The buzz about how bad the CNN YouTube debate was is smoking across the Internet. Even the Wingers are moaning (of course they are blaming CNN).
Firedog Lake has a good survey of the the Wingers pity party.
So, a good night for for the lowest denominator, a bad night for the GOP. America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue activists hammering their pet causes. My cheers went to a listless Fred Thompson who easily qualified himself to be president in my book by looking all night like he would cheerfully trade his left arm for an early exit off the stage to a waiting Scotch and good Cuban cigar. The media will probably award a win to Mike Huckabee, the easy listening music candidate at home in any crowd, fluent in simpleton speak and the one man on the stage tonight who led the audience to roaring cheers by boasting that he had a special qualification to be president that none of the second-raters on the stage could match: A degree in Bible Studies from Ouachita Baptist University of Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
BooMan23 at Dkos makes a compelling case for a “A Disturbance in the Force”
Totally absent from this debate was any acknowledgment that Iraq is a failed state, or that Afghanistan is going to seed, or that we have environmental problems. Nothing was said about education or health care, and the mortgage meltdown, the value of the dollar, or the anything else that might be on the mind of a non-theocratic fascist fan of unending war, warrantless surveillance, and violations of human rights.
And don’t miss this piece at Crooks and Liars. It would seem the specter of Hitler still drives Republican ideology.
Seriously- I can’t even parody these lunatics anymore.
As far as I could tell, the night’s biggest challenge was a cat fight over who hates brown people the most.
I’ll make a promise right here. If this country elects any of these freaks, I really will leave this country. You can have it. But if the democrats sweep the 2008 elections, I think every moron who has told another American to “love it or leave it”, should be forced to move into one of detention camps the Bush Boys are building.
#1 by Richard Warnick - November 29th, 2007 at 11:14
Didn’t George Clooney, Alec Baldwin and Robert Redford threaten to relocate to Canada if Bush won the 2000 election?
I’m really hoping 2008 will give us all a reason to stay and fight.
#2 by glenn - November 29th, 2007 at 13:13
So why would the fact that Iraq is a failed State be blamed on republicans alone?
What is most telling, that for all the liberal gnashing of teeth about the neanderthals, they are still getting their way, and let’s face it, it’s not like any democrats voted against the debacle in Iraq.
By pillorying the right, while it still sets the main agenda, and corporate America sets the tune, the left is inadvertently, perhaps sub-consciously repeating a disturbing mantra….
“we are losers, we are losers, even when we win, we are losers”…
It is still a long way til election day, with more than enough days for the losers to do what they do best….lose.
Don’t expect the dis-gruntled American populace to hand power off to hildy, they are still every bit the people represented by those republican candidates you mention, despite the rather expensive lessons of Iraq.
Let’s see though, how many people do you know that have been through the schooling, punishment and fines of a 1st time DUI, and then promptly go out and do it again…DOH!!
#3 by glenn - November 29th, 2007 at 13:14
Richard; Canada won’t have them, because they’re losers hoser.
You have to be of some use up north of 48.
#4 by glenn - November 29th, 2007 at 13:35
“I’ll make a promise right here. If this country elects any of these freaks, I really will leave this country. You can have it. But if the democrats sweep the 2008 elections, I think every moron who has told another American to “love it or leave itâ€, should be FORCED to move into one of detention camps the Bush Boys are building”.
Spoken like the true believer, fascist I know you to be, thanks Cliff, all I needed is right there, shake and bake, and YOU helped!!
The detention camps aren’t for right wing low brows Cliff, they are for you and the like, if they become too uppity. Given that most progressives are averse to being armed, or admitting that our Country was made by force of arms, it will be pretty easy to round up any dissenters of progressive bearing, as they have not the means to come to power, keep it, or reasonably defend themselves.
Just a big ‘ol herd of bleating sheeple, and georgies the texas cowboy. Giddy yup!! Move them doges.. got a brand new corral, WAITIN!
#5 by Cliff Lyon - November 29th, 2007 at 13:53
So Glenn,
You think if the Dems sweep in 08, those detention camps will still be for me?
#6 by salt h2o - November 29th, 2007 at 15:26
Why do people think the rest of us care whether or not they leave the country?
#7 by glenn - November 29th, 2007 at 15:32
Can I have your chinese made junk gift collection when you go?
#8 by glenn - November 29th, 2007 at 15:34
Absolutely. Why not? What happened to the brown shirts after hitler came to power?
Let us not forget that the most irredeemable Fascist tyrannies in modern history, all began with socialist/communist leanings. All very much involved in utilizing the government apparatus for socialization of the human herd. The nazi socialists, mao’s communists, stalins collectives, all based in meddling social ideology.
However you have done so much work for the movement, they could well elevate to a position in one of the reeducation camps, what with your haircut, you wouldn’t miss a beat!!
It is doubtful there will be any democrat sweep, as always my liberal friend, beware of Thermadore.
hilary is bought and paid for by the corporate elite, and as fiscal republicans up here in Washington have told me, if the reps can’t front a winning candidate, they will all be voting for hilary, as they can count on her to maintain the corporate business status quo.
Their sentiments speak volumes.
#9 by Larry Bergan - November 30th, 2007 at 17:44
Here I go with my conspiracy theory stuff again, but the coverage I watched of the debate on MSNBC’s “Hardball” and “Countdown” had lots of clips of the debate. I suspect a subliminal tactic by the media here.
Did anybody notice that the debate was so superfluously illuminated that it was as if CNN was able to lease Heavens light itself for the event. That, or God, Jesus, and The Holy Ghost were actually in the room to give their approval to Mitt Romney.
I’m serious! When they went back and forth between the debate clips and the normal sets of the news shows, (which are very well lit themselves), the difference was not just noticeable, but stark! The candidates looked whiter then white.