Congress, bah! Bunch of out of work astronauts and C-list actors

[mickj]

So I watched most of the GOP deabtes. It was pretty mind numbing. There was a lot of monotous repetition. ISLAMIC JIHAD ISLAMIC JIHAD ISLAMIC JIHAD. RONALD REAGAN RONALD REGAN RONALD REAGAN. It was getting pretty unbearable towards the end. Maybe if the abortion topic was a pet issue of mine, I'd be a little more interested in large amount of

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[pierceh]

I didn't watch it, I read the transcript

[mickj]

I'm not really complaining about the abortion talk. I just noted that it's not a particular issue of interest for me and thus it bored me.

I agree on the Ron Paul gaffe. A simple no, i don't think we should change the constitution for petty political reasons, would have been a better answer for him.

I do agree that there is some value in irrelevant questions in regard to finding out how someone repsonds, but it was way too execessive last night. One or 2 questions like that, fine. But 7-8 questions like that when you've got only 90 minutes and have to make time for 10 people to speak is a bit on the ludicrous side. Also a lot of the questions seemed to try and put a candidate in a lose-lose situation with his answer, which was a tad irritating.

With all the talk about problems with earmarks I'm very dissapointed the proposed Read the Bill Act was never brought up. I know Ron Paul supports it and was dissapointed he didn't bring it up with all the talk about pork and such.

[anonymous]

I confess, I was with a group of people drinking every time we heard a Reagan plug or some rote buzzphrase, so I was pretty tanked after about 20 minutes. I did see enough to know that a) Chris Matthews should never be allowed within fifty yards of a debate site EVER AGAIN, b) there really wasn't all that much substantial about it, and I agree that the abortion talk bored me since I don't care, c) only Romney failed to look like he was not about to get eaten by a pack of rabid badgers.

You gotta love Ron Paul's gold standard thing though. Who else has the chutzpah to resurrect a political issue from the 1890s?

[anonymous]

-Jeff (sorry about that)

[pierceh]

Jeff, mind reiterating point C? You double-negatived it so it sounds like an insult to Romney. Again, I didn't see the debates but that's the opposite of what I've heard about his performance.

[anonymous]

All the candidates but Romney looked frightened out of their gourd, and were simply unable to articulate their points in a clear, cohesive fashion.