My opinion of Repuke Debate

[Bullet1987]

I posted the following on another website. Even though I'm a liberal, I try to be as balanced as possible in my views....

"If you thought the Democrat debate was bad...this was horrible. Now, maybe my opinion will be somewhat biased since I'm a Dem myself...but I find it hard to believe any one of them could win a general election with their hard right foreign policy rhetoric. The majority of them seemed so disconnected from the current feelings of the country that it was shocking! Romney talking about moving Heaven and Earth and raising brimstone (or something crazy) to find Osama. McCain talking about wiping people out, and chasing Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell. I understand that they were largely appealing to the base, and not trying to get crossover votes...but seeing how unpopular this war is with the general American public, again, the majority of them outside of 1 or 2 would find it very hard to win over independent votes. I'm not going to call a winner because, like last week, none of them really had time to elaborate on anything. A few of them like McCain and Romney dodged questions, I was taking notes, but I didn't get everything down.

Ron Paul didn't come off as the nut the media probably wanted him to. He didn't shoot himself in the foot by yelling and acting like a madman a la Mike Gravel. He made a lot of good points too, especially when he compared the Soviet Union to Iraq and Iran. He said we stood up to the Soviets because they had 40,000 nukes or something...and we're acting this way over Iraq and Iran who currently have none for what reason? I think that was the point of the night, but of course the media is not going to give him credit for it. McCain looked nervous and flustered in the beginning, studdering and everything...it seemed like he couldn't collect his thoughts.

I REALLY liked how many of them came out against a National ID Card!!! It's good to hear that Paul isn't the only one making a noise about that (it was about 50/50 for and against). Then Romney (and somebody else) retracted and said it would only be for immigrants...after Paul and a few others came out against it.

I got annoyed with the invoking of Ronald Reagan...that got old after about 20 minutes of praise. I know all about Reagan's trickle down economy, Iran-Contra, and the destruction of unions, and porous urban policy (I'm not fan of Reagan anyway by the way...but he's the Kennedy of the Right so I can understand the love for him in a weird way).

Overall, the only ones I really like was Ron Paul and to a lesser extent Tom Tancredo (but that's largely only because of his stance on immigration).

EDIT: Oh, and the media will continue to frame it as McCain/Guiliani/Romney."

[patrice]

1. Most of them said our Foreign Policy should be to kill Muslims.

And then "engage" them.

:crazy: