The 2016 Republican Candidates - Part 1

[MessiahDecoy123]

I see it the other way around. Rubio is fairly religious and a good speaker. I think he has the most to gain from a Carson decline.

Carson has it very tough. He's an African-American Republican with a brain. Most liberals hate his kind.

He's intelligent in a certain sense but he's also either brainwashed or a compulsive liar.

The man says he thinks Noah's Ark was real.

 

[Marvolo]

Thats a can of worms we shouldnt open in this thread.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Well it's the two elephants in the room.

(Get it, cause the Ark)

 

[Greens]

He's intelligent in a certain sense but he's also either brainwashed or a compulsive liar.

The man says he thinks Noah's Ark was real.

He's said so much crazy **** that he must be brainwashed.

 

[chaseter]

He's intelligent in a certain sense but he's also either brainwashed or a compulsive liar.

The man says he thinks Noah's Ark was real.

Noah's Ark could have been real...just not in the sense evangelicals think of it. Remember, the Earth used to be flat.

 

[Schlosser85]

Carson is hardly a good example of "an African-American with a brain".

This is the man who believes, for some inexplicable reason, that the Biblical figure Joseph built the Egyptian pyramids to store grain.

 

[The Shape]

Carson is hardly a good example of "an African-American with a brain".

This is the man who believes, for some inexplicable reason, that the Biblical figure Joseph built the Egyptian pyramids to store grain.

Rumor has it, he also believes the biblical figure Kane is still alive and has had a very successful wrestling career.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Rumor has it, he also believes the biblical figure Kane is still alive and has had a very successful wrestling career.

Does that mean Abel is the Undertaker??

 

[CaptainWagner]

He's intelligent in a certain sense but he's also either brainwashed or a compulsive liar.

The man says he thinks Noah's Ark was real.

You realize that the vast majority of religious folks believe that? Does that make them all brainwashed or liars?

Anyway, the new debate is off to a good start.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

You realize that the vast majority of religious folks believe that? Does that make them all brainwashed or liars?

Anyway, the new debate is off to a good start.

What else do you call it when people are conditioned to believe in something beyond reason?

I mean if the North Koreans believed in something like that instead of Americans the answer would be obvious.

 

[CaptainWagner]

What else do you call it when people are conditioned to believe in something beyond reason?

I mean if the North Koreans believed in something like that instead of Americans the answer would be obvious.

I don't see what is so unreasonable to say there isn't a true story behind the legend. But this isn't the thread for this debate.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Fair enough.

Agree to disagree.

 

[Clark-Kent]

Forum consensus:

Republicans drool, democrats rule!

 

[KevanG]

For the most part for some candidates.

 

[Marvolo]

You realize that the vast majority of religious folks believe that? Does that make them all brainwashed or liars?

Anyway, the new debate is off to a good start.

No they dont.

Quite a few Fundamentalists probably believe it, but they are a very tiny percentage of the religious population of the world. Most educated people realize that its just a story. Especially younger educated people.

 

[Marvolo]

I don't see what is so unreasonable to say there isn't a true story behind the legend. But this isn't the thread for this debate.

Believing that the myth is based on a plausible localized flood far in human kind's past is one thing. Believing a 900+ year old man led every land animal 2 by 2 onto a giant boat and lived on said boat for 40 days and 40 nights while the entire earth was flooded...well thats something else entirely.

 

[Thundercrack85]

You realize that the vast majority of religious folks believe that? Does that make them all brainwashed or liars?

Anyway, the new debate is off to a good start.

Not literally I hope. I mean, a 600 year old man gathered up two of every animal into a giant boat?

Even as a kid who went to Catholic school I understood the stories to be parables, legends, etc.

I would also argue that the story was never meant to be taken literally even when it was originally written down.

 

[KevanG]

The whole 'grain silos' thing cracks me up. It's wrong on every possible level that exists.

 

[Marvolo]

In the first question of Tuesday night's GOP debate, moderator Neil Cavuto asked Donald Trump if he was sympathetic to workers around the country who were demanding that the federal wage floor be more than doubled.

"I can't be, Neil," Trump responded. "The reason I can't be is we are a country that's being beaten on every front, economically, militarily. There is nothing we do now to win."

Those lines are consistent with Trump's running stump speech on American demise, but then the front-runner took a curious turn. In explaining his aversion to a minimum wage hike, Trump asserted that "our wages are too high."

The only wages that are too high are the ones that people like you receive, you filthy hypocrite.

 

[KevanG]

No, the costs are too high. Either lower costs or raise wages.

 

[childeroland]

Who won the debate? Who lost?

 

[Unbreakable Lex]

Who won the debate? Who lost?

Jeb and Trump lost in my opinion. Jeb needed a big day and he had just another day. Did nothing to stand out. We've learned nothing new about a Trump presidency that we didn't hear from him over the Summer. He's really fizzling out with nothing new to add.

Kasich was the winner in my opinion with Rubio coming in second. I also don't think Carson hurt himself and Rand Paul showed up finally.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Looking through the various polls, and it looks like Kasich finally was able to draw some attention to himself. He and Rubio gave the best performances, in my opinion. Jeb on the other hand is dead in the water. And bonus points to Paul for finally showing up.

 

[Unbreakable Lex]

Looking through the various polls, and it looks like Kasich finally was able to draw some attention to himself. He and Rubio gave the best performances, in my opinion. Jeb on the other hand is dead in the water. And bonus points to Paul for finally showing up.

That's good to hear, I suppose I should look at some reactions to see if they line up with reality.

 

[Unbreakable Lex]

Article about how Bernie and Hillary won last night.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/11/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-won-gop-debate-twitter.html