Open Thread – GOP Debate II: Trumperdome!
Donald Trump enters tonight’s GOP presidential debate as the clear front-runner. Ten other contenders – Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Carly Fiorina – enter the arena looking to tear down the beloved bloviating game show host. It didn’t work the first time – so far, Trump has proven to be the “Kevlar” candidate, but will it last?
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Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
dave-dr-gonzo September 16th, 2015 at 17:11
Okay, call me a regressive, politically incorrect sexist swine (I wouldn’t blame you), but I’d love to see Carly Fiorina come on stage to take on Donald “Masterbluster” Trump wearing the getup Tina Turner sported in “Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome”.
Obewon September 16th, 2015 at 20:26
Two enter the cage, only one leaves the cage alive! Clickbait ratings extraordinare’.
Suzanne McFly September 16th, 2015 at 20:33
I am with you on that but I want to see her give him a roundhouse kick to his teeth.
Obewon September 16th, 2015 at 20:40
Snakeoil grifter birther Ben Carson leaps onto the stage shouting: Donnie? Don’t Mess with a Missionary Man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Q3cp3cp88
Suzanne McFly September 16th, 2015 at 21:14
Can’t believe you are making me miss the music from the 80’s lol
Obewon September 16th, 2015 at 21:22
Heh-he feed your head!
dave-dr-gonzo September 16th, 2015 at 20:40
Followed by a rigorous tasering.
Suzanne McFly September 16th, 2015 at 21:14
Now that is just mean, but it sounds perfect lol
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:38
tasering is good.
not really mean if it enhances Trump to give an answer to a question, plus, it’d sort of supercharge his toupee.
Suzanne McFly September 17th, 2015 at 10:53
Then he would really look like one of those troll dolls with his hair standing straight up on his head lol.
whatthe46 September 16th, 2015 at 22:24
no no no, free the squirrel.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 20:46
She is doing it with words, she has attacked every stupid comment he has made.
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 21:14
Got him good right before the first break when she told rump that why shouldn’t women take him at his word about his comment about “voting like a mug like hers” when 60 seconds before he was insisting people take Jeb at his word.
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:28
I’d still zero in on his tacky toupee.
photo with/photo without
do you really want something that looks like this answering a phone call from a speeding drunk driving recklessly in the tundra at 3 AM as your POTUS?
Anomaly 100 September 16th, 2015 at 19:47
So far, these two are winning the GOP debate.
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:39
big time, and I’m still thinking the Arkansas Battalea-uh- former First Lady will be the First Mrs/Ms/Madam POTUS.
not a bad deal either if her running mate accepts second spot readily.
would pretty much end Sara’s constant whining when she responds with
“WTF CARES? GROW UP!”
Budda September 16th, 2015 at 20:10
Get ready, get set…..go!
Budda September 16th, 2015 at 20:20
Carly avoided the question
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 20:45
trump
I will get along with everyone
what would you do…
I would get along with putin and everyone
but what would you do…
I am a businessman, I would get along
derp.
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:23
well (best Reagan impersonation)
he should make up his damn mind before the primaries.
so far, he’s refused to get along with 196 countries unless they live by Donald’s rules.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 20:48
trump is going to lose.
all the war mongering and lies, no courage, our country is in the dumps, war mongering
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:20
when crunch time comes, Donald will crumble as fast as his junk bonds and securities.
Hows about them tax records, Donald. Some Americans want to see just how bad Obamanomics have affected your bottom line for the last 8 years. Maybe give US an explanation as to why you’re talking down America instead of viewing you as another old white bitter bat dung crazy teabagger that has no f’ing idea what his tongue is saying.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:21
He is a loser and it is showing tonight, he is being attacked by everyone but cruz and carson.
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:41
because they are weak and afraid of Donald.
all they need do when he spouts off about this or that is ask
HOW?
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:44
No one is making him answer questions, he just spouts stupid.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 20:55
Cruz is going all loony and dominist. Huchafuck is going all stupid, trump is just rhetoric and the bible is not our constitution. All are against equality.
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:12
I’m watching the debate, and wow…I actually agree with one thing (I am shocked) that the Donald mentioned. It was regarding North Korea and that there it is a problem that non of the candidates are speaking about how North Korea is a bigger threat than Iran (North Korea actually has nuclear weapons, and threaten to use it regularly).
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:13
NK has a few low grade nukes with no way to use them. All his missle launches have failed.
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:13
so what’s the Donald’s solution to that?
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:14
He will get along with him reall well.
