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one!

Republicans!!!

Yay Jane!

Good analysis.

notice all the black people in the audience?

me neither…

Why don’t Blacks vote Repug… Hmmm… let me count the ways…

Ghouliani thinks Republican issues should appeal to African Americans.

I’m soooo liking hanging here at the lake with everyone and not watching the debate.

I luuuuurve you all!

XO
FunnyDiva

Rudy takes the “how come there aren’t any African Americans in the Republican Party?” and starts talking about welfare…

nice… /snark

Huckleberry: African Americans like me.

As J.C. Watts father once said. ‘A Black man voting for a Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.’

-GSD

Huckleberry: I don’t want to be a part of a tiny party.

OOOHHH!!! Questioner with a Confederate flag as a backdrop!!!

“Everybody has too much makeup on.” True, but I think Mitt has about two bottles of mega hold Gel in his hair…

neurophius @ 8

Ghouliani thinks Republican issues should appeal to African Americans.

Well…only in the sense that the GOP makes the Democrats so appealing to African Americans (or should!)

FunnyDiva

Romney dissing John Edwards. There’s one America. Democrats are dividing us and tearing down this country!!!

This has to do with Confederate flags???

ow-ow-ow!

Freddy defending the confederate flag…

Does Mittster think that Edwards’ ‘two Americas’ refers to the North and the South?

VictorLaszlo @ 19

Does Mittster think that Edwards’ ‘two Americas’ refers to the North and the South?

perhaps, but I think he was inferring “white and black”.

Paul’s ad: Love Revolution?!?!

.

Jane,

You’re so critical! Ron Paul is not a fly! He’s just small!

Peace!
PJ

VictorLaszlo @ 19

Does Mittster think that Edwards’ ‘two Americas’ refers to the North and the South?

As a Californian, ‘d happily support a proposal to declare California the other half an’ kick it out. We’d be much happier.

Rudy just said “separate accounting”. Oh the irony, coming today…

thanks neuro - I can never keep those 2 straight…

PeeJ @ 23

Jane,

You’re so critical! Ron Paul is not a fly! He’s just small!

Peace!
PJ

Hmmm… reminds me of another short Politician…

OldCoastie @ 26

thanks neuro - I can never keep those 2 straight…

Sorry–I may have misunderstood you, shouldn’t have said anything.

Had to switch to CSI-NY & find out what the 333s are all about.

McCain takes a good shot at Rudy about pork…

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Peterr @ 31

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this pack of serial loser rethugs don’t merit a title

Infrastructure - trillions needed to fix the infrastructure.

Giuliani - I fixed NY. “Separate Accounting” for infrastructure federally. ???
Parnership with states.

Paul - we are taxed to blow up bridges overseas and taxed to rebuild them overseas. We need to get the government out of our lives and out of our wallets.

McCain - I’ll veto all earmarks…no more bridges to nowhere… No more pork barrel projects.

Paul: This country is in a revolution.

oh, thank god! last question!

From Thers, over at Atrios:

Prediction

Watching this debate, I hereby predict that the winner of the GOP nomination will be a total asshole.

Blub @ 32

Peterr @ 31

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this pack of serial loser rethugs don’t merit a title

Ding!

valletta @ 25

Rudy just said “separate accounting”. Oh the irony, coming today…

Rudy should explain how to make a $400,000 radio deal into a 4 million dollar deal. That would be cool.

Blub @ 32

Peterr @ 31

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this pack of serial loser rethugs don’t merit a title

Let’s just call it the “Sludge Report”

Peterr @ 31

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It’s the debate that dare not speak its name.

Everyone needs to see this debate. Can we take up a collection to buy the footage. This debate needs to be in every household before the election. You wouldn’t want to make people watch it after they started to gag, that would be cruel.

Oh, great. The stupid “get them off the stage” question. Even stupider than usual…

I think Ron Paul just make a blooper: “The people of this country are sick & tired of what they’re getting & I happen to be part of it.”

HA! Rudy gets the Yankees, why did you root for the Red Sox post season!

