tunes.

  78. 78.

    amk

    February 13, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    da truth

    Best debate ever! They tell the truth about each other and lie about themselves.

  79. 79.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    @Steeplejack: Do it. You know you wanna’.

  80. 80.

    Davebo

    February 13, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Chain link fencing. This debate needs some chain link fencing.

    And maybe a very attractive female with a large numbered card after each commercial break.

  81. 81.

    Keith P.

    February 13, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    This debate is just nasty. Nasty, mean, you name it. I’m glad to stream it.

  82. 82.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    It really was clear for years that Republican politics was heading towards ending up as a cross between the Jerry Springer Show and WWE, but it’s still amazing to actually see it happen.

  83. 83.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Marco all dry mouthed.

  84. 84.

    scottinnj

    February 13, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    All this nonsense aside it is kind of amazing the guy in the lead puts the blame for 9/11 on George Bush, defense social security and says Planned Parenthood does some good things.

  85. 85.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    It’s what I want, Ben.

  86. 86.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    These are the worst moderators ever to be seen.

  87. 87.

    dr. bloor

    February 13, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    @efgoldman: Polar Vortices?

  88. 88.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Gyad, Carson’s such a fucking wet blanket. Think of the chillllllldren!

  89. 89.

    Mandalay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    @amk:

    They tell the truth about each other and lie about themselves.

    Win.

  90. 90.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    @scottinnj: Right? Trump is often speaking truth in a way no one else does. Not even democrats.

  91. 91.

    mike in dc

    February 13, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Trump is already pivoting towards the general. LOLZ. But he’s right. Cruz is a liar and Bush (W) was a huge failure.

  92. 92.

    Davebo

    February 13, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Ben Carson gets honest!

    I’m not a politician. I’m never going to become a politician.”

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    February 13, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    Good Lordt Ben Carson is fucking crazy.

  94. 94.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    February 13, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    You’re exactly right, Ben. You are never going to be a politician.

  95. 95.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    @Corner Stone: Just horrible. Every single one should lose his/her moderator card forever. They shouldn’t be allowed to moderate a middle school student council debate.

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    “Irresponsible, evil government” WTF?

  97. 97.

    Rocky

    February 13, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    Jeb winning the night!

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:35 pm

    Christ! Kasich on “growing the economy.” I wish these idiots had to hold some magical Indian talking stick that would burn the shit out of them when they lie. They’d all be wearing mitten bandages on their third-degree burns.

  99. 99.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 13, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It is! The knives are being thrown. Is Carson medicated, badly?

    Ben Jacobs Twitter:

    Bush: Screw Trump.
    Trump: Screw Jeb.
    Cruz: Screw Rubio.
    Rubio: Screw Cruz.
    Kasich: Can’t we all just get along?
    Carson: Go to my website.

    ^From the Guardian liveblog

  100. 100.

    Rocky

    February 13, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    Trump stepped in shit tonight. Blamed Bush for 9/11. Denigrated Justice Roberts. Defended Planned Parenthood. Trash talked the decision to liberate Iraq from Saddam’s tyranny.

    Huge mistakes!

  101. 101.

    Misterpuff

    February 13, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Kasich policies sound like Kansas-Lite. He is a True Believer who sounds blue collar.

  102. 102.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Profanity!

  103. 103.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:37 pm

    Language police!

  104. 104.

    Mandalay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    @scottinnj:

    the guy in the lead puts the blame for 9/11 on George Bush, defense social security and says Planned Parenthood does some good things

    Trump called himself a “common sense conservative” tonight. That might be a highly effective line against the Democrats.

    Trump has decided that he has the nomination in the bag against this bunch of losers, and he’s already tacking to the center.

  105. 105.

    Anne Laurie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Its South Carolina, can we just issue these guys dueling pistols?

    Metal-headed canes, would be traditional.

    Although, if you want collateral damage…

  106. 106.

    Renie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    this audience is so packed with anti-trump people

    some of the stuff he says is funny but they won’t laugh

  107. 107.

    lgerard

    February 13, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    I ‘ll bet Christie is sorry he missed this

    It seems like the type of event he would enjoy

  108. 108.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @lgerard: True.

