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I have a couple points:
1. Luntz didn't ask how many came in supporting Trump. What he asked was how many came in liking Trump. When he later asked who people came in supporting, most of those that had raised their hands about liking him, if not all of them, said that they had come into the debate supporting Rubio, Cruz, Paul, etc. Not one of the people who were asked who they supported prior said Trump. In politics there is a difference between liking and supporting. I like my neighbor who is a Dem but I would never support him in a political run.
2. On more than one occasion Paul looked like an idiot. When he told Christie, who I don't support, that he needed to get a warrant he showed he doesn't know how the warrant process works. To get a warrant you have to show a judge that a reason for it exists. That was Christie's point and Paul showed that he didn't understand it. Christie was right that we should be looking at where phone calls are going. The NSA overstepped when they started not just looking at that but also what was said without the warrant. They also overstepped when they started looking a calls made within the country. To get the warrant you need to link the phone calls to a terrorist on a watch list. By the way, the Patriot Act didn't have to spell that out as that is what the NSA had all ready been doing in regards to "enemy" countries. They just had to expand that to terrorists. Another time he looked like an idiot is when Trump laid out his plan for health care. Trump basically said the same thing that Paul has said in the past about doing away with the ban on interstate health insurance sales and Paul accused him of wanting a single payer right after Trump said otherwise. Like Trump told him, he wasn't listening. Paul also looked like an idiot when he said we can't stop negotiating with terrorists and Iran. When has that ever worked? What I took from that answer was that he would continue Obama's impression of Neville Chamberlain. We absolutely have to fight ISIS with every means at our disposal. To do that we will need to strengthen our military. Like Mike Huckabee said, "The job of the military is to kill and break things." Right now what needs killed and broken is ISIS! Anyone that thinks ISIS isn't a threat hasn't been paying attention to what is going on in the Middle East.
3. I thought Dr. Ben Carson did very well. His point when he was asked about racial tensions, he was the only one asked by the way, was spot on and received the biggest pop of the night from the audience. He also had the best closing statement when he joked about being the only one on the stage not to have stated he was the only one to have done something. He then listed three things that he was the only one to have done, in a joking manner, but those three things are rather impressive. He is the only one to have separated conjoined twins, the only one to have operated on a baby in the mother's womb, and the first to have removed half of a patient's brain, though he did say that looking at Washington someone may have beaten him to it. Dr. Carson was also head of John Hopkins pediatric neurosurgery department, which shows that he does have some leadership ability.
4. Bush neither hurt himself or helped himself. His biggest pop of the night was when he denied the name calling that was reported towards Trump and the latter thanked him for it. Whether the pop was for Trump thanking him or for Bush denying it was hard to tell and may have been about both.
5. Cruz looked very presidential during the debate and his girls were very cute afterwards. Cruz also had one of the best moments of the night when he started to list some descriptions of another candidate running and you could tell from the crowd's reaction that they thought he was talking about Trump. He would end that with the punchline that he was of course talking about Hillary Clinton.
6. Trump was asked gotcha questions and the analysis afterwards when Brit Hume said that there weren't any was BS. Hume has come out attacking Trump recently so I can't really say that I was surprised by that.
7. I was disappointed right from the start when the very first question was if anyone would raise their hand saying that they wouldn't support whoever won the race and would not pledge to not run as an independent. That was clearly a shot at Trump and was designed to make him look bad. The fact is he had already made it clear what his point was on that and it didn't need to be brought up in the way it was. Rand Paul's smart remark about Trump's raising his hand didn't make him look good either. A lot of people, myself included, blame Ron Paul's supporters for Obama getting re-elected. If he wants to lecture someone on that, the senator may want to start in his own backyard.
Coming into the debate I can't say I had a chosen who to support but I was leaning to the following three in this order:
1. Trump
2. Cruz
3. Carson
After the debate that list hasn't changed except to add at #4 Carly Fiorina. She nailed it in the earlier debate. I look for her to make it to the prime time stage for the next debate.