Paul(thundering): “This country is in a Revolution, and I’m lucky enough to be a part of it!”

Peterr @ 36

From Thers, over at Atrios:

Prediction

Watching this debate, I hereby predict that the winner of the GOP nomination will be a total asshole.

You could have predicted this a year ago.

LS @ 33

McCain -… No more pork barrel projects.

‘cept for those involving war and conquest.

did anyone ask Mitt about his magic underwear?

OldCoastie @ 43

HA! Rudy gets the Yankees, why did you root for the Red Sox post season!

‘Cuz Hillary was a “Yankees Fan.”

wesgpc @ 40

Peterr @ 31

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It’s the debate that dare not speak its name.

Everyone needs to see this debate. Can we take up a collection to buy the footage. This debate needs to be in every household before the election. You wouldn’t want to make people watch it after they started to gag, that would be cruel.

Maybe Mukasey should consider using it as an alternative to waterboarding.

nope OC

Yankees vs. Sox. Diamonds vs. Pearls.

A Yankees question. Jeebus. I hope Big Mitch is listening, wherever he is.

OldCoastie @ 47

did anyone ask Mitt about his magic underwear?

And the Badass Angel Moroni, and all the rest of that dopey crap?

RonD @ 51

A Yankees question. Jeebus. I hope Big Mitch is listening, wherever he is.

Whatever happened to Mitch?

-GSD

Oh. Now allegedly the follow-up commentary will deal with “issues.” Right. Sure…

No questions about restoring the Constitution, but we heard about Rudy’s support of the Red Sawx. Gee, that was time well spent.

magic boxers vs magic briefs…

Aaaaaaaalarming.
::shivers::

Marion in Savannah @ 55

follow-up commentary will deal with “issues.”

since the debate itself so clearly didn’t

gotta say, huckabee came across as vastly more credible than i anticipated. bet he picked up some support tonight.

Governor Huckabee, you reportedly lost over 100 pounds of unsightly fat. Have you ever considered the idea that some of the weight was brain matter?

-GSD

GSD @ 54

RonD @ 51

A Yankees question. Jeebus. I hope Big Mitch is listening, wherever he is.

Whatever happened to Mitch?

-GSD

Don’t know. Haven’t seen him here or anywhere in a long time. Hope he’s well.

so I’m still just a bit stunned that Rudy says he presided over the “3rd largest government in the country”…

wow! that is really something!

Mitch left. Didn’t like having baseball banned.

I think Romney took the biggest hits.

RonD @ 44

Paul(thundering): “This country is in a Revolution, and I’m lucky enough to be a part of it!”

As we all are..

What a vibrant discussion about health care, education, energy independence, and key foreign policy issues.

Guns are teh awesome!

Peterr @ 31

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Freudian slip…? ;-)

oooo

attack ad. :)

OldCoastie @ 57

magic boxers vs magic briefs…

Spiritual Marriages, and how we’re ALL gonna be together with our families…

(Ugh, perish that thought…)

And how we’re all gonna be totally reconsitututed…

Will I still have my parapsoriasis rash?

i didn’t have video for the debate

someone please tell me that that retired general’s mic just magically stopped working

i’m getting really angry.

Mitt’s hair doesn’t move.

The post debate pundit spew should be hilarious. I went to a Looney Tunes marathon once. This is kind of like that, except much darker and in poorer taste. I liked it, but I am not sure that I liked in a good way. I may need to see a shrink about this. Get some kind of check-up for my head. I have doubts about the wisdom of watching it. I do not have the strongest mental constitution. Well, I won’t do it again. Probably no permanent harm.

Mr. Tancredo would you use an illegal immigrant to smother a burning flag?

-GSD

i am quite glad mccain spanked romney soundly on torture.
but other than that, mccain was impossibly weak.

Jflo @ 71

i didn’t have video for the debate

someone please tell me that that retired general’s mic just magically stopped working

i’m getting really angry.

they got it back on…

Holy splinteration, Batman!

OldCoastie @ 72

Mitt’s hair doesn’t move.

