And now, I see the RNC has made the wi-fi password for the media at tonight's debate "StopHillary."

The Republican National Committee is having some fun with a national press corps they like to complain leans left, making every reporter to type in "StopHillary" to access the wireless network at the fourth Republican presidential debate.

"We like to force the media to understand that there's two parties at every chance we get," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told POLITICO.

Jesus, could these people be more immature?

I mean this?

"They're having a coronation," Priebus said of the Democrats. "We actually have a real contest and that's the difference. We have ... a lot of good candidates and they've got a couple bad ones and candidates that don't actually want to debate."

well, I just can't even...

  "If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby would you do it?"  Jeb! was flummoxed by a time-machine question about knowing what we know now would you invade Iraq took several tries over the course of a week.  But, with this question, he responded quickly and enthusiastically "Hell yeah, I would."   No consideration of any other options, such as keeping baby Hitler away from anti-semitic influences or improving his up-bringing. Or, even praying that the baby would turn out differently.

While Jeb would get a leg-up on the question, it would still be worth getting the responses of the rest.  My guess is that they would agree with Jeb.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

From my point of view, all that Bush needs to do to discredit Rubio is to identify him as his former protégé.

  The problem was with the fundamentals (no policies and no ideas), and the candidates (respond with stump and canned speeches). And, when in doubt say, Obama or Hillary. And, in a good sign for Bernie Sanders, he was lambasted, too.  

 The only electricity in the air was that conjured up by the suspense of who Trump will attack.  But, Trump was, once again, tame and lame--save for a little swipe at Fiorina.  

Kasich tired hard to show that he was the only sane one on the stage, and, according to him the only one electable--since Hillary must be stopped (no offense to women, since he has tow daughters, you know).

  The only improvement for Jeb over the last debate was his suit and tie--he ditched the undertaker attire.  Rubio was doing his usual faux-gravitas only to be called out by the only conservative, self-designated, Rand Paul--who noted that Rubio's tax plan starts a new give away, welfare program to undeserving poors.

 And, it must be a Texas thing, Cruz, like Perry, would eliminate departments, five for Cruz, but like Perry, he could not name all of them, repeating Commerce to make the five--oops.

Carson is clearly a light weight. he bluffed his way through using his sleepy demeanor to advantage.  He was just happy that he had a chance to defend his lies, by claiming that Hillary lied. After that, he was ready to go home. Fiorina's high point was when Trump wondered why she always interrupts.  

When it was finally, really, Bush's turn, his expression was broken up by his lopsided smile, and his answer, to a question about how he'd encourage economic growth, by incoherencies and word pretzels. ("The growth that we don't have makes--makes the deficit grow"; "I think we need to repeal every rule that Barack Obama has in terms of work in progress, every one of them. ... For those that are already in existence, the regulation of the Internet, we have to start over, but we ought to do that.")

PPP Uses the Power of Pyramids to Figure Out Which Republican Candidate Has the Weirdest Supporters.

One of the charming things about Public Policy Polling is that they have a habit of asking weird questions that no one else will. Today's example: What do you think the pyramids were built for? This is for South Carolina only, and sadly, they only asked Republicans. Still, the breakdown by candidate gives us a peek at which of them has the weirdest supporters. Results are on the right. Link

Her answer:

I met a woman who said to me, "Carli, I'm afraid for my children."

The crowd goes wild, and the chumps asking the questions look dumb as posts.

Trump's forté has been his spontaneity - but he was canned as could be.

Kasich showed some intelligence and compassion.

However, I wound up feeling that HRC is extremely vulnerable to any of these people - due to the truly lackluster right-leaning Obama administration's policies.

Especially the adherence to the never-ending wars and the failure to close Gitmo.

Obama didn't truly challenge any of the ethos of the GW Bush presidency - and so it has become entrenched. The new normal.

And HRC has swallowed it whole.

The Save Broadcast Media Initiative, otherwise known as the 2016 Republican primary process, rolled into downtown Milwaukee on Tuesday night.  At times, matters of real substance intruded on the rote recitations of Obamaphobia and supply-side economics.

After hours of hearing one candidate after another indulge the childish fantasy that we can cut taxes and balance the budget, apparently only by cutting food stamps, Rand Paul broke every rule in the Republican playbook and pointed out that military spending is a huge sinkhole for taxpayer money.

"How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures?" Paul sniped at Marco Rubio during one particularly heated moment in the debate. "You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you can't pay for."

Rubio, facing a clearly unexpected challenge to the widespread Republican notion that you can cut taxes and eliminate the debt without cutting a dime on Republican-cherished budget items like the military, got flustered and tried to deflect with fifth grade debating tactics. "We can't even have an economy if we're not safe," he whined. "There are radical jihadists in the Middle East beheading people and crucifying Christians." Luckily, we were all spared him whipping out an American flag and a cross and asking us to pray for him, but you could feel it was probably coming if Paul kept pressing his point.

And I think in order to make them look like losers, we have to destroy their caliphate. And you look for the easiest place to do that? It would be in Iraq. And if -- outside of Anbar in Iraq, there's a big energy field. Take that from them. Take all of that land from them. We could do that, I believe, fairly easily, I've learned from talking to several generals, and then you move on from there.