The Republican Presidential candidates are having a debate tonight.
The Democratic candidates had a debate last week.
*yawn*zzzzzzzzz*
Oh, sorry. Did I drift off there?
It’s hard to pay attention to these debates when the most compelling candidates haven’t formally declared their candidacy and when lunatics and losers can join in because we have this silly idea that every voice on the stage is equally as important.
That and the election is more than a year away which means that nothing any of these candidates say this week will mean anything at all next week.
Let me save you some time and tell you what’s likely to happen tonight.
Everyone will be fairly nice to each other. Giuliani, Romney, and McCain will get off some good sound bytes for the evening news and might decide to have a little verbal slap-fight, but not too much of one.
Ronald Reagan’s name or memory will be invoked perhaps a million times. McCain will get a little pouty because the other guys took more of the memory than he thought was fair.
The little guys will do a lot of punching up, which may make for a couple interesting moments. Tancredo will do his One Issue Samba for a while and aim it at McCain, who is the only one of the Big Three who can actually do anything about immigration right now. McCain will stutter his way through a response and Tancredo’s time will run out. End of drama.
Ron Paul is the odd man out. He’s not even really a Republican and he’s won’t get all his Libertarian views on the stage. He’s also likely not quite smart enough to ix-nay the anti-ay ar-way oolishness-fay. Exeunt stage right.
Duncan Hunter will do himself some good if he acts like he belongs on the stage as much as the Big Three (if not more than Romney, who’s come off thus far as a serious lightweight).
No one will know much at all about the other guys: Huckabee, Thompson, Gilmore, or Brownback and they’re not going to learn much tonight. These guys will spend a lot of time trying to grab an extra couple points in the polls but it won’t help. They won’t do anything to distinguish themselves or make a serious bid for the disaffected conservatives and Reagan democrats. All they’re really doing is auditioning for a job in a 2008 Republican Cabinet.
In all, about the normal stuff you’d expect from a debate that’s way too early and has way too much clutter to impart anything useful
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The spectacle of a slate of different candidates vying for the Party’s nomination is, of course, deeply upsetting to the Republican base, since the dynamics and sheer messiness of democracy are completely antithetical to the fundamental values of Republicanism. The most treasured of all such values are authoritarianism and bootlicking servility, as expressed in an all-consuming desire for total, abject obedience to a decisive, powerful Leader, preferably one with well-oiled, bulging thigh muscles. But just try to relax; soon the base will once again be told exactly whom they are to worship and obey, and who will lead them into battle against the godless hordes of Blacks, Mexicans, feminists, liberals, homosexuals, and Muslims. Just try to hold out a little bit longer.
An amusing little delusion you have there legaleagle.
Quick question – Why are the Democrats afraid of Brit HUme?