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CNN Republican Debate

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by CometsWin, Sep 16, 2015.

  1. Dubious

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    Rubio would look out of his element as a high school class president.

    What the GOP has lost is any since of the gravitas of the office, the diplomacy required. Just ask yourself which one of these people you want making life and death decisions for thousands of people on Day 1. Frankly I think the job is too much for any of these small minded, special interest driven, brash talking, "popular" candidates, with the exception being John Kasich. I mean on Day 1 you are gong to have to decide who to kill and not kill, literally.
     
  2. jo mama

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    every republican candidate (and hillary clinton too) cant contain how bad they want to attack iran.

    our history towards iran is highly disgusting. we overthrew their democratically elected leader and installed a brutal dictator who killed 250k of their own people. reagan illegally sold them weapons while at the same time selling weapons to saddam and providing him with intel against the iranians. reagan also used the profits from those arms sales to iran to fund terrorists in latin america who raped and murdered catholic nuns, but that is another story.

    we constantly have elected officials saying they want to bomb iran and go to war with them (hillary clinton included). we have a sitting U.S. senator and presidential candidate, john mccain, who when asked how he would deal with iran said "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb iran".

    the religious nut-jobs running that country are there as a direct result of our meddling in their affairs.

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  3. Dubious

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    World politics runs on dependency, Iran can be a US ally in the terror war in less than a decade. Why would we give a **** whether our allies are Sunni or Shia? We are much more likely to see a more secular democracy in Iran than Saudi Arabia.
     
  4. Exiled

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    Yes it possible if they abandon sponsoring terror in first place which is going to be hard since they take pride of exporting Khomeini's death wishes to their long list of enemies Include sunnies ,non Muslim , non Persians , Shies non Ayatollah's followers etc ,
     
  5. Dubious

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    Some of that, as always, is to maintain a 'legitimacy' for domestic abuses of power and to promote subservience as a necessity for national security (sound familiar?). But the next generations of Iranians is salvageable because of the exposure of abuse, you do it with information, not threats. And you don't cement their opposition by bombing them. Then you are done for another 40 years.
     
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  6. SF3isBack!!

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    The countries that surround Iran are our allies, we have bases in every country that we call a close ally. We have bases around China and North Korea also because we have close allies who we protect over there. We have a war going on in the Middle East Iran is located in the Middle East conspiracy solved.
     
  7. Carl Herrera

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    Any new polls out yet?
     
  8. Exiled

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  9. Dubious

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    I propose we move Iran's relative evilness to it's own thread. and leave this one to it's stated subject/
     
  10. Realjad

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    The only poll that has been done (that is not a online poll that can be manipulated) is the morning consult

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/18/post-debate-poll-trump-increases-lead-fiorina-leaps-carson-drops/

    The poll shows that the majority thought Carly won the debate

    however, Trumps lead got bigger

    It shows Trump going from 33% to 36%

    Carson dropped from 17% to 12%

    and Carly rose 3% to 10%

    those are the top 3: Trump, Carson, Carly

    So actually Trump gained 8% more of a lead over the others.

    It seems Carly took voters who were backing Carson and didn't take voters who were backing Trump
     
  11. Amiga

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    If true, Trump continue to defy conventional thinking. The right must have a lot of pent up anger.
     
  12. SF3isBack!!

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    The right is a party filled with racist angry over a Muslim president and a video of a baby being harvested for parts that no one has ever seen but Cary Fiorina.
     
  13. jbasket

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    Heh, racist, I am much ;)



    Smh at this comment. How does this contribute, in any facet, to a positive conversation?
     
  14. larsv8

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    Now do one for the United States.
     
  15. SF3isBack!!

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    It's the truth I'm sorry that hurts your feelings.
     
  16. jbasket

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    My feelings are a-ok, thanks for asking. I am glad you are concerned for my well-being, but frankly, the world doesn't revolve around your post :)

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    I hope you don't tell your conservative friends, if you have any, that. Not sure they will respond very kindly. I was just trying to point out how ineffective your statement was to the general thread. There was a very clear lack of insight, numbers, or even general grammar.
     
  17. DudeWah

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    That's par for the course as far as his posts are usually concerned.

    The guy tried to paint another poster as citing nonsense (conspiracy) in a post above when in reality "jo mama" posted some good points.
     
  18. SF3isBack!!

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    So my post based on what actual conservative people are saying and actual conservative people believe is somehow bothering you and its my fault, lol. Its OK to not like what I said, but don't act like it's not the truth. I'm sorry you belong to a party that houses racists but I could really care less, your feelings are not my problem it's the truth whether I said it or not. Racists are generally conservative and they support the conservative party. Do whatever you have to do to come to terms with that or stay denial I don't care.
     
  19. SF3isBack!!

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    No he had some great points, that meme is nonsense though.
     
  20. Amiga

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    Well, if Fiorina continue to play to the outrages within the right and add in other additional hatefulness (which is only possible by ignoring all facts and reality), she'll probably over take Trump.

    Be as angry or more than Trump and have some knowledge to back it up with some real policy that is actually ok to the mainstream Republican and you got a winner.

    It's really sad, because hate and lying > truth.
     

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