I didn’t actually watch any of the Republican debate yesterday. As politically obsessed as I am, as prone as I am to sit in front of a computer for several hours a day, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Time is limited, life is short, and it was predictable. You knew in advance that they were all going
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to say Obama was the worst president in the world, ever, that the only way out of America’s economic crisis was to reduce government spending (not military spending, of course) and that they would never consider raising taxes, not ever. And that’s pretty much how it went.
I did spend half an hour watching Conan O’Brien’s graduation speech at Dartmouth. That was worthwhile.
Nonetheless, having read up on the debate, I have some opinions on it.
First, John King reminded me in a way of Alex Trebek. Can’t quite put my finger on why.
Secondly, that is not a debate. That is a group interview, and not a terribly thorough one at that. I’ve been to plenty of job interviews where the questions were tougher, and I am not exactly a high level executive. Questions like “Which do you prefer, American Idol or Dancing With the Stars” or “Deep Dish or Thin Crust,” are lame, pointless and an embarrassment to thinking people everywhere. I doubt very much if Lincoln and Douglas were ever questioned about whether they preferred an English or Western style saddle, I don’t remember Kennedy and Nixon being asked which they preferred, Bonanza or Rawhide. When did the leadership of the free world become so horribly trivialized?
The big pundits are all saying that Romney was the big winner of the evening, because he didn’t lose. He’s ahead in the polls, he stays ahead. He didn’t really improve his position, though.
Michele Bachmann, IMHO, was the evening’s big winner. By using the forum to officially announce that she is running, she not only got a lot of free publicity, she effectively knocked Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty out of the race.
For slightly different reasons. Pawlenty, like Bachmann, is from Minnesota, and both want the Teabaggers support. Michele, however, is loved by the baggers, from the bottom of their crazy little hearts. So, she’s got the Minnesota baggers solidly in her corner, and poor Timmy’s got nobody. Even in Minnesota, he is second best.
Sarah, like Michele, is loved by the baggers, but Michele announced 1st. Also, the two are practically interchangeable. Both are good looking women, both are wild eyed fanatics, both have a brood of kids, both come from places where people spend a lot of time indoors in winter being alcoholic and committing suicide. Michele is probably the smarter of the two, but the baggers will give her a pass on that. It’s not as if she were actually smart or anything.
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