Drunkblogging Tonight’s GOP DebateWill Steve breakout the Southern Comfort for tonight's debate in Charleston, SC? Tune in here at 8:00 PM eastern to find out!
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January 19, 2012 - 4:44 pm
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4:44PM When Ed Driscoll reminded me this afternoon that there was another GOP debate tonight, the first thing I said was a string of obscenities so offensive, my monitor now displays whites as a kind of sickly yellow. But then I remembered Marianne Gingrich, Mitt’s South Carolina poll implosion, Herman Cain’s endorsement of “all Americans,” ABC News declaring itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC, President Obama speaking at Fantasy Land (!) just a day or so after throttling the XL pipeline, and I thought…
…man, I’m gonna need a bigger string of obscenities.
4:46PM Also, Roger L. Simon is live on the scene, filing reports directly from SC. I don’t know what Roger is drinking, but tonight it’s nothing but Bombay Sapphire martinis for me. Just a touch a dry vermouth, and a nice twist rubbed ’round the rim of the glass.
4:51PM Over at The Other McCain, Smitty is sober-blogging, the poor guy.
4:52PM For the record, I do not want to see Mitt’s tax returns. But I wouldn’t mind seeing his colorist.
4:55PM The biggest disadvantage of watching these things on CNN rather than FOX is, I don’t learn nearly as much as I’d like to know about reverse mortgages.
4:57PM I have Wolf Blitzer’s tie.
4:59PM I’m betting Wolf has some money in the Caymans.
5:00PM Why is a CNN reporter interviewing a CNN reporter? This is news?
5:01PM “Welcome to the South… the heart of the Republican Party…”
Really? Did CNN really just say that?
5:02PM Pro Tip: Defeating Mitt Romney in Iowa is like defeating me in drinking tea.
5:04PM Ron Paul is wearing yet another bespoke suit. Newt is looking… like a guy who I can’t believe ever had even one wife ever. Mitt’s posture is weak. Santorum looks like a guy who just won a state where they lost a bunch of ballots.
Where’s Rick Perry? Did I miss something?
5:04PM DWL: I know Perry dropped out.
5:06PM “Welcome to Berkeley, California, the heart of the Democratic Party… ”
5:07PM Mitt: “I’m married now 42 years.” And to just the one woman, he didn’t need to say.
5:08PM RON PAUL.
5:09PM To Newt: Did you really want an open marriage?
Newt: “No [I don't want to respond to that], but I will.” Crowd goes wild.
5:10PM Newt: I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.
Crowd goes wilder.
5:11PM Newt: “As close to despicable as anything I can imagine.”
John King looks embarrassed to be breathing. But I’ve watched his old Sunday show on CNN, and so I’ve seen that look a lot.
5:11PM Newt: “You and your staff chose to start this debate with that.”
5:12PM Newt: “I’m tired of the MSM protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”
Wonder what we’ll be talking about tomorrow.
5:13PM Santorum: “I thank God for forgiveness… ” but… Yeah, he went with the Big But.
5:13PM MItt: “Let’s get on to the real issues.”
5:13PM RON PAUL: BAWK BAWK BAWK BAWK.
5:14PM RON PAUL: “My wife of 54 years…”
5:14PM So, all that just happened.
5:15PM To RON PAUL: Washington could put people back to work by “getting out of the way.” Also, gold standard BAWK BAWK BAWK BAWK.
5:17PM Newt: Repeal Dodd-Frank to create jobs. Also, drill, baby, drill.
Although there’s an argument to be made he’s done enough of that already.
Sorry. I shouldn’t go there. But you know I’ll go there again at least one more time.
5:18PM Newt: Bain Capital ruined the steel industry or something.
I grew up in the steel industry, and that just isn’t so.
5:19PM Mitt: “[Obama] has been practicing crony capitalism.”
Once again — and this is almost always the case — Mitt draws first blood on Obama. It’s been his trademark in these debates.
5:20PM Mitt: “My view is capitalism works.”
Not exactly Reaganesque, is it?
5:21PM MItt: “There’s nothing wrong with profit.”
5:22PM Santorum: “I believe in capitalism, too.” Except, apparently, for rich people. This is not a very coherent answer, but he seems to like capitalism — just not capitalists.
5:24PM Should DC be promoting job credits for vets?
5:25PM RON PAUL: “To some degree.”
