:1rotfl:I can't imagine having a drink with him, no, I meant O'Neal.

I did not watch the entire debate. However from what I did see I really liked Rubio. I know the general consensus is Ben Carson did not fair well. I thought he did a good job and the more I hear from him the more I like him. He is obviously very intelligent and intellectual. I would have no problem what so ever voting for him.

I do think it's time for quite a few candidates to step aside. I think Bush needs to go, I was really disappointed with his lackluster effort and don't' see him raising back up to a credible candidate.

What ever way it goes I'm sure it will be interesting.

Who benefitted the most from Debate 2?

The Democrats!

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Actually, I saw it quite the opposite !

By the way; what is the significance of the "BOOM" ? I always read that as a poster being proud of his smarta@@ remark. You never see that when sone actually has something to say !

Anyway, just watching, and I am not speaking of all of them, there are quite a few who would make fine, honest statesmen (statesman also applies to women) while the Democrats are offering the old time back room politics, so I sure would say they came out pretty good.

Still too many candidates however.

Who benefited from the debate?

It wasn't the audience, for sure. Three hours of liberal media baiting, attempting and succeeding in causing fights between the candidates, totally unrelated to policies and how they would do their job if elected.

Rubio and Fiorina did very well, considering.

How typical. Blame it all on the "liberal media" rather than a bunch of lackluster candidates.

By the way, let me ask you a factual type question ...

Do you agree, or disagree, that the mainstream media (NYT, WaPo, NBC, CBS, etc) is heavily slanted to the liberal side?

His answer will be "What???????"

It is evident that you did not watch the debate(?). If you need a transcript, I am sure you know how to use the Google search engine. Use Google because it is specially formatted for the liberal mindset. While watching it or reading the transcript, count how many times the moderator said something like Trump said this about you, how do you respond?" or "Bush said this, how do you respond?" Most of the questions was about what one candidate said about another. Then come back and give us your comment. When counting, here's a tip: once you run out of fingers and toes, you can use a pencil and make little marks on a piece of paper to indicate each time the moderator asked a baited question. Let me know when you finish, so we can compare notes.

Yes, agree ... he will likely be dishonest and deny the obvious ... nothing new there