Live Events – First 2016 GOP Debate – 8-6-2015

Hope you’ve stocked up on popcorn and cotton candy because today only, the GOP circus is in town! Our Live Event chat will be open all day for thoughts and conversations about both debates as they happen…but of course in the center ring is the debate starring reality show veteran Donald Trump in “Who Wants to Be the Least Ridiculous Republican Candidate for President?” The Sideshow Debate begins at 2PM PDT and the Center Ring debate begins at 6pm PDT. Feel free to post comments here throughout the day but no doubt it will be busiest here as the main debate begins. Hope to see you then!

AdLib 9 hours ago

Hi ExFan! Wonderful to have you back!

AdLib 7 hours ago

Don’t know what that up arrow issue is but working on it.

AdLib 7 hours ago

Rick Perry does his best Reagan impression in his first speech. Hollow and forced…of course!

AdLib 7 hours ago

All the Republicans say that America is decline yet attack Dems for being negative about America. No one talks down America more than Repubs!

AdLib 7 hours ago

The questions by the Fox Dweebs are so bad and provocative, basically asking each candidate in the Kid’s Table debate if they aren’t losers who shouldn’t be running. Wow.

AdLib 7 hours ago

Lindsey Graham is practically having a nervous breakdown just having to speak. He looks like he’s getting the vapors!

AdLib 7 hours ago

Gilmore is parroting “decline” and “Obama/Hillary” too. So, get it? We have to be in decline because if we’re not, how can they bring us out of decline?

AdLib 7 hours ago

Heh! Rick Perry asked about losing fight with Trump and he too sounds on the verge of tears.

AdLib 7 hours ago

Jindal’s answer to do better against ISIS than Obama? Name them “Islamic terrorists.” That’ll fix ’em!

AdLib 7 hours ago

It is almost like a poorly scripted version of what Republicans think. No ideas, just condemnation and general comments about “making America better”.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Pretty much, ExFan! Even Republican ideas like Obamacare are destroying America…as long as a black President supports it.

AdLib 6 hours ago

DangOld Tramp.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Hmm…don’t think any of the current Repub candidates have ever heard of Landon…or “obligation”.

AdLib 6 hours ago

ExFan – Trump is at the top of the polls purely for emotional reasons, the morons supporting him don’t care about any facts about him. Saw a conversation between an anti-Trump Repub and a pro-Trump Repub, every time the anti-Trump Repub brought up something bad about Trump, the pro-Trump Repub would say, “I don’t care!”

AdLib 6 hours ago

Trash is attracted to more trash.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Absolutely, like children. They don’t reason, they just emotionally want their hatreds and racism verbalized and Trump does that so they’ll plug their ears and hum to themselves so they won’t have to hear reality.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Yes, I remember that doc. Sad but true but Repubs will refuse to accept it.

AdLib 6 hours ago

These morons in this debate have no clue about Iran.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Perry thinks he can “tear up” the agreement if elected. Huh? How dumb is he?

AdLib 6 hours ago

Carly’s solution to the ME? Arm everyone with weapons.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Nope, they don’t know how government actually works!

AdLib 6 hours ago

Santorum says that he knows the SCOTUS has no right to support gay marriage, that he knows better.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Carly turned financial weapons on tens of thousands of employees and terminated them.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Didn’t know that. I do however know what comes up if you do a Google search for “santorum”.

AdLib 6 hours ago

You mean the “liberal” media in the U.S. didn’t expose the truth about a Republican? That’s odd…

AdLib 6 hours ago

MSNBC = More Subpar News By Conservatives

AdLib 6 hours ago

Lindsey Graham’s solution to stopping abortion? Send troops into the ME or “you’re not ready for this job”.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Huh?

AdLib 6 hours ago

Santorum and the Women Hater’s Club trying to outlaw abortion, defund Planned Parenthood and keep women barefoot and pregnant ain’t exactly going to attract the women’s vote.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Repub wish list: “Protect” Christians to allow them to be bigots, kill Obamacare, kill amnesty, kill EPA, kill Iranians…get the theme here?

AdLib 6 hours ago

Carly – Only someone who is willing to destroy America’s government can make it better!

AdLib 6 hours ago

Hey slm!

AdLib 6 hours ago

You nailed it, slm. They look scared, desperate and cookie cutter. None stand out.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Lindsey Graham and his sob story, that’s his best campaigning? He can’t speak in a debate without shivering in fear…and he thinks he could be President?

AdLib 6 hours ago

Jindal description of Hillary: Socialist. Right, Bobby!

