Rubio's shining moment last night

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

What would she say? How about the whole "sniper fire" thing?

I would LOVE to see him spit that in her face in a debate, because the facts are on his side.

For Christ's sake, Spence, she lied. That makes her a liar.

And what did Rubio do last night about his financial situation. He deflected (which is good debate skills technically) that question as liberal lies, even though those are public record filings... if he didn't lie he came close to saying those issues were fabricated, which would be a lie.

Rubio had a good debate, he put Bush back in his place on the whole resign from the senate argument, but Bush should have replied with 'you just compared yourself to Obama and John Kerry...?'. Bush was too worried about giving a democrat a warm kiss I guess. I suspect he is done. Christie bought himself some time last night. Paul will probably fold shop soon, as well as Jindal, and a few others.

There was horrible moderating last night. I think it is very easy to nail down the numbers on the tax cuts and flat tax argument, which Kasich was trying to make a point of. CNBC should be ashamed of the loaded questions and lead ins to a lot of the topics; all it did was spur infighting and limited policy discussions They need to take notes from Anderson Cooper, you may not like the debate b/c they were Democrats, but he did a good job of holding people accountable for their answers.

Cruz, as creepy as I find him, a good debate, and he called the moderators out, although he looked petulant on a couple of answers where he used his 60 seconds on a tirade and then got mad when they wouldn't give him more time to answer the actual question

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

And what did Rubio do last night about his financial situation. He deflected (which is good debate skills technically) that question as liberal lies, even though those are public record filings... if he didn't lie he came close to saying those issues were fabricated, which would be a lie.

Rubio had a good debate, he put Bush back in his place on the whole resign from the senate argument, but Bush should have replied with 'you just compared yourself to Obama and John Kerry...?'. Bush was too worried about giving a democrat a warm kiss I guess. I suspect he is done. Christie bought himself some time last night. Paul will probably fold shop soon, as well as Jindal, and a few others.

There was horrible moderating last night. I think it is very easy to nail down the numbers on the tax cuts and flat tax argument, which Kasich was trying to make a point of. CNBC should be ashamed of the loaded questions and lead ins to a lot of the topics; all it did was spur infighting and limited policy discussions They need to take notes from Anderson Cooper, you may not like the debate b/c they were Democrats, but he did a good job of holding people accountable for their answers.

Cruz, as creepy as I find him, a good debate, and he called the moderators out, although he looked petulant on a couple of answers where he used his 60 seconds on a tirade and then got mad when they wouldn't give him more time to answer the actual question

I think that was a spectacularly fair and accurate assessment of how the moderators (pathetic) and candidates did. Time to narrow that field. But I am sincerely impressed with your fair synopsis. And I don't disagree with anything.

If Rubio lies, let's hold him accountable. But I think there's unbelievable bias there. As Rubio said, every TV station except one is saying that Hilary did awesome at the hearing, when what actually happened, is it was shown she lied (unless every 5 minutes, she got a report telling her to ignore all previous reports, that it is now blamed on the video...no wait, a planned attack, no wait the video).

Never did she say at the time, "we are trying to figure it out", which would be a reasonable thing to say. Privately, she said it was a planned attack, publicly she said it was becaise of the video, and this not her fault. For her to say that to the families of the victims, standing on th erunway as th ebodies came off the plane, that she was going to arrest the filmmaker who was responsible (and who is an American citizen, by the way), is reprehensible. Don't you agree?