HOLY SHIT! Trump just implied that Bush should have been impeached for Iraq. This

[KingCharlemagne]

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republican debate is a classic for the ages!

Streaming live now on CBS.

[H2O Man]

1. Yes, he did!

People should be watching this debate, as it is absolutely related to the Democratic primary.

[KingCharlemagne]

3. That wanker Rubio bleated that Bush keot us safe and Trump responded that

the WTC cane down on Bush's watch.

[H2O Man]

7. Rubio, to quote

my father -- who was quoting LBJ -- "ain't a pimple on a good man's ass."

I think that he is a dripping from a diseased penis.

[KingCharlemagne]

14. Rubio is such a saccharine mealy-mouthed motherfucker. I would

enjoy watching Trump take him apart.

[H2O Man]

21. Please excuse me

for what I'm about to say .....

Years ago, my brother-in-law and I were in a gym, and happened to encounter a local fellow we knew and disliked. Rubio reminds me of the guy in so many ways, all repulsive. The guy was attempting to show his son how to punch a heavy bag. Being nice, I pointed out he was teaching errors,and could get his son hurt. I started to demonstrate the correct way.

The fellow got pissy, and said,"Like you know about fighting! What were you, in the 'hippie boxing league'?" (I had a long pony tail.)

My brother-in-law said, "Three hundred bucks says you can't last three minutes against Pat." The guy bet that he could.

My brother-in-law split the money with me a couple of minutes later.

Rubio reminds me so much of that jackass!

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

24. Hahaha!

Great story...glad you won

[H2O Man]

25. That guy

couldn't have lasted a round with me if I had one arm tied behind my back, and he was triplets.

[billhicks76]

49. Rubio is NSA Selected

[speaktruthtopower]

16. What exactly did he say?

[DFW]

2. I'll bet THAT one stunned more than a few Republican heads into exploding silence

Hope they got their feet out of the way before their jaws dropped on them.

[nc4bo]

4. It's a doozy that's for sure! My gawd. nt

[yourpaljoey]

5. Truth week, first Kissinger then Bush

Kissinger exposed as monster and war criminal --
Bush exposed as treasonous war criminal... I like it.

[speaktruthtopower]

6. Tuning in..sounds interesting

[PowerToThePeople]

8. Going for indy vote.

[KingCharlemagne]

23. Trying to de-fang W's visit to SC - nt

[tokenlib]

9. I think Trump is going to get a boost from this...

..the audience booing is not the voters. Trump has just enough truth in what he says about Iraq...Jeb is going to lose on that exchange..

[Live and Learn]

10. Yep, even most Republicans know that war was wrong and expensive now. nt

[onecaliberal]

11. Agree

[uponit7771]

17. +1

[restorefreedom]

73. he won the debate uuuuuge in the online polls...jeb! was at about 5% nt

[one_voice]

12. He was on point with his

assessment of Bush. I liked that he made Jeb say 'leave my daddy and brother alone'...lol. So freakin' funny when he got mad..

[fun n serious]

13. watch the noise and look at the audience

I think they are playing an audience track. Not many people are clapping but it sounds like a lot of people.

[FailureToCommunicate]

33. I kept noticing that too. The rapid applause seemed similar for nearly any candidate who spoke.

Very hinkey.

But not surprising.

Trump blurted out some VERY uncomfortable truths to this Republican viewership.

[fun n serious]

35. I noticed that.

I think he is the most honest in the bunch. That's sad.

[d_legendary1]

43. He's honest in the sense that his competition is full of losers

Other than that Trump is still an asshole.

[fun n serious]

47. Yes.

I think it's sad that a loser like Trump is the most honest GOP candidate of the bunch.

[dchill]

54. Donald Trump is a liar who only uses the truth...

when it suits him.

[Old Codger]

15. He doesn't

Care what anyone thinks he doesn't really seem to want to win just to make a fool out of repugs

[OrwellwasRight]

18. My boss thinks Trump's entire campaign is fake.

They are making a reality series.

It would be kind of hysterical if he were right.

[Old Codger]

20. it would not surprise me

If he won the nomination and turned it down...

