Friday, October 30, 2015
Debatable
If you could not stand to watch the GOP debate, then here is a reasonable summary:
by Timothy Egan who uses the opportunity to find everyone's soft spot.
I was going to quote some of it but then I would be doing almost eight paragraphs and it is better to just cite the article itself.
His contention is that Bush is toast and that the others are undermining their own chances at the gold ring themselves. Self inflicted wounds.
This is an old GOoPer trait. It is not hard to make fun of them because they are so mockable in their most serious modes.
What amazes me is that there are still so many of them on board after three debates. Weren't these supposed to thin the herd?
The trouble is that there is no standout. No blatant reason to quit. And since everyone else in the candidate scrum is as vulnerable there is no easy path out the door.
The Jeb!s have muffed it. There early out and ahead assumptions turned out to be way off base.
Mom was probably right. The world has had enough Bushes.
Trump is stuck. But he is such an arrogant fuck with his slit eyes and raised nose (was there a bad smell in the house?) he seems too above it all to last. But he does have his numbers. Still.
Carson is a boring slug at the debates. Cerebral. Good for him that his troglodyte philosophy does not get much beyond his disdainful expression (do I really have to do this?). Kasich looks good and says good things but not loudly enough and without the "hook" that seems to be necessary in the Republican primaries. He is just the most experienced at governing and the most serious on policy issues. But he is way short of being a demagog which seems to be the thing that makes the booboisie interested. They like blood. And he is black. No one mentions that. But in the modern Republican Party blacks are still not welcome. And don't tell me about some old dusty Ed Brooke story. Our Senator Ed was about as black or less so than I am.
So here we are. Three debates and nothing is decided. I read that the networks are dismayed. It is lousy revenue to have such a mushy and boring slate.
Really, does Jeb really get across? He does need that exclamation point. He probably needs four: Jeb!!!!!. Can you fell the excitement?
One nit. The name Jeb is just two letters away from the hillbilly name Jed. I always think of that when I here the name. I am not going to say it again in this post.
Labels: GOoPers, Republican primary