1. Luntz didn't ask how many came in supporting Trump. What he asked was how many came in liking Trump. When he later asked who people came in supporting, most of those that had raised their hands about liking him, if not all of them, said that they had come into the debate supporting Rubio, Cruz, Paul, etc. Not one of the people who were asked who they supported prior said Trump. In politics there is a difference between liking and supporting. I like my neighbor who is a Dem but I would never support him in a political run.
2. On more than one occasion Paul looked like an idiot. When he told Christie, who I don't support, that he needed to get a warrant he showed he doesn't know how the warrant process works. To get a warrant you have to show a judge that a reason for it exists. That was Christie's point and Paul showed that he didn't understand it. Christie was right that we should be looking at where phone calls are going. The NSA overstepped when they started not just looking at that but also what was said without the warrant. They also overstepped when they started looking a calls made within the country. To get the warrant you need to link the phone calls to a terrorist on a watch list. By the way, the Patriot Act didn't have to spell that out as that is what the NSA had all ready been doing in regards to "enemy" countries. They just had to expand that to terrorists. Another time he looked like an idiot is when Trump laid out his plan for health care. Trump basically said the same thing that Paul has said in the past about doing away with the ban on interstate health insurance sales and Paul accused him of wanting a single payer right after Trump said otherwise. Like Trump told him, he wasn't listening. Paul also looked like an idiot when he said we can't stop negotiating with terrorists and Iran. When has that ever worked? What I took from that answer was that he would continue Obama's impression of Neville Chamberlain. We absolutely have to fight ISIS with every means at our disposal. To do that we will need to strengthen our military. Like Mike Huckabee said, "The job of the military is to kill and break things." Right now what needs killed and broken is ISIS! Anyone that thinks ISIS isn't a threat hasn't been paying attention to what is going on in the Middle East.
3. I thought Dr. Ben Carson did very well. His point when he was asked about racial tensions, he was the only one asked by the way, was spot on and received the biggest pop of the night from the audience. He also had the best closing statement when he joked about being the only one on the stage not to have stated he was the only one to have done something. He then listed three things that he was the only one to have done, in a joking manner, but those three things are rather impressive. He is the only one to have separated conjoined twins, the only one to have operated on a baby in the mother's womb, and the first to have removed half of a patient's brain, though he did say that looking at Washington someone may have beaten him to it. Dr. Carson was also head of John Hopkins pediatric neurosurgery department, which shows that he does have some leadership ability.
4. Bush neither hurt himself or helped himself. His biggest pop of the night was when he denied the name calling that was reported towards Trump and the latter thanked him for it. Whether the pop was for Trump thanking him or for Bush denying it was hard to tell and may have been about both.
5. Cruz looked very presidential during the debate and his girls were very cute afterwards. Cruz also had one of the best moments of the night when he started to list some descriptions of another candidate running and you could tell from the crowd's reaction that they thought he was talking about Trump. He would end that with the punchline that he was of course talking about Hillary Clinton.
6. Trump was asked gotcha questions and the analysis afterwards when Brit Hume said that there weren't any was BS. Hume has come out attacking Trump recently so I can't really say that I was surprised by that.
7. I was disappointed right from the start when the very first question was if anyone would raise their hand saying that they wouldn't support whoever won the race and would not pledge to not run as an independent. That was clearly a shot at Trump and was designed to make him look bad. The fact is he had already made it clear what his point was on that and it didn't need to be brought up in the way it was. Rand Paul's smart remark about Trump's raising his hand didn't make him look good either. A lot of people, myself included, blame Ron Paul's supporters for Obama getting re-elected. If he wants to lecture someone on that, the senator may want to start in his own backyard.
Coming into the debate I can't say I had a chosen who to support but I was leaning to the following three in this order:
1. Trump
2. Cruz
3. Carson
After the debate that list hasn't changed except to add at #4 Carly Fiorina. She nailed it in the earlier debate. I look for her to make it to the prime time stage for the next debate.
