GOP Candidates compete on “toughness” by pledging to kill children

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Republican presidential candidates spent much of Wednesday night’s debate trying to out-“tough” each other.

It started with a question submitted by a Georgia Tech student asking how Donald Trump’s plan to intentionally kill the families of suspected terrorists would morally differentiate the United States from ISIS.

Trump replied that the United States has “to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we’ve been….I would be very, very firm with families. Frankly, that will make people think because they may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their families’ lives.”

When Jeb Bush replied that Trump’s plan showed a “lack of seriousness,” Trump countered that Bush was a “nice person” but “we need tough people. We need toughness.”

Right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt probed Ben Carson, telling him that we’re talking about “ruthless things tonight — carpet bombing, toughness, war.” He wanted to know whether Carson could “order air strikes that would kill innocent children not by the scores, but the hundreds and the thousands? Could you wage war as a commander-in-chief?”

Carson decided to drawn an analogy to his surgical work.  saying that “you should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me….But later on, they love me.” He said that by “the same token, you have to be able to look at the big picture and understand that it’s actually merciful if you go ahead and finish the job.” It appeared lost on Carson that, unlike his surgical patients, children obliterated by aerial bombing do not come back to consciousness after the procedure.

“Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what it is necessary in order to get it done,” concluded Carson about his strategy, drawing applause from the audience.

For Ted Cruz, toughness was about the number of bombs dropped. He cited the 1,100 air attacks a day used in the Persian Gulf war against Iraq, which had the fourth-largest army in the world at the time, and wondered aloud why the same level of military force was not being used against several thousand ISIS fighters holed up in dense population centers like Raqqa in Syria.

Bush, Carson, and other candidates made pledges to “rebuild” our military and increase our national weapons budget, as if the United States was not the world’s largest military spender by a quite staggering margin.

What was missing from these exchanges were substantive follow-ups by the moderators. If the moderators had been serious about holding the debaters accountable they could have asked just how tough it is for the world’s most powerful country to so fear a small band of terrorists with no navy, air force, or WMDs that it would abandon its values and spend enormous amounts of resources on unnecessary weapons programs.

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/16/gop-candidates-compete-on-toughness-by-pledging-to-kill-children/

 

 

GOP Candidates, CNN Debate Moderators Did Their Best To Make America S**t Its Pants

Everything is terrifying and we're all going to die.

"We have entered World War III," former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania declared less than a minute into the undercard debate. His proclamation would set the tone for more than four hours in which candidates spared no effort to paint the threat from the self-proclaimed Islamic State and other jihadists as existential.

"We're at war folks, they're not trying to steal your car, they're trying to kill us all," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "The next 9/11" is "coming soon," he warned later.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/gop-debate-fear-mongering_5670e326e4b0dfd4bcbfea03

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Each of those republican candidates are ****ing disgusting. They should be locked up,  they are spreading fear and breeding hatred.

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did you all watch this?  

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1 minute ago, SubRosa said:

@Morphine Prince  @Sister  @ItsVenusBitch

did you all watch this?  

Yes. I didn't watch the last 30 minutes though because I couldn't take it anymore.

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I watched and it was just as ridiculous as I had suspected that it would be before it had even started. All of them are insane alarmists in my book. I do believe that their extreme views speak for themselves and will help keep every one of them out of the Presidency.  I also listen to talk radio, so nothing much of this kind of talk surprises me, though sometimes Michael Savage does.

I am not voting during this election. I see no one that I can fully even slightly take by their word.

I also already believe that our next President will be Hillary Clinton.

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41 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Yes. I didn't watch the last 30 minutes though because I couldn't take it anymore.

Same  

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Wasn't it Carson that knowingly invested in a company that sold fake drugs to cancer patients?

Whatever, just when I think these sociopaths can't become more vile...