  109. 109.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 13, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    Jeb Lund:

    If you tried to footnote this thing, the job would be longer than the regular text of a David Foster Wallace book. People are just saying damn near anything that pops into their minds.

    Zurcher tweet, same source:

    Keeping track at home: Jeb vs Trump, Kasich vs. Bush, Cruz vs Rubio, Jeb vs Trump (again!), Cruz vs Trump, Carson vs. consciousness

  110. 110.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    I use only the top, top, profanity, really tremendous, quality stuff, best in the business.

  111. 111.

    Misterpuff

    February 13, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    Fundies ears are burning…The Great White Hope uses liberal gutter language.

  112. 112.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 13, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    @efgoldman: the excitement is not only the demise of the pig fucker but it flips the balance of the court for the first time in 44 years (by the 44th President no less), and saves the CO2 reduction plan, that the pig fucker halted this very week.

  113. 113.

    Matt McIrvin

    February 13, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    Half of the commenters here are going to vote for Trump in the fall, I can feel it now.

  114. 114.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): As we were discussing in the previous thread, Dr. Carson appears to have a left side facial droop and he’s slurring his speech. He also can’t seem to maintain eye contact.

  115. 115.

    mike in dc

    February 13, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    I think this is Trump’s worst debate performance, but he is just throwing live grenades out there.

  116. 116.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    February 13, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    63% of Americans can’t afford a $500 car payment. Jebra 2016!

  117. 117.

    eric

    February 13, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: the “Trump Effect”

  118. 118.

    sharl

    February 13, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    Hippo ‏@InternetHippo 26 minutes ago

    BEN CARSON’S WIFE: Are you coming home for dinner
    BEN CARSON: Go to ben carson dot com and read my plan to come home for dinner

  119. 119.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    Rubio has weird ears.

  120. 120.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @Anne Laurie: JDAMs and TLAMs it is.

  121. 121.

    Renie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    hope no one is taking a drink everytime reagan is mentioned; you would be in a blackout by now

  122. 122.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    Oh, Jeb! He just said that “63 percent of Americans can’t make a $500 car payment.” Really, Jeb? Most Americans probably have trouble with the $200 or $300 car payments they actually have, rather than the payment on the low-end Mercedes that you consider a rock-bottom ride.

  123. 123.

    Misterpuff

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Marco makes coveted Obama-Carter two cushion shot

  124. 124.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @sharl: LOL.

  125. 125.

    FlyingToaster

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: TIA or minor stroke?

  126. 126.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Mad cow disease?

  127. 127.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Even 50% Reagan is better than ANY Democrat.

  128. 128.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Reagan straight up lied, you dumb fuck.

  129. 129.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    Carly Fiornia just Tweeted: “I watched a fully formed Republican party on stage, its mouth moving, its arms flailing, while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest what’s left of its brain.”

  130. 130.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    It’s just hitting me that this “speed round” questioning is totally bogus. They don’t have to divide the two hours into hectic 30- or 60-second niblets. It’s guaranteed to make the crazy word salad even crazier.

  131. 131.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:45 pm

    @Steeplejack: I know, right! I barely scrape by with my 450$ Land Rover payment. Jeez!

  132. 132.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @Baud:

    I’d like to see somebody bust a folding chair over somebody.

  133. 133.

    gogol's wife

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @Rocky:

    RtR?

  134. 134.

    amk

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm


    god

    It’s not “off the rails”. There never were any rails. #GOPDebate
    378 retweets 698 likes

  135. 135.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @FlyingToaster: I’m guessing TIA, Bell’s Palsy or bad med dosage. i do not, however, have a MD.

  136. 136.

    p.a.

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    I’m sure the comments are even better than the debate, but it sounds like a wonderful shitshow.

    I haven’t had a celebratory drink over my goombah’s demise yet. what say ye? Bourbon, Scotch, or Rye?
    No grappa here to keep it ‘in the family’ as it were.

  137. 137.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Yes.

  138. 138.

    Kay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    Trump, rattled, gets mean: “you are the single biggest liar – you’re probably a bigger liar than Jeb Bush.”