AdLib 6 hours ago

Rick Perry’s argument to be President, he wants to turn America into Texas. Yeah, that’s going to work.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Santorum: Only optimists have lots of kids. Er…how about only those who don’t believe in birth control?

AdLib 6 hours ago

If only we could…but lots of good Dems in TX too.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Carly’s argument for voting for her: Hillary is a liar.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Yep, lots of Dems in Dallas too.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Because they are mongos who embrace simple answers, simple expressions of hatred and are easily manipulated through their religious beliefs.

AdLib 6 hours ago

ExFan, it is now but give it a couple decades and it will be a purple state!

AdLib 6 hours ago

BO-RING debate! I’d wager that none of these losers escape the kids table.

AdLib 6 hours ago

It’s happening, the increase in the Latino-Dem vote is growing quickly but still at least a decade off before the Dems have a fighting chance to turn TX around.

AdLib 6 hours ago

What happened slm?

AdLib 6 hours ago

Thanks ExFan! It’s a mutant made in hell.

AdLib 6 hours ago

Huckabee is the true sociopath now, Trump is just an egotist, saying whatever helps his campaign but Huckabee is serious about his hatred.

AdLib 6 hours ago

I have to pop away for a little bit but will be back! Feel free to hang around, more people will be coming!

AdLib 5 hours ago

slm – Yes, it felt very prefabricated and hollow. But aren’t all the Repubs pretty much like that?

AdLib 5 hours ago

Okay, heading out for a bit, be back soon!

AdLib 5 hours ago

Hey Folks!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Yes, Lindsey was such a sad, quaking figure. I do declare, he had the vapors!

AdLib 4 hours ago

slm – Have another hit, you’ll be ready!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Harleigh, I don’t know, I like Lindsey’s solution to abortion, arming the Middle East with lots of weapons. That’s actually what his response was!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Harleigh – It’s war with Iran, kill Obamacare, end abortion, and insist America is in decline.

AdLib 4 hours ago

End welfare/Medicase/SS, give tax credits instead of entitlements, tax cuts for the wealthy, kill the EPA, approve the Keystone XL pipeline…anything I’m leaving out?

AdLib 4 hours ago

Israel would never be nuked, MADD. No nuclear nation will ever be nuked.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Oh, torture Latinos and send them all back across the border and pull families apart, forgot that one!

AdLib 4 hours ago

10 minutes to go!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Yep, them lazy takers!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Hey KT!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Carly is supposedly getting some talk after coming off as the nastiest at the kid’s table!

AdLib 4 hours ago

After watching the Kids Table debate, seems that having so many candidates means hearing very little from each.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Hey KT! You can try watching it at the Fox News website but it may require a cable account, not sure:

AdLib 4 hours ago

KT – Nope, not a plan, the result of having a screwed up party.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Here we go!

AdLib 4 hours ago

These Fox commentators are such weasels, spending the first part of the debate justifying their controlling who gets to debate.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Yawn…

AdLib 4 hours ago

Blah-blah-blah, get to the debate!

AdLib 4 hours ago

Seemed like a clumsy technical thing.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Walker winked. Really?

AdLib 4 hours ago

Palin might sue him.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Christie did a Zeig Heil.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Drag, that’s the problem with a Fox Debate, they’re so greedy, they won’t make the video freely available.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Trump is sabotaged in the first question, all asked to raise their hands if they will pledge not to run as an independent.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Fox is trying to bury Trump.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Rand Paul attacks him first.

AdLib 4 hours ago

Trump is booed more than cheered but gets both.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Ben Carson attacked for all the mistakes and ignorance he’s displayed about government.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Carson’s response to being ignorant about government, his being smart is more important. Huh???

AdLib 3 hours ago

Hey Sabreen!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Rubio nailed on being young and no experience as an executive.

AdLib 3 hours ago

He says the election shouldn’t be about experience. Elect a hamster!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Rubio: I owed $100k in student loans so if I win, we will be the party of the future. Huh???

