10 LITTLE WHITE TWERPS AT A JOINT CAMPAIGN APPEARANCE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND ON CNN

I can't believe I actually sat down and watched the first half of the Republican debate. None looked very presidential to me; they all seem defensive and weak-- more of Bush. One question, referencing how the Democrats all said they would make use of President Clinton, was to ask them how they would use Bush. That didn't go over well. Thompson-- "I'm the candidate not the actor"-- started off by saying he wouldn't send him to the UN, kind of acknowledging that Bush is the most hated man in the world. There were a lot of anti-Bush attacks throughout the night. Brownback reacted the way Republicans are supposed to-- with a Pavlovian attack on Clinton. But Tancredo told a great story about how when he disagreed with the Regime about something some years ago he got a call from Rove telling him to "never darken the doorway of the White House again." He said that's what he would tell Bush-- for which there was quite a bit of applause.

When I had first tuned in, Brownback, who pretty much came across as even more a clueless lightweight than Gillmore or Thompson, was babbling about taking advantage of Iranian labor unions and somehow encouraging a Tehran bus strike. Duncan Hunter seemed to be leaning more towards a nuclear strike, something the rest of them seemed to want to at least seem to endorse.

Tancredo and Ron Paul both seemed to be strongly calling for an end to the Iraq occupation-- and both were strongly applauded. And when Paul brought it up again, he was applauded again. Though not by Giuliani, who seems determined to ride cheap warmongering into the White House. He got huge applause when he attacked CNN by asking them if they would give as much attention to good news from Iraq as they would give bad news. He's obviously a sniveling little fascist.

The immigration debate caused some sparks. Early in the day Tancredo had gotten into a dustup with one of New Hampshire's two rubber stamp senators, Judd Gregg. Tancredo said he'd campaign against Gregg if he votes for the immigration bill and Gregg called him a Know Nothing. Onstage Tancredo aggressively attacked Bush's immigration bill by saying its a threat to the American way; the audience lapped it up. McCain tried wrapping himself in "conservative senators like Jon Kyl, Saxby Chambliss, Johnny Isakson, and Trent Lott, but his defensive sounded desperate, hackneyed and unconvincing. Giuliani pretty much referred to Washington officials-- like McCain-- as deceiver (liars).


Romney ducked most tough questions throughout the night and when he talked about immigration he said we should "enforce the laws as they exist," which is what any monkey or Mormon would say. He and the other who enthusiastically agreed with him-- on the stage and in the audience-- seem to be overlooking the fact that their Chimp-in-Chief has not just been The Decider but also The Enforcer for the last 7 years-- with, until 5 months ago, complete control of every facet of government. The one on stage willing to be honest about it was Duncan Hunter when he pointed out that Bush's Regime only built 11 miles of fence in 6 months and that they have "a case of the slows."

Blintzer also asked them all if they would pardon "Scooter" Libby. The first four of them said "no" but then Giuliani disagreed and seemed to say he favored a pardon causing the rest of the lemmings to follow along. Romney followed him by a craven denunciation of Fitz, claiming, absurdly, that he had "abused his prosecutorial authority." Brownback and Tancredo said they would both favor a pardon. And that was the end of the first half of the circus, just like another circus we saw from these people before:



Which one of these twerps would you vote off the island now? (It's hard to pick from this rich field of contemptible creatures but, to be fair, I'll vote Brownback, just because of the sheer patheticness.) You?


UPDATE: EVEN REPUBLICANS WEREN'T INTERESTED IN WATCHING THE DULL GOP JOINT CAMPAIGN APPEARANCE

A diarist on Daily Kos found the viewership for the CNN debates. Something like 800,000 more people watched the Democrats than bothered to tune in to the Republicans. Maybe they were too busy staying abreast of Paris Hilton's trials and tribulations-- and hunger strike-- in prison; perhaps hoping that Bush would pardon Libby and Paris.