What do you think his hair stylist charged?

Mitt has Ann Miller hair.

GSD @ 54

RonD @ 51

A Yankees question. Jeebus. I hope Big Mitch is listening, wherever he is.

Whatever happened to Mitch?

-GSD

He left awhile back in a huff over Israeli-Palestinian issues… I do miss him…

Wow. What a horror show that was. These are presidential candidates?

OldCoastie @ 72

Mitt’s hair doesn’t move.

There’s a Jihad cell living in it.

ok - I watched it all. Instructive - occasionally unintentionally hysterical.

I do, however, by virtue of having watched the *whole damn thing*, hereby claim my exemption from having to watch any more of these.

GSD @ 74

Mr. Tancredo would you use an illegal immigrant to smother a burning flag?

-GSD

And what if it was a Confederate flag?

GSD @ 74

Mr. Tancredo would you use an illegal immigrant to smother a burning flag?

-GSD

I think that would depend on whether the flag was gay, right?

Marion in Savannah @ 79

OldCoastie @ 72

Mitt’s hair doesn’t move.

What do you think his hair stylist charged?

whatever he paid, it wasn’t enough.

GSD @ 74

Mr. Tancredo would you use an illegal immigrant to smother a burning flag?

-GSD

Would you use a flag to smother a burning illegal immigrant?

If these were the questions CNN chose as the best thoughts offered by the GOP faithful to sift through and pick their nominee . . . imagine what the questions were that were left out.

OldCoastie @ 63

so I’m still just a bit stunned that Rudy says he presided over the “3rd largest government in the country”…

wow! that is really something!

“Michael, we’re bigger than US Steel!”
Hyman Roth

Bill “I only gamble what I can afford to lose” Bennett holding forth on, no doubt, “VALUES.”

OldCoastie @ 76

Jflo @ 71

i didn’t have video for the debate

someone please tell me that that retired general’s mic just magically stopped working

i’m getting really angry.

they got it back on…

good, thank you….i must have missed that part

Hugh @ 85

I think that would depend on whether the flag was gay, right?

also, the illegal’s sexual orientation as well…

jayt @ 83

ok - I watched it all. Instructive - occasionally unintentionally hysterical.

I do, however, by virtue of having watched the *whole damn thing*, hereby claim my exemption from having to watch any more of these.

Granted. You are one brave soul.

What shit! I can’t believe this is the only way to prepare for an election and I’m so glad this is the cream of the GOP crop.

Hugh, I did write flag.

-GSD

Just for the record: I fucking HATE the term “illegal aliens.”

Huckabee getting a lot of love.

hate2haggle @ 94

What shit! I can’t believe this is the only way to prepare for an election and I’m so glad this is the cream of the GOP crop.

..still not too late for Jeb to run… on the “family redemption” ticket

jayt @ 83

ok - I watched it all. Instructive - occasionally unintentionally hysterical.

I do, however, by virtue of having watched the *whole damn thing*, hereby claim my exemption from having to watch any more of these.

Awww… I thought you were a Political Junkie? I know I am, isn’t that the first step…? ;-)

Huckabee could beat Hillary

I think we’ve learned that the GOP candidate will pay down the deficit and deport all the illegal immigrants by disbanding the IRS and keeping teh gheys out of the military.

Which is good to know.

Man - did you catch the defense by Gergen on the Hackabee canned response?

It was canned and that is what he said?

OldCoastie @ 86

Marion in Savannah @ 79

What do you think his hair stylist charged?

whatever he paid, it wasn’t enough.

I swear they used two bottles of Gel…

What a sorry bunch of motley crew. - Yoda Busch, Let Them Eat Kake

cleter @ 100

Huckabee could beat Hillary

She mops the floor with him in Arkansas.

-GSD

Marion in Savannah @ 90

Bill “I only gamble what I can afford to lose” Bennett holding forth on, no doubt, “VALUES.”

I bet he is.

what the hell is Bennett talkin’ about?

OldCoastie @ 72

Mitt’s hair doesn’t move.