    I laughed ’till I cried.

  139. 139.

    lgerard

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    I say that for the next debate we honor the 2nd Amendment by arming the candidates with paintball guns to help them make their points

  140. 140.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I’m back. It is hideous, and yet I cannot look away.

  141. 141.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @redshirt: Rubio is running to be Reagan’s mini-me.

  142. 142.

    Aleta

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: she wants to abort ?

  143. 143.

    Keith P.

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    How many more debates are there, anyway? The nastiness is starting to get distilled, but I doubt the GOP will do 20+ again.

  144. 144.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: It is a glorious evening.

  145. 145.

    amk

    February 13, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    didn’t rtr ditch dumbya 3 and move on to kissing dreck’s a$$?

  146. 146.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @efgoldman:

    LOL.

  147. 147.

    Cheryl Rofer

    February 13, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @p.a.: The debate is far more outrageous than anything here.

  148. 148.

    p.a.

    February 13, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    @Renie: Actually isn’t that a desired effect for watching these turds?

  149. 149.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    No, Kasich, God wants Baud!

  150. 150.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 13, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    This will be an interesting test. My observation has been that Trump’s followers do not care what his policies and opinions are, as long as he doles out the hate speech. He is flying in the face of two of their most sacred hate cows here, though, Our Noble War Against Muslims and Evil Baby Butcherers.

  151. 151.

    lgerard

    February 13, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    Carson quoting Stalin

    smooth move

  152. 152.

    Mandalay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    @mike in dc:

    I think this is Trump’s worst debate performance

    On the contrary, it’s his best. For a lot of the debate he stood aside while the rest of them tugged at each other’s hair and bra straps, and now he’s presenting himself as the reasonable side of conservatism.

    The rest of the pack had treated him with kid gloves for far too long, and now that they have finally grown some balls to fight back it’s probably too late.

  153. 153.

    Anne Laurie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: You knew I’d have to google those terms, didn’t you?

    (Well done.)

  154. 154.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    I think Kasich just announced his engagement.

  155. 155.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    February 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Kay: Me too!

    Lund again:

    Anybody who can tell you who won or what just happened or even remember the order of things is lying: this is a mess. It’s a glorious, totally engrossing, chaotic mess, but it’s still a mess.

    And 30 min ago from the liveblog (just for us!)

    “I think we’re fixin’ to lose the election to Hillary Clinton if we don’t stop this,” says John Kasich, Voice Of Reason.

  156. 156.

    Wrb

    February 13, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Renie:

    hope no one is taking a drink everytime reagan is mentioned; you would be in a blackout by now

    Oh, so that is what happened.

  157. 157.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    February 13, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    @p.a.: No really we’re not doing it justice. Nothing could.

  158. 158.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 13, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    David Corn @DavidCornDC

    I’m becoming partial to the theory that Trump is only running so he can attack Jeb Bush. #GOPDebate

    7:37 PM – 13 Feb 2016

    105 Retweets
    258 Favorites

  159. 159.

    Old Dan and Little Anne

    February 13, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Fuck off, Rubio, you fucking fuck.

  160. 160.

    amk

    February 13, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    luntz the mofo. you built this asshole.

    Seriously, this is insane.

    The GOP is destroying itself tonight, and they have no one to blame but themselves. #GOPDebate

  161. 161.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 13, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    Philip Bump @pbump

    Let’s watch Trump in 2008 praising Pelosi and Hillary and saying W’s a liar and that impeaching him would be good.

    LOLUZ!

  162. 162.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    LOL.

  163. 163.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    If Dems don’t get 100% of the athiest vote, then atheists can go to hell.

  164. 164.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 13, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    I was supposed to go out tonight. But this is so good, I need to watch Matthews go nutz in the post game.

  165. 165.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    Cruz is the scariest of the bunch. By far.

  166. 166.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    I debated against people like Rubio in high school. Every point written out on 3×5 cards and recited. Cruz is so much better at actual debate – otoh, he is more demented and evil.

  167. 167.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    Granite => Rocky? Possible.

