Friday - December 16, 2011
The Great GOP Debate
No. Sorry Drew. It’s only the last one before the Iowa caucus. There will be more to come, though the field will narrow as the primaries transpire and the losers leave the stage.
I caught most of the GOP candidate’s debate last night. This one was pretty good. Bryan Preston at PJ Tattler has a pretty good recap, with only a small amount of bias coming through. Go hence and read the play by play, then skim the comments with the awareness that the Paulbots are still out there doing what they do best.
I agree with him that Michelle Bachmann came off poorly against Newt Gingrich during their abortion dust-up. Not so much in what she said, but in how she said it. I know she feels frustrated that the polls and the media have sidelined her; she even came out last night with a “don’t ignore me, I am a viable candidate” kind of remark ... but she came off as rather shrewish during that part. A male candidate would have seemed just as bad had he delivered the same words in the same manner. Sometimes it’s how you say things that matters just as much as what you say.
If I had to put it my opinion of the debate and the whole darn campaign in a nutshell, I’d agree most with comment #29 by Philly Guy, which I’ll trim down to the core (I favor Rick Perry more than he does though):
2) Michelle Bachmann has no accomplishments in government at all. ... She irritates me.
3) John Huntsman is better than Ambien.
4) Rick Santorum seems to say a lot of very good things, has a variety of accomplishments and connects the dots very well. He also seems like he’s still in college.
5) After Rick Perry is done, there won’t be any federal government left any more. Let’s go back and undo Obamacare, have a vigorous and strong US foreign policy, cut taxes and rebuild America’s values. I’m not a big fan of his tack towards the religious aspect of his life.
6) Newt Gingrich is a conundrum. He would destroy Obama in a debate. Easily the most articulate thinker with the biggest ideas in the race. He also steps in it a lot.
7) Mitt Romney comes off as a competent manager ... He is also an amazing flip-flopper – on the same level as Obama. ... Despite that, he would do well in a debate with Obama. The guy has staying power.
My Big Picture take at this point? It’s going to be Romney. And that shows you just how important it is to keep the pressure on your Congressweasels and Senators, and to push and push and push for the Tea Party philosophy. The President leads, but it’s the Legislature that gets things done. And while I personally wouldn’t mind waking up tomorrow and learning that the federal budget has been cut by 80%, that more than half the federal government has been laid off, and that a quarter million micromanaging laws have been thrown out, that level and rate of change is only going to happen at the end of a gun barrel, which I would really like to avoid. Big steps are going to have to be taken, but they are going to have to be taken one at a time. So Perry’s views are correct, but we can’t do it all in one fell swoop. That would be a revolution, and who wants the period of anarchy that always goes with one of those? What we need are some honest politicians who can work out honest incremental but significant solutions, not beholden to special interest groups and without the braying rhetoric of the frantic and the unhinged. Leadership in favor of cost cutting and limited government sure would help. Let’s take some big steps to build up speed to make sure we’re running in the right direction before just leaping off the cliff. Yeah, good luck with that one Drew.
And once again I’ll put out my advice to the GOP: STFU already about abortion. I don’t like it, they don’t like it. Fine. Accepted. Face the music of that debate: it’s over, it’s been over, that train left the station 40 years ago, the tracks were ripped up, and Toll Brothers built a subdivision where the station used to be. Make a blanket statement about it, a layer of varnish on this plank in your platform, then refer every last media shill to go and read it, and refuse to make any other statement or comment:
Got your box of rocks ready to throw at my glass house? Great! Have at it; comments are open.
Posted by Drew458
on 12/16/2011 at 09:40 AM
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