The Right State

Nonsense and more nonsense.  That is what I got out of the Democrats’ Presidential Debate in Iowa this afternoon.  If William Shakespeare had still been alive, perhaps he would have said, “Tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing.”  The one overriding message I got from the debate is how dangerous every one of the Democrats are to the survival of this country.  Over and over again, the message was loud and clear: raise taxes on the rich, leave Iraq now, and undo all the horrible things George Bush has done.  What a crock!  Raising taxes on the rich raises prices for everyone.  Leaving Iraq will only leave the terrorists alone to plan another attack.  In the eight short years between 1992 and 2000, the US was attacked…..(the first world trade center in 1993, the USS Cole, Kobar Towers, Tanzania, …) too many times to count here.  In the last seven years, the US has been attacked a total of once, the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.  Since this nation has taken the fight to our enemies, the US has not been attacked.  Your think that maybe there is a reason for that.

Then the Democrats attacked the one man who is not in this race: George Bush.  The Dems attacked the war in Iraq, the holding of detainees at Gitmo, ‘torture’, the loss of liberty at home (eh?), ’spying’ on Americans, and the loss of revenue when Bush pushed through his tax cuts.  These people are morons.  I can understand the need for the candidates to give their supporters some red meat, but a steady diet of only red meat is too much.  

I will not even attempt to show how partisan the moderator was in the debates, at least not now.  The difference between how she treated the Republican nominees versus the way she treated the Democrats is like the difference between night and day.  She is definitely a die hard Democrat and she showed it.

Finally the winners and losers:

The winners were…nobody.  The Democrat candidates lost as well as the American people.  But the BIG loser had to be Hillary Clinton.  She could not answer a question without sounding like she was reading from her talking points.  Hillary’s experience as she explains it is limited to her role as First Lady.  (Wow, I am truly impressed)  Worst of all, she flubbed a question over how secretive her administration would be.  She lost a lot more ground today.

While I write this, there are those who saw things so much differently.  Over at the Washington Post, another hotbed of fair and balanced media reporting (keep the laughter down), Chris Cillizza says the Republicans are the big losers.  Huh?

The Republican Field: For those spartan few of us who watched both debates, one thing was crystal clear: the Democratic field was far deeper and more impressive. That’s not to say it is and will always be so. But today the Democrats on stage engaged in a civil but edifying debate on issues that each candidate seemed well versed on and ready to talk about. It was a stark contrast to the Republican gathering, which was largely hijacked by former Ambassador Alan Keyes.

Alan Keyes should not even been allowed to attend the Republican debates without a ticket.  At the same time, Dennis K. should have been allowed to debate his fellow Democrats.  The reason there was no sustenance in the Republican debates was the fact that the debate was hijacked not by Alan Keyes, but by a liberal moderator who was more interested in curtailing the Republican nominees than have a fair debate of ideas.  Then in the Democrat debate she allowed the Dems to go on and on.  She allowed the Dems to discuss red meat issues for Democrats.  Republicans were not offered the same deal.  She was a horrible moderator and her bias rang loud and clear.. 

All in all, the Democrats showed me what they are truly made of: absolutely nothing.

Tags: Democrats, National Elections by Chuck
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