Thursday night’s debate will be aired on CNN starting at 8:30 p.m. EST (7:30 CST). It will be hosted by CNN, Salem Media Group, The Washington Times and the Republican National Committee and aired live from the University of Miami.
The debate will be broadcast live on CNN, as well as live-streamed online at CNN.com and across mobile devices for all users without logging in. CNN International and CNN en Espanol will also simulcast the debate. Salem Radio Network will be the exclusive radio provider for the debate.
CNN’s Jake Tapper will moderate and CNN’s Dana Bash, Salem talk radio host Hugh Hewitt and The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan will join as questioners.
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I think the first thing Trump is going to do is say something like this, “I have to say something to defend my people, my people are the most informed people in the world, and if Ted wanted his people to be informed he shouldn’t be such a liar.”
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LOL!
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I’ma open up the bar. Because.
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Hey, barkeep! How are you doing? We’re having a non-rain event pass through our area for the last few hours.
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(((Hugs!!)))
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Hey. I got power. I can’t b!tch. 🙄
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Don’t shoot me, but I always think that blue drink looks good. 🙂
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I’ll have a White Zin, please.
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Opening statements:
Cruz made it about himself.
Trump made it about the people.
Rubio has his hired screamers in the audience again.
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I liked what Trump said and the Republicans should be embracing the new voters not trying to push them away.
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Sounds to me that they are all mini-Trumps right now – copying his policies on trade and tariffs.
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They always steal from him.
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Just like the wall.
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They have realized that it is his policies that has drawn us to Trump in the first place. So, they are saying, “Me, too, me, too.”
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Too bad for them we’re not stupid and low information voters.
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Palin went off on Cruz about low info, disengaged voters.
GOP Majority Voters in Primary are Wayyyyyy Beneath Cruz, So Says Cruz
http://www.foxnews.com/…/cruz-says-trump-backers-have-relat…
Calling GOP frontrunner supporters “low information” disengaged voters, Ted Cruz’s insinuation reeks of all the reasons America knows “the status quo has got to go.” The arrogance of career politicians is something at which the rest of us chuckle, but Cruz’s latest dig strays from humorous into downright nasty. Cruz is right, though – independent, America-first, commonsense conservatives supporting Donald Trump ARE “low information” when it comes to having any information on Cruz’s ability to expand the conservative movement, beat Hillary Clinton, unify and lead the nation.
* Where’s information on any Cruz success whilst in his short, half-term U.S. Senate seat, proving his resume’s advantage over another career politicians’s lawyerly executive inexperience that includes never having created a single private sector job, but boasting of his constitutional law teacher creds? (Remember America experimented with that resume before; how’d that work out for the country?)
* Where’s info on his reasoning in inviting more illegal aliens to flood our porous borders by enticing families with benefits and literal gifts (like teddy bears and soccer balls)? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/…/ted-cruz-visits-texa…/
* Any info on why he won’t denounce his highest-profile campaign buddy, despite Glenn Beck’s proclamation that he “hates” America’s innocent victims of 9/11 and calls the families crybabies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf33g9ep4YU, nor hold accountable his campaign manager for abhorrent tactics that mirror Alinsky’s Politics of Personal Destruction? http://www.mediaite.com/…/ted-cruz-adviser-admits-to-makin…/
* Info on why he continues to stand on stage with that most prominent supporter who slurs millions of patriotic Americans supporting the GOP frontrunner, calling them Nazi “brown shirts”? http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/…/glenn-beck-loses-fans-an…/
* Info on consistency with his big endorsement this week, as Carly tells it like it is so very recently?
“Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. He says one thing in Manhattan, he says another thing in Iowa. He says whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he’s going to do as he pleases. I think people are tired of a political class that promises much and delivers much of the same.” – Carly Fiorina 1/2/16
* Info on his support for his crony capitalists’ insistence that he fast-track Obama’s unbalanced trade agenda, then lied about it? http://theconservativetreehouse.com/…/yes-unfortunately-te…/
* Info on why he’s fine with increasing U.S. debt? http://truthinmedia.com/cruz-rubio-vote-increase-debt-ceil…/
* Info on how it helps make America great again by arrogantly disenfranchising this Primary season’s majority voters who are fed-up, inspired, optimistic, and engaged? How does it help unify the party or the nation when that holier-than-thou narcissism manifests itself through negative, biting, deceptive tactics… when he’s had so many opportunities to disavow his campaign’s shenanigans and apologize for his own?
The information we’ve sought is nonexistent, thus “low information voters” comprising the GOP majority support Cruz staying in the Legislative branch, while hopefully gaining understanding of the private sector’s need to reduce the big government he’s a big part of.
Trump’s energized, positive campaign has led to this record setting stat: of all 24 states that have voted so far, ALL smashed previous GOP turnout records! 4,347,317 votes nationwide for Trump already. Now THAT’S “enlarging the tent.” Any info, Ted, on where you think that “disengaged” momentum will take us?
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My thoughts, too. And Cruz is the absolute worst.
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Yep. Cruz takes about 5000 words to say “What Mr. Trump said.” Of course Trump gets his point across in about 200 words.
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Every guy is building a wall now.
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Yet nobody mentioned a wall until Trump did.
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AND against common core, blah, blah, copy, blah.
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Everybody SAYS they will build a wall.
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Pretty soon Oprah will be giving a wall to everyone.
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LOL
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But we’ll have to pay our own taxes on it. 😀
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What! Aren’t the taxes taped under the audience seats?
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The bills are, with the notice of the forthcoming IRS audit.
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I’ll say this – Rubio is the best speaker on that stage. I don’t know if he spends hours memorizing his policy statements, but he’s good at it.
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Is that because he’s a good politician?
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I think he’s a politician because he’s good at it.
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Hmm. That’s probably right.
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Why African American and Hispanic children? There are other children who are in bad schools.
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Yeah. Like ours – taking common core.
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I always get sick of the race bs.
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I am loving this. I was walking across the room when Trump was asked about HB1 visas. I had wondered how he would answer that question. I nearly fell down laughing at his answer. It was so good. He just owned up to it, said he shouldn’t have been able to use it. What more could be said?
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How long is he going to get to rattle on?
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Cruz funding liberal democrats has gotten real old.
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Here he goes …..
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I think Cruz just blamed any ills of Walmart on Trump. Trump is downright not taking the bait and sounded like a knowledgeable businessman and Cruz sound like a still angry shrew.
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*shrill angry shrew
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I agree. Trump definitely won on the trade and tariffs debate.
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It will help you if companies come back and they will be able to make things cheaper than China, which helps us.
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One thing I notice is that, while things like clothing are cheaper, they are also cheaply made and don’t have the style that clothing used to have. I would much prefer to have a few things that are well made, rather than a bunch of cheap crap.
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Shoes are another, I’ve never been one who was hard on shoes and in the past I could have a pair of shoes last years and some of my favorite shoes I did keep for years. Today shoes often don’t last the season before they’re falling apart.
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We still have a couple of bespoke clothiers here. One guy here has his grandfather’s business. Every stich done by hand. Most of his cloth is hand selected in Italy. There is just no comparison between his work and off the rack. I don’t recall exactly but I think he’s got a three shirts minimum that’s around $800
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There are definitely more local tailors doing men’s clothing. It’s much less common for women. Off the rack clothing for women used to be much better made, with more detail.
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Did everybody notice that Trump didn’t take Cruz’s bait? Teddie tried to get a rise out of Donald, and Donald replied that he was surprised and pleased that everyone was so civil tonight.
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Yep and then Cruz tried a second time to get Trump to engage and again Trump didn’t take the bait.
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I just hate these “debates”.
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Moderator Mr. Trump you said Islam hates us. Mr. Trump did you mean all 1.6 billion of them?”