Principled libertarianism! Some intervention, but just the right amount! RON PAUL.
5:27PM Santorum: “We have and should continue to have veterans preferences.”
5:28PM Mitt: Wants the states to help vets, with DC money.
5:30PM Hey, they’re letting Newt talk again! He’s not on camera, so I can only imagine how much John King is cringing.
5:31PM Q: Can ObamaCare be repealed or reversed in its entirety?
5:32PM Except that wasn’t the question, because King is asking his own question that isn’t at all what the gentleman from the audience asked.
So you know what? John King — shut up for just a damn second. If you’re going to take audience questions, then shut your damn trap and take an audience question, you prima donna mofo.
5:34PM Newt: “If you’ve watched Washington and you aren’t skeptical, you haven’t learned anything.”
Now Newt is arguing that ObamaCare will be a big part of the fall campaign, which is a sneaky way to undercut Mitt. Nicely done, Newt.
5:35PM Newt: “Elect us, and your kids will be able to move out because they’ll have work!”
5:36PM Rick going after Mitt on RomneyCare. There’s a federalism issue that the candidates gleefully ignore — but it IS still Mitt’s Achilles heel.
5:38PM I ran out of martini before the first commercial break. Who’s going to do a blogger a favor?
5:40PM Wow. Now Mitt is schooling Rick on Medicaid.
This is an interesting debate. I must be drunk.
5:41PM Newt: I’m the one who got Rick’s ideas on HSA’s made into actual law.
Dude.
Santorum is nodding along without much to say.
5:42PM Rick: But ObamaCare bad.
He’s not answering Newt’s charges.
5:42PM Newt: “I figured out I was wrong; you didn’t.”
5:42PM RON PAUL: “Thank you! [for finally letting me speak]”
5:43PM RON PAUL: “Chances are, we can’t” repeal ObamaCare.
5:44PM RON PAUL: Will pay for everything by cutting back on the military, which on Monday he promised he wouldn’t cut.
RON PAUL!
5:49PM The stage just looks so empty. Maybe CNN could get cameo appearances from Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Du Pont, Paul Lynde. Something.
5:50PM Rick: “Grandiosity has never been a problem for Newt Gingrich.”
That is the first and maybe last Santorum line that I will remember the next day.
5:51PM Pro Tip: Rick, you’d have spent more money if you had had more money, so stop making it a point to tell people you have no money.
5:52PM Newt: I worked with Ronald Reagan.
5:52PM Newt: “I think grandiose thoughts; this is a grandiose country.”
What a line!
5:53PM Rick: “I will not give [Newt] his due on execution” of his ideas.
5:54PM Rick is just nailing Newt on House ethics and the 94 win.
5:55PM And now Newt is defending his record of taking on business-as-usual in Congress, and “busy being a rebel.”
This is good stuff, and largely forgotten.
5:55PM So far, this is the Newt & Rick Show. And it’s not a bad show.
5:56PM MItt has “lived in the real streets of America.”
He said that. Really.
5:57PM Nice moment where Mitt couldn’t remember the original question and neither could Newt.
5:58PM Newt: “When I was speaker, we went back to the Ronald Reagan playbook.”
5:58PM Newt just took credit for setting the stage for Mitt’s financial success.
5:59PM Mitt: I never said, “Thank heavens for Washington, DC.”
Well done. Well done.
5:59PM Q: When will you release your tax returns?
6:00PM RON PAUL: “I’d be embarrassed.”
No need for jokes. No need to see a candidate’s tax returns.
6:01PM MItt just kicked his toe in the dirt and said, “if I have to.”
6:01PM Mitt is going after Obama again. It’s tagline stuff, but delivered pretty well.
6:02PM Newt: “If there’s anything in [MItt's taxes] that will lose the election… ”
6:03PM Rick: “I don my own taxes, and they’re on my computer.” And, “When I get home, you’ll get my taxes.”
6:04PM I’m so tired of this tax return BS.
6:06PM John King: I dare you all you say bad things about Apple Computer, which the young people love.
6:06PM Rick: I’d cut taxes to make Apple even awesomer than it already is.
(For the record, I, VodkaPundit, am a total Apple fanboy.)
6:07PM
6:08PM RON PAUL: “The way you ask the question infers… ”
No, RON PAUL, it implies.
