While I'm anything but a fan of Fox News and feel Thursday night's GOP debate was anything but perfectly moderated, I do have to give moderators Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace kudos for some of their questioning. Not only did they provide visual evidence of candidates flip-flopping on particular issues and provide numbers to disprove candidates' math, but they ended the debate with the question of the night, asking all four candidates if they'd be supportive of the Republican nominee no matter who the candidate was, even if it happened to be Donald Trump. Ironically enough, with that question, the conservative-leaning Fox News network may have all but guaranteed a loss for the Republican Party in November if Donald Trump is the eventual nominee.
For roughly 75% of their airtime, hopeful contenders Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio followed in Mitt Romney's footsteps and blasted Donald Trump, calling the businessman a "fraud," a "phony," a "bully," and a "con artist," among other things. Earlier in the day, Romney claimed that Donald Trump isn't intelligent and isn't a good businessman, even going so far as to list off his failed business ventures. Other establishment Republicans have declared Trump is not a true conservative, have tried comparing him to President Obama and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, have labeled him as a crony capitalist, etc. Yet at the end of the debate, after bashing Trump for an hour, when Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were asked whether or not they'd vote for him if he happens to become the Republican nominee, they said yes. If Trump becomes the nominee, this footage may be all the Democratic Party needs to secure a victory in November.
What Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were essentially saying with their final responses was, "We will support a con artist to lead this country," "We choose party over country," "We obviously don't care much about the health and well-being of our country."
Oddly enough, people shouldn't be surprised by this. The Democratic Party is anything but perfect, but for the most part, such politicians believe government can positively impact people's lives and fight in order to do this. The Republican Party used to believe in the potential positive impact of government, albeit on a smaller scale, but for the most part, that's no longer the case. The Tea Party, billionaire businesspeople, evangelical leaders, and radical talk radio show hosts/media personalities have taken over the GOP, to the point where many Republicans of decades past no longer recognize their party. What has the GOP done over the past 7+ years to illustrate they care about the health and well-being of this country?
- Said their #1 priority was to make President Obama a 1-term president
- Voted against expanding healthcare in this country and failed to provide any reasonable ideas in response to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
- Shut down the federal government for a couple weeks in an attempt to defund Obamacare, costing the country $24 billion in the process
- Attempted to repeal Obamacare 60+ times, knowing it had no chance to pass with President Obama in office, costing taxpayers $1.5 million per appeal, for a total of $90+ million
- Passed laws to make it more difficult for minorities, women, students, veterans, and elders to vote
- Passed laws to make it more difficult for women to garner contraception coverage on their employer-based healthcare plans, not to mention make it next to impossible to get an abortion (in some states)
- Tried limiting the impact of the Supreme Court's LGBT marriage-equality ruling
- Refused to pass any form of gun-control legislation (going the opposite route on many occasions)
- Have supported taking care of major corporations over the health of the environment
- Talked about passing immigration reform, yet failed to do so
- Have attempted to revise history in school textbooks to provide this nation's children with a more conservatively-slanted version of events
- Have attempted to do away with regulations put in place in response to the Great Recession
- Still seem to be of the go-to-war-first-ask-questions-later mentality
- Have voted against the best interests of veterans
- Have attempted to expand upon the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling
- Have voted against equal pay for equal work (for women)
- Have voted to all but make unions extinct
If Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, or Marco Rubio become president, they've promised to essentially strip healthcare from 20 million people by repealing every word of the Affordable Care Act. Cruz and Rubio have insinuated we'd go to war against the world if they won in November. They've all refused to acknowledge the validity of climate change science and that we need to take steps to slow/stall and eventually reverse the process. Cruz and Rubio are still fans of the already debunked trickle-down economics theory. Cruz has basically insinuated that government is worthless, except when it comes to bombing the Middle East.
Whether or not Donald Trump is the eventual Republican nominee, over the past 7+ years, the GOP has sent a clear message to the American people: "We don't care about this country!" They've fought against: Women's rights, minorities' rights, LGBT rights, non-Christian's rights, science, education, infrastructure spending, healthcare quality and expansion, safety, peace, civility, common sense, facts, and sanity. If you're rich, white, male, Christian, straight, and a gun owner, the GOP has your back. For everyone else, they couldn't give one sh*t, let alone two.
Rubio: "Trump's a con artist!"
Cruz: "He's a phony!"
Would you support him if he became the Republican nominee?