[HooptieWagon]

27. He's trolling the GOP.

[hollowdweller]

62. Did Clinton talk him into running

[Hydra]

75. I don't remember the source, but Trump called Bill and did the sounding board thing

Bill encouraged him to got out there. I think it's been a mixed blessing for him- Bill's plan was probably to disrupt the Repubs, especially Jeb. On the flip side, Hillary has almost the same baggage, so Trump could be VERY dangerous to her if he gets the nod. I saw him setting up the "Iraq war disaster" thing that she also shares in...

[KingCharlemagne]

19. Trump said he lost hundreds of friends on 9-11. I think he

holds Bush personally responsible.

[OrwellwasRight]

22. That would make sense. nt

[volstork]

32. Hard to believe

that Trump has hundreds of friends...

[KingCharlemagne]

39. I know what you mean. That said, I had my bullshit

detector dialed pretty high into the red zone but this moment seemed pretty authentic to me, Trump's tendency to aggrandize and exaggerate notwithstanding.

[Wig Master]

40. Trump has all the friends

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

51. Not only friends, but GREAT friends, the BEST friends

[Fuddnik]

61. I don't think he's ever had friends.

[KingCharlemagne]

26. my feed on cbs mobile site has crapped out. damn! - nt

[Purveyor]

28. Never seen anything like this absolutely loving it...o

[Zambero]

29. How much longer

until one of the GOP candidates points the finger at Trump and accuses him of being planted by Democrats, and which one will do th pointing?

[KingCharlemagne]

41. He flat- out called Cruz a liar. my jaw hit the floor several times

Throughout. I kept waiting for Trump to use the "p" word on Cruz!

[markmyword]

52. Friends of Hillary!

I personally think he's friends with the Clinton's, they went to his wedding.
He's so over the top, and makes the GOP debates and campaign a three ringed circus.

Trump makes the Republicans look like the crazies that they are and makes ALL the Republican candidates look unelectable EVEN to Republicans.

He calls them out as liars, tells Jeb Bush his brother should have been impeached for LYING to us about Weapons of Mass Destruction, tells Cruz he made robo calls about him and smeared Dr. Carson.
You have to give Trump credit, he's calling his opponents out for who and what they are. No news media would do that, no reporter today would and the Democrats can't do it.

I think he's a red herring and insuring a Clinton presidency!

Trump is going to be super surprised, because all that anger towards the 1%, politicans bought and paid for by the corporations and lobbyists, which HIllary is apart of, will ensure a BERNIE SANDERS Presidency!

THANK YOU MR. TRUMP!!!!

[Samantha]

59. He asked Bill Clinton if he (Bill) thought he should run

and Bill encouraged him to do so, if that was what he wanted.

Sam

[AnnieBW]

30. A stopped clock

Is right twice a day. Once a day if you have a digital clock.

[LuvLoogie]

76. Just an aside. 12-hour versus 24-hour is not dependent on analog versus digital.

[pat_k]

31. In 2008 he didn't just imply, he said it. (WaPo)

In 2008, Donald Trump said George W. Bush should’ve been impeached

And if I recall correctly, he called for impeachment earlier than that. Just about the only sensible thing he's ever said.

[KingCharlemagne]

56. Tonight he called Cruz "a nasty guy." ROTFLMAO! - nt

[indivisibleman]

34. Donald the Trump is correct sometimes.

That was a no brainer.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. Jeb took it as a personal attack on his family.

[FailureToCommunicate]

37. Trump gets boos and stoney silence to his blurts about 9/11 and Bush not 'keeping us safe'

Bet that's not a familiar audience reaction for him.

Amazing mud fest tonight!

[Zambero]

45. Because they supported and voted for Bush

They also own a share of responsibility for what happened under that administration, and many would prefer not to be reminded. There's no way they would burst into spontaneous applause at those (rare) truths divulged by Trump.

[hollowdweller]

63. I wish to hell the dems would have done that when it happened.

[Mira]

38. This is a huge happening in my opinion and i hope

that the talking heads, such as they are, will bring it up over and over again so some ostrich heads til now firmly planted in the sand, will raise an inch or so and begin to expose their brains to some fresh air.
I hope that bobthedrummer was watching and had his drum nearby.
The sheer fact this was brought up in such a widely public forum is actually historic. We should not forget the Europeans, most of whom speak English, are watching the Republican train wreck performances as if they were the latest comedic offerings, yet they worry what may happen in our country and fear the repercussions world wide. I get calls from some German friends and relatives who know about as much about it all as I do and that is actually mindblowing.
They question me about the fact that there is no overt discussion going on in our country about 9/11 in general. Giving the answer that there are many of us who have questions about it happening under the supposed watch of GWB, and who think we went way off the rails by invading a country that had not posed a threat to ours is not appeasing them after so many years of confirmation of it having been wrong, and sold to us based on lies.