6:11PM 70 minutes in, and just one break. I’m earning my salary tonight.
6:11PM A SOPA question!
6:12PM Newt: “You’re asking a conservative about the economic interests of Hollywood.”
I think Newt has been reading Instapundit.
6:12PM The GOP, by and large, is so RIGHT about SOPA — and techies will still give and vote overwhelmingly to Democrats who love SOPA.
Why?
6:14PM Every single candidate on this stage hates SOPA. Damnit, techies, what’s wrong with you?
6:14PM Excuse me. Rick Santorum only mostly hates SOPA.
And the techies will latch on to that as they write their checks to Obama 2012.
6:21PM And… we’re back. If you aren’t following me on Twitter, you’re missing the stuff I can’t put up, even on the drunkblog.
6:21PM Q: What would you have done differently?
6:21PM Newt: I’d have been even Newtier.
6:22PM Mitt: I’d have worked to get 25 more votes in Iowa.
6:23PM Rick: “I wouldn’t change a thing.”
If Newt said this, everyone would call him an egotist.
6:23PM RON PAUL: BAWK BAWK BAWK BAWK
6:24PM Q: Something about illegal aliens and/or amnesty. Audience member just not ready for primetime, and I mean no insult — that’s a lot of pressure.
6:25PM Newt: I’d build a fence even bigger than the bill I’d pass. Or something.
6:27PM For what it’s worth, I think Newt is more correct on amnesty than any other candidate on this stage.
6:28PM MItt: I would like to change the subject, and build a very big fence.
6:29PM Rick: I am “the son of an immigrant.”
6:31PM This is Santorum’s problem: He feels things very deeply… and then I stop caring because he seems so really very deep.
6:32PM Mitt: I’m tougher than Newt and nicer than Rick.
I think.
6:34PM RON PAUL: BAWK BAWK BAWK… and then some stuff about incentives.
Folks, I was once an earnest and well-meaning Libertarian. But then I realized that time is precious and ideas must be practical. And I also quit smoking pot.
6:36PM Newt went after John King again. And it makes me relike him again in spite of myself — every time.
6:38PM Now Newt & Mitt are talking very specific details about abortion and MA law… and suddenly I’m more exhausted than drunk. Just a moment ago, it was so the other way around.
6:40PM Rick: I know many technical details about legal abortions under RomneyCare.
6:45PM I know I should be keeping up, but the legal nuances of abortion confound me. I think English common law got this one exactly right ages ago — and now both sides, pro and con, will pillory me as they see fit.
6:47PM Commercial break, and do I need one.
6:51PM John King: “I wish I could stay all night.”
And… I just released another unprintable stream of profanities.
6:52PM Last call on tonight’s debate…
6:52PM And here is where RON PAUL comes into his moment, talking about spending and debt and what happens if we don’t get the budget under control.
6:53PM Newt… wants to “thank” CNN? Really?
6:55PM MItt: “It’s an absolutely critical election.”
And to prove it, he can quote the Declaration of Independence, and hoo-ra for the military, and… it’s really just a tasty smorgasbord of talking points.
6:56PM Rick: “I agree with Governor Romney.”
So he’s tying Romney to his sicking ship? That’s just mean!
7:02PM Wow. It’s over. Lots of energy, lots of BS.
CNN promised something like a free-for-all, and totally failed to deliver. Instead we got… a debate with some good moments, most of which were over-shone by John King’s seeming desire to be the corpse at every wedding and the bride at every funeral.
He intro’d the debate badly, and got schooled — first by Newt, and then by everybody. And then he intro’d audience questions, which he then attempted to sidestep. And then he spent a substantial fraction of the debate talking about abortion issues which have yet to play any part in the national debate.
So, as a debate, there were moments of… almost goodness. As an episode of the John King Show… it was about as awful as you’d expect, except maybe more so.
Intro exactly like a WWF of old ~ and not the World Wildlife Fund.
I’m drinking bourbon, because I refuse to use up the good stuff on this lot. You know the string of obscenities? You do that. Me, I’m going to need more single malt. A lot more single malt. And I’m only reading your drunkblogging (thank you for listening so I don’t have to.) I must remember Heinlein’s injunction that when there’s no one you want to vote for there’s always someone you want to vote against. In this case it’s whom I want to vote AGAINST MORE. (OMG. MUST REMEMBER OMG.) Okay. It’s going to take a lot of alcohol.