1. Luntz didn't ask how many came in supporting Trump. What he asked was how many came in liking Trump. When he later asked who people came in supporting, most of those that had raised their hands about liking him, if not all of them, said that they had come into the debate supporting Rubio, Cruz, Paul, etc. Not one of the people who were asked who they supported prior said Trump. In politics there is a difference between liking and supporting. I like my neighbor who is a Dem but I would never support him in a political run.
2. On more than one occasion Paul looked like an idiot. When he told Christie, who I don't support, that he needed to get a warrant he showed he doesn't know how the warrant process works. To get a warrant you have to show a judge that a reason for it exists. That was Christie's point and Paul showed that he didn't understand it. Christie was right that we should be looking at where phone calls are going. The NSA overstepped when they started not just looking at that but also what was said without the warrant. They also overstepped when they started looking a calls made within the country. To get the warrant you need to link the phone calls to a terrorist on a watch list. By the way, the Patriot Act didn't have to spell that out as that is what the NSA had all ready been doing in regards to "enemy" countries. They just had to expand that to terrorists. Another time he looked like an idiot is when Trump laid out his plan for health care. Trump basically said the same thing that Paul has said in the past about doing away with the ban on interstate health insurance sales and Paul accused him of wanting a single payer right after Trump said otherwise. Like Trump told him, he wasn't listening. Paul also looked like an idiot when he said we can't stop negotiating with terrorists and Iran. When has that ever worked? What I took from that answer was that he would continue Obama's impression of Neville Chamberlain. We absolutely have to fight ISIS with every means at our disposal. To do that we will need to strengthen our military. Like Mike Huckabee said, "The job of the military is to kill and break things." Right now what needs killed and broken is ISIS! Anyone that thinks ISIS isn't a threat hasn't been paying attention to what is going on in the Middle East.
3. I thought Dr. Ben Carson did very well. His point when he was asked about racial tensions, he was the only one asked by the way, was spot on and received the biggest pop of the night from the audience. He also had the best closing statement when he joked about being the only one on the stage not to have stated he was the only one to have done something. He then listed three things that he was the only one to have done, in a joking manner, but those three things are rather impressive. He is the only one to have separated conjoined twins, the only one to have operated on a baby in the mother's womb, and the first to have removed half of a patient's brain, though he did say that looking at Washington someone may have beaten him to it. Dr. Carson was also head of John Hopkins pediatric neurosurgery department, which shows that he does have some leadership ability.
4. Bush neither hurt himself or helped himself. His biggest pop of the night was when he denied the name calling that was reported towards Trump and the latter thanked him for it. Whether the pop was for Trump thanking him or for Bush denying it was hard to tell and may have been about both.
5. Cruz looked very presidential during the debate and his girls were very cute afterwards. Cruz also had one of the best moments of the night when he started to list some descriptions of another candidate running and you could tell from the crowd's reaction that they thought he was talking about Trump. He would end that with the punchline that he was of course talking about Hillary Clinton.
6. Trump was asked gotcha questions and the analysis afterwards when Brit Hume said that there weren't any was BS. Hume has come out attacking Trump recently so I can't really say that I was surprised by that.
7. I was disappointed right from the start when the very first question was if anyone would raise their hand saying that they wouldn't support whoever won the race and would not pledge to not run as an independent. That was clearly a shot at Trump and was designed to make him look bad. The fact is he had already made it clear what his point was on that and it didn't need to be brought up in the way it was. Rand Paul's smart remark about Trump's raising his hand didn't make him look good either. A lot of people, myself included, blame Ron Paul's supporters for Obama getting re-elected. If he wants to lecture someone on that, the senator may want to start in his own backyard.
Coming into the debate I can't say I had a chosen who to support but I was leaning to the following three in this order:
1. Trump
2. Cruz
3. Carson
After the debate that list hasn't changed except to add at #4 Carly Fiorina. She nailed it in the earlier debate. I look for her to make it to the prime time stage for the next debate.