Game Thread Third GOP Debate / CNBC / WEDNESDAY 5PM PST

I gave you the montages of unfair behavioral questioning. And as we already discussed, the DNC refuses to be hosted by Fox because they know the questions will be hard.

There's also a reason why the democrats won't even go on Fox to interview with their commentators. Talk about pussies

 

But let's just review the transcripts shall we? http://time.com/4091301/republican-debate-transcript-cnbc-boulder/

HARWOOD: And make Americans better off because your greatness would replace the stupidity and incompetence of others.

HARWOOD: Let’s be honest. Is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign? -- badgering

HARWOOD: We’re at 60 seconds, but I gotta ask you, you talked about your tax plan. You say that it would not increase the deficit because you cut taxes $10 trillion in the economy would take off like…

(CROSSTALK)

HARWOOD: Hold on, hold on. The economy would take off like a rocket ship.

TRUMP: Right. Dynamically.

HARWOOD: I talked to economic advisers who have served presidents of both parties. They said that you have as chance of cutting taxes that much without increasing the deficit as you would of flying away from that podium by flapping your arms. -- badgering

QUINTANILLA: You want to bring 70,000 pages to three?

FIORINA: That’s right, three pages.

QUINTANILLA: Is that using really small type? -- adding an opinion

FIORINA: You know why three?

QUINTANILLA: Is that using really small type? -- adding an opinion

QUINTANILLA: Senator Cruz. Congressional Republicans, Democrats and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown and calm financial markets that fear of — another Washington-created crisis is on the way.

Does your opposition to it show that you’re not the kind of problem-solver American voters want? -- Again, speaking for americans? See the slight?

I'll add more

 

QUINTANILLA: Does that not speak to your vetting process or judgment in any way. -- Again, infusing their commentary and opinion, which ironically was followed by loud boo's

QUINTANILLA: Mr. Trump, you’ve said you have a special permit to carry a gun in New York.

TRUMP: Yes.

QUINTANILLA: After the Oregon mass shooting on October 1st, you said, “By the way, it was a gun-free zone. If you had a couple of teachers with guns, you would have been a hell of a lot better off.”

TRUMP: Or somebody else. Right.

QUINTANILLA: Would you feel more comfortable if your employees brought guns to work? -- This entire exchange, in which they told the candidates they are talking economics shows their lack of staying on topic and keeping to the policies on economics.

HARWOOD: Governor Huckabee, you’ve written about the huge divide in values between middle America and the big coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles. As a preacher as well as a politician, you know that presidents need the moral authority to bring the entire country together.

The leading Republican candidate, when you look at the average of national polls right now, is Donald Trump. When you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country?

 

Oh give me a break. If any of those questions were asked to the democrats, they would be crying like the babies they are. It's really tiring of the double standard liberals put on republicans. It's actually pretty embarrassing really. I'll post the democrat debate and you will see the soft balls they toss their way

 

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1023775/cnn-democratic-debate-transcript

 

Absolutely not. The questions were pressing, but not insulting. As you saw, I didn't put those questions that were pressing on the CNBC debate. Some questions to Trump, Carly and Rubio were fair and tough questions.

 

Mrs. Clinton (very straight face) to whom were you telling the truth, Charles Woods (father of Tyrone Woods) or the Egyptian Ambassador as cause of the attack at Benghazi?

Mrs. Clinton, have you apologized for lying to Mr. Woods?

Mrs. Clinton, have you corrected the explanation you gave to Mrs Smith as to the cause of the attack that killed her son in Benghazi?

Mrs. Clinton, when do you plan to apologize to the American people for spinning the yarn about the video causing the attack?

Mrs. Clinton, did you request Navy support to stand by Benghazi after the initial attacks and the British decided to pull out?

Why Not?

Mrs. Clinton, do you know how many hours away the Destroyer base in Italy is from Benghazi? Assuming Flank speed.

Mrs. Clinton, What was so urgent to require the US personnel to be in Benghazi after the British left because it was too dangerous?

Mrs. Clinton, What would you do over if possible to prevent the blunder you allowed to go down in Benghazi?

 

Reading the later part of the transcripts for the democrat debate were all softballs.

Just saw the GOP say that they had a contract from CNBC that all questions were about economical questions, yet they brought up gun laws, morality, and other social issues. That, in itself, is reason enough to suspend them.

 

I don't mind a few gotcha questions in a debate, and as Barfo points out, CNN did give the Democrat candidates a few of those. But the CNBC debate was billed as being about economics and the pinhead moderators are supposed to know that and ask questions and moderate the debate such that viewers can get a good idea of where the candidates stand on economic issues. Other than challenging Carson on his number on his flat tax proposal, does anyone really think that the debate achieved its objectives? It was a train wreck. The moderators were more interested in putting out cutesy questions trying to embarrass the candidates and get them to attack each other than in fostering a legitimate debate.