Republican rivals spar
Cliches! Get yer hot cliches here! No fresh air from the Republican debate .. when you insist on believing in something that isn't working .. cliches are all you have left.
Fred Thompson -- not OFFICIALLY a candidate YET -- was surely watching somewhere.. and smiling....
And I pity you fools who were playing drinking games and had Ronald Reagan as your drinking phrase. You should've drawn 'impeachment' .. you'd be stone-cold sober all night.
So let's see now .. Republicans think invading Iraq was a good idea based on bogus intelligence and Bush effed it up .. but it's all Saddam's fault. So let's stay there to honor our fallen soldiers .. and create lots more of them while we're at it.
My friend called the debate a little creepy .. like a redneck swamp .. the Southern Crazies Bayou .. enter at your own risk.
I just thought it was funny .. but not as funny as the farting scene in "Blazing Saddles."
Who the hell are these guys trying to court? Don't they know they're scaring the hell out of average Americans when they try to appeal to the Bush cult?
What you saw on stage last night were paid lobbyists for the oil, pharmaceutical, insurance, and finance industries .. and unwilling to change that arrangement.
I'm sorry .. but McCain is starting to morph into Don Rickles .. or maybe that animated, evil doll Chucky.
They were asked how they would use GWB and Tommy Thompson said he would certainly not send him to the United Nations to represent the United States. Then he said he would send Bush out on the college lecture circuit .. I fell off my chair laughing.
It was also funny when McCain said, "... if anyone can think of a better idea [for immigration reform than the McCain/Kennedy bill] ... " and ALL the other candidates start waving their arms and hands.
They talked about how socialized medicine will ruin everything .. ignoring that free market principles have already done that. Boy, the new Michael Moore movie about healthcare will send these guys to the moon.
Wolff asked them about Iran. Is it acceptable to talk to them? Then he spiced it up by asking if it's okay to nuke them.
Duncan Hunter would use nukes... but carefully.
At least we found out that most of these guys can pronounce Nuclear.
It was interesting all the ways some of them flip-flopped and danced around "gays in the military." McCain says "Don't ask, don't tell" is working. Then why have over 9,000 been kicked out since the attack on Iraq, including dozens of needed Arabic linguists?
Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney flip-flop more than Circus Soleil.
Best moment in the debate was when the Lawd sent some lightning bolts to disrupt Rudy's microphone when he talked about abortion. I'll bet that really sent the evangelical righties into a happy tizzy .. they already know he's headed straight to hell for his position on abortion.
Second funniest answer: Tom Tancredo saying GWB would not be allowed to darken the door of the White House ever again after 2008. How many of the others were thinking the same thing?
Tancredo is the one who whines that he has to "Press 1 for English" .. is thinking about removing all the books in Spanish from libraries .. he says Bi-Lingual countries DON'T work. Tell that to Switzerland (four languages), Belgium, and Canada.
Mitt Romney is all for making English the national language, but he runs campaign ads in Spanish.
American racism seems to be a carousel .. are we ready to jump on again?
Ron Paul got a *lot* of anti Iraq war applause. Go figure.
They were asked if they would pardon Scooter Libby .. they seemed incensed over his tough jail sentence and $250,000 fine. Next thing you know, Bill Clinton and perjury were mentioned .. like lying about a blow job can be compared to Scooter lying to cover up the outing of a CIA agent.
My dream debate -- for either party -- is to have a campaign forum where the candidates are standing on stage, and the public lines up and can ask one question point blank to a single candidate. No moderator, no pre-scripted questions, no pre-screening of the audience.
...also, next debate would be more fun if they'd have trap doors.
