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Another Republican Debate - YAY!



No, seriously, I love these debates. First of all, they're entertaining. A comedy writer couldn't come up with better lines than these moderators. But more than that, each debate offers insights into the candidate's political views, personal finances, juvenile records, and sex life. Who could ask for anything more? My favorite brawl so far is the third debate, the one with all the hullabaloo about bias journalists (like that's news). It starts out slow, stump speeches and empty rhetoric. There's a couple of false starts like when John Harwood asks Trump if he's running a comic book version of a presidential campaign. I take a deep breath and wait for Trump to go nuclear but he fizzles out.
So I'm thinking I should have watched the world series but then my spider sense tingles when John Harwood gives Kasich a layup to take out Trump and Carson. Harwood: You had some very strong words to say yesterday about what's happening in your party and what you're hearing from the two gentlemen we've just heard from. Would you repeat it? Kasich, being the political hack he is, just launches into yet another replay of his stump speech. But Harwood can't take anymore and nudges Kasich. Harwood: Well, let's just get more pointed about it. You said yesterday that you were hearing proposals that were just crazy from your colleagues. Who were you talking about? That's pretty pointed all right. But it does the trick and Kasich gets to the red meat. Kasich: Well, I mean right here. To talk about we're just gonna have a 10 percent tithe and that's how we're gonna fund the government? And we're going to just fix everything with waste, fraud, and abuse? Or that we're just going to be great? Or we're going to ship 10 million Americans -- or 10 million people out of this country, leaving their children here in this country and dividing families?

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The more Kasich raves, the braver he gets until Trump has had enough. Could've told you, John, you don't poke the bear

The more Kasich raves, the braver he gets until Trump has had enough. Could've told you, John, you don't poke the bear. Trump steps in and tells the world that Kasich's great Ohio budget was due to fracking. Then he outs Kasich as a managing partner in Lehman Brothers when it took down half the country, says Kasich was on the board. Kasich gives a feeble defense, says he was never on the Lehman board, just a lowly banker in a two-man office, a nobody. The media's already fact-checking, says Johnny was telling the truth, never served on the company's board and not a managing general partner. But hey guys, not so fast. I grab my handy laptop and do a little research of my own and lo and behold, Trump was right, substantively anyway. From 2012 article: Huge Lehman Brothers payouts report recalls Gov. Kasich's time at firm "In a report in The Columbus Dispatch, a Lehman official said Kasich had "board level and CEO relationships where he helped not only open the door for Lehman Brothers, but he also was a key member of the deal team providing advice." * That's a long way from a shanty in Podunk, John. Then there's this little tidbit (2008 only tax return released at that time: "Reports showed he made $1.4 million in 2008--including $265,000 as a Fox News contributor and $590,000 (his bonus was $432,000) from Lehman." * Kasich doing his impersonation of Buddy the elf in the revolving door. The next fireworks come when Carl Quintanilla asks Senator Rubio if he hates his job. The Sun-Sentinel in Rubio's home state asked for his resignation since he never bothers to show up anyway. Rubio did his blame the media thingy then Bush jumped in. Bush asked if Rubio worked a French work week and suggested perhaps he should resign. Rubio delivers a 6-year old response which impresses the hell out of the media. His main defense for the worst attendance record in the Senate is, "He did it too" followed by a tough response aimed at Bush of " You're just jealous". This exchange causes talking heads everywhere to declare Rubio the debate champ. Can't really blame them though. The pool of establishment candidates is getting pretty low and as Trump might say,'they maybe can't be so picky'. Anyway, after the Kasich take-down and the Rubio kid-comeback, the Cruz missile lands. Now you may not know this but Senator Cruz has a hidden superpower, an audiographic memory. It's like a photographic memory only sounds not pictures. So he rattles off every idiotic question these moderators had asked word for word. "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" " John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" The audience goes nuts, Frank Luntz scores a new high on his clap-o-meter and momentum shifts to the candidates. Governor Christie joins the fray and slaps down John Harwood. John had asked Christie a question then proceeded to try and answer it himself. So in true Jersey style, Governor Christie asks Harwood, "Do you want me to answer or do you want to answer?" Then, and I love this, Christie says, "Because, I've got to tell you the truth, even in New Jersey what you're doing is called rude." Go Christie! Anyway those are the highlights from the 3rd Republican debate and here's my takeaway.
  1. First, thank you Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick, and John Harwood for blowing the media's cover and exposing yourselves for the manipulative, arrogant jackasses you are.
*Special mention to John Harwood.'
  1. Thank you, Governor Kasich for inspiring me to pursue my dreams. I'm going to run for Congress then after a couple of years, get into banking. Yes, it has to be in that order.
  2. Senator Cruz, you introduced me to a new word, audiographic. You also seriously kicked some liberal media butt.
  3. Marco, I'm so grateful to you for bringing back those childhood excuses I thought were long gone. Next time I screw someone over, I'll simply find someone who also screwed their friend over and say, "He did it too!" Voila, its like it never happened!
  4. Dr. Carson, your grace under fire proves that even a world-class brain surgeon is considered an idiot by reporters.
  5. Governor Christie, kudos for finding someone ruder than a Jerseyan. Never thought it could happen.
  6. Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, and Governor Huckabee, you taught me to never give up, never ever, under any circumstances, for any reason, even if you already lost a month ago, quit.
  7. And from Donald Trump, the lesson other candidates, the media, and political enemies refuse to learn, the lesson that keeps on giving.
YOU DON'T POKE THE BEAR!


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Peggy Ryan is an IT specialist. Currently she is an author and political commentator. She’s been widely published on multiple conservative Internet sites. Peggy Ryan can be reached at PeggyRyan1203 @ gmail.com


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