GOP Debate: A Visual Review And Fact Checks

Christie’s intriguing stance

We are a couple of days off on our review of the first 2016 GOP Presidential Debate. We have delayed comment for a couple of reasons. First, we are still in shock regarding the event. Do you recall this from the RNC Chair? 

We suggest Priebus was hopeful dreaming. He had to know Trump would resort to ego manical blabber. He had to know Ben Carson is a joke and doesn’t appear to have full control of his mental processes. Priebus should also have warned Carson to avoid reading parts of his debate answers. Do you think the RNC Chair could have anticipated Rand Paul unscripted would be a disaster? He seems to have been asked fewer questions or he simply wasn’t equipped for a forum that didn’t facilitate his common rambling answers. The Kentucky Senator received the least amount to speaking time. We should probably assume Priebus was not aware Huckabee would go “sexual” and show signs of a lack of military acumen. 

 

The hopeful assessment of his “fine” candidates didn’t materialize in the first top tier debate.  

We also delayed comment to secure perspective from various sources. The two fact check reviews at the end of this post were of particular interest.

PBS NewsHour ‏@NewsHour  

GOP Debate speaking time

FINAL http://to.pbs.org/1UrgkF6 

Trump 11:06 
Bush 8:40 
Huck 6:39 
Kas 6:37 
Crz 6:33 
Carson 6:22 
Rubio 6:20 
Chris 6:10 
Walker 5:49 
 Paul 5:06

A Zany Preview

Huckabee: The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.” Also Pimps and Hookers. Do you recall a presidential debate that embodied such oratory..and from a supposed minister?

 

https://youtu.be/VgWp39Xmqh4

Rand Paul Slam Dunked

 

Rand Paul works to garner attention and received “liberty” from others to take him out.

https://shar.es/1tskEz 

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Senator Rand Paul and Governor Chris Christie got into a heated exchange over the NSA – National Security Agency’s data collection program. http://fxn.ws/1eWwW7LWho do you agree with? #GOPDebate

Posted by Fox News on Thursday, August 6, 2015

 

Seriously eye roll from Rand Paul over Christie’s hug line: https://t.co/e4B3lBhuXk— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) August 7, 2015

 

 Can someone  translate pic.twitter.com/MjNQk2XOQH Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) August 7, 2015

 

The Never Changing GOP: SCALISE, AGEMA, PRIEBUS

In March of 2013, RNC Chair Reince Priebus spoke before an audience a the national Press Club in Washington DC. The RNC filled the room with sophism after sophism delivering a new media message to peel who could not give a damn about his words. Hardcore GOP (ers) know they care nothing about diversity and inclusion. One has to only watch GOP efforts to suppress the African-American vote to see non-whites are diametrically opposite the core views of the GOP. 

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, March 18, 2013. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo

Priebus spoke his sophism reportedly based on the results of an “exhaustive” study called the,  “Growth and Opportunity Project,”  

On March 18, 2013, SHUSHANNAH WALSHE wrote about Priebus’s “autopsy” for ABC News. It should be noted an autopsy is an after death procedure.  While, you and I know the GOP is death incarnate, Priebus might have better moniker-ed his rhetoric with the word “Lobotomy.” 

Excerpt

Chairman Reince Priebus said he wanted the report, or autopsy, to be “honest” and “raw,” stressing the message of inclusion to Americans who might not be on board with all the party’s policies. 

“Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we weren’t inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; our primary and debate process needed improvement,” Priebus said of Mitt Romney and the GOP’s 2012 loss. “There’s no one solution. There’s a long list of them.”

Excerpt (including a major sophism)

“To be clear, our principles our sound, our principles are not old rusty thoughts in some book,” Priebus said, but the “report notes the way we communicate our principles isn’t resonating widely enough.” 

Priebus added: “I think our policies are sound, but I think in many ways the way we communicate can be a real problem.” 

When speaking to a Republican audience with a core of not bucking the system and only pricing quiet non-public descent, Priebus could pull-off his sophism. Think for a moment about this claim:

“I think our policies are sound, but I think in many ways the way we communicate can be a real problem.”  

Which policies? Economic Polices? Where is the evidence of “sound economic policy. Do you recall this from 2008:

“Fundamentals of (the US) Economy Are Strong”

http://youtu.be/D1wag6M8_aQ

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/D1wag6M8_aQ&source=uds

And, McCain spoke during a period when the US economy was in utter collapse!

Did Priebus refer to “sound policy” regarding (child-bearing and unmarried) Women’s Rights, LGBT Rights, Civil Rights? No need to provide visual evidence to the contrary, you and I both know the truth. I suggest Priebus’s sophism regarding social policy was tainted for his conservative audience.

A few specific areas of report improvements include:

“…..extensive outreach to women, African-American, Asian, Hispanic and gay voters. Among the plans: hiring paid outreach staffers across the country in a $10 million push that begins right away; backing “comprehensive immigration reform”; abbreviating the presidential primary process with fewer debates, specifically saying the party would like at least half the 20 there were during the 2012 cycle.”

Is there any need to comment on what you just read? 

If you want a stellar example of why so many Right-wing politicians and officials live in world that sees only good in white Americans, you might want to give a may 2014 piece in (get this name) The American Renaissance. As I perused the piece, my leading thought was, “Pity the black person who has to rely on this guy for legal consultation or representation. ” 

It seems without any degree of self-refection, the writer doesn’t see himself as a racist who probably cares very little about truly representing his clients. His perception of his clients may very well exist as jaded based on experience, but one has to question his motive in committing obvious contempt for a people. After questioning the writers motive, it is impossible to proceed past the reality of a lawyer who never attempted to intervene against a racial paradigm often instilled in his childhood. Read the following if you wish to understand the full extent of why many people fail to trust the American Judicial System and read if you want to see what I would cal ‘learned racism’ at its most heinous.

Confessions of a Public Defender

Michael Smith, American Renaissance, May 9, 2014

Now, a look at how the GOP official Tweeted to his connections and maybe even publicly.

Mlive

GOP leadership is moving towards removing the racist official from his post as Michigan GOP national committeeman. His removal, while note-worthy, is a minor surgery in a conservative world that shows as needing major surgery up to and including replacement parts; better yet a lobotomy.  
 

Additional resources related to the GOP’s need for a major overhaul, a conservative blogger’s perceptive and a link to the MLIVE piece.

http://www.redstate.com/2015/01/14/the-question-on-dave-agema-is-not-difficult/

http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2015/01/ken_braun_dave_agemas_white_su.html

Before we move away for this piece “lest we forget” Steve Scalise and his 2002 speaking engagement with white supremacists.

Lindsey Graham’s Meme (above)…“We beg to differ!” 

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