The Kiddie Table Debate has begun!

[nolabear]

So far the first Really Bad Answer Award goes to Lindsey Graham, who said virtually nothing in his opening except his main goal is to make us energy independent. And he stumbled all over it. Prediction: He's going down!

Everyone else is just doing the thing.

[nolabear]

1. Question Two: What about Trump?

[nolabear]

3. Perry's calling him a celebrity rather than a candidate.

Fiorina: Attaching him to Clinton. He's tapped into anger. Has changed his mind on everything.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. Perry also claimed that Texas secured the boarder....

So the boarder there is secure?

[yeoman6987]

81. I did a head turn on that one

And the rest let it stand?

[Motown_Johnny]

87. Later he called the boarder "porous"

and still he was not called on any of it.

I guess nobody cares about anyone else on that stage. All at the bottom of the barrel and not worth attacking.

[99th_Monkey]

2. It's tedious, boring and 99% scripted

I tried to watch, but decided to clean the cat litter box instead.

[nolabear]

4. Well heck, it's only 10 minutes in.

The Death Match Elimination Round hasn't even started yet.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Either way, you're looking at shit.

[99th_Monkey]

9. but the latter at least serves discernible purpose

just ask my 2 cats.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. I'm not sure they didn't see the first questions ahead of time, and had answers ready. Your word:

"scripted."

[Staph]

5. Did I hear this correctly . . .

Bobby Jindhal is the "acting" governor of Louisiana?

[nolabear]

7. LOL! Maybe. I can't go back and check.

Frankly he doesn't act like much of a governor.

[madinmaryland]

39. He does act like a very incompetent governor, though!

[nolabear]

8. I can't get over how scared Lindsey sounds. I noticed it last time too.

He seems like he's ready to cry.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. I think he's gone off the deep end ala Nixon. He used to be rather calm

and authoritarian....now loony

[Motown_Johnny]

10. Lindsey sounds terrible.

If he isn't ill, he is nervous as hell.

Even his beating of the war drums sounded off, and that is his wheelhouse.

I guess he is the first one out.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. AAAArrrggghhh! More war in Iraq before ISIS gets here...

Fucking asshole. We've got more of our own kids shooting up movie theaters than terra'ists attacking.

But we have to deal with Iraq again, and go into Syria.

And might as well go into Iran, too.

[nolabear]

15. As if by magic. We'll succeed, easy.

[DeepModem Mom]

36. Unbelievable. Don't think that's going to sell to American ppl. nt

[NYCButterfinger]

12. I'm worried about radicals overseas, but we don't

need to go overseas for every war.

[nolabear]

14. ISIS question to Pataki

How far are you willing to go to root out this problem here at home? Would you put mosques under surveillance?

Convoluted answer, yes. Plus, destroy them over there.

[nolabear]

16. Fiorina: Cyber attacks. Cooperation with Google and Apple

K.

[nolabear]

17. I'll give them this. They're trying to state positions rather than take shots.

They're mostly earnest. Wrong-headed as hell, but earnest.

[Oneironaut]

18. Such a boring debate. All safe questions.

Every candidate is using generalities (more so than usual, that is), and nobody is being challenged. The moderators stink.

If im bored, I would imagine Republicans turned this crap off after 20 minutes. Nothing excites potential voters like monotone canned speeches for 1 hour.

[nolabear]

21. It IS dull as dishwater, isn't it? I think FOX is just pandering and saving themselves.

Perry and Graham sound a little unhinged. The rest just sound...there.

[pinboy3niner]

23. I can't help looking forward to the commercials

It's a real relief when they come on.

[nolabear]

25. I'm interested in what commercials FOX shows. Diamonds and insurance.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Holy crap...I am working and listening and it is making me very nervous. They are

all so NEGATIVE and jittery.

LG is already down. Like Trump said, "what is the guy in the polls - zero?" Hysterical.

[nolabear]

22. I KNOW, right? He seems to be having palpitations.

My gay buds refer to him as Aunt Pittypat, and he's pretty much living up to it.

[DeepModem Mom]

29. My daughter said a lot of it seems to be about fear. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

75. I remember Jon Stewart showing Graham's kickoff and there were these young

kids smiling and waving american flags. Then...he showed up and talked doom
and gloom and I thought Jeez...don't you see those kids...they will probably have
nightmares tonight. Couldn't you give them something good to dream about?

The Stewart joke was about all the doom and gloom and then when it was
over...the music James Brown "I feel good" came on.

[DeepModem Mom]

83. So typical! smh! nt

[a la izquierda]

78. I feel like I'm going to blow a blood vessel

I hate these bastards.

[riversedge]

26. Lindsey hates Hillary. Nothing new

[nolabear]

27. OFFS, Lindsey's using the same Clinton lines he used last time.

JESUS he's in a snit. A WEIRD snit.

[madinmaryland]

46. Lindsey is just annoyed by Clinton's consensual BJ. It's all about the BJ.

I would just say that Lindsey is really fucking WEIRD.

[nolabear]

28. Santorum: 20/20 Vision for America

Flat tax, welfare reforms, make manufacturing jobs. Work requirements, time limits.

Sure.

[Fawke Em]

30. I'd like to know how you put time limits and work requirements on Medicare.

[nolabear]

34. Me too. Reminds me of the old cartoon with the equations on a blackboard

and in the middle it says "And then, a MIRACLE happens!"

[Volaris]

74. Didn't we DO welfare reform already? I seem to remember Newt Gingrich had something to do with it...

DID IT NOT WORK?

of course it didn't work, it was a REPUBLICAN IDEA. Therefore, he must think we're all dumb as he is.

