For your edification and illumination, I’ve collected a few quotes from yesterday’s GOP debate.
(Transcripts from Time.com.)
This is a man who insults his way to the nomination.
[Bush on Trump]
Jeb: Look, I won the lottery when I was born 63 years ago and looked up and I saw my mom. Mom– my mom is the strongest woman I know.
Trump: She should be running
Trump: They lied…They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.
[Trump to Jeb about W’s admin]
I gotta tell you, this is just crazy, huh? This is just nuts, okay?
[Kasich on Trump-Bush fight about Iraq war]
How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center..? (CHEERING) (APPLAUSE) The World– I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down (BOOING) during the reign. He kept us safe? That’s not safe. That is not safe.
[Trump to Jeb about W]
Jeb: I’m not gonna invite Donald Trump to the rally in Charleston on Monday afternoon–
Trump: I don’t wanna go.
Bush: but he’s coming to speak. (LAUGHTER) I’m rescinding the invitation.
Rubio: this is a disturbing pattern now, ’cause for a number of weeks now Ted Cruz has just been telling lies.… He lied about Ben Carson in Iowa…. He lies about marriage. He’s lying about all sorts of things. But now he makes things up.
Cruz: that is absolutely false. (CHEERING) (OVERTALK). It is knowingly false.
But if you wanna talk about weakness, you wanna talk about weakness, it’s weak to disparage women. It’s weak to disparage Hispanics. It’s weak– it’s weak to denigrate the disabled. And it’s really weak to call John McCain a loser ’cause he was a POW
[Jeb on Trump]
Bush: (UNINTEL) the nation great–
Trump: — language– two days ago he said he would take his pants off (BOO) and moon everybody. And that’s fine.
liar, you probably are worse than Jeb Bush. You are the single biggest liar. (CHEERING)...This guy lies. Lemme just tell you, this guy lied about Ben Carson, when he took votes away from Ben Carson (CHEERING) in Iowa….This guy will say anything. Nasty guy.
[Trump on Cruz]
I will say it is fairly remarkable to see Donald defending Ben– after he called him “pathological” and compared him to a child molester
[Cruz on Trump]