Romney came off looking like he would make Mattel proud. Especially when he described his health plan formation in Massachusetts like it was a love-in that included the Heritage Foundation.
Giuliani, the prospective Leader of the Free World, Queen of 9/11 can-do, fumbles the Sunni-Shia question. "Of course, there was a slaughter in the early history of Islam." *eyes roll* Such nuance, such penetrating insight.
McCain looked like the compromise that he is. I can just imagine his inaugural, "Gosh, golly, folks, I'm here, now."
If anything is the sordid legacy of the GOP in this early part of the century, it is "War on Terror" that vacant, dangerous, and hapless phrase that is just wrong from so many perspectives. Yet, how MANY times did we hear about the "War on Terror"? War, war, war. Is it any reason that folks fear America most, drowning as they are in their build-the-military and war-toys talk?
Chris Matthews with his "Bill Clinton" in the White House question ... what's up with that?
Last, but NOT least, they all want more of the worst of Reagan Devolution - cut taxes, despite the piling up debt for all the families and children that they all rhetorically hug until they are GOP-Red. The public treasury gets raided while wealth inequality in this country goes beyond the bounds of ever being reigned in. So scared are they about the "true-up" and showdown that is coming that I think I heard "repeal the 16th amendment" twice last night. They might get away with it, given how disorganized the Dems are historically on most public finance issues (at least when Robert Rubin isn't 'in charge').
Friday, May 4, 2007
GOP Debate Gasses