    ETA: Rocky => Pebbles => Sand => Dust in the Wind.

  168. 168.

    mike in dc

    February 13, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    @Mandalay:

    He had a pretty solid closing statement.

  169. 169.

    Kay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    “I think we’re fixin’ to lose the election

    Yeah, and when did he start talking like this? When he arrived in New Hampshire?

    I’m reading DC conservatives on Kasich. They hate him.

    Kasich is a sanctimonious nag

  170. 170.

    NotMax

    February 13, 2016 at 10:55 pm

    @p.a.

    All of ’em, Katie.

    And a dash of Amaretto.

    :)

  171. 171.

    p.a.

    February 13, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    @NotMax:

    All of ’em, Katie.

    And a dash of Amaretto.

    Agreed.

  172. 172.

    Kay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    @amk:

    For the first time ever, a #GOPDebate audience booed more than they cheered.
    This isn’t just insane, this is suicidal. This is pathetic.

    Let that be so.

  173. 173.

    dr. bloor

    February 13, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    @lgerard: My seventeen-year-old just said “so he thinks quoting Stalin is a good idea here?”

  174. 174.

    Renie

    February 13, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    after tonite if trump wins SC he is unstoppable

  175. 175.

    Betty Cracker

    February 13, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yep.

  176. 176.

    Baud

    February 13, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    That was nuts.

    What a day.

  177. 177.

    Mandalay

    February 13, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    Rubio is still reciting memorized chunks of text. It’s so fucking obvious.

  178. 178.

    Princess

    February 13, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    Bill Kristol just tweeted:

    “Is the Republican Party really going to nominate someone who thinks Bush (and presumably Powell, Tenet et al) KNEW there weren’t WMD? No.”

    Guess it’s Trump for sure now.

  179. 179.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    @Anne Laurie: I thought about including the explanations, but figured you’d enjoy looking them up. If you want to see what they can and do do, just go to youtube and google them. There’s plenty of surveillance of them impacting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  180. 180.

    lgerard

    February 13, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    I would love to be a fly on the wall at the post debate discussion at RNC headquarters

    what can they say?

  181. 181.

    tybee

    February 13, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    that was a shit-show from beginning to end.

    one of those will come very close to being president.

    that makes me nervous.

  182. 182.

    Rocky

    February 13, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    Jeb looked like a real man defending the honor of his family against the Trump attacks. Trump sounded like Michael Moore circa 2003 tonight. Horrible optics!

  183. 183.

    Felonius Monk

    February 13, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    can we just issue these guys dueling pistols?

    I was thinking that earlier. Would not this be simpler and less painful for the view audience, if they just had a duel off. Last man standing is the nominee.

  184. 184.

    Kay

    February 13, 2016 at 11:01 pm

    @Princess:

    Glenn Beck ‏@glennbeck 26m26 minutes ago
    Who would sit down and proudly tell their children “these are the best of America.” Shameful. #GOPDebate
    340 retweets 806 likes

  185. 185.

    NotMax

    February 13, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    @Felonius Monk

    Nah, too modern. Maybe Zell Miller could show up with a rack of swords.

  186. 186.

    p.a.

    February 13, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    @Princess:

    Bill Kristol just tweeted:

    “Is the Republican Party really going to nominate someone who thinks Bush (and presumably Powell, Tenet et al) KNEW there weren’t WMD? No.”

    Guess it’s Trump for sure now.

    The GOP in thrall to an aluminum siding salesman who inherited a billion dollars.

  187. 187.

    Princess

    February 13, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @Kay: When you’ve lost Glenn Beck because you are too unhinged…

  188. 188.

    NotMax

    February 13, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    Just saw a clip of the gruesome group lined up on stage; Rubio crossed himself.

  189. 189.

    Steeplejack

    February 13, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @Rocky:

    Jeb doesn’t want you back, honey. You broke faith with the family. [Insert Godfather snippet I can’t remember.]

  190. 190.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    @Felonius Monk: It would certainly allow them to demonstrate their 2nd Amendment bona fides.

  191. 191.

    NotMax

    February 13, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @Steeplejack

    It now claims it was trolled.