Donald Trump “I mean a lot of them.”
Game over boys pack your bags and go home.
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Rubio, we’re hurting missionaries.
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They don’t hate us says Kasich. Could of fooled me.
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Yeah, r.i.g.h.t. The muslims are rampaging because of Trump. Oh, wait, it started before he was born. Well, darn. That doesn’t work does it?
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Pfffffffft. Like any are going over there. Even some businessmen won’t go to muslim countries anymore.
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Smart businessmen.
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Call me a hard a$$, uncaring, whatever you want to call me, but if you go to these countries then you’re asking for it and we shouldn’t be playing nice to save your butt that can’t be saved.
I felt the same way about those knowingly exposing themselves to ebola. Bless you for doing so, but you should do so with the understanding that you’re not going to be allowed to come back and expose us.
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I know this about business peeps because my brother WILL.NOT.GO. And he told his company that up front years ago. He travels and flies all the time – but not to those countries.
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That’s because business folks have an actual brain in the head on their shoulders.
Some other folks have bought so much into following your heart they’ve forgotten they have a brain in their head.
I’m not knocking missionaries, most of them do really good things, but some of them are brain dead until it’s too late.
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You should have seen how popular it was among professors and associates when they offered a deal to go live and teach in the United Arab Emirates 🙄
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* :sigh: How popular it was at Texas A & M
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Like that poor girl who died over there recently – the one who survived the Boston bombing.
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And to what end are the missionaries there? Rubio himself said “not that they are converting anyone.”
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Cruz comes across as a smart aleck, and he’s starting to “huff”. Before you know it, he’ll be sighing, like Al Gore.
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I noticed that, too. LOL
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I thought I heard a sigh.
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That moron Ted Cruz just admitted that the Muslim’s pay the family of terrorists thereby meaning the families are not innocent but beneficiaries of horrific crimes against humanity. Take that incentive away. It is really not a novel idea.
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I think I figured out what bothers me about Cruz. He’s overdoing it. He talks on and on and on about a subject, but he’s not talking to US – he’s talking to the debate moderators.
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Cruz gives monologues.
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He also gives broad and general soothing answers, geared toward applause. When he “gets there” – he’ll be Mitch McConnell.
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Precisely!
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He gets more annoying every debate, but then I go into each debate liking him less than I did the last time.
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It certainly looks to me like the “plan” is to echo almost everything Trump says he will do to take away his thunder on each issue. They are still ganging up on him. Just being a little nicer about it. They had tried attacking, and that didn’t work, so now they are joining him for the most part.
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Man Cruz is really angry. The calmer Trump remains the angrier and more unhinged Cruz sounds.
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I am enjoying that. 🙂
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I did notice this, Cruzer is baiting, Trump is looking more Presidential. And whenRobo made a comment about Trump, Trump just smiled…… Once Robo is out, all Trump has too do with Cruzer is bring up his deception game, “I’m an Outsider”, an associate of Bush administration, then Cruzer is out…..
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I don’t think they have drawn blood on Trump, but I could be wrong.
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Nope. DH just fell asleep, this is so blah.
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Hey Ms.WeeWeed, receiving full force of Rain. I could step out on the porch and shower, I won’t, scare the wildlife…….
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LOL!!! I hear ya, Colonel – I’ve considered it myself…… if the power, etc. goes out again I may try it in the backyard. 😀
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LOL!
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Rubio did very well on the climate change question.
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I missed it, I keep losing my feed.
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There is no law that Washington can pass that will change the weather, and the United States is a country, not the world. Basically that’s what he said, but much more elegantly. He also said that many of the laws on clean energy only make electricity more expensive, which impacts working people the hardest.
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He’s right about that, but it hasn’t stopped Washington from screwing us.
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And it won’t stop him, either. Bush Cabal.
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What are you using for an Internet connection ?
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I’m in the sticks and get my signal from a tower. Until fiber gets here it’s our only option other than satellite internet.
