Whinny Republican Candidates
I’ll admit it, I watched the entire Republican Debate. I’d like to call reconnaissance of the enemy camp. CNBC, widely recognized as “the financial network” entitled the event, “Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate”. It was advertised to focus on the economy, taxes, and the national budget. The next day even Democratic observers commented that the network did a generally poor job of staging the debate. I can’t disagree, but it was the reaction of the Republican presidential candidates and the chairman of the Republican National Committee which I found the most offensive.
I consider myself somewhat of a financial policy geek, but when the debate questions actually centered on the economy, taxes, and the national budget I found myself getting bored to death. I can’t imagine the affect of those questions and answers had on the normal viewers. I mean how long can someone sit there while one candidate after another after another explains his tax plans (which wouldn’t work as described by the way) without falling into a boredom induced comma? Thirty minutes in I commented to my wife that they had already lost Republican rednecks to the World Series or professional wrestling.
(By the way I’m not being sexist by using the pronoun “he” above; Carly Fiorina didn’t seem to have a tax plan, or any another plan for that matter. The only thing she seemed to want to get across was that people have been talking about doing stuff for 40 without doing anything, and by damn she intends to do something even if it’s wrong.)
Of course the big knock on the CNBC moderators was that some of their questions were inappropriate,.....
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