Republican debate.

[_Quasimodo]

I've been watching the Republican debate off and on tonight. It keeps reminding me of Professional Wrestling. Absolutely no class.

[_ajax18]

I agree. I've been disgusted with the mud slinging. This was an excellent article on Breitbart that shows the depths at which Mitt Romney is willing to sink during the primaries but not during a general election? Mitt wouldn't even go on Fox News much during the 2012 campaign. Why now?

During a phoned-in appearance on Fox News Wednesday afternoon, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney dropped a big ole’ a dirty bomb on Donald Trump. Speaking to Neil Cavuto, Romney said, without any evidence, that he has “good reason to believe that there’s a bombshell in Donald Trump’s taxes.” As someone who suffered through every moment of Romney’s feckless presidential campaign, the first thing I thought to myself was “Where the hell was this killer when we needed him most?”

Listen, I have no issue with Romney dropping a dirty bomb, especially on a Donald Trump who is the master of launching these kinds of insinuations. Politics, especially at the presidential level, is not about Marquis of Queensbury. It’s about proving your skill as a campaigner, your ability to keep the other guy on defense. The fact that you might be offended by that reality does not change that reality.

So let’s stop for a moment and applaud Romney’s skills at pulling an effective “Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV),” at being an effective McCarthyite dirty trickster 30 hours before Thursday night’s Republican debate, at giving Hillary’s DC Media Super PAC the anti-Trump talking points they are so desperate for.

No question, Romney pulled it off with skill and panache.

However….

Romney also reminded folks like myself that the Republican Establishment is a dumpster fire of incompetence, a group of elite stiffs genetically incapable of winning national elections.

When it comes to sticking a stiletto into a fellow Republican, suddenly Romney is Mitt the Machiavellian!

Unfortunately, when it came to beating beatable incumbent Barack Obama in 2012, Romney couldn’t even deal with Candy Crowley; couldn’t prosecute Benghazi; couldn’t competently handle the questions around his own taxes; could neither shun nor embrace his wealth; couldn’t comprehend that in 2012 maybe you should assume everything is recorded before writing off 47% of voters; couldn’t do one damn thing effectively to win even a single news cycle against a failed incumbent.

Oh, but look at Romney now — diving in the gutter and proving that Mr. Squeaky Clean is in fact quite capable of doing what it takes to win . . . against his own.

For America, Romney couldn’t do it, even as Team Obama accused him of murder.

To protect the Establishment Trough, though, suddenly he’s a Man willing to get his hands dirty.

You know who does not have this genetic defect? Donald J. Trump, and that is a very, very big part of his appeal.

Not that we needed it, but thanks for the reminder that the GOP Establishment needs to be burned to the ground, and its ashes tied to the roof a car that we bury in a luxury elevator.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... m-in-2012/

[_Brackite]

I've been watching the Republican debate off and on tonight. It keeps reminding me of Professional Wrestling. Absolutely no class.

Governor Kasich is the only one that I liked during this recent debate. However, Rubio did make a good point against Trump by pointing out that he criticized Romney ’s policy of 'self-deportation' back in November of 2012.

"Donald Trump on Monday said Mitt Romney’s “maniacal” and “crazy” policy of “self-deportation,” alienated Asian and Hispanic voters and helped cost him the election"

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/trump-romneys-crazy-policy-of-self-deportation-cost-votes-084238#ixzz4188K9VGZ

Also read: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... migration/

[_Some Schmo]

It was a debacle. It felt like Trump was contradicting himself every 5 minutes.

Never has anyone used so many words to say so little as Donald Trump.

[_Doctor Steuss]

I felt like at any moment, one of the Marx brothers was going to make a cameo appearance.

[_Quasimodo]

It was a debacle. It felt like Trump was contradicting himself every 5 minutes.

Never has anyone used so many words to say so little as Donald Trump.

It's his facial expressions that make them priceless.

[_Some Schmo]

I have to admit, I had a good gut laugh when Ben Carson said, "Can someone please attack me?"