However, when I watch these debates on youtube I never have this problem.
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Have the luxury of cable;
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Appreciate the reply. Will
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We pay a ridiculous amount for unreliable internet. Fiber was supposed to have been here in April and then they said summer, changed that to fall and now they’re saying next spring. We’re already signed up for it and can’t wait to get it, we’ll be paying half the price we pay now for 10X times the speed.
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I missed it, too. I’se smoking and eyeballing the neverending rain……
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It’s got to stop sometime? During our last flood that’s what I kept thinking. It finally stopped, I hope it stops sooner than later for you.
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I’m still smokeless, but the Mrs. started up again and smoked all her old packs, then got into mine from December. That slowed her down some.
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Congrats to you Nyet!
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How many more of these do we have to go through?
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None, I hope. It’s an exercise in futile bs-ery.
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One more, in Salt Lake City on March 21.
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That should be fun.
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Mmmm-hmmm. 🙄
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I think Trump said that if he is far enough ahead, he may skip it.
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If he skips it, I might do the same.
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By that time, there will only be Cruz and Trump. What would Ted do – give a sermon?
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He might and he might be the first candidate ever to take up serpents on live tv.
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And be promptly executed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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That’s an amusing mental image. I wonder what they will be singing at the time.
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“Nearer My God To Thee.” Just like on the Titanic.
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I was thinking maybe the Hallelujah Chorus, but then thought that might be over the top.
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Preachy, preachy, preachy.
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“OUT, debbil!!!” 🙄
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And Trump just knocks the teeth down throat of Jake Trapper by simply saying “Strong doesn’t mean good.”
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Cruz is sighing again.
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I think Cruz may speak in tongues if nothing else works tonight.
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I guar-own-tee, he’s workin’ up to it if he doesn’t actually go lay hands on teh Donald…..
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Now that is something that I would like to see.
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Maybe he should bring out a snake.
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Oh laws, Michelle – you knowz how apt that iz to go sideways……. 😀
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I’ll have to share my story someday about attending a full Holiness revival. After the up and down looks like I got with my short sleeve blouse and knee length skirt, makeup and jewelry it went downhill from there.
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Cruzer, an insider……..what a bragger, talk about coming together, then Trump spanks him…..
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Okay, that question angered me. They want him to say he will not accept any funding in the general election if he is nominated. That was just a trap question. 😦
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And I think he misunderstood what was asked. I believe he thought that the question was about public financing.
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He said he hasn’t decided. Good enough.
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What? There is a sickly old gentleman who se doctor told him not to get out of bed but he does anyhow and he sits with an aluminum chair and a sign telling Rubio not to give up?
Rubio is delusional. What sacrifice did Rubio ever make? Ever?
I know that there is a lot of fun in making fun of Rubio and his odd tics, greasy appearance, sweatiness, perpetual water consumption and his motor mouth but I have chalked up the drug use allegations to that emotional fun of poking at a slimy candidate who possesses all of these foibles.
That said the more I see Rubio, the more I feel like there is something wrong with him with his mental well being and/or he is using some type of a mind altering drug.
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Robo might have diabetes, prescription drug use…….
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What a kind soul you are, Colonel. Seriously – I’d never have given him the benefit of the doubt…..
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Y’all will call me shallow….. I’ve never paid any attention whatsoever to men’s suits and shirts and ties. All the same, who cares. Until this election. Trump obviously can afford the best – and it shows. I can now tell the difference.
And, poor Marco. I shall leave it at that.
I will say that at last night’s rally, it looks like Trump is giving his S.S., bodyguards those flawless, beautiful, cuffed white shirts. I heart those spotless shirts. 😀
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There is no mistaking an impeccable suit with impeccable tailoring.
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Yup. All hand made.
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Kasich is a bore and a gas bag.
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As God is my witness, so is Cruz. 🙄
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As far as I am concerned, Trump won.
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Agree, very calm, Presidential, now his closing statement, love our country…..that’s all I need too hear……
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