Feb 27, 2016 – But now that he has successfully decked Donald Trump in a debate by getting in his face and has gone remorselessly on the offensive … This started when Rubio went after Trump in Thursday night’s debate; former George W. … Bush and Obama pollster Matthew Dowd, who has invested himself very deeply in Trump destroying the GOP and replacing it with something…

Feb 25, 2016 – Tonight at the CNN GOP Presidential Debate, Donald Trump was (finally) challenged about his disastrous Trump University fail by Marco … Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, $5 million out of some $40 million received by the university from 2005 to 2010, court…

Feb 25, 2016 – On Wednesday, the GOP chairman, perhaps wanting to show that he can match Mr. … Unlike the Democrats, the GOP actually has a primary where the votes of common people count. … The obvious answer is that they aren’t afraid for the GOP, they are afraid for themselves.…

Feb 25, 2016 – He’s been running for a presidential race most of this year,” Hardy said. … 45% of  US households will pay no federal individual income tax, according to 2015 tax year data  from the Tax Policy Center 10th GOP … Debate Tonight:  Debate starts at 8:30 ET on CNN.…

Feb 25, 2016 – As the primary wore on through the summer of 2015, it became clear that the GOP electorate was not interested in governors of accomplishment … I hoped to hear a rousing and fair debate between the two leading into Super Tuesday, where I would be able to make a decision based … No one can be a good President unless they can win a Presidential election.…

Feb 22, 2016 – Binary Choice One reason why the word “amnesty” is such an unhelpful one in the immigration debate is that different people use it … talk radio, Twitter and the internet would have you believe that “any amnesty of any kind, ever” is a very unpopular position in the GOP … of a path to legalization on principle is a minority position even among the small, focused universe of voters in Republican presidential…

Dec 2, 2018 – There is a fifty year pattern of behavior by the news media when it comes to Republican Administrations and Presidential nominees that … his “base” and surrounded himself with advisers who were reliable echoers of the most damaging Democrat talking points against the GOP … So let’s make no mistake, every GOP President entering the Oval Office is greeted by the media with a declaration of war.…

Dec 11, 2018 – revocation of former CIA Director and current MSNBC National Security Analyst John Brennan’s security clearance this August, a debate … Just ask former presidential candidate Herman Cain, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, activist Candace Owens, and now Supreme Court … Paris Dennard is a communications strategist and GOP political commentator. …

Nov 16, 2015 – spite of what the polls at the moment say, which is that Trump and Carson are way out in front of Rubio, virtually everyone on the GOP … At the CNBC debate I ran into people who actually worked for two of the other Presidential campaigns who confessed to me that they…

Nov 13, 2015 – Any day of the week Hillary will label the men (and woman) in the GOP field of candidates as being hateful toward females. … As the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for their second debate next weekend, a disputed moment of alleged sexism from the…

Nov 13, 2015 – get this down to a 2 or 3 candidate race (as it should be by early/mid March), time is already running short for the oversized 2016 GOP … They hold them still, and likely will continue to do so even if Jindal’s arch-rival in the Louisiana GOP, [mc_name name=’Sen. … He’s buried in national polls, unable to qualify for the main debate stage.…

Nov 12, 2015 – I’m not a fan of Chris Christie as a presidential candidate but when he focuses his attacks on Democrats, there may not be a better … mcid=’M000303′ ] and John Kasich tactic of attacking Republicans, he went after Hillary Clinton: As with the previous night’s debate … ’d said in the preliminary GOP presidential debate Tuesday night.…

Nov 11, 2015 – Going into the fourth GOP presidential debate, the libertarian Republican faced skepticism from several quarters about his ability … Paul’s debate performance was aggressive, he had passion, and he drove the discussion at several points. … Rand Paul could carve a niche for himself in the GOP presidential field by talking about the defense procurement issue and the need…

Nov 11, 2015 – Marco Rubio (R-FL)’ chamber=’senate’ mcid=’R000595′ ] won last night’s Fox Business GOP Debate. It is not surprising. … Rubio has the best political skill set of any of the presidential candidates. … BARTIROMO: Welcome back to the fourth Republican presidential debate.…

Nov 24, 2015 – From USAToday: Despite her falling poll numbers, businesswomen Carly Fiorina has one group of GOP voters in her corner. … The results indicated conservative Millennials are 80.8% “more likely” to support after Fiorina after the fourth debate — the highest … on Fox, she was relegated to the undercard debate. ³ – Ron Paul, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush…

Nov 23, 2015 – To pick a few examples: –Sanders in the last Democratic debate blamed terrorism on “climate change.” … is thin (it has dropped from six candidates to three) and started off with a famous and lavishly funded frontrunner, whereas the GOP … Buchanan got 20.8% of the national GOP vote in 1996, and all it won him was 4 states.…

Nov 20, 2015 – appearances, Democrats and liberal-progressive pundits are confident to the point of arrogant, gloating certainty about the 2016 presidential … and “historic” (first woman) nominee while Republicans are still going about the messy business of sifting through the 14 remaining GOP … despite coming from Vox) shows: The ratings for the first two main GOP debates swamped all prior records for primary debate audiences…

Nov 19, 2015 – This is continuing a trend that we have seen slowly develop basically since the second debate. … Trump and Carson remain in the lead, but their combined share of the GOP primary electorate has been slowly sliding from its high water … As much as we here in the blogosphere obsess about these things starting in about March of the year prior to a Presidential election…

Nov 18, 2015 – Predictably, Barack Hussein Obama went bonkers: Without directly naming GOP presidential candidates, the president blasted political … There is an easy rebuttal to this freshman-in-high-school-debate-club type of response by our Internet Troll-in-Chief. … My colleague, Leon Wolf, wrote at length on this presidential petulance earlier today.…

Nov 18, 2015 – The legislature headed toward the GOP as well. Bobby Jindal gave Louisiana a lot of hope. … Unfortunately, he was never able to capitalize on that in a Presidential race. … It is a pretty damning indictment on the whole debate process this year that a man with that resume could not make it on the main debate…

Nov 17, 2015 – and after calling the terrorist attacks in Paris a “setback” and getting pissy with the press on Monday, has begun to lash out at GOP … He decided to go all in and lash out at GOP Presidential candidates: And the president once again took aim at Republican presidential … “I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate…

Dec 16, 2015 – TedVCruz (R-Texas) discussed classified information during Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate. … “I’m having my staff look at the transcripts of the debate right now,” Sen. … Otherwise, the odds of ISIS monitoring the GOP primary debate approaches zero.…

Dec 15, 2015 – Who won this debate? Maybe everyone, maybe no one. … I personally thought Rubio and Christie sounded the most Presidential at this debate, not so much in substance as in talking in serious … (Christie remains a fantastic debater, but his problems with the GOP base are much more obvious when the debate focuses on domestic…

Dec 12, 2015 – I think that at least once every presidential election cycle we get a “brokered convention” boomlet. … For months, the GOP professional class assumed Trump and Carson would fizzle with time. … presidential race.…

Dec 10, 2015 – The shootings in San Bernardino put GOP presidential hopefuls in the spotlight. How they handled it was all over the map. … committed — or what I believe is a terror attack in California — would have been prevented by the expanded background checks,” the GOP … presidential candidate and Florida senator said Friday.…