Bourbon here too.
Well, guess we won’t wait for that.
Mitt: “[Obama] has been practicing crony capitalism.”
AND he’s got REALLY good at it.
(Drink.)
@Sarah, bourbon is the cheap stuff? I was proud to be drinking Woodford Reserve; now maybe not so much. I guess I need a lesson in the high life. LoL.
WR is too expensive for me. I slum it with Evan Williams.
Just restarted drinking boubon again. Would have tried whisk(e)y, just don’t know enough about it. Decided to start back near the top. Agree, WR’s a little rich for an every day boubon.
No, no. I drink CHEAP bourbon and expensive single malt. If I drink good bourbon, I think more of it. So I tend to restrict it to the cheap one. The pitch line to my husband is “I’m going to use it for cooking. We’ll get the cheap stuff.” Well, some of it is used for cooking… er… sometimes. Doesn’t work too well in pasta sauce, though. You’ve been warned.
DRINK more of it. (Think more of it, too, of course, but that’s not the point.) And that wasn’t even being tipsy — yet. It was answering a friend’s question about something totally different there in the middle.
@Sarah, send me a recomendation for a single malt good for a newbie. I KNOW NOTHING about single malts.
The single malt I’m saving for better things is Balvenie Portwood, 21 years old. Mind you, I have Glenlivet of legal age, which I COULD open but it too deserves better things.
Problems of drinking cheap bourbon though is that this one tastes a lot like drinking caramel.
for scotch, try Glenmerangie…
I don’t even LIKE scotch, but that stuff is smoooooooth.
No, no, no guys! Argh! For single malt you want Oban or Talisker.
I think the best for beginners would be a Scottish islands tour of distilleries
Just one word: Lagavullin.
Crowd sounds like a WWF crowd too.
“Welcome to the South… the heart of the Republican Party…”
I think someone needs to seek professional help.
Yes, introduction are so necessary at this point.
Witless blew Not G. out of the water with stupid family stuff; who cares?
It sure is starting out HOT!
Go Newt!
My dad would be toasting you in approval. Heck, maybe he actually is!
Frankly, that and a good cigar would really hit the spot right now. Problem is, I’d need to smoke it outside, and it’s too frickin’ cold for that.
Oh, well. Someone’s imploding in SC right about now. Maybe it’ll bring on a brief heatwave here on the Right Coast.
Bombay Saphire! Great idea!
Wow, another debate? Your liver is really taking one for the team.
All our candidates show more class than CNN and ABC.
I’m just drinking wine.
Last time I had vodka martinis and was not really able to listen for the last 1/2 hour.
Sounds like the last hour was your luckiest!
Not G. is winning over the crowd with his fury with the media re what his his ex-wife had to say to today. I agree; there is a endless laundry list of things to dislike (hate) about him. Fooling around on wife # 2 (after fooling around on wife # 1) is not one of them. Of course, I’m a libertarian.
Paul starts out making sense!
OOPS!
#10 was me.
Maybe I ought to let up even on the wine.
Good comment (Newt) about how Obama dithers while ”studying” stuff.
I’m not a 100% Ron Paul supporter, and I am a Realtor (and thus drinking wine), but he is correct on what has to happen in the RE market. Let it take care of itself…no more government intervention.
Romney lists crony capitalism on Obama’s part.
He needed to nail Obama on Keystone.
Back when Obama first took office his crony capitalist buddy, Warren Buffett, paid $40 billion to buy Burlington rail.
It has rails between both ends of where the Keystone pipeline would be.
Why build a pipeline when Obama can reward his friend with a oil train monopoly instead?
Witless believe in free enterprise until he holds public office…
I’m writing this from downtown Charleston. Barricaded in my house with a case of wine and Sterno squeezings (an underrated chaser). The dog is afraid. We all like to think “it can’t happen here,” but it can. Plan ahead, everyone: the town full of skeevy politicians you’d kill to avoid may one day be your own.
All this knee-jerk defense of Bain reminds me of the knee-jerk defense of the cops who beat the homeless guy to death in California. Believe it or not, you can be in favor of law and order without being in favor of cops beating people to death because they get pissed off.
In the same vein, it’s possible to be in favor of both capitalism and private equity while questioning some of the deals in which Bain was involved. It might be better to leave the demagoguery to the Democrats. And National Review.