AdLib 3 hours ago

Bush asked about country not needing another Bush, he is shaky in his answer! Mission Accomplished!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Trump fends off his chauvinism by decrying political correctness. It worked.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Fox News has made both debates about attacking the candidates personally instead of asking them to explain policies. This is pretty disgusting.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Sabreen – They really cheered when Trump responded by claiming his insults were about Rosie O’Donnell.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Christie fends off terrible performance in NJ by saying, “You should have seen it before I came in.” Which is BS.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Walker responds to opposing protecting the life of the mother in any abortion, with over 80% opposing him, says “Many agree with me.” They live in a phony reality.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Hey Funk! Huckabee believes the Constitution can be used to take away Constitutional rights. Yep.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Fox News has changed debates into a Hot Seat reality show, cherry picking things about each to try and shake them up and be defensive. Defensive pols don’t look strong, they all look weaker.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Funk – Roger Ailes is sitting backstage like Jabba The Hut, chuckling as he watches his pawns jumping.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Sabreen – That’s an abstinence game!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Trump says MANY murders by illegal immigrants so we need a big wall…with a door in it for legal immigrants. That says Trump on it.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Sabreen – Drinking game: Every time a candidate says America sucks/is in decline/is weak/etc.

AdLib 3 hours ago

PPO – No one supporting Trump cares about proof of what’s true.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Every question has been provoking each candidate on their weaknesses, Ailes is trying to innoculate and filter out the candidates. This IS a political operation.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Kasich nose looks a little brown on my tv after being asked about Trump.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Chris Wallace asking one after another to attack Trump on immigrants.

AdLib 3 hours ago

This is a perverted version of a debate.

AdLib 3 hours ago

slm – Yes, it’s not a substantive debate, it’s a reality “gotcha” show meant to startle and upset the “stars”. Disgusting deterioration of our democratic process.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Sabreen – I sure hope so.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Now, question about law to crush sanctuary cities. Cruz given a softball on this, the first so far.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Sound keeps dropping out on my tv, anyone else?

AdLib 3 hours ago

Thanks for letting me know, Funk.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Not one of these bozos looks Presidential. This format makes them all look like petty, Trumpesque midgets.

AdLib 3 hours ago

slm – Rudy knew!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Cruz said it too, just saying “Muslim Extremists” will defeat ISIS. So easy! Why didn’t Obama think of that?

AdLib 3 hours ago

Funk – Next December?

AdLib 3 hours ago

Bush answering on his brother’s unnecessary war…hides behind the soldiers who were killed.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Walker says Egypt is the best ally the US has in the ME?

AdLib 3 hours ago

Hey CL!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Ben Carson, the doctor, supports torture. Who’s surprised?

AdLib 3 hours ago

Not many big applause responses to candidates.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Trump just trashed all the others by saying only he opposed the Iraq War.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Trump pounds Rand Paul, I enjoyed it.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Trump just bragged that America is a plutocracy, that he owns politicians and gets what he wants from them.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Is there going to be a question about ending Medicare and SS?

AdLib 3 hours ago

CL – You mean Trump? He’s looking a little shaky but all of them are too.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Ben Carson – 10% flat tax. Uh huh.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Bush is ducking the question about Common Core with all kinds of blather. They are all looking like brats in a mudpit. Good work Fox! The Dem debates shouldn’t be like this.

AdLib 3 hours ago

CL – But think about what a better world TX kids will grow up in where there was never slavery, just job secutity for black people.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Funk – Thanks for that article!

AdLib 3 hours ago

So, any of the candidates looking stronger than the others to you? In terms of what Repubs are looking for, that is.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Oh yeah, Kasich’s there!

AdLib 3 hours ago

Yes, pro-growth He Man Woman Haters will naturally win the election.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Kasich just blathers in generalities and feel good crap.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Carson doubts Hillary will be the candidate? Really Carson, what do you think your odds are?

AdLib 3 hours ago

Bush refuses to answer any question with details.

AdLib 3 hours ago

Walker takes credit for Obama’s recovery. What else is new?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Huckabee has no answers either.

AdLib 2 hours ago

How uninformed must Repubs be to buy into the unsubstantiated BS these shovellers all dish out?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Save SS, kill the pimps and prostitutes!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Huck says he’ll save SS by kicking off pimps and prostitutes and other “sinners” he chooses from SS.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Trump just belittles people who question him and that scores all the points his supporters want.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Trump’s solution to the national debt, claim bankruptcy!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Rubio spouting memorized tax cut drivel.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Obamacare and Dodd Frank repeal will create high paying jobs, honest!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Walker – You just convince our allies to do what we want. You know, just tell Russia and China what to do and they’ll do it.

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – When did Trump say that?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Huckabee with his cute quote, “Trust but villify”…it doesn’t even make sense!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Funk – That’s what I mean, they KNOW they’re flat out lying about “getting a better deal” or putting sanctions back in place but they just lie to be able to oppose Obama and justify the war mongering.

