Re: 2016 Election
 

They double down. Hey Trump's numbers went up when he said it, we should say it too.

Where are the moderate Republicans denouncing Trump? Sanders has said something at least.

Sanders: Trump should rebuke birther comments | TheHill

Re: 2016 Election
 

Until Carson came along, I had no idea that brain surgery could be self-performed.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Two have:

Republicans round on Donald Trump in 'Obama Muslim' row - BBC News

Re: 2016 Election
 

I just saw that myself. Graham and Christie, woohoo.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Standing up against bigotry is a risk to GOP candidates, which says a lot about the party's populist base.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Especially when it's only a couple of peripherary candidates.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Talking of Carson. Seems he is another example of someone who holds the constitution so close to his heart that he can't read it properly.

Ben Carson Says Muslims Should Be Disqualified From Presidency | ThinkProgress

Nope, you can't have a religious test for office.

Re: 2016 Election
 

One of Fiorina biggest problems is botox. It blocks the nerve impulses from reaching the facial muscles and, IMO, results in communication confusion. She's stone faced while making impassioned statements. Some people, by their own nature, actually are stone faced and don't give away much, but if they ever do smile, the smile will reach their eyes.

She's had botox around her mouth and eyes. This eliminates most of the micro expressions which are natural to human communication. John Kerry has done the same thing and I am not comfortable watching him in interviews anymore. It's like trying to communicate with somebody who is wearing a mask.

Re: 2016 Election
 

That's rich coming from Graham and Christie. They both constantly stoke the Islamaphobia that's rife in the Republican party. Christie with the pro NSA surveillance position that he props up with 911, "They're all trying to kill us." Lindsey Graham spent the entire pre-debate/debate talking about how, if he's elected, he effectively plans to bomb the entire Muslim world off the face of the map.

Let's don't forget that it was the birther issue that initially got Trump Republican attention (that he so desperately craves) and the majority of his followers firmly believe that Obama is a Muslim plant. There are some people who will never, ever, believe a black person can be anything but bad. They have been brainwashed, some from birth, and lack the intellectual capacity and decency of heart to ever change. Donald Trump tapped into that segment and subsequently became completely addicted to their slavish devotion to him and his message.

Also, Mitt ****ing Romney went to Trump, hat in hand, for his endorsement just 4 short years ago ... at the very height of Trump's birther campaign.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Years ago there was fear that France might end up with a majority Muslim parliament and a Muslim president - so they would end up with France's force de frappe. That might happen anyway, but Pakistan is one coup away from that and Iran will shortly have theirs, followed almost immediately by Saudi Arabia (Pak's nukes can be bought, along with delivery systems, to the right buyers).

If you listen to some of Trump's supporters, we already have a Muslim President now. Of course there is no religious litmus test. So...if we elected a Keith Ellison (well, if Democratic voters, with their "first black," "first woman," "first gay" enthusiasms elected him) we'd have our first Muslim president - but then, who would we threaten with our nukes?

Re: 2016 Election
 

Okay, I've been seriously confused about how some of these people qualify for the primaries. Admittedly, I don't understand exactly what is required to get into the primaries but it seems like anybody is allowed in these days. Former representative and Louisiana governor, Buddy Roemer, launched a whining campaign about how he was being unfairly kept out of the primary in the 2012 race yet, this year, Santorum and Pataki got in.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Anybody can run for anything, even if the party leadership isn't happy about it. You could attempt to run for president as a Republican if you wanted to.

Re: 2016 Election
 

I guess my real question is how are so many included in the debate? And what happened to Gilmore? I read somewhere he got "eliminated". I honestly have no idea what I'm talking about here, tbh. :blink:

Re: 2016 Election
 

Pakistan has pretty much always been a Muslim country. Not sure what you are trying to say there.

Re: 2016 Election
 

Pakistan is indeed, a Sunni Muslim country, but not a radical one, and I feel confident it would only sell nukes and delivery systems to such countries as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - for the right price, and with appropriate deniability measures in place. But its politics is pretty dodgy and it has a very large, mostly uncontrolled, radical population on its NW frontier area - that could stage a coup at some point.