Battle of the Little People
Quotations from the Florida CNN/YouTube Debate.
The strongest debaters were McCain and Paul, the former speaking with passion about torture and the later on foreign policy in spite of a hostile audience. The weakest were Giuliani and Romney, both of whom sounded weasally. Giuliani especially failed to throw the audience enough red meat nuttiness on gun rights, immigration, and abortion and embarrassed himself on a question about the Bible-- he was reticient to accept that there were dinosaurs on Noah's ark. Giuliani ducked and weaved and reminded me of a dyspeptic Manhatten tailor. Romney ducked and weaved and reminded me of the plastic guy you put on a wedding cake. Both of them had trouble looking each other in the eye. Grandpa Thompson, with his outrageous shar pei face, continues to scare me with his death to social security talk. The main whipping boys continued to be Hillary and the Islamo-fascists, which they still conflate. The most electric moment was when the audience hissed a former general for being gay. In all fairness, CNN violated the strict Republican limit of one non-hetro on stage at once by having Governor Charlie Crist introduce the clowns and Anderson question them.
This was an entertaining evening that also gave viewers such as myself insight into the candidates' policies and personalities.
Here is the transcript of the two hour debate.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/28/debate.transcript/
From out of the mouth of babes . . .
Giuliani : "You did have illegal immigrants at your mansion, didn't you?" Mitt usually criticizes people when he usually has the far worse record."
McCain: "We must recognize these are God's children as well. They need our love and compassion, and I want to ensure that I will enforce the borders first. But we won't demagogue it."
Thompson: "I wanted to give my buddies here a little extra air time."
Romney: "On abortion, I was wrong."
McCain: "Governor, let me tell you, if we're going to gain the high ground in this world ... we're not going to torture people. How in the world someone could think that that kind of thing could be inflicted on people who are in our custody is absolutely beyond me."
Paul: "I want to trade with people, talk with people, travel."
The strongest debaters were McCain and Paul, the former speaking with passion about torture and the later on foreign policy in spite of a hostile audience. The weakest were Giuliani and Romney, both of whom sounded weasally. Giuliani especially failed to throw the audience enough red meat nuttiness on gun rights, immigration, and abortion and embarrassed himself on a question about the Bible-- he was reticient to accept that there were dinosaurs on Noah's ark. Giuliani ducked and weaved and reminded me of a dyspeptic Manhatten tailor. Romney ducked and weaved and reminded me of the plastic guy you put on a wedding cake. Both of them had trouble looking each other in the eye. Grandpa Thompson, with his outrageous shar pei face, continues to scare me with his death to social security talk. The main whipping boys continued to be Hillary and the Islamo-fascists, which they still conflate. The most electric moment was when the audience hissed a former general for being gay. In all fairness, CNN violated the strict Republican limit of one non-hetro on stage at once by having Governor Charlie Crist introduce the clowns and Anderson question them.
This was an entertaining evening that also gave viewers such as myself insight into the candidates' policies and personalities.
Here is the transcript of the two hour debate.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/28/debate.transcript/
From out of the mouth of babes . . .
Giuliani : "You did have illegal immigrants at your mansion, didn't you?" Mitt usually criticizes people when he usually has the far worse record."
McCain: "We must recognize these are God's children as well. They need our love and compassion, and I want to ensure that I will enforce the borders first. But we won't demagogue it."
Thompson: "I wanted to give my buddies here a little extra air time."
Romney: "On abortion, I was wrong."
McCain: "Governor, let me tell you, if we're going to gain the high ground in this world ... we're not going to torture people. How in the world someone could think that that kind of thing could be inflicted on people who are in our custody is absolutely beyond me."
Paul: "I want to trade with people, talk with people, travel."
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