  192. 192.

    Renie

    February 13, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    can JEB? be anymore of a loser always talking about his family’s hurt feelings? must be his mommy telling him to say this stuff

    pathetic

  193. 193.

    seaboogie

    February 13, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    THIS IS GOD SPEAKING…..

    Hey – all my ‘botherers”, today Imma yank Scalia, and give you the GOP debate in SC. Quit invoking my damn name, you don’t have the first freaking clue.

    And Dems – you doubting Thomases, you – see above and tell me I don’t have a plan. Heh. Go get gay-married or something…

    CHILL THE FUCK OUT – I GOT THIS!

  194. 194.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    @efgoldman:

    “Oh, SHIT! Pass me that bottle. No, not that one, the bourbon!”

    Everclear.

  195. 195.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 13, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    @Rocky:

    Jeb looked like a real man defending the honor of his family against the Trump attacks.

    NO ONE gives a shit about the honor of jeb?’s family.

  196. 196.

    Kay

    February 13, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    @Princess:

    I listened to him on the (car) radio the other day. His whole show is now an anti-Trump screed. I think he backs Cruz.

  197. 197.

    p.a.

    February 13, 2016 at 11:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:pass the Everclear

    And a match.

  198. 198.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 13, 2016 at 11:12 pm

    @seaboogie:

    CHILL THE FUCK OUT – I GOT THIS!

    Wait, God’s a thin black guy with big ears?

  199. 199.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @Kay: He does, he headlined Senator Cruz’s event the other night and introduced him. His schtick was that Senator Cruz is the last chance to save the country by electing a godly man anointed by god who understands the divine nature of the bible and the Constitution.

  200. 200.

    SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel

    February 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    @Mai.naem.mobile:

    I’m not saying this as a conspiracy theory, I’m just wondering

    Ooh.

  201. 201.

    rikyrah

    February 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    you all have been hilarious

  202. 202.

    FlyingToaster

    February 13, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    I’m glad I didn’t watch; I don’t think I could stand the crazy. Reading about it is horrifying enough.

    Off to bed; WarriorGirl and I are escaping the freeze tomorrow. It’ll be about 0 when we reach Logan, and in the mid-50s when we get to sunny (or probably, cloudy) Ft. Myers. For her, a vacation with Grandma, for me, arguing with my mom as I have done since 1969, and being required to drive upteen million miles*.

    *In the Hub, I drive around a hundred miles a week; I generally end up driving a hundred miles every day down there. Urgh.

  203. 203.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel: Again:
    http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/02/robert-farago/breaking-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dies-at-texas-hunting-ranch/#comments

    Starts with comment #1 and just keeps on going!

  204. 204.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    @seaboogie: BHO is just a man.

    But like one of the best ever.

  205. 205.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    PS Also too there is no God. :)

  206. 206.

    seaboogie

    February 13, 2016 at 11:21 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Who knew? Also, the Easter Bunny is real…

    Not the best version of the pic, but I love it!

  207. 207.

    Scapegoat

    February 13, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    Open Thread?:

    Meet Billygoat

    7 lbs 5 oz, 20.5″
    3:44 pm, 2/13/16

    Mamagoat was AMAZING!!! Long labor (32.5 hrs) — terrible at first with wave after wave of contractions with no break. Then epidural. Smooth sailing after that,it just took time. When he was ready for his grand debut he hit the streets with three pushes — Mamagoat didn’t even break a sweat!

    I’m still high as a kite. Best experience of my life.

  208. 208.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 13, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    @seaboogie: Is that the same bunny that attacked Jimmy Carter?

  209. 209.

    amk

    February 13, 2016 at 11:27 pm

    ftw

    It’s time for the GOP to drop out of the race.
    465 retweets 771 likes

  210. 210.

    Mike G

    February 13, 2016 at 11:28 pm

    Ha Ha

    BUSH: “My mom is the strongest woman I know.”
    TRUMP: “She should be running.”

  211. 211.

    p.a.

    February 13, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    @Scapegoat: Great great! Congrats to all involved.