[madamesilverspurs]

31. Welcome aboard the loaded question express!

“Americans are becoming more willing to accept assistance. How do you get Americans to be willing to work instead of going on welfare?”

Never mind any drinking games, keep a barf bag handy.

Ye gods, this is pafuckingthetic.

[nolabear]

32. I must know more about the GOP than I'd thought. Or else they're all one guy.

Because I'm learning nothing.

[Yavin4]

33. The political version of the NIT basketball tournament n/t

[nolabear]

35. LOL! The ads for the Big Event later sound like WWF.

[high density]

37. Be afraid everybody!

War war war!

What a bunch of nutjobs, and that includes this ridiculous TV network.

[nolabear]

38. Hmmmm...Perry kisses Fiorina on the Iran deal.

She might just be frontrunner for VP.

[nolabear]

41. And she kisses Netanyahu.

And threatens Iran. Although, she's a little pragmatic about it.

[Fawke Em]

44. Except for the part when she thinks she can control the world markets

as it relates to Iran's products (oil).

I don't think China or Russia are going to care who she calls.

[nolabear]

48. That's the part I can't fathom. Pretending the rest of the world isn't there.

[TreasonousBastard]

57. That's the part that sells to their electorate...

USA! USA!

Japan and Europe no longer exist.

China and Mexico exist, but as evil empires who must be destroyed.
The Middle East? More bad guys out there somewhere.
Africa? Shooting lions is a good thing.

[TreasonousBastard]

62. Now comes the hate PP part...

Pataki, of all people, says we should listen to the science.

OOh! Whatsername just asked if destroying PP is seen as war on women! Great question, asshole answers

[DeepModem Mom]

40. OMG, "nu-cyu-lar." (Perry)

[nolabear]

42. Makes me want to claw at my eyeballs.

[onecaliberal]

43. All the Jr High leaders want war now!

These people are insane. They are truly frightening. Carly makes the witch of the west look like Minnie Mouse.

[nolabear]

45. Florin just lied through her teeth on Obama and Iran.

Claimed he said we had no choice but either this deal or war. What a spin.

[onecaliberal]

49. She also said we don't have unfettered access to the sites.

The agreement says we do.

[nolabear]

52. B...b...but, 24 hours!

*sigh* She knows better. She just thinks we don't.

[onecaliberal]

56. She is too stupid to realize we see her stupidity.

She's always in over her head spewing hubris no one is buying.

[onecaliberal]

47. Santorum says Supreme Court ruling on same sex

Marriage won't stand and neither will Roe. Holy crap.

[nolabear]

50. Well, Dan Savage made him really, REALLY mad.

[onecaliberal]

54. I know. It was awesome. He was asked if

It is settled law and he said no. Congress will do something.

[procon]

51. Where is the audience?

It's so quiet. Maybe FOX didn't want the crazy audiences that have shown up in the past, but it looks like all the audience seats behind the moderators are empty and the only people in attendance appear to be media types with cameras.

[nolabear]

53. I wondered too. I don't think there is one. They're sure not playing to anybody.

[procon]

60. You're right, a reporter just said the stadium was empty.

Was FOX afraid of the Republican base?

[pokerfan]

64. Obviously, no one else is interested either...

[nolabear]

55. OOOOOOOoooo, anti-Bloomberg NRA ad!

[Fawke Em]

58. Do these idiots not know that federal funding of abortions is

already banned?

[onecaliberal]

63. Yes, but the derps who vote for them

Practically forget to breathe.

[Fawke Em]

68. Ha!

[nolabear]

59. Planned Parenthood. Those damned videos.

Pataki doubles down on not using taxes for abortion...which we don't.

Jindal says PP will be investigated by everybody. And I can't figure out what the hell else he's claiming.

[nolabear]

61. Lindsey on the War on Women:

No harvesting the organs of the unborn. And somehow a pivot to Iraq and Afghanistan's treatment of women so we have to go back to war with them.

He's barking mad.

[nolabear]

65. I'm getting lost. Jindal's first act would be to protect religious liberty?

Lindsey'd bomb the Middle East
Perry talks about white-outing Obama's work
Santorum dittoes Perry
Fiorina lies a whole bunch again.
Pataki wold freeze hiring (?)

[Fawke Em]

66. They also don't seem to know that, under Obama, federal hiring

has dropped like a brick.

[nolabear]

67. *sigh* I hate FOX. I just out and out hate FOX

[Fawke Em]

69. Horrible.

[nolabear]

70. The Reagan Robe touching has begun!

Santorum's trying to be passionate.

Lindsey: "I'll be the Ronald Reagan if I can find a Tip Oneal."

[nolabear]

71. Two word descriptions of Hillary?

Not a one managed to count to two, of course. It was just a last cheap shot.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

76. "Good at email" Soooo funny

[Laura PourMeADrink]

72. Pataki just said Bah-RACK Obama. WTF? nt

[DeepModem Mom]

73. Words describing Hillary. Despicable. Thinking wdn't have been as ugly if describing a man...

but maybe wrong.

[nolabear]

77. I'm glad this is over. They're no fun at all.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

79. Perry just lied. Said TX highest high school graduation rates - but it's Iowa

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/high-school-graduation-rates-by-state.html

[DeepModem Mom]

80. CLICK!!! TV off Fox!!! (until 8:50 for Adult Table)

[Fawke Em]

82. Aaaaahhhhh.

Switched straight to MSNBC after living through that horrible debate to hear the correct, clean and crisp words of Bernie Sanders.

Such salve after all that malarkey.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

86. MSNBC and Chris Mathews look like they are having so much fun. Such a start

difference from the Doom and Gloom

[panader0]

84. What channel?

Seriously, I have Direct tv and can't find it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

85. Its over darling. Gotta now wait til 9pm eastern for the big shots.