AdLib 2 hours ago

PPO – No, Repubs list Iran and ISIS as equal enemies.

AdLib 2 hours ago

slm – Issues? We don’t need no stinkin’ issues! We’re Republicans!

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – They have to pander to the extremist wing of the GOP but in a GE, coming out for war in Iran would be poison to them.

AdLib 2 hours ago

I’ve said from the beginning, when Reid announced his retirement, Schumer is a weasel. The Dems in the Senate will be steered to Wall Street and the war mongers under him.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Hey, just came back late into the debate from commercial, Bush dodging the truth again.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Rubio falling apart on abortion exceptions! Sad sight. Water bottle please!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Murdering babies? Babies are born.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Funk:

AdLib 2 hours ago

What’s the name of this reality show? “Who Wants to Be The Best Liar?!”

AdLib 2 hours ago

Anyone see any reason to vote for any of these clowns?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Not that we would but what could an indie voter see here that looks attractive?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Sabreen – And more unnecessary wars.

AdLib 2 hours ago

A lot of the audience wasn’t applauding when Kasich said he respects gay people.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Funk – I think they hand out a golden turd to the winner of the debate.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Black Lives Matter!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Funk – Exactly. There is never going to be an end to the wars the RW fight against the majority on social issues. Never. It’s an eternal war, Dems didn’t realize that until the ’80’s when we started losing all we gained.

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – The moron who asked the questions said “prosecuting Christians” when she meant “persecuting Christians”. Yes, the 1st Amendment allows Christians to be put in jail for expressing an unpopular and bigoted opinion. Haven’t they wondered why they get to keep marching with the KKK without being jailed?

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – I know you knew better, you had your fingers on the pulse.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Yes, Obama doesn’t have a clue. But he’s an evil plotting socialist.

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – Same here, as the Reagan years carried on, it became very alarming.

AdLib 2 hours ago

This round of questions is, “Who would you be willing to go to war with?” Russia? Iran? China? A trifecta?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Cruz, what would you do? Declare war on Russia?

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – Yes, love that quote.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Right Carson, the real problem is we don’t spend enough on the military.

AdLib 2 hours ago

FOX NEWS: “Come on, won’t you declare WW III against Russia?”

AdLib 2 hours ago

Huckabee deserves to be beaten up in a fight with a transgender soldier.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Huckabee lying about the cuts in military, the Repub House insisted and signed off on the sequester.But somehow, in the Repub version of reality, the President controls the budget.

AdLib 2 hours ago

America needs to be stronger…because we need to fight more wars! Unpaid for wars that blow up our debt! Oh, and we need to cut our debt by ending SS and Medicare! Vote Republican!

AdLib 2 hours ago

The military is not weak, their budgets have been minimally cut and not in substantial areas and Repubs signed off on that in the House. Oops, how did those pesky facts get in here?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Funk – LOL!

AdLib 2 hours ago

In the next Fox Debate, the candidates will be armed with wet nerf balls that they can throw at other candidates when they disagree with what they’re saying.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Is God running for GOP candidate?

AdLib 2 hours ago

God talks to me!

AdLib 2 hours ago

God says, kill Muslims!

AdLib 2 hours ago

God says, trickle down economics work! Cut taxes, God says so!

AdLib 2 hours ago

God says, no amnesty for illegal aliens!

AdLib 2 hours ago

God says, Mexicans ARE rapists!

AdLib 2 hours ago

My father was a Christian mailman.

AdLib 2 hours ago

God did tell me to break up unions.

AdLib 2 hours ago

What will the Republicans do about veterans? They’

AdLib 2 hours ago

They’ll make more!

AdLib 2 hours ago

Rubio: I hate government, I want government smaller, I will make the VA bigger and better. Why is my nose growing?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Carson: Black people are the real racists.

AdLib 2 hours ago

CL – But better that they are exposed for the creatures they are.

AdLib 2 hours ago

God wants to make a closing statement by striking the stage with a lightning bolt.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Kasich isn’t a Tea Party candidate, don’t see how he could win in the primary.

AdLib 2 hours ago

The MSM likes Kasich as an underdog, Bush as the likely candidate, Walker as the Tea Party alternative…but they don’t want Trump to go away because he’s making them so much in revenue.

AdLib 2 hours ago

Rubio, really, how many times do we have to hear about yur parents coming from Cuba? That’s all you got?

AdLib 2 hours ago

Ted Cruz makes a shopping list of RW wet dreams. What pandering!

AdLib 2 hours ago