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| Republicans: They Thirst for Death |
| 2011-10-20 |
| The most perceptive summary of last night's Las Vegas fiasco was a call to Mark Steyn this afternoon: "The winner of the Republican debate was Barack Obama." The three leading candidates, Romney, Perry and Cain, spent almost all their time shredding one another, forgetting that they are running against the present Oval Office occupant. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 IIRC, the Lincoln-Douglas debates were followed by publication of debate transcripts in papers all over the USA, and then by intensive discussions in the papers & among the electorate. The debates clarified the position and character of both candidates & led to Lincoln's winning the Presidency years later. The current TV debates have turned into a freak show, discredit all the GOP candidates, and play into the hands of the MSM and the big Zero. It is as if they set the debates up that way. Notice the MSM reporting on the GOP candidates avoids direct comparisons of them to Obama, and only makes invidious comparisons on the GOP side. It would be a nice touch if one of the major candidates withdrew from future debates of this nature and pointed out the above. Also if no such debates were engaged in by the GOP candidate when one is nominated. There are better ways to do this. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-20 14:02 |
| #5 You're competing FOR support not competing AGAINST each other. Has none of them run a business? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-10-20 13:52 |
| #4 The Republican Party is managed by people who are the pinnacle of cluelessness and naivete. The allow the debates to start far too soon, involve the MSM to define the format, and then see the main candidates mud wrestle for poll numbers. The Republiucans bring Roberts Rules of Order to a presidential election that is a life and death political knife fight with a Radical Socialist who is destroying the nation. BO isn't going to play fair in any way, and cheat and lie and already plays the crony capitalism, Chicago Union way, class warfare, and the looming race card, as tactics to divert attention for the worst recod ever. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2011-10-20 13:11 |
| #3 The stupidity of the Repub establishment boggles the mind. They allow liberals into and to be involved with their debates. Truly the party of stupid. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2011-10-20 12:26 |
| #2 That little $hit Anderson Cooper fostered this food fight and the Pubs fed into it. Newt Ginrich had the best idea: Debates following the Lincoln-Douglas debates with no moderator--only a time keeper. Let the voters decide instead of the lame stream media who gets to be president. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-20 10:12 |
| #1 (Joe Biden, threatening to burn, rape and kill unless the "millionaire's tax" is passed.) "I can't help myself! I have no control over this, this evil thing inside of me, the fire, the voices, the torment! It's there all the time, driving me out to wander the streets, following me, silently, but I can feel it there. It's me, pursuing myself! "I want to escape, to escape from myself! But it's impossible. I can't escape, I have to obey it. I have to run, run... endless streets. I want to escape, to get away! "They are always there... always, always, always!, except when I do it, when I... Then I can't remember anything. And afterwards I see those posters and read what I've done, and read, and read... did I do that? But I can't remember anything about it! But who will believe me? Who knows what it's like to be me? How I'm forced to act... how I must, must... don't want to, must! Don't want to, but must! And then a voice screams! I can't bear to hear it! I can't go on! I can't... I can't..." (Well, then again, that might be Peter Lorre in the movie 'M'. But it kind of resonates with Joe Biden's logic.) |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-10-20 09:47 |