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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

GOP Yawner

First GOP presidential debate happened --
Next president didn't show up

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Here's who showed up last night: Romney, Pawlenty, Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, Gingrich, and of course Ron Paul. CNN's John King was the moderator. The post-debate consensus seems to be that Romney didn't do anything to harm the frontrunner status conferred upon him, and the rest of them were polite enough to cooperate with him.

Mark Steyn points out why modern presidential debates are dumb and pointless:

"The trouble is it's all 'This or That'. As Newt pointed out, most of the questions posit ridiculous choices: Are you in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants or are you in favor of deporting 20 million people? Are you in favor of seizing private property in New Hampshire for a Hydro Québec power line or are you in favor of continued oil dependency on psychotic dictators?

The remainder fall into cutesie-pie stuff that John King lacks the personality to pull off, and the last embodied in its perfect post-modern stupidity the awfulness of these 'debates': 'What have you learned during the past two hours?' Hmm. What I learned is that John King makes Tim Pawlenty look like Lady Gaga."

Daily Caller

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Rodger the Real King of France 6/14/2011 11:20:00 AM 14 Comments

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14 comments:

JMcD said...: Moderator, CNN's John King, is facing racism charges.
He DID ask the Republican candidates about their choices of hot wings, spicy or mild, and their choice of soda pop, no one heard him ask anything about their choices for hamburgers, ice cream or waffles.
WTF's going on here, the voters want to know.; 6/14/11, 11:48 AM
B....... said...: Are you in favor of amnesty or deporting

Seems straight forward to me - "Neither is acceptable". Then go on to outline your solution. Or if you have none, excuse yourself to go to the restroom and don't come back.; 6/14/11, 1:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Why didn't any one of them say "I prefer a debate moderator who asks serious questions given that our country is in such serious shit."

Freddie Sykes; 6/14/11, 1:23 PM
Anonymous said...: Another ridiculous supposition is that Romney is the front runner. All the networks say so all the time. I know that this is supposed to be based on polling data, but I can name many people I personally know who support one or another candidate but not one who likes Romney.
I think we're being set up again.
GrinfilledCelt; 6/14/11, 1:23 PM
Anonymous said...: ...Actually, it was the second GOP presidential Debate.
GrinfilledCelt; 6/14/11, 1:26 PM
molonlabe28 said...: My question, using this either-or format, to the CNN primetime anchors (you know, Wolf Blitzer, John King, Elliot Spitzer, Piers Morgan, and, of course, the fancy-pants boy, Anderson Cooper, who vacillates between raving and flaming) is: spit or swallow?

I can guess with most of them.; 6/14/11, 1:30 PM
Kristophr said...: It wasn't the first or the second debate. It wasn't a debate.

It was CNN pimping loser Republican candidates, and trying to set the "rules" for Republican candidates. Something socialists like to do.

Looks like the MFCS Media has finally discovered Concern Trolling ... they just don't do it very well.; 6/14/11, 1:52 PM
toadold said...: I didn't watch the debate because of two reasons.
1. It was conducted by CNN which has a proven track record of disliking conservative Republicans and trying to play gotcha with them.
2. I take estimated IQ points off of any candidate that would participate in a venue conducted by CNN.
As for Mitt, "Sir what is you stance and record on the 2nd Amendment." Dead meat in Texas.; 6/14/11, 3:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Yannow, Rick Perry is looking better and better.
mary; 6/14/11, 7:10 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: If Perry gets into it, and his threat to lead Texas out of the Union is brought up ... when that happens, if he doesn't wimp out; he's got what it takes.; 6/14/11, 7:27 PM
Cheesy said...: "Would you rather have your throat cut from ear to ear, or a complete beheading?; 6/14/11, 8:54 PM
Great Golf Strategies said...: If the Democrats are for the poor and out to help the welfare state as the media likes to tell us then something is very wrong and does not make sense. Democrats had full control of both Houses for nearly 40 years until 1994, in that time they had JFK, LBJ, Carter and Clinton. 16 years of full Democratic control. Obama had two years of full control and one year with a super filibuster proof majority. Simply put if everyone voted party lines they could have passed any legislation they wanted. Actions speak, you can preach and say what you want but both parties are for the rich because they themselves are rich. The 1964 civil rights bill was unsuccessfully held up by two Senate Democrats, Robert Byrd who passed not long ago tied up the Senate for like 60 days trying to filibuster and block passage of the bill. They mustered enough votes to override his filibuster with 80% Republican voting to pass the bill and 61% Dem. voting to pass the House bill and 82% rep. 69% Dem. in the Senate. Hardly the party of the poor and minorities. Republican or Democrat, they are all out to help the rich, we need to take away all their perks and you will see some real progress on helping the working class and the poor instead of the rich people and coffers who give them all money so they will vote to help them get even richer.; 6/14/11, 10:07 PM
DougM said...: Correct response:
"You get paid to ask middle-school pajama-party questions?"; 6/15/11, 1:04 AM
Chuck Martel said...: I think we should make Quebec a U.S. territory for no other reason than we could legally get caribou pate.; 6/15/11, 8:26 AM

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GOP Yawner

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