What’s not to love? It’s like watching a cock fight with real cocks! And ironically, all the cocks are tearing each other new assholes. I love all the debates where we get to see who’s willing to go farthest out on the crazy plank hovering over the edge of Loser Canyon. They are giving Obama and the Dems boatloads of ammunition for the general election.
And they are being damn funny doing it! This is the most entertaining election in my lifetime.
It’s like watching the public collapse of a marriage of convenience between people you never liked to begin with.
I think it’s sick, and I believe the world is looking at us in shocked near-disbelief and fear. That we don’t have the sense to be embarrassed by this spectacle, and the increasingly realitytvication of our political process, I think says more about us than we are willing to admit.
I’ve seen pie fights conducted with more decorum.
It is hilarious, lurking on right-wing forums and watching the Mittens, Newtons, Santori and Paulbots tearing each other new orifices. Better entertainment than American Idol.
I believe that they are looking at the Republican party that way, as they should. For me, it’s like watching them pave a smooth new road for President Obama to use to stroll back into the White House.
I am curious as to how much if at all the ultimate nominee will try to veer back toward the center before the general election. I know for sure Romney would, be cause he will happily deny things he said last week – not disavow them, but claim he never even said them. I think Santorum’s stance on birth control is in itself enough to cost his the election, so I wonder if he will backtrack on that. Newt’s a bit harder to pin down – his crazy is not so easily boxed in by terms like left or right.
It’s the Gong Show of politics. The left has had its boring candidates and Ralph Nader, but the loonies of the right are truly a sideshow worthy of any circus freak show.
Both Romney and Newt would begin to tack back to the center once they had the nomination all but sewn up. How they’d be successful doing so with all the footage of them demonizing anyone to the left of Pat Robertson would be some feat, but treating yesterday as though it never occurred has worked for them in the past so…
No, let’s stick with “Ronulans,” it’s hard to top that one.
America needs more lefty freaks! Like in the '70s! ('Course, even then, the lefty-freaks almost never seriously ran for public office; only one I can think of who even tried was Hunter S. Thompson, if he counts, who ran for Sheriff of Aspen, CO, or something, I believe.)
I’ll give “find it entertaining” a try for a while. Up to now, I’ve been fretting about how it skews the national perspective. To look at the news, you’d think people have lost sight of the fact that America must never again put a Republican in the Oval Office.
Yeah, I’m more embarrassed than anything. Despite the entertainment value, the idea that freaking Santorum is winning states (more than Romney, I thought I read somewhere)… That means something in this country is simply broken. The election system, the education system, maybe all that and more.
Sub-Commander! Our Craziness Cloaking Device has failed!
I know a man who is a conservative all his life, and watching the freaks spilling out of the Republican clown car, he told me “there’s not a one of them even I could possibly imagine as president. This election, I’m sitting this one out.” And he turned off his TV and hasn’t looked again.
Me, I am flabbergasted and horrified. It’s like Jerry Springer. They are all deranged.
And this is the reason I have to laugh because the only other choice would be to cry.
Of course the fact the candidates seem to be playing it for comedy rather than tragedy makes it easier too.
If you’re scoring at home or just by yourself, Romney has won three states (NH, FL, NV) to Santorum’s four (IA, CO, MO, MN). However Romney still leads in the delegate count because officially, none of yesterday’s contests awarded delegates to the winner.
I’m with elucidator, ugly as it is, this is democracy in action. The Anointed One of the party leadership is being roundly rejected by scads of Republicans, despite the desperate hectoring of the conservative talking heads. This is the golden moment of America’s idiots, once the real battle is joined the Republican candidate will move to the center to pick up the independent votes. Until then, the clown car will continue to careen. Democracy ain’t always pretty.
Time was, the one thing a Republican candidate wanted to be taken as, was respectable, in the sense of being middle-or-higher class and conventionally, traditionally moral. Not all of them really were respectable, Warren G. Harding was quite an embarrassment, but nobody ever called him a demagogue, that’s the one label Pubs wanted to avoid (and to stick on the Dems). Even Nixon was respectable compared to the crop they run now.