Rubio & Cruz's media-bashing; Kasich's outrage; Fiorina's fantasies; Paul's invisibility; Huckabee's desperation; Carson's befuddlement; Christie's horseshit; and Bush's relative silence. Good night, Jeb, and so long.
(Oh, and Trump's "That's not a nice question." And that makes 33.)
This was at first amusing. It is rapidly slipping into the very depressing. To think that these clowns are of the party of Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. But, that's in name only; that party no longer exists — and these wretched minutes, ticking away so painfully, are proof of it.
… Well, it's finally, mercifully over. I was in acute despair listening to such abundant folly. And I don't know why. I'm plenty used to it, but there was something about tonight's government-bashing — it's bad, government is all bad, it's wicked and malicious and a deliberate torment — that was indescribably disturbing and, as previously noted, deeply depressing. To call the thinking we just heard "shallow" is to be wildly charitable. It was but podium-to-podium pandering to the worst instincts of an already diseased base. It was an abomination, and it was sickening.
We were commenting at home on the same stupidity. Yep government is the problem and needs to be eliminated. These people all richly deserve the electoral oblivion that awaits them. The most depressing thing about this debate is that the steaming piles of horseshit were so vast they made the planet measurably warmer.
Posted by: Peter G | October 28, 2015 at 09:37 PM
I got the same feeling watching the debate as I do when I drive by street corner evangelists. It is indeed pretty indescribable.
Posted by: Jason | October 28, 2015 at 09:38 PM
I think you knocked this one out of the park. It is awful. And yet no-one with any power to act seems to be willing to do anything about it.
Posted by: The Raven | October 29, 2015 at 07:32 PM