Republican Tea Party Debate

Last night I recorded the debate.  I have reviewed the debate.  I will now boil it down for folks using my political expertise and keen powers of observation and insight.

The woman on the left did not answer a single question.  All she would do is go on and on and on about a vaccine that she said was forced onto 12 year old girls.

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The two guys on the right both wore red ties.  The argued with each other over most every word or thought that each of them expressed.  They both spent more time on the past or comparing one state to another and which was better.  They talked about many other things but with all the pointing of fingers I did not retain much of anything else they said other than how one state was better than another state and how the United States is not the same as one state.  The fellow on the far right is from Texas.  I heard that he prayed for rain a little while ago as relief from the drought and heat wave.  Shortly after his prayers the state of Texas burst into flames with fires everywhere.  OK, maybe I am not a deeply religious man and missed something.

I think the two people on the left make a cute couple.  I see people that look like them often sitting in trendy restaurants where the food is often overpriced and the portions are small coupled with poor service.  Sort of reminds me of our government and what many of these folks were complaining about in this debate.

In any event, if the two of them had kids they would probably be cute kids.

None of these people seemed to grasp that the problems America is having did not happen overnight.  They all seemed to blame the current President for everything bad that is happening and seem to infer that everything before was terrific.  I guess I never realized that the current President was a magic man as the turned a country of gold into dirt in the blink of an eye, and he increased the value of gold at the same time.

Whenever people use absolutes all the time such as never and always I distrust them a little.  When people blame others for everything that has happened that is not good and take no responsibility I distrust them even more.

Other than the fellow three spots from the right in the below shot which made more sense to me than anybody else I was not impressed.  Amused at times but not impressed.

I lost track a little as one of the candidates talked about the three states which have borders to patrol to stop illegal immigration.  I guess Canada was dismissed.  Even without Canada I still counted Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.  Four states.  I may be wrong, but I think it may have been the fellow from Utah that was worried about folks coming across the border of the three states that share a border with Mexico.  I think he meant Mexico.

Illegal aliens come from Mexico and Terrorists cross the border from Canada?  Maybe the talk about border patrol needs to include Canada?  Sorry, I digress.

The second fellow from the left talked a lot about his pizza business and brought that up at every chance.  It was almost a subliminal message.  I considered pizza today for lunch but could not recall his brand.

The fellow all the way on the right in the picture.  Did not wear a red power tie.  Whatever he said did not stick in my mind.  He was not exactly what I would call unforgettable.  

The older white haired fellow two from the far right in the photo.  Just struck me as another politician, business as usual.  Seemed to take a lot of credit for some aspects of the past and say he had nothing much to do about problems of the past.  If he was Speaker of the House in the past I guess that did not impress me much because I look at the Speaker of the House today and recall a little while ago when the country needed a united front and the current Speaker of the House did everything but help to solve issues rather than create new problems.

The fellow third from the right in the photo.  Well, he did not wear a red power tie and his tie had less tones of red or blue than the other folks.  I get confused with all the people in the running from Texas. I hear that this fellow has some interesting views. Perhaps that is true.  I don't have all the facts.  

But ... looking at what happened last night, he is was the only one that made  sense to me.  He answered the questions.  He did not dwell on how he had nothing to do with the current state of things.  Bottom line - he made more sense to me than anybody else up there and seemed to have less of a personal agenda.  OK, I guess I should admit that he was also the MOST OPPOSITE of that whack job lady in the red jacket and that alone made points with me.

I wish Wolf Blitzer would have acted a bit more like a moderator.  When folks went off tangent (which was almost ALL the time) he would not stop them and ask them to answer the question.

The folks in the audience asked questions that have been asked countless times and would take hours to address.  As soon as the question was asked I knew an answer would not be coming.  I was right 100% of the time.  A hint to folks picked to ask questions for the next debate:  As something like "did you get your hair cut the day before this broadcast" or "what kind of car do you drive" or what did you eat today for lunch" ?   Interesting tidbits that would actually tell us much more about the person as an individual which is what Wolf Blitzer promised at the opening of the broadcast.

So, there you have it, from an American who is a registered Democrat with no faith in any part of our government regardless of political affiliation, an individual whose unemployment benefits ran out a long time ago and who counts the number of homeless people and families on the streets of Los Angeles increase each month since August 2008.

How will I vote in the next election?  I am open to suggestions at this point.

Just a reminder as I end this entry in a photo chart -