  212. 212.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 13, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Oh, Jeb! He just said that “63 percent of Americans can’t make a $500 car payment.” Really, Jeb? Most Americans probably have trouble with the $200 or $300 car payments they actually have, rather than the payment on the low-end Mercedes that you consider a rock-bottom ride.

    For the record, my Mercedes in neither S-class nor AMG, so I’m still a man of the people.

    But seriously, who the fuck has a $500 car payment? That’s not smart.

  213. 213.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 13, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    @Scapegoat:

    I’m still high as a kite.

    I thought they saved the good drugs for the momma. Congratulations.

  214. 214.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 13, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Mercedes? I’ve got a 30 yo VW.

  215. 215.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 13, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    As we were discussing in the previous thread, Dr. Carson appears to have a left side facial droop and he’s slurring his speech. He also can’t seem to maintain eye contact.

    Did he take the brown acid by mistake? Because there was a PA announcement about that.

  216. 216.

    different-church-lady

    February 13, 2016 at 11:35 pm

    @FlyingToaster: Stay at Logan and it will be mid-50s on Tuesday.

    Weird, huh?

  217. 217.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 13, 2016 at 11:36 pm

    @Scapegoat: Mazel Tov, and to confuse everyone: Mumtez Jiddan!

  218. 218.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 11:36 pm

    @Scapegoat: Congrats.

  219. 219.

    TaMara (BHF)

    February 13, 2016 at 11:38 pm

    @Scapegoat: Adorable. congrats.

  220. 220.

    divF

    February 13, 2016 at 11:41 pm

    @Scapegoat: Congrats to the newly-augmented family !

  221. 221.

    seaboogie

    February 13, 2016 at 11:42 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Is that the same bunny that attacked Jimmy Carter?

    Had to look that one up as I don’t remember it, but let me go a little Tommy on your ass:

    My family moved to Canada just after Carter was elected. We had lived in a small town in Wisconsin, and the marching band was a really big deal there. I was a part of it, and that was probably the thing that I missed the most after we left – because our band was amazing and we just killed in competitions. Our precision drill band played MN Vikings half-time shows.

    So I was sitting there in Toronto at the ripe old age of 14, lost and adrift – waiting for the striking teachers to get back to work so that I could start school in a big scary new place – while I watched my friends march down Pennsylvania Avenue during Jimmy Carter’s inaugural parade. Adolescence (and parental divorce) bites!

  222. 222.

    Ohio Mom

    February 13, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    @Scapegoat: A new baby (and new parents) is the most wonderful thing there is. Billy Goat looks very alert, and I wish him all the best.

  223. 223.

    Renie

    February 13, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    Reince Priebus Verified account
    ‏@Reince
    Our well-qualified & experienced candidates continue to put forth serious solutions to restore prosperity & strength to America #GOPDebate

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What debate was he watching?

  224. 224.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    @seaboogie:

    Our precision drill band played MN Vikings half-time shows.

    Hudson area?

  225. 225.

    redshirt

    February 13, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    @seaboogie: You shoulda been there! Yeah, divorce sucks. Is it not the driver in societal change over the last 50 years?

  226. 226.

    seaboogie

    February 13, 2016 at 11:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yep – New Richmond. The Vikings v Packers debates were very lusty indeed!

  227. 227.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 13, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    @seaboogie: I know my Cheeseland.

  228. 228.

    Aleta

    February 13, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    @Scapegoat: He looks like a wonderful fellow! Congratulations.

  229. 229.

    seaboogie

    February 14, 2016 at 12:02 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I know my Cheeseland.

    Heh. A while back I heard a fellow (here in CA where I live) telling some folks “when you bit into it, it squeeks”. And I was all “Dude, you are totally talking cheese curds, aren’t you?”. He was.

  230. 230.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 14, 2016 at 12:04 am

    @seaboogie: What else could it be? A mouse?

  231. 231.

    seaboogie

    February 14, 2016 at 12:09 am

    @redshirt: Thanks for your support! WRT divorce and societal change, I’ll give that a think. I do remember feeling a deep sense of shame, because divorce was not the done thing back in that day. Now, we actually have a notion of “good divorce”, and a grim, acrimonious march to the grave after making an unwise match is no longer the default option. Oh – and we can have gay divorce now too – so YAY!

