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I’m watching it, too. I can’t look away from this train wreck. It’s fascinating.

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He’s turned over the podium to the true believers! Looks like this pastor has a shaky voice being so close to His Radiant Presence. (Note: Cruz is the face of God in America, so not sure what Trump is.)

I worked 911 for 5.5 years and never really understood rubberneckers. Now I get it. I am one!

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The blue lighting makes me think Palpatine. That and that gory laugh.

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Plus

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Trump has hired Mike Huckabee’s daughter to be his senior advisor.

Huckabee is defending Trump’s tax return comments.

Huckabee endorsement in 3… 2…

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Honestly, I really am disappointed in Christie for this. I had truly thought better of him than that.

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“It’s Rubio!”

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I don’t know if I want someone to wake me up or suffocate me with a pillow at this point.

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I think it actually makes some sense - in terms of positions, Christie is closer to Trump than any other candidate. In terms of someone who I think could be a remotely decent President, however, Trump is pretty far back from the pack. Christie should have just held back from endorsing anyone, imho.

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I am too…but I’m also not sure who I would rather he endorse. Cruz feels like every villain from House of Cards. Rubio reminds me too much of Dubya. Carson is some kind of idiot savant that shouldn’t be allowed near politics. Trump is a raging lunatic that doesn’t seem anchored in the real world when it comes to how governments need to function.

Spose he could have endorsed Hillary, or “none of the above”

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Rubio reminds me too much of Dubya.

Now this I don’t really get. Rubio’s almost the opposite of Bush II, in terms of his ability to process complex thoughts and express them eloquently.

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I don’t mean from how he presents himself. More in how he seems to be a tool of the party, so to speak. To be fair, I felt the same way about Obama in his first term. Presidential candidates that seem less like they have their own positions and more that they are tools to be used by certain parts of their party once they are in power. Let’s take Rubio’s position on immigrants and refugees. He doesn’t want them here, period. His family were, according to his account from October 2011, refuges from Cuba seeking to escape a rising Maxist tide. He has traditionally talked, with pride, about how his parents struggled in a new country where they barely spoke the language and had had to claw their way our of poverty. Now though? Now all he can talk about is building walls, spending $8 billion on new video monitoring on the borders, and not allowing a single refuge (none at all) in to the country.

Frankly, I can’t believe for a minute that it is his actual position, in his mind. It’s the position of his advisers. And that’s why he reminds me of Dubya. I don’t think he had a thought in his head that was’t spoon fed to him by an adviser. It makes me feel like Rubio would be nothing but a puppet president for an ideology that I don’t agree with.

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Now that I’ve seen it, I’ll never be able to look at Christie the same again.

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Nah, it makes sense. Rhetorical ability is really the only stark difference. There’s not really any evidence of much original or deep thought going on in Rubio. Maybe it’s there, but it’s stifled by inexperience or lack of confidence. But at the moment, I think Rubio is like GWB: A basically nice, modest guy who probably isn’t ready for the political spotlight.

That’s not to say he might not be the best viable Republican nominee at this point…

The Christie endorsement is a shock. Maybe Christie sees an opportunity to take advantage of a new wave in American politics in which the biggest mouth and toughest talk wins the day.

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Proof that political categories aren’t always as simple as we think, here’s the American Conservative’s foreign policy report card for the presidential candidates. Best grade goes to… Bernie Sanders.

(It makes sense if you know the American Conservative.)

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Yeah, I’m guessing they generally favor a more inward looking approach to foreign policy, which is certainly what you would get with Sanders.

Nah, it makes sense. Rhetorical ability is really the only stark difference.

I think that part of what makes me not see it is that i identify busy so much by his mind of goofy speaking and mannerisms.

One thing that is funny now is that Rubio really is making fun of Trump, on a personal level, and the thing is… It’s working. He’s doing stuff like reading a bunch of misspelled tweets that trump made made night, and it actually made trump delete then.

Trump’s ego can’t allow him to NOT respond to this stuff. He literally cannot help it. I think rubio’s figured it out.

Trump is absolutely not used to people coming after him like this, and it rattles him.

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Christie’s take down of Rubio before the New Hampshire primary suddenly makes alot more sense.

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This just started running in heavy rotation on TV down here:

Know Nothing Trump

Recognized foreign policy expert my ass.

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Maybe Rubio and Dan Quayle can have a spelling bee?

Regarding the Christie endorsement: wow. That actually really surprises me for some reason. I mean, I guess he didn’t have a whole lot of choices (endorsing Rubio would look idiotic after the debates), but I guess I figured he’d just stay out of it.