11/09/11 GOP Debate

The best reality show currently on the airwaves returns tonight. Herman Cain is going tp be asked more questions. Hopefully much better than the lame-ass ones asked yesterday at his presser.
8pm ET on CNBC – Live Stream
Location: Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan
Sponsor: CNBC, the Michigan Republican Party and Oakland University
Participants: Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Huntsman, Paul, Perry, Romney, Santorum

Completely boring. They finally managed to get through an entire debate without attacking each other. That's too bad for Rick Perry though. The idiot said he would eliminate 3 Federal Agencies but couldn't remember the 3rd. Expect that to be played repeatedly in news reports Say good night,Rick!

There is one bright spot. We get a bonus debate the Sat evening. They debate in South Carolina where they'll really have to outcrazy one another.

In another thread, I wrote:

paul87920 wrote:

They seem to change their mind about who the front-runner is more often than most of them change their clothes.

Which is why Romney, like McCain, won't be taken seriously if he ends up taking it. They're desperate to replace him, and the resulting clown parade is a comedian's dream... Trump, Palin, Bachmann, Perry? And then the guy that had to say "Do I need to fake my death so you stop bothering me?! I'm not running!" Yup. "Romney 2012... cause we couldn't find anyone else. And we tried really, really hard."

Like Stewart says, there's little about Romney to celebrate, which is why so few conservatives are. The real entertainment is watching the rest of them nuke their own campaigns:

And the Perry blunder highlights another thing, too, about their platforms. They're all just an inane collection of talking points used to pander to their base. So every debate is just an exercise in memorization rather than critical thought and application. Had their been factual and logistical reasons for wanting to shut down those government organizations (other than "government is bad, mkay?"), he'd have been able to reason it out on the spot. Or should have been, anyway. That ability has yet to manifest in any of them.