The republican party took its latest Presidential debate to Houston, Texas but the circus was the same. It has become a ditto head debate where personal attacks continue to fly, positions continue to change and the word LIAR has become a staple in the debate process. And once again, the moderators lost control. Kennedy and Nixon would never have participated in such a farce. Worst of all the moderators seem to enjoy the candidates speaking over each other.
After the debate the pundits gave their recap and still have no clue why Trump is leading a republican party and its candidates who are incompetent, unqualified and void of any accomplishments on the national level. Trump himself still is unable to articulate how he would make Mexico pay for his wall. He had an opportunity during the debate to tell the American people but failed to over come former Mexico President Fox's comment that Mexico would do no such thing. SCORE: Mexico 1 Trump 0.
Ben Carson was the most calm on the debate stage and gave the best answers. In fact when the moderator passed him up on several questions he used his time to go back and comment on them. John Kasich, the candidate who this writer believes is the better one went off the deep end concerning President Obama and foreign policy and is still falsely claiming that he balanced the federal budget when he served in congress during the Clinton years. "PolitiDose"carried a past commentary that pointed out Kasich had nothing to do with Clinton's balanced budgets and explained why.
Donald Trump still does not understand arithmetic. Republicans have that problem when it comes to tax cuts, balancing the budget and the national debt. Trump could not answer the question on what would he cut that would pay for his tax plan that would cost the government $10 trillion over 10 years. That tax plan would cut corporate income tax, cut taxes for the wealthy and represents trickle down economics at its worst. There is no way you can take $10 trillion out of government revenue and balance the federal budget. Reagan and Bush 43 tried it and could not do it and their tax plans was smaller. They had 16 years to balance the budget ( eight years each) and failed big time. In fact the national debt rose 186% in Reagan's fiscal 8 years and 105% in Bush's eight fiscal years. Those Presidents hold the record of the largest percentage increase in the national debt in the last 50 plus years.
Cruz and Rubio are like little boys and can not even function as U. S. Senators. Their so called conservatism has overwhelmed them and reduced their ability to even compete concerning simple matters. One quotes Reagan all the time and the other quotes the constitution, but neither can get it right. The republican Presidential candidates presents a problem to the republican voters. Their choices are limited to candidates who hate the government they want to represent, lack the qualities to be President, have no political understanding on the issues and love to be divisive. They also belong to a party that has no record of creating a lasting economy and are terrible when it comes to job creation.
Despite Trumps pronouncements, America is a great country. Where else on earth would a people put up with such a political party that turns the debate process into a circus of fools?
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