Rubio/Cruz: "Well, yes, of course..."
That's all we need to know...
http://moneymorning.com/2013/11/13/the-full-cost-of-the-government-shutdown/
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/05/16/obamacare-repeal-votes-costs-tens-of-millions/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/politics/house-obamacare-repeal-planned-parenthood/
For roughly 75% of their airtime, hopeful contenders Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio followed in Mitt Romney's footsteps and blasted Donald Trump, calling the businessman a "fraud," a "phony," a "bully," and a "con artist," among other things. Earlier in the day, Romney claimed that Donald Trump isn't intelligent and isn't a good businessman, even going so far as to list off his failed business ventures. Other establishment Republicans have declared Trump is not a true conservative, have tried comparing him to President Obama and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, have labeled him as a crony capitalist, etc. Yet at the end of the debate, after bashing Trump for an hour, when Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were asked whether or not they'd vote for him if he happens to become the Republican nominee, they said yes. If Trump becomes the nominee, this footage may be all the Democratic Party needs to secure a victory in November.
What Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were essentially saying with their final responses was, "We will support a con artist to lead this country," "We choose party over country," "We obviously don't care much about the health and well-being of our country."
Oddly enough, people shouldn't be surprised by this. The Democratic Party is anything but perfect, but for the most part, such politicians believe government can positively impact people's lives and fight in order to do this. The Republican Party used to believe in the potential positive impact of government, albeit on a smaller scale, but for the most part, that's no longer the case. The Tea Party, billionaire businesspeople, evangelical leaders, and radical talk radio show hosts/media personalities have taken over the GOP, to the point where many Republicans of decades past no longer recognize their party. What has the GOP done over the past 7+ years to illustrate they care about the health and well-being of this country?
- Said their #1 priority was to make President Obama a 1-term president
- Voted against expanding healthcare in this country and failed to provide any reasonable ideas in response to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
- Shut down the federal government for a couple weeks in an attempt to defund Obamacare, costing the country $24 billion in the process
- Attempted to repeal Obamacare 60+ times, knowing it had no chance to pass with President Obama in office, costing taxpayers $1.5 million per appeal, for a total of $90+ million
- Passed laws to make it more difficult for minorities, women, students, veterans, and elders to vote
- Passed laws to make it more difficult for women to garner contraception coverage on their employer-based healthcare plans, not to mention make it next to impossible to get an abortion (in some states)
- Tried limiting the impact of the Supreme Court's LGBT marriage-equality ruling
- Refused to pass any form of gun-control legislation (going the opposite route on many occasions)
- Have supported taking care of major corporations over the health of the environment
- Talked about passing immigration reform, yet failed to do so
- Have attempted to revise history in school textbooks to provide this nation's children with a more conservatively-slanted version of events
- Have attempted to do away with regulations put in place in response to the Great Recession
- Still seem to be of the go-to-war-first-ask-questions-later mentality
- Have voted against the best interests of veterans
- Have attempted to expand upon the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling
- Have voted against equal pay for equal work (for women)
- Have voted to all but make unions extinct
If Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, or Marco Rubio become president, they've promised to essentially strip healthcare from 20 million people by repealing every word of the Affordable Care Act. Cruz and Rubio have insinuated we'd go to war against the world if they won in November. They've all refused to acknowledge the validity of climate change science and that we need to take steps to slow/stall and eventually reverse the process. Cruz and Rubio are still fans of the already debunked trickle-down economics theory. Cruz has basically insinuated that government is worthless, except when it comes to bombing the Middle East.
Whether or not Donald Trump is the eventual Republican nominee, over the past 7+ years, the GOP has sent a clear message to the American people: "We don't care about this country!" They've fought against: Women's rights, minorities' rights, LGBT rights, non-Christian's rights, science, education, infrastructure spending, healthcare quality and expansion, safety, peace, civility, common sense, facts, and sanity. If you're rich, white, male, Christian, straight, and a gun owner, the GOP has your back. For everyone else, they couldn't give one sh*t, let alone two.
Rubio: "Trump's a con artist!"
Cruz: "He's a phony!"
Would you support him if he became the Republican nominee?
Rubio/Cruz: "Well, yes, of course..."
That's all we need to know...
http://moneymorning.com/2013/11/13/the-full-cost-of-the-government-shutdown/
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/05/16/obamacare-repeal-votes-costs-tens-of-millions/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/politics/house-obamacare-repeal-planned-parenthood/
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