That’s assuming that a defense of Bain is a bad thing…
Rick spews spit talking about the veterans, Wit Less spews starting another government program and Ron Paul says heal the economy and everyone will prosper. Hmmm.
And Not G. copies Ron P. Does he mean it?
Obama Care: Witless is still talking about government solutions ~ will turn it into a *&$%* program he can support. He is awful but he is showing his true colors, a wonderful thing for anyone who is really listening. We have to be free to buy health insurance from wherever. I will not support Rick What’s-His-Name but he’s closest to being correct.
Not G. is boring and irritating.
Ok, I’m cornfused. What’s with all the nicknames? “Witless?” “Not G?” WTF?
Ron Paul must have taken his medicine and is doing much better tonight.
A guy who may or may not remember to take whatever meds that make him less manic and more internally cogent (although it is a cogent based on a faulty premise) yeah.
That’s who should control the nuclear football.
All Ron Paul has to do is talk about the economy; he could school any of these people on fiscal and economic matters. And he isn’t getting into his “america kills brown people” rant. Also of note, Rick Santorum is playing the “electability – I can beat Obama” card that Romney usually plays. But all these four are doing really well, if only they could do this more often and QUIT ATTACKING EACH OTHER OVER POINTLESS THINGS!!!!!!!
So, Newt has released his tax forms today.
Nice move, considering the controversy.
Has Ron P done that?
Rick S?
I know Mitt will wait until April.
Ron Paul will cut the military back to 2006 levels, which isn’t really much of a cut.
But hey, let’s keep spending to “protect” the entire rest of the world. I mean, it’s not like we’ve got insane amounts of debt or anything. I mean, all we have to do is tax poor people more, that’s the answer Republicans seem to want …but the answer is not more taxes, either on the rich or the poor, but less spending on everything. Including the military.
OK. We’ve got a muslim in the White House that has doubled gasoline prices in 4 years and has spent his term flying around in AF1 apolgizing to Japan for winning WWII, kissing the ring of the Saudi King and, in general, working to lower individuals incomes while rewarding his cronys. Now, on stage, we have a papist, a mormon and a snake handler. Whacha gonna do? I vote for the papist. It doesn’t take much of a military to protect Vatican city.
Maybe Rick (the remaining Rick, the other Rick went home) can be King of Iowa? He sucked hind tit elsewhere.
FORGET CAIN. FORGET NEWT.
Who is going to bring up Obama’s bi-sexuality!!!!!!! The MSM? Nice beltway RINOS?
Come on, guys, it’s time bare all. There are stains on the back seat of some limo, somewhere.
The point being is not the dirt, but that it reflects on judgment, on distraction, on systemic confusion, on someone’s look upon the world. Ask the folks at the KGB who monitor such things. Ask the guys who pimped for Arafat – or, who knew what was squirming between that man’s sheets.
HI all. Sorry to arrive late. Checking in on my iPhone from the Betty Ford clinic. Thank God they didn’t find the bottle of Grey Goose that I hid behind the toilet tank.
On a political level, Rick What’s-His-Name did a good job addressing the question re Not G. But he’s right, I wouldn’t remember Rick What’s-His-Name enough to pick him out of a lineup after watching him rob my house. And Not G. just continues to be irritating. Go Rick What’s-His-Name. He won some points on this.
In the birthing suite? Witless, you can’t appeal to everyone. Can you be more awkward? Often when he speaks it’s white noise.
A Paul Lynde reference! Yay!
But also, wow, you must be drunk!
MItt has “lived in the real streets of America.” He said that. Really.
Well, there are streets in gated communities too.
The taxes thing is a false issue. Re Witless ~ he needs to make the point that the 15% he paid on his off-shore $$ has already been taxed. He has paid double ~ and I don’t even like him. Rick What’s-His-Name ~ really? Your tax stuff is on your computer and he can’t access them? Really? And the crowd is buying into all this? Really?
Thank whomever that Witless’s dad was born in Mexico. Really makes a difference.
Mitt: no 99% or 1%, we are ONE NATION under God.
Good line.
Destroys divisive Obama so completely.
Yes, SOPA!
Asking a conservative about the interests of Hollywood…. LOL
Rickles was very confusing on right to work.
Newt against SOPA! Mittens too!
