Squire wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:What I have noticed about Rubio lately is that he has learns. He had cotton mouth for one speech and needed water - hasn't happened since. Last night, he made it obvious he had turned a humiliation into a useful lesson, and correctly applied the tactics that were used on him in one debate on another candidate in this debate, to great effect.

He gets cottonmouth and his forehead glistens every time he makes a speech.

Meh. Cottonmouth doesn't necessarily mean nervous. I get it sometimes when I teach and have to talk a lot. I can assure you that addressing a bunch of undergraduates has long since failed to unnerve me.

It doesn't matter what it means. It's the perception. He can't get thru 5 minutes of a speech without constantly licking his lips. It's not exactly a stretch to say he's nervous when it in fact reinforces his label of the guy who had that water incident as well as his meltdown in the debate.

And he also looks 15 which doesn't help.

Everyone knows that the most important quality in a President is whether he looks good or bad on TV.

Squire wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:What I have noticed about Rubio lately is that he has learns. He had cotton mouth for one speech and needed water - hasn't happened since. Last night, he made it obvious he had turned a humiliation into a useful lesson, and correctly applied the tactics that were used on him in one debate on another candidate in this debate, to great effect.

He gets cottonmouth and his forehead glistens every time he makes a speech.

Meh. Cottonmouth doesn't necessarily mean nervous. I get it sometimes when I teach and have to talk a lot. I can assure you that addressing a bunch of undergraduates has long since failed to unnerve me.

It doesn't matter what it means. It's the perception. He can't get thru 5 minutes of a speech without constantly licking his lips. It's not exactly a stretch to say he's nervous when it in fact reinforces his label of the guy who had that water incident as well as his meltdown in the debate.

And he also looks 15 which doesn't help.

Everyone knows that the most important quality in a President is whether he looks good or bad on TV.

drsmooth wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Trump admired the way Christie took down Rubio. Don't be surprised if Christie is the VP pick.

I'll be really surprised. Guy from NYC with running mate from NJ? "Piss off, rest of America - us 2 white fast-talking NYC-area hoods will take it from here". Nah, not seeing it

He could hang with Clinton in a verbal sparring match.

he doesn't get that opportunity, in any known political universe

"One of the things I'm going to do if I win... I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money," Trump said during a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.

"We're going to open up those libel laws so when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected," he said. "We're going to open up libel laws and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before."

Doll Is Mine wrote:Oh boy...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 40?lang=en

thephan wrote:All along I though it was Ted Cruz who was first in line to shred the Constitution...

"One of the things I'm going to do if I win... I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money," Trump said during a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.

"We're going to open up those libel laws so when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected," he said. "We're going to open up libel laws and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before."

... I know, it was one of those pesky amendments. Trump does not like the first anyway with his stance on Muslims.

And if the Jewish press today believes that it can make veiled threats against the National Socialist movement, and if they believe that they can get around our defensive measures they shouldn't keep lying. For one day our patience will reach its end and the Jews' insolent lying mouths will be shut for them!

JFLNYC wrote:

And if the Jewish press today believes that it can make veiled threats against the National Socialist movement, and if they believe that they can get around our defensive measures they shouldn't keep lying. For one day our patience will reach its end and the Jews' insolent lying mouths will be shut for them!

~Joseph Goebbels At The Sportpalast - February 10, 1933

Monkeyboy wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:But how long before someone forces him off script and he pees himself in front of thousands?

Come to think of it, I haven't heard Trump hit Rubio about the robot/Christie thing. Has he done so? If not, just a few barbs from Trump will end the Rubmentum. Rubio has given opponents A LOT to work with.

Have you ever watched Rubio speak? Outside of the NH debate, can you recall him getting rattled and fucking up? I really do not understand this line of thinking.

The response to the SOTU and the Christie debate and articles I've read that make him sound like a weenie scared of his own shadow or at least bad under pressure. He probably isn't really a weenie, but he has shown signs of freezing up and being very noticeably nervous under the gun. That's a bad characteristic in a potential POTUS nominee.

Honestly, I can't think of another major presidential candidate that I've seen look so flustered on multiple occasions. And you know as well as I do that it only takes one major thing like that to end a campaign or even a career. I can't think of worse things to look like than a robot or someone who freezes under pressure. Opponents can beat him over the head with that if they're inclined. At this point, he's not enough of a threat to risk the backlash for GOP establishment or voters, but if he really starts to make a move, Trump or someone else will go after those obvious faults. Signs of weakness is a terminal disease for a POTUS candidate, especially one on the right.

drsmooth wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

And if the Jewish press today believes that it can make veiled threats against the National Socialist movement, and if they believe that they can get around our defensive measures they shouldn't keep lying. For one day our patience will reach its end and the Jews' insolent lying mouths will be shut for them!

~Joseph Goebbels At The Sportpalast - February 10, 1933

This really smart guy who went to the best schools and got great grades is utterly ignorant of any history preceding his birthdate - along with how practically any concerted human activities that take place in the world around him are regularly conducted by adults of his species.

He is a thoroughly dullwitted, incurious wretch, a weak mind in a weak person, unqualified to be elected dogcatcher. trumo opponents can't be accused of class envy, because the guy has absolutely zero class. I get accused of cruelly demeaning his sullen followers' intellect. They deserve to be demeaned, cruelly and often, in full view of their friends and family if possible.

jerseyhoya wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:Dems Will Do the Hatchet Job on DumbOld Chump

http://americanfuturefund.com/we-cant-t ... nald-trump

Three ads there hitting him on Trump University going up from an outside conservative group. The money floodgates are finally opening. It's amazing this didn't start months ago, and to the eternal shame of The Establishment and anyone else in a position to do something if this ends up being too late. But let us not give up hope.