The Debate
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."
-- Jim Morrison
To paraphrase Jim Morrison, I watched tonight's republican debate, and death smiled. I didn't have to watch it, of course, but along with friends, I did. There were seven phone calls during the debate -- two by me, five from friends who dared laugh in the face of the death of the republican party.
The mere sight of Ron DeSantis brings memories of when my father saw Richard Nixon on the television screen. He would say that if you watched the expressions on his ugly face, especially when he wasn't talking, you'd see he was a rat lacking the moral capacity to tell the truth. It was in the Nixon era that Robert Armstrong brought Mickey Rat into being.
If any of you younger people do not know of Mickey Rat, I fear our educational system, parents, and grandparents are failing you. Thus, I shall link to Mickey Rat below. If I could ask a favor -- even beg, if need be -- since you are smarter and more capable with modern technology, please produce a Mickey Rat/ Ron DeSantis work of art, and share it.
https://www.toonopedia.com/mickyrat.htm
I don't think that Nikki Haley either won or lost ground tonight. She had one good response, where she declined to respond to another candidate's rant against her, one of a series of his ill behavior. But that was at best the chocolate on the outside of those hollow Easter bunnies we got as kids.
Vivek Ramaswamy was the topic of one of the calls during the debate, and one after it finished, by an old friend who is a good, life-long Democrat. On the first call, early in the debate, he said he was on his third beer. Normally, he stops at two. During the second call, I would speculate he had consumed several more. He said, "You want proof that (the defendent) killed the republican party? How the fuck did that swamp gas get on the stage this year?"
Chris Christie has debating skills from his time as a federal prosecutor. It's not that I like him, or can imagine myself agreeing with him on much beyond the day's weather. But he understands debate. But he found himself on stage with three opponents with little (Haley) to no (DeSantis, Ramaswamy) debating skills. In the pre-defendent days, there would have been no question that he beats the other three. But not today.
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