  232. 232.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 14, 2016 at 12:09 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:
    Yes. Morgan Freeman, specifically. Don’t you watch movies?

  233. 233.

    sharl

    February 14, 2016 at 12:14 am

    @Scapegoat: Welcome to the world Billygoat, and congrats to Mamagoat and Scapegoat!

  234. 234.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    February 14, 2016 at 12:15 am

    @Renie:

    He’s Baghdad Bob. He’s closed the epistemic loop of the Bush era Republican establishment tightly around himself tonight, and assumed the fetal position. Karma’s a bitch.

  235. 235.

    Steeplejack

    February 14, 2016 at 12:20 am

    @Scapegoat:

    Congratulations!

  236. 236.

    Steeplejack

    February 14, 2016 at 12:23 am

    @Renie:

    He’s drunk-tweeting. Or joking and an intern accidentally posted it.

  237. 237.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 14, 2016 at 12:30 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Don’t you watch movies?

    No.

  238. 238.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 14, 2016 at 12:33 am

    @seaboogie: I was a freshman in college when that happened, there were lots of “Harvey” jokes.

  239. 239.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 14, 2016 at 12:39 am

    @Steeplejack: I am going with he is just that stupid (with a fall back of Kevin Bacon’s All is well.).

  240. 240.

    AnotherBruce

    February 14, 2016 at 12:41 am

    @Rocky:Jesus, Trump really is a performer. He’s like a shock rocker from the early 70’s. Basically he’s Alice Cooper, complete with snakes.

  241. 241.

    PurpleGirl

    February 14, 2016 at 12:49 am

    @Scapegoat: Awww, he’s a cutie. Congratulations to you and the wife, and baby makes a family now.

  242. 242.

    Kropadope

    February 14, 2016 at 12:51 am

    @Renie:

    @Reince
    Our well-qualified & experienced candidates continue to put forth serious solutions to restore prosperity & strength to America #GOPDebate

    Is Reince Priebus confused, does he think he’s the head of the DNC?

  243. 243.

    Tommy

    February 14, 2016 at 12:53 am

    @Scapegoat: Just wonderful. I do not have any kids but I wish beyond all hope that one day I will.

  244. 244.

    AnotherBruce

    February 14, 2016 at 12:57 am

    @Kropadope: @Kropadope: Reince is trying not to let the party of his past slip through his hands like a tumbler made of tears. It’s tragic really.

  245. 245.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 14, 2016 at 12:59 am

    @AnotherBruce: I speak Wisconsin. And I addressed this above.

  246. 246.

    AnotherBruce

    February 14, 2016 at 1:16 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Niiiice. What a great week, I might have to start believing in smiling god. I have had more fun with my clothes on than this week, but not by much.

  247. 247.

    sm*t cl*de

    February 14, 2016 at 2:35 am

    @lgerard:

    Carson quoting Stalin

    Nope, Carson repeating a long-debunked apocryphal statement fabricated by some anonymous John Bircher, attributed to Stalin, and circulated through e-mails ever since.

  248. 248.

    debbie

    February 14, 2016 at 8:36 am

    @Kay:

    There’s no thinking. Beck has been the tank for Cruz from the beginning.

  249. 249.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 14, 2016 at 9:50 am

    @Scapegoat: Now that’s worth a cheer or three!

  250. 250.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    February 14, 2016 at 11:37 am

    @Scapegoat: Congratulations! An auspicious day all around – the first day of America’s better future. :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  251. 251.

    revenant johnny aquatard

    February 14, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    @scottinnj: Perhaps der Tumpenfuror is beginning the pivot for the general. He can afford to lose votes in SC to gain them in the general.

  252. 252.

    Paul in KY

    February 15, 2016 at 9:31 am

    @Adam L Silverman: If the motherfucker hadn’t been such a lousy driver, they might not have ever caught him.

  253. 253.

    Paul in KY

    February 15, 2016 at 9:57 am

    @Princess: That does it… Trump will be the nominee.

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