The Guardian hilariously lays waste to The SC GOP debate and candidates

[EdwardBernays]

"What the hell happened on Saturday night?

The umpteenth (or penultiumpteenth) Republican Debate was an ecstasy of noise in which everything was indistinguishable. We are long past you-can’t-do-that-on-television. We are long past manufactured controversy. We are fully into clown slapfight."

"But this debate veered fully into absurdity somewhere around the third time that Donald Trump told the actual truth about things that actually happened in actual history and was booed by the audience for his trouble. After stating that the Bush administration lied to the American people in order to drum up support for the war in Iraq, failed to keep us safe on 9/11 and passed up opportunities to assassinate bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks, the sheer mutual antagonism between the candidates and a furious audience caused something between Trump and Bush to come thoroughly unglued. Then, they simply began arguing like two people with mutual antipathy towards one another rather than politicians.

From there, the madness spread through the debate: a great circle of abuse spun around fast enough to fling all sense away. Rubio hates Cruz who hates Trump who hates Bush who hates Trump who hates Cruz who hates Rubio.

The crosstalk overwhelmed all comers and CBS moderator John Dickerson lost all control (apart from Carson and Kasich, whose brand-management plans forbade them from joining in). Eventually Dickerson asked Carson a question just to silence the bickering, forcing the candidates to stand there with the pained/patient expressions that adults have at weddings when the ring bearers give a reading as Carson slowly answered."

"Donald Trump has made his political bones so far by being a bully and a liar. Ted Cruz is a bully and a liar. Jeb Bush is petty and a liar, but he lies with establishment gentility, so we should say that he prevaricates. Marco Rubio is whatever punchcard of antagonistic hogwash was fed into his slot from his days as a Florida political protege. Ben Carson, well ... Let’s not wake him. He looks so peaceful."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/14/republican-debate-south-carolina-fiasco-what-happened

[tk2kewl]

1. Idiocracy has arrived 490 years early

[Moostache]

9. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

Sponsored by Brawndo!

I keep waiting for Rubio to say "it's got electrolytes..."

[Delver Rootnose]

17. Lolololol

..+1 for obscure film references.

It's got what plants need.

[tk2kewl]

20. not usually one to nit pick but

It's got what plants CRAVE

[awoke_in_2003]

24. I would vote for him

before any of the GOP dicks. Even if he did say "sit your monkey asses down" during a SOTU speech.

[jmowreader]

28. Which one has to chant "brought to you by Carl's Jr." repeatedly?

[yuiyoshida]

2. I will agree with a fellow DUer

Ben Carson looked like he had a few Bong Hits before coming out..

[Katashi_itto]

3. :)

[thesquanderer]

6. Also see...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027601070

[A Simple Game]

12. No matter what I think of Carson and his qualifications for the Presidency, I will not

blame him if he does take a few tokes before taking that stage.

[Pakhet]

26. that's not a FEW tokes...

I honestly don't know how much I'd have to smoke to respond like Carson does

[Ed Suspicious]

4. lol

"Donald Trump has made his political bones so far by being a bully and a liar. Ted Cruz is a bully and a liar. Jeb Bush is petty and a liar, but he lies with establishment gentility, so we should say that he prevaricates. Marco Rubio is whatever punchcard of antagonistic hogwash was fed into his slot from his days as a Florida political protege. Ben Carson, well ... Let’s not wake him. He looks so peaceful."

[myrna minx]

5. K&R

[LeftishBrit]

7. k&r

[sarge43]

8. Whatever else you can say about the Democratic candidates for the presidency,

I believe we can all agree that

1. Both have IQs well above the last two digits of their respective Social Security numbers

2. Both have matured well beyond the emotional age of 13

[noiretextatique]

22. agreed. eom

[MH1]

23. Yes, that is an important point. Also -

each of them will take positive steps on at least a couple issues that you, dear reader, care about as a liberal. Neither will make progress on all 100 of your issues, but they will take on at least a couple. The republicans?? They will lay waste to everything you know you care about, and remind you that you care about some things it never would have occurred to you that anyone would f*ck with.

There may be strong, important differences in our candidates, but it is nothing next to the chasm that separates the worst of ours, from the least bad of theirs.

[Mbrow]

10. K&R

[LittleGirl]

11. Woke up

to the news of Scalia and then watched as much of that debate as I could. OMG, after an hour of that b.s., I shut it off. WTF was that?
ugh. Disgusting.

[LiberalArkie]

13. So very good, thank you

[Delver Rootnose]

14. OMG.

..that was funny.

I especially like this dig.

'but he lies with establishment gentility, so we should say that he prevaricates.'

Talk about sticking the knife in deep and twisting it as you giggle. And the line about waking Carson was about as cruel.

[spanone]

15. our media is using the scalia death to gloss right over that disgusting debate

[Fuddnik]

16. He's doing more damage to this turd heap than any Democrat could.

He's saying shit that needs to be said, but everyone else is too polite to say.

I could just imagine if Romney were on the stage. "You and your funny underwear"!

[MariaThinks]

18. The real idiocy is that it takes trump to tell the truth to the faces of republican liars

while democrats stand there smiling and talking about moving forward.

[jpak]

19. Clown slapfight

[rocktivity]

29. You're welcome.

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rocknation

[Wounded Bear]

21. That's some good shit...

and right on point.

[pat_k]

25. Priceless! k & r

[flamingdem]

27. Rubio hates Cruz who hates Trump who hates Bush who hates Trump who hates Cruz who hates Rubio.

Simply beautiful sentence