A nation turns its bored and lonely eyes to ten awesome Republican presidential hopefuls in New Hampshire
By Michael J.W. Stickings
Or not.
Certainly not.
Like the Democrats the other night, the Republicans took part in a debate last night in Manchester, New Hampshire. (That may be the most soporific sentence I've written in my 2+ years as a blogger.) You can get your fix at CNN, which co-sponsored the damn thing.
One highlight (and, admittedly, I've only seen highlights, and only reluctantly even then -- come on, the Jays rallied for six runs in the bottom of the ninth for a 12-11 victory over the D-Rays!): Brownback announced his support for the partition of Iraq. (Because that's worked so well in Northern Ireland, for example.)
What else? Well, Jeralyn at TalkLeft has a good round-up of the night's "lowlights". Giuliani once again played the terrorism card -- did you know he was mayor of New York on 9/11, by the way? He's proving himself to be America's chief fearmonger, surpassing even Cheney. (And, as you may know, he may be worse than Bush.)
Also: McCain likes the immigration bill, but Tancredo hates immigrants. Huckabee believes in creationism, but McCain isn't sure. (Jesus fucking Christ: What does it say about the state of the Republican Party, and of American politics generally, that creationism is discussed, and affirmed, by its candidates for the presidency at a debate in New Hampshire? Darwin is already persona non grata at these events. Next thing you know they'll be trashing Galileo and Newton.)
Once again, Paul made the most sense. He's a crazy libertarian, but at least he's consistent. (And he was a good guest on The Daily Show Monday night.) And he's quite right about Iraq, which puts him well ahead of the rest of them on the sanity scale. Not that that's saying much, but still.
Here's Ed Morrissey with a right-on-target assessment: "What it lacked in firepower, it more than made up in pointlessness." Man, at least the Democrats talked serious policy the other night. The Republicans seem to be yapping without any real purpose at all.
I'll leave it at that for now. Check back at Memeorandum for all the debate talk you'll ever need.
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Update: Read Dickerson.
Or not.
Certainly not.
Like the Democrats the other night, the Republicans took part in a debate last night in Manchester, New Hampshire. (That may be the most soporific sentence I've written in my 2+ years as a blogger.) You can get your fix at CNN, which co-sponsored the damn thing.
One highlight (and, admittedly, I've only seen highlights, and only reluctantly even then -- come on, the Jays rallied for six runs in the bottom of the ninth for a 12-11 victory over the D-Rays!): Brownback announced his support for the partition of Iraq. (Because that's worked so well in Northern Ireland, for example.)
What else? Well, Jeralyn at TalkLeft has a good round-up of the night's "lowlights". Giuliani once again played the terrorism card -- did you know he was mayor of New York on 9/11, by the way? He's proving himself to be America's chief fearmonger, surpassing even Cheney. (And, as you may know, he may be worse than Bush.)
Also: McCain likes the immigration bill, but Tancredo hates immigrants. Huckabee believes in creationism, but McCain isn't sure. (Jesus fucking Christ: What does it say about the state of the Republican Party, and of American politics generally, that creationism is discussed, and affirmed, by its candidates for the presidency at a debate in New Hampshire? Darwin is already persona non grata at these events. Next thing you know they'll be trashing Galileo and Newton.)
Once again, Paul made the most sense. He's a crazy libertarian, but at least he's consistent. (And he was a good guest on The Daily Show Monday night.) And he's quite right about Iraq, which puts him well ahead of the rest of them on the sanity scale. Not that that's saying much, but still.
Here's Ed Morrissey with a right-on-target assessment: "What it lacked in firepower, it more than made up in pointlessness." Man, at least the Democrats talked serious policy the other night. The Republicans seem to be yapping without any real purpose at all.
I'll leave it at that for now. Check back at Memeorandum for all the debate talk you'll ever need.
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Update: Read Dickerson.
Labels: 2008 election, debates, Republicans
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
1:51 AM
1 Comments:
I didn't see any of the debate, but the fact that they even seriously discuss topics like creationism means I have no interest.
Such beliefs belie a person who is either a liar (they really don't believe in creationism, but pander to the fundamentalists) or 2- they actually place more credence in "belief" than scientific demonstration, reason and logic.
Either disqualifies the person from serious consideration for public office in my opinion.
Of course, for most of American, it's exactly the opposite.
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RR, at 1:28 PM
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