In essence, Trump officially, and blow hard-edly opened a can of worms tonight in order to serve himself, but unwittingly he served the whole world.

[FairWinds]

42. Actually, before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 . .

Veterans For Peace issued a statement to the US
government that its officials and military officers
would be held personally accountable for the
disaster that was about to unfold.

We still stand by that statement.

Veterans For Peace

[KingCharlemagne]

44. Sounds like you are looking backward, rather than forward. I guess

you didn't get the memo.



Sarcasm aside, I salute you.

[mwooldri]

46. If DU was hosting this debate....

Trump: Bush should have been impeached for Iraq...
Jeb Bush hits alert on Trump's post....
The jury votes 4:3 to LEAVE it....

[nilesobek]

48. Audience reactions should be ignored.

Trump accurately pointed out that the audience was packed with Bush lobbyists. I wonder if Hillary or Bernie are willing to denounce GWB in the same degree.

[0rganism]

50. i used to think Trump was the risen Andy Kaufman, maybe

now i'm thinking Trump is actually Trump but he's a yuuuge Andy Kaufman fan...

[snot]

58. +++<3<3<3!!!

[Kenjie]

53. The one time I dont tune in...

[Kall]

55. I think a lot of Trump's campaign is a facade

He really has been for things like single-payer, and against things like the Iraq war and bad trade agreements. I wouldn't expect him to be FDR, I'd never support him, and obviously his campaign tactics are deplorable, but I think he's playing a lot of people for fools.

[MisterP]

57. look at how LOW the Dems have sunk: the guy who's basically Marvel's Arnim Zola,

the guy that Anne Frank's sister said was acting like Hitler all over again, the kid who'd light a cat's tail on fire in 7th grade and roar with laughter as it ran and ran and ran, the most vulgar exponent of the I've-got-mine-fuck-you big-car big-plane big-house fleece-and-run aspects of America, has condemned the wars that the party's blessed candidate giddily supported and whose perpetrators the party has militantly protected

if Sanders weren't running this would be the biggest political dumpster fire in American history since the Civil War and Joe McCarthy

[Broward]

60. He's also to the left of Hillary on free trade.

Just shows you how far right some Dems have moved.

[mainer]

74. Yeah, you gotta marvel at how Trump tells the truth

about the Iraq war while the Dem's presumptive nominee refuses to.

[Aerows]

64. I'm still shocked that people have to imply it

Why not just come right out and state the truth. Bush *should* have been not only impeached for Iraq, he should be enjoying the luxurious accommodations of the Iron Bar Hotel, Leavenworth suites.

[KingCharlemagne]

65. I blame Pelosi - nt

[Aerows]

66. I do, too

"Impeachment is off the table" was an awful stance to take. That tarnished her reputation, in my eyes, that had before then been pretty sterling.

[KingCharlemagne]

67. If Bush were impeached, a lot of Dems (like Hillary) were going down too

for malfeasance and gross negligence. Operation Shocking and Awful wee truly a bipartisan clusterfuck of monumental proportions.

[SamKnause]

68. 2 for the price of 1.

That would have been sweet.

I am sick of the Bush family.

I am sick of the Clinton family.

A lot of the blame lays at the feet of the Democratic party.

They sold us out.

[Mira]

70. And are trying to buy us back

but I don't think it's working

[Mira]

69. Exactly.

I will never
ever
forgive
forget
or excuse it. We are failing the entire world by ignoring the war criminals in our midst.

It also empowers the ones who want to come in and do it again,

[nilesobek]

71. The candidates used to fear

the Bushes and their security apparatus HW built. Not anymore. Trump faked right really hard then drove left even harder leaving behind the Republican field and Hillary.

Now its Bernie and Trump standing alone in left field, on the correct side of history.

[KingCharlemagne]

72. I would not in a million years credit the fascist strongman

Trump with being a "leftist." Not with his racism and national chauvinism.

[nilesobek]

77. He's also a racist imo.

But its fun watching the whole Republican field standing there with their jockstraps in their hands.

[treestar]

78. Trump wants to lose

That would not play well for Republicans.

[In_The_Wind]

79. Locking

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