++ Fox News actually did a decent job of challenging the candidate's own records, We had a discourse on Senate procedure to explain Ted Cruz's ,Marco Rubio's and Rand Paul's votes. Chris Christie did his 9-11 story and vowed to hunt down terrorists. In fact all of them did. No pressing problems America faces.
++Fox used old videos of candidate's positions to cross-examine them and then had Google viewers ask questions. One was on body cams and Rand Paul answered. Another was from an Hispanic entrepreneur who wondered whether this country was conducive to immigrants anymore.
++Obama is horrible and he ran down the country. He also degraded the military and has done awful things.
++Magyn Kelly grilled Ted Cruz on what does he say to the millions of Americans on Obamacare when he want to repeal it. Cruz fudges the answer but talking about a national market for insurance and "catastrophic health insurance". All his suggestions have been blasted by insurance insiders for years.
++Marco Rubio wants you to know that he will send all terrorists to Gitmo and also that Jesus Christ is his redeemer who I guess also supports torture. Rubio was spinning when confronted by his support for a roads to citizenship. Cruz wants a law to prohibit all undocumented immigrants from ever getting citizenship. He invoked Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions and Steven King as his expert.
++Jeb said he had a proven record and can beat Hillary Clinton. I thought Jeb didn't even stand up without Trump.
++John Kasich sounded reasonable again even though he is a bit erratic.
++Ted Cruz invoked Ronald Reagan about restoring the military and that's why the wall came down.
++Best bloggers were Dailykos,Wonkette and Josh Marshall who tried the Trump event, this debate and the FBI releasing footage of the Oregon shootout.
++Roger Ailes claimed that the Donald wanted $5 million donated to charity to participate. Well, the Donald managed to raise more than that for his event. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum went to his event.
++Fox News did well in the debate. I was offended by the invocations of Christianity by the candidates to appeal to Iowa evangelicals. There must be a better way to convey one's religious sense than making such clearly false statements of faith.
++Ben Carson was sort of there tonight but in his final statement recited the Declaration of Independence.
++Bizarrely off note to me was Marco Rubio saying that he would cancel the Iran nuclear deal and countries would have to decide whether they wanted to do business with the UNited States or Iran. China has already signed a $800 billion deal with tehran and European countries have signed hundreds of millions with Iran. Marco Rubio also recited that then we would be the New American Century. That was the group in the 1990s of neoconservatives who planned for us to create the energy empire in the Middle East. Dysfunctional then and obsolete now.
++Rand Paul managed to sound sane on foreign policy, especially when he said if you overthrow Assad and fight ISIS at the same time you create a bigger ISIS.
++No one challenged the assertion that the military was underfunded. I think that's key in any debate in the future. No one has compared W's defense spending with Obama's--Obama's is larger and we don't have thousands of troops on the ground.
++Barack Obama is a bad man and Hillary Clinton will be in prison.
++These people are truly awful. No one mentioned where the economy was under W. Thjis is the amnesia factor I keep mentioning because it strips bear Republican economics. All tonight we again heard about the "market" as a great solver of problems , when it was clear that it hasn't been.
++The winner tonight was Donald J. Trump in faking out Roger Ailes. Other winners are Megyn Kelly who came to play for real. The best liveblog was Wonkette, who had the courage to document both the main and kiddie debate.
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