Which is twice as amazing when you consider how many 180s Mitt did during the debate.

“Huckabee? Fuck me…!!!“

The Republicans showed, again, that they are out of touch with not only the rest of the country but the WORLD. Guns, gays, GOD and abortion are NOT and never will be the most important issue for Americans.

And thankfully the majority of America is finally getting it.

Now Anderson Cooper can go home to the Mr.

Now we’ll turn to Campbell Brown over bringing the troops home… Foreign policy is one of her real areas of expertise, I’m sure…

Mitt - flippity flopper… I’m thinking he’d be the most fun to run against…

OldCoastie @ 107

what the hell is Bennett talkin’ about?

we’re talking about a man who, right after Katrina, went on record as sayin’ that the country’s crime rate would drop if we could only abort ‘them darkies

GSD @ 105

cleter @ 100

Huckabee could beat Hillary

She mops the floor with him in Arkansas.

-GSD

There would be civil war declared in Hope, tho… ;-)

“what the hell is Bennett talkin’ about?”

His dominatrix perchance?

Republican debates are like watching pus ooze from an open wound.

Dem debates are like watching folks pick at a scab.

BobbyG @ 97

Just for the record: I fucking HATE the term “illegal aliens.”

I don’t know it made for a great scene in Men in Black.

Campbell Brown “Ron Paul is where Democrats are on the war in Iraq…”

Yeah, because all the Democrats want to pull out now, just like Ron Paul!

Hugh @ 118

BobbyG @ 97

Just for the record: I fucking HATE the term “illegal aliens.”

I don’t know it made for a great scene in Men in Black.

I had that very thought when I wrote that. LOL!!!

Peterr @ 88

If these were the questions CNN chose as the best thoughts offered by the GOP faithful to sift through and pick their nominee . . . imagine what the questions were that were left out.

And these were the ’safe’ questions, picked by the brutally and ruthlessly objective corporate media so as not to discomfort the holy GOP. God forbid these titans of statesmanship and wisdom should run the risk of appearing ridiculous in front of the whold country. Think about it.

Eureka Springs @ 117

Republican debates are like watching pus ooze from an open wound.

Dem debates are like watching folks pick at a scab.

Nice analogy! 8-)

Huckabee scares me a little bit. Not in the scary-ass Nosferatu way that Rudolph scares me, but in the this guy’s aw-shucks-outsider-governor schtick could actually win.

wesgpc @ 73

The post debate pundit spew should be hilarious. I went to a Looney Tunes marathon once. This is kind of like that, except much darker and in poorer taste. I liked it, but I am not sure that I liked in a good way. I may need to see a shrink about this. Get some kind of check-up for my head. I have doubts about the wisdom of watching it. I do not have the strongest mental constitution. Well, I won’t do it again. Probably no permanent harm.

No shrink. Just a strong bleach application.

Marion in Savannah @ 112

Now we’ll turn to Campbell Brown over bringing the troops home… Foreign policy is one of her real areas of expertise, I’m sure…

You mean like her hubby, Dan Senor? Comm Director under L. Paul Bremer in Iraq? Conflicts of interest much?

Did Jane really say people had too much makeup on?

[Notes date and time]

Huckabee apparently has money troubles the way Bill had girl troubles.

David Ehrenstein @ 111

Now Anderson Cooper can go home to the Mr.

As long as Anderson remains unwed, little old ladies everywhere can dream of him marrying their daughters. Such a nice young man.

cleter @ 123

Huckabee scares me a little bit. Not in the scary-ass Nosferatu way that Rudolph scares me, but in the this guy’s aw-shucks-outsider-governor schtick could actually win.

The nomination, maybe. The election, never.

I wonder how many adultery questions they had to throw out.

BobbyG @ 96

Just for the record: I fucking HATE the term “illegal aliens.”

even when the term is properly applied… to the members of shrubco? They’re illegal (’cause McClellan said so the other day), and they’re aliens (of the extraterrestrial kind). Good enough for me.

Here’s the REAL Republican Candidate