How many more debates can these all night news channels cook up before we get to finally get somebody nominated? I am tired of the same old same old. Time to go after the commies!
I hate to say it but Not G. is correct on SOPA, as is Witless and Ron P. The Right has been correct on this, inc Repub polies changing their position, far more than Demos, yesterday. Rick What’s-His-Name doesn’t get it.
Hey – I am an EE and a libertarian – and so is my MIT graduate husband!
What would you do different? Please shut up Not G. His ego is infinite. Witless appeals to the base, smart. Rick What’s-His-Name didn’t say anything of note. Ron P. was honest which will not appeal to the base.
Fred’s sour face while Paul was talking speaks volumes eh?
Today: Maraschino! 40%, also Gin and Scotch
Everybody come and join!
Kudos on grammar correction when blotto.
I wish someone would offer to release their returns when the president releases grades, health reports and how the heck he paid for all that schoolin’.
What would they do differently? Mitt: well, what I’m doing right now: criticizing other R candidates on this stage instead of Obama. Better: tell Fred Thompson to shave off that atrocious goatee.
It started out with a bang but now it’s a big yawner. Thanks Stephen, for staying tuned. I’m off to mix one and put on my night cap.
Santorum reminds me of the two sets of dishes we have in CA regarding illegals and their illegal cars.
We cannot have two sets of laws; one for me whereby I lose my car if I drive without registering it, another for illegals who get to keep their car even if they have no registration no license and no insurance.
Immigration. Not G. is ok on this. The system needs to be streamlined. It’s far too difficult to comply w the law. I know from personal experience. It’s far better to ‘play the system’ because it’s almost impossible to do it by-the-book. Rick What’s-His-Name is weak, as is Witless, too worried about ‘offending’ the base. Ron P. is correct ~ remove the incentives.
Good Newt, I’m concerned about Mitts flopping also
While pestering me to sign a petition to overturn CA AB 131 (Dream Act), my neighbor, who belongs to the Tea Party and the Minutemen, gave me a tongue-lashing for having an “illegal immigrant” do my yard work. Unfortunately for her, my handyman was born in Bakersfield. I offered the job to her unemployed twenty-something son… I’d be perfectly happy to pay him to mow my lawn and trim the hedges. Her comment? “Why would he want to do that?” Nuff said.
Yawn. Right to Choose. States rights. BTW Stephen, I’m a libertarian and I (hardly) ever smoke pot. (I’ve been reading back in your posts.) I, sir, vacation and spend certain holidays with notable libertarians, none of whom smoke pot. (This pro-life stuff is buying me a lot of time.) So there. And who knows who still remembers Henry Hyde? I mean, really.
Paul just schooled King
Folks, I was once an earnest and well-meaning Libertarian. But then I realized that time is precious and ideas must be practical. And I also quit smoking pot.
Err, and started Martinis? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Bombay Saphire, extra olives, a Real Man’s not afraid of Vermouth.
I find that Newt is the only one sane on immigration, and quite frankly I like how he’s running not against Romney, and not even against Obama, but against the Media. It’s Battlefield Preparation, beating them down to where they fear him. If he gets the nomination, this will be handy in October.
Newt is the only one who can say “I did this”!
Paul “I’m a Doctor”. Morality changed. Who let him have the mic?
No Rick What’s-His-Name, you’re wrong re Ron P. It’s a states issue w no federal government $$ thrown into it. I’m pro-choice but Ron P.’s correct ~ turn it back to the states and Roe vs. Wade is gone. Good line.
For what it’s worth, I think Newt is more correct on amnesty than any other candidate on this stage.
You’re a good PJM employee.
So where’s my paycheck?
Newt went after John King again.
It’s the damn liberal medias fault his wife said that stuff! Let’s all rally round him!
I know it’s not fashionable, but, damnit, I LIKE NEWT!
I really like the fight in the man, but I don’t like the man. I want to like my President and I want my President to be a fighter. A conundrum that leaves me feeling addlepated.
I find that Newt is the only one sane on immigration, and quite frankly I like how he’s running not against Romney, and not even against Obama, but against the Media.
Ha ha ha. There’s a sucker born every minute. When the media is reporting how your wife said that you want an “open marriage”, you run against the media and hope the voters are gullible enough not to see what you’re doing, which is changing the subject.
and the proof that what the wife says is what?
