Iowa Republican Debate

December 12, 2007 in 2008 election, Fred Thompson, Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Romney, republicans
Tags: Alan Keyes, debate, Fred Thompson, iowa, John McCain, Mitt Romney, republicans, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani

First off, who in the hell let Alan Keyes in the room? Has he ever won anything in his entire political career? Yet these are the same geeks saying Kucinich, an established congressman, cannot participate in the Democratic debate. Sad. Keyes is an embarrassment, refusing to even answer the questions he’s asked, deciding instead to chastise the moderator and use the free forum as a lectern to foist his particular brand of crazy on an American people that’s growing tired of such crazy. (I hope.)

Anyway, very little of interest actually happened. There was a hysterical moment when Thompson (apparently, he’s still alive) refused to give his up-or-down vote on whether he believes climate change is happening. Ron Paul made a couple of good points but downplayed the most insane points of his “plan” or whatever. The frontrunners did nothing to either hurt or help their cause, unless you count Huckabee speaking pretty forcefully about his religion. Has to, I guess, in Iowa. And I’m not sure whether that’ll hurt or help him in the grand scheme. McCain seemed old, tired, and wholly unimpressive. Romney was same old Willard, nothing really new. He’s got his stump down and whenever in trouble he managed to veer back into it with no problems. Some of the lesser, loony candidates got a couple good shots in at him, but he dealt with them far better than he handled Giuliani’s “sanctuary mansion” attack.

So who won the debate? Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. It was a free market love-fest, with each candidate trying to convince the world that they best espouse a mostly failed, utopian ideology. C’est la Republican vie.

Watch it here if you’re interested.  You shouldn’t be.