I know everyone with a keyboard is banging away with chimpanzee intensity on this topic today. I don't care, here's my opinion too. I did not watch it live, but this is what I've gathered from video and online sources.
Any MSM claim to refute liberal bias was sunk at the CNN Republican debate. Objective undecided voters my butt. A Hillary campaign worker, and Edwards supporter, Union and Cair representatives, are not undecided voters and there's not a chance in hell any of them are conservative. More probably to follow as Malkin roots them up like tubers.
Why fly a partisan hack from cali to Fla to ask loaded questions?
Because Florida liberal plants who can't completely remove a chad for Owl Gore are too stupid to you-tube. (That started out as a rhetorical, but the real answer was just too irresistible)
CNN deliberately squashed any meaningful debate by planting leftist agenda pushers into an audience they labeled as objective. These dolts sucked up air time asking ridiculous questions promoting their own identity politics. Questions conservatives do not consider remotely important to this debate. Gays in the military, farm subsidies, abortion, what a waste of time. Not even second tier issues. Completely derailed the debate from the central issues of our day. Aside from a few minutes on immigration between Romney and Giuliani, which largely consisted of who has the worse immigration track record, no substantial ideas to fix the problems were discussed.
This conceals the weakness of the democrat candidates. It denies the voters an opportunity to hear a conservative ideas and shields the dems from having to counter with nothing or plans so hopelessly socialist they are non-starters. It's classic Clinton.
Number two, these buffoons were used as an opportunity to characterize republican party voters AND THE ONLINE COMMUNITY as imbeciles, country bumpkins with no grasp of the real issues. I can do that efficiently enough for myself, I don't need some you tube punk in an Edwards T-shirt to do that for me.
Cooper's discomfort at the revelation that Kerr was a Clinton operative was probably genuine. But I imagine he was thinking more along the lines of "dammit Borhmann, you f$%#d me again!" Cooper was likely left in the dark. Not for one second do I believe CNN did not know who these people were. Let's pack the next Dem debate with NRA members and see how that goes.
Varifrank says the hell with it. Shows we republicans can take a beating while the dems run crying from fox news. I agree with that. I think it also, and maybe more importantly, shows the extent the left will go to "to control the narrative".
Rush is also right. The you tube debate format is a clown show demeaning to the office and to the election process. I'd have rather stared at silent candidates for an hour. Better yet, let's have the next debate moderated by SpongeBob Squarepants. Questions from Patrick Starfish.
I'd been looking forward to hearing something inspiring out of these guys for a while, I'm not sure who I like yet. This stunt by CNN denied us all a chance to hear that, and denied the candidates the op to seriously and frankly talk about conservative solutions to the core issues. Way to go Clinton News Network. Hildabeast must be pleased with your work.
UPDATE:
Yeah, and another thing, why did the CNN boneheads claim they wanted their debate to facilitate republican's decision making process on the candidates then actively recruit lefty shitheads who are mostly ineligible to vote in a Republican primary?
The Confederate flag as an issue? You've got to be shitting me. PW commenters may be right in that this debate was a set up to provide gaffe clips for the general election campaign. I think that unlikely in that none of the candidates seem to have eff'd up that badly to create a polaroid moment.
As for my take on the candidates;
Giuliani: Baggage. Former NYC lib mayor, a leader, tough on crime , 911, a mush-head on guns. Will not take Hillary or Bill's crap, our best chance evah to see a current president kick Helen Thomas right square in her stinking Gee hard enough to make moths fly out of her ears. F's on immigration and choice of women's clothes. Un-electable in the south. Nearly part of the old-school political gang that needs to go. I'll vote for him if I have to.
Romney: Mass gov. Has hugely successful business experience so he knows leadership and how to plan and execute. Most charismatic of the Reps. Not afraid of the Clinton machine. Has flip flopped on right to life and some other areas. The Mormon thing may hurt him depending on how many voters have been woken up on a sunday morning with a hangover by guys with bikes, ties and a goofy book. Has enough money to have all the Clintons and their friends clipped. OKWS rating, but may not fly with a majority of the voters.
Thompson: I want to back Thompson because I like what I've seen him say and do in the past. He's shown little of that so far in a campaign wrought with fits and starts. That's one reason I'm pissed about CNN car-jacking this debate, I wanted to see some stones out of Thompson. Seems to be the most honestly conservative consistent with what I believe conservatism to be. He came off that way to an extent, I want to see him seal the deal. When he's asked a question, He gives an honest, thoughtful answer. Negatives: He's old as hell and looks it, but so was Regan. Will he make it to lunchtime? Is Mrs Thompson doing more harm than good? I want to know more and CNN is not helping.
Huckabee: A good friend that I admire greatly, someone actually influential in politics in the south, says their man is Huckabee. F's on immigration, taxes and for working the evangelical angle too hard. He's light on his feet at the podium and I really like the answers he's given. What is going to happen when the current Arkansas Gov goes up against the family of a former Arkansas Gov notorious for corruption, bribery, sexual assault, impeachment, disbarment, theft of Federal records classified and unclassified, fraud, perjury... you get the picture. If he is the Rep candidate against the beast, who knows what is going to surface. He better not get on a plane to Bosnia if He's the Candidate. I'm of the notion that no one from Arkansas is electable while any Clintons are still alive.
Duncan: The most underrated of all. The best conservative you've heard nothing about. I think this a deliberate action on the part of the leftist media. I've liked everything I've heard from this guy and he's been ignored by the media. They're afraid of him. Afraid, they're scared shitless. He's a former military guy, in a military town , with son in the Marine Corps during a war. He wants to wall off the border, hell he's almost got it done across CA. Who knows what other gems this guy has in mind, the dickheads at CNN sure won't talk about him, unless it's an irrelevant question about "boxers or briefs" posed by a plastic Ronald McDonald head from Michigan.
McCain: I've wanted to see him do well for years and he fucks it up nearly every time. I've held out hope but his last round of clulessness about the immigration issue took the cake. He's been in Congress since Jesus Christ was a Lance Corporal and has to have a grandmother explain to him why illegal immigration is wrong. The McCain-Feingold legislation and Gang of 14 was really enough for me, but his support for the Amnesty Bill really killed any political respect I held for the man. He represents a good portion of the reasons why the sixties generation of politicians, activists and media need to go. OUT.OF.TOUCH. He's a Telegram guy in a You-Tube world, grandma knew it and he didn't. The sixties generation is O.V.E.R. I expected better out of a fellow Naval Aviator, and am sorely disappointed. These guys largely need to go away and sadly won't. Murtha, Kennedy, Byrd, honestly, can we get a geezer law passed? I salute your service Senator McCain, please, find a hobby and a motor home. I will not vote for you.
Tancredo: I know little of him other than he's hard over against illegal immigration. Other than that, probably another Colorado liberal with an R next to his name. Zilch.
Ron Paul: Idiot. Would not be as much of an embarrassment as Dennis Kucinich if he didn't consort with neo-nazi's and 9-11 trufers. More electable than Ross Perot, but less electable than the elastic band of tidey-whiteys ripped from my skivies during the great Wedgie-War of 1978 in the locker room of the Holy Family Dragons Football team. Pathetic.
"I would have typed up the French translation of how I plan to join the French Foreign Legion if Ron Paul is elected president, but Guido, my 90lbs Wire Haired Griffin, just farted next to me. I will not throw up but I will not stay here." God Bless you, and good night.
