“Newt did a good job…of selling the wrong arguments.”
Cain didn’t distinguish himself. Paul is a flake. Santorum did well. Pawlenty destroyed himself. Huntsman ought to be a Democrat. Bachmann and Romney really won the thing.
Good arguments and it’s hard to disagree.
This post was written by MacAoidh on Friday, August 12, 2011, 10:17. MacAoidh has written 8078 posts on this blog.
“What happened here was the accumulated karmic backlash of forty years’ worth of Establishment Democrats telling the Activist Left that they were the vanguard of, and spokesmen for, a broad American populist movement. For the longest time, such lies were simply an accepted part of the public policy debate; mostly because the country had no yardstick by which to judge the Left’s turnout and activities.
“But then came the Tea Parties — which showed people what a real American populist movement looks like, and what it can do — and its success stung the Activist Left at the exact moment that Scott Walker came along and not unreasonably decided that if he was elected on a platform of doing certain things, he had best start doing them. This infuriated the Left, but not as much as the refusal of Walker and the WI GOP to go weak-kneed at the first sign of push-back. So… the recall movement was born!
“And… fizzled. The Left should have cut their losses when Prosser demonstrated that drum circles and illegal indoor camping in the Rotunda didn’t translate into votes… and they definitely should have cut their losses when the first wave of recalls didn’t live up to the hype. But they didn’t, and now the people of Wisconsin are increasingly demonstrating that they’re tired of all of this – and they’re not blaming the Republicans, either. Such a shame, but that’s what you get whe- hey! The bacon’s fully cooked.”
- Moe Lane
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Oh, I completely disagree about Bachmann. I didn’t think that she came off well at all. I agree that Santorum and Romney did the best, though. Santorum’s performance was the surprise of the night.
While watching, I couldn’t help but wonder how the debate would have gone had Rick Perry been in the mix. Newt and Ron were a hoot, though, and made taking the time to watch worthwhile.
That said, given the current occupant of the White House and the Veep, if the GOP ticket is made up of Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck, it’ll get my vote. ;->
Dick, appropriately named, is an establishment shill. The only candidate who faces the issues square on is dismissed as a “flake.”
Disqus generic email templateHe rightfully dismissed Ron Paul as the flake he is, as Paul counseled complete capitulation on the issue of nuclear weapons for a regime full of apocalyptic jihadists. If you think that’s facing the issues square on, you’re a flake as well.
No, I am not a puerile little person as you, sir. “Complete capitulation”?? Really? Hmm, cite us when we did a preemptive strike on the Soviet Union before they acquired their nukes, or Red China, etc.
No, sir, the only “flake” here is you.
Bye, bye.