Ooohh…. Santorum plays the class card.
I tire of listening to pretty much any President after they take office. I’m already tired of listening to Not G. and Witlees ( forget Rick What’s-His-Name). I’m moving to…New Zealand?
New Zealand follows the European model. When I grew up there in the 50s and 60s, it was the most Socialist state outside of the Iron Curtain. It got better in the 80s, but has reverted lately. Australia has been more business friendly and prosperous, but Obama’s Greenie twin is destroying their economy with her Cap and Trade tax. Stay here to fight!
They can have this naturalized citizen’s country when they pry my cold,dead body from it.
all this was kinda boring..? maybe it was Perry that made it funnier before
As the corpse? Think “Weekend at Bernie’s” without it.
Too many debates. Its killing the whole drunk blogging mojo. Green is doing his own version of BAWK BAWK BAWK. Getting old.
The CNN panel are all freaks. Anderson Cooper is a real flamer and whenever i see Candy Crowley i get some regurgitation in my throat
I am impressed – drunk blogging is an artform that needs a bigger stage. Thanks, it was an entertaining rant – you had some delicious material to play with. The Ron Paul references are priceless. Cheers.
There were Ron Paul references?
I celebrated watching the debates by eating Lee’s Fried crispy chicken, baked beans, big potato wedges and biscuit with honey.. for drink I turned to good ol’ American Coca-Cola… I ain’t southern, but I eat like a southerner.. love me some grits with butter and pepper.. man that’s good stuff
that’s the way!
does vera baker have an account in the caymans?
The 21st century techies don’t much care about sexual orientation, and view same-sex relationships pretty much as normal. They are not big church-goers (techies never have been). The Republican social-issue crowd turns them off pretty fast.
Since, being technically trained, they don’t really worry too much about being employed, the whole illegal-immigrant thing bores them too. Sounds like racism, and gets spun that way.
Yes, they agree with *some* Republicans on SOPA, but Obama is (recently) against it too. And the latter is the news they hear.
As long as Republicans keep God-bothering and policing morality, techies are largely not going to listen.
Steve, about your comments that tecchies are just going to vote for the Democrat. There’s been an undercurrent, easily visible on boards like Reddit, that shows liberal tecchies starting to get really pissed off over SOPA/ PIPA, and the NDAA. Most recently, they’re quite mad that Republicans are pulling away from the bill in droves, while Democrats are just smiling and marching forward. If the majority of this demographic still votes for the Democrat despite what they’re saying now, it’s because no libertarians or republicans or conservatives courted them.
String of obscenities, BAWK BAWK – wtf is your problem dude? you lick the sack of these establishment clones who aren’t distinguishable from B.H.O. and you have the nerve to be pissed off? Seems to me you’re getting what you ordered.
The real problem is frackers like you (only a techie would understand “fracker”) don’t get it.
Whoa! Propeller-head beanie alert!!
Excuse me, lame propeller-head beanie alert.
Junior, I knew about “frackers” before you were a brown stain running down your momma’s pants…
Er, Sorry Stephen. I shall to be more restrained in the future.
– the gang did the Johnny Carson “Hiyo!” when Newt ripped King a new one.
The south — the heart of the Republican party??!!??!!!??
That rumbling you hear is the sound of millions of dead Democrats in Dixie spinning in their graves…
Wow. Dixie sure ain’t what it used to be.
Ron Paul was not eloquent on Monday, but he did not say he wouldn’t cut military spending. He very specifically said he *would* cut military spending, but would not cut defense spending.
Not a fan of anyone who is still in the race or already out, but I am praying that the candidate is not Newt Gingrich (although I confess I am enjoying his attacks on the media).
The Republican Party has a bad habit of picking the old guy who had lasted the longest. Becoming the party’s nominee should not be the prize you get for voicing the party line and not dying. Newt Gingrich is Bob Dole and John McCain without the military record and twice the baggage – including reminding us of the Clinton era.
Let’s not make a crazy decision based on three states response that we have to live with later.
Not a Mitt fan? I agree (and I am a Mormon), then let’s look for someone else before the rest of the primaries.
Folks, I was once an earnest and well-meaning Libertarian. But then I realized that time is precious and ideas must be practical. And I also quit smoking pot.
That statement needs to be cast in bronze and given as party favors to all of the Paulbots.
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