Ryan... allow me to use a little IM-speak and ask you a simple question...
WTF???
Did anyone here manage to stay tuned through the Michigan Republican Debate? My GOD! What are these meat-heads doing? McCain is going to recommend Smith's "Wealth of Nations" to a moderator's reading list... when he OBVIOUSLY hasn't read it himself? Huckabee is actually going to CAMPAIGN on the promise that he will do away with the IRS and institute a consumer tax that will pay for the US Federal Budget every year? The guy I actually LIKED (Rep. Ron Paul, TX) starts spouting 50 year old Keynesian crap about the Federal Reserve failures and "first use" economics? What am I, a tenth-grader sitting through his first economics class?
The scariest part of the whole thing is that if the Dems really wanted some "meat and potatoes" ammo for a campaign poster or a TV ad, all they had to do was tune in to this load of absolute TRIPE!!!
Look, I know I have always advocated that candidates need to understand the topics and be able to answer questions with some depth... something the Dems haven't managed in years... but this is over-kill. When McCain started his "Adam Smith" campaign crap... I actually choked! Then people wonder where the attitude that Republicans are elitists comes from... sheesh.
The winners of this debate, in my eyes? HANDS DOWN, the top three were Giuliani, Thompson and Romney (with Romney and Thompson in about a dead heat tie). The rest sounded pretentious and over-blown, and NONE addressed the issue that perhaps the should have been touched on FIRST by the candidates: that there is a BIG gap between the economy of the rich (those earning more than $500,000 a year) and the poor and middle class (those making less than $40,000 a year) and how that gap would be addressed if they won. This question was brought up TWICE by Matthews and the broad (sorry, forgot her name) to no less than 4 of the candidates... but all blew it off.
Its a shame. What an opportunity to pass up... a chance to answer questions that the poeple actually CARE about, and want to hear options on.
Learn this lesson, Ryan... answer the questions, no matter what they are, as if your talking to your next-door neighbor. You may not like him, or even understand him... but you have to be civil and you want to CONVINCE him you are right. Sell the plan, not the candidate... the candidate wins when the PLAN wins.
It worked for FDR. It worked for Truman. It worked for Ike. It worked for Bush Sr. (who voted for THAT candidate? No one... they just hated Dukakis), and it can work NOW too.
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I wrote my Ron Paul post before reading this one, but what the heck ... I TOLD YOU SO. He's cerifiable. I have been tacitly (within the Bund) supporting Romney thus far. I like Guliani on the war - his leadership skills are proven, but then there's abortion. Thompson, he's "folksy" as that goes and he looks and sounds like a "grown up" compared to soem of the others (especially Hillary and that insane group of Democrat presidential candidates). Personally I think I feel like most conservatives today - we wish we could take the best aspects of each candidate and combine them into some second coming of Ronald Reagan. But we have who we have - that's not a sentiment that boads well for GOP turn out in November, but I'm sure that will change as soon as Hillary gets the nomination.
FR
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