CNN Reagan Library 1st tier GOP debate @8pm ET **live commentary thread**

[Oak Hills]

Awful joke Rubio...and Huckabee. Conservatives can't do funny

What are you talking about?  I lol'd at that water-bottle thing.

[Oak Hills]

Is it just me, or does Walker look like he has a fever?

[Oak Hills]

Cruz endorses Trump... again.

He's either just gunning for the VP spot, or he's waiting for Trump to falter so he can suck up his supporters.

I'd say the latter, but he'd settle for the former.

[Oak Hills]

Rubio's actually making some good points.

I think he's doing a lot better tonight than he did the first two times.

[Oak Hills]

Why didn't Obama address immigration in his first two years?

Because he was too busy working on healthcare and the stimulus.  Duh!

[Oak Hills]

Why didn't Obama address immigration in his first two years?

Because he was too busy working on healthcare and the stimulus.  Duh!

Fiorina still has a point. Obama even had a filibuster-proof Senate thanks to Arlen Specter.

I disagree.  He really did have his hands full with the two things I mentioned.

[Oak Hills]

What's up with the multiple posts

I think everyone keeps clicking "post" more than once out of frustration with the page not loading.  I, for instance, was waiting ten minutes for my last post to go thru, but when I finally gave up, I saw that my post actually had gone thru after only one or two minutes.

[Oak Hills]

Carson gave a Democratic answer on the minimum wage.

What's up with the multiple posts

I think everyone keeps clicking "post" more than once out of frustration with the page not loading.  I, for instance, was waiting ten minutes for my last post to go thru, but when I finally gave up, I saw that my post actually had gone thru after only one or two minutes.

Nobody's post was showing up for me for 10 minutes, even refreshing and trying to post every couple minutes. I thought it was the boards but I guess it was my computer.

It did the same for me.

I actually think it was the site.  I didn't visit the actual thread in those ten minutes, I was just waiting for the post to go thru from the "post reply" page.


On another subject, just saw a local ad for a Knoxville city councilman running for re-election.  His name?  George Wallace.

[Oak Hills]

sh**t, North Korea can nuke California??

No, they can't.

[Oak Hills]

I'm genuinely curious: How does the federal government regulate bathrooms?

I don't see what others are seeing in Fiorina.

That she's a woman, therefore not another white male.

I was in that camp after the first kiddie-table debate, but I think she's been one of the more articulate candidates tonight.

[Oak Hills]

I'm genuinely curious: How does the federal government regulate bathrooms?

http://www.americanrestroom.org/gov/ohsa/

So Rubio doesn't think OSHA should regulate workplace sanitation standards.  Good to know.

[Oak Hills]

So... how much left? This is long.

Fifty more minutes.  One needs a really long debate for each candidate to get a decent amount of speaking time.

[Oak Hills]

First time Paul did decently well, and he's still sucking.

I don't know why everyone thinks he's sucking.  I think he's mostly done decently.

[Oak Hills]

And now it's time for the Republicans to be awful on the environment.  At least they brought up climate change, unlike another network I could name...

[Oak Hills]

Walker is irrelevant.

At least he doesn't look like he has a fever anymore.

[Oak Hills]

Is Trump a vaxxer?

Jesus H. Christ...

What's worse, the supposed "epidemic" of autism is almost certainly due to increased diagnoses rather than a genuine increase in occurrence.

[Oak Hills]

Fiorina FTW

Any possible Democratic nominee is salivating at the prospect. She's as nutty as Cruz, and has a resume that can be boiled down to: I wrecked HP so badly  the board fired me.

The problem is, she doesn't come across as nutty as Cruz.


Also, I see Trump is trying to come off as conciliatory in his post-debate interview.  I wonder how long that will last.