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:14
He has no solutions :p
fahvel September 17th, 2015 at 02:42
he’ll figure it out after he is elected.
lynchie September 17th, 2015 at 16:47
but they have no way of delivering a warhead. Pakistan has nukes, India has nukes. Trump planning another war in asia?
CHOCOL8MILK September 17th, 2015 at 18:01
That’s what I gathered from his comment. He suggested “we need to take care of North Korea”.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:12
we don’t have a country or a border…trump again takes a verbal shit
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:13
Why does trump use undocumented immigrants to build his hotels?
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 21:15
Man hasn’t given a substantive comment yet.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:17
He is dumping on the stage.
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 21:18
Can’t answer how he’d deport 11 million people.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:20
Like you said, no answers just reality tv rhetoric and rudeness.
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:21
Looking forward to fact check results.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:23
Whats to fact ck, they are lying about the PP video’s and not getting called out, they are dodging any questions, they are trashing the economy and all sound as if they are running against President obama. Shows their insecurity and fear of how much good the President has done for the country. When jeb said the country is worse now then when his brother was president i choked.
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:26
The lemmings need to be made aware though, there are people who actually believe what is being said as fact. Yea I could not believe the B.S. all of them were spouting regarding Planned Parenthood and the Iran deal.
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:27
Oh and the rhetoric about getting rid of ObamaCare.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:29
61 votes to repeal, no one realizes you can’t defund what is in the daily budget…non-discretionary funding.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:28
They are allowed to lie, I just don’t get it.
granpa.usthai September 16th, 2015 at 21:52
if they’d all just show their tax returns for the last 8 years, the people could better understand what they’re talking about. My returns have shown a slow but steady upturn – following what Dems have been saying about the economy. Exactly the opposite of the 8 stagnant years with bottom falling out the last 6 months of the previous Republican POTUS. Don’t understand where they’re coming from, but seeing their tax returns would help, maybe, it sure couldn’t hurt any, could it?
so, hows about it GOPs:
put your facts where your mouth is at!
whatthe46 September 16th, 2015 at 22:20
no the fk he didn’t.
Mike September 16th, 2015 at 23:56
Huh…??? What were the statements other than childish name calling…???
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:36
Chris Christie coming out of his corner swinging at Trump and Fiorina.
dave-dr-gonzo September 16th, 2015 at 22:37
If John “Bluto” Blutarsky had been the villain in “Animal House”…
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:36
Had enough, turning the TV off. The shit is shoulder high and going nowhere but higher.
Budda September 16th, 2015 at 21:41
I turned on the ball game a long time ago
amersham46 September 16th, 2015 at 21:42
The GOP Follies (road show cast)
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:42
Okay…one more thing.
Not one of these morons understand that taxes are legal and help create a civilized country, we have elections to choose people to run the country not over 300,000 million people duking it out. Dumbasses.
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 21:46
“Okay…one more thing.”
Aw come on tracey, ‘fess up…you’re a political junkie just like me… :)
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:48
I am, I turned the TV off…it is now back on. Damnit!
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 22:05
We just can’t lay off….
Reminds me of a Bob Segar song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8fvc-aNutg
tracey marie September 17th, 2015 at 07:21
:):):)
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 21:49
Yea my blood pressure is elevated….but I can’t stop watching.
tracey marie September 16th, 2015 at 21:50
I turned my tv back on just in time to hear carson go all bibly and stupid. AAARRRGGGGGGGG!
whatthe46 September 16th, 2015 at 22:19
i don’t know what’s happening. i don’t have cable. i’m so out of the damn loop on this one.
tracey marie September 17th, 2015 at 07:21
Good for you, it is driving me crazy, the stupidity and lies are astounding
amersham46 September 16th, 2015 at 21:55
Fox is calling most of them as ‘second tier candidates’ sounds better than bottom feeders
amersham46 September 16th, 2015 at 22:03
Totally unrelated , How many kids will go out on Halloween as Trump
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 22:07
I live in a conservative neighborhood…maybe I’ll wear a Hillary mask to scare parents when their kids trick or treat my door…
CHOCOL8MILK September 16th, 2015 at 22:35
Christie described marijuana as a “gate way drug”. FYI Governor, alcohol is…
eyelashviper September 17th, 2015 at 14:05
For Christie, it was Halloween candy…
nola878 September 16th, 2015 at 23:01
Just witnessed the metamorphosis of Ben Carson into a politician…while responding to Trump’s comment that vaccines cause autism, he turned his response into a rant against big government.