So I watched the last half hour of the CNN Republican YouTube debate last night and after awhile I started to drown it out in my head. Good lord I would be scared to have almost any of these people as president, and the people sending in YouTube videos weren’t any better. You had one guy who couldn’t seem to understand why it might be a good idea to test people before giving them firearms instead of just handing them out willy nilly. You had another guy that seemed to have his vote riding on which of the candidates had the most firearms in their gun cabinet. There was one guy who wanted to know what they though Jesus would do regarding the death penalty. Oh, and there was the guy with the confederate flag hanging in the background of his video that wanted to know what everyone thought about it.
Romney didn’t want to answer a question about waterboarding in what’s becoming a frighteningly common response from politicians in general. He also tried to dodge a question about whether he takes the bible literally, then answered that he does, I think. Giuliani made sure to let everyone know that he was there on 9/11, and even mentioned the year this time too just in case you forgot. The others were all just there. The crowd was booing and cheering to the point where I expected them to start yelling at Huckabee to flash them his tits otherwise they were going to spit on him and throw beer bottles. Just a strange debate. Too much religion talk for me and again, I’m absolutely fine with religion but I’m more concerned about what you’re actually going to do to help this country rather than how hard you’re going to pray to God that he pulls out some kind of miracle for you.
I did take notice when they had a retired general who had submitted a video. He was openly gay as well as a decorated military man, and he wanted to know the candidates position on gays in the military. Either Duncan Hunter or the guy who I know so little about I can only refer to him as That Other Dude made what I could only describe as the most asinine statement I heard all night and while I only caught the second hour, I’m sure nothing in the first hour could’ve topped this. He replied to the guy’s video by essentially saying that the majority of people in this country are republican and because of that, they wouldn’t appreciate having gays in the military because of their values. And here my dumb ass thought we were in 2007. Romney replied as well with something similarly stupid. The general it turned out was actually in the crowd and was given a live mic. He stated that neither Hunter nor Romney had answered his question before dragging on for awhile as the crowd started to get increasingly restless. They did applaud him when he was done which was good because with this crowd you didn’t really know what to expect. It turns out this morning that the General was actually a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, though I don’t really see what that has to do with the validity of his question in the end.
Final scorecard from someone that’s not anywhere near as into politics as some of the more educated folks out there: I didn’t care much for Romney or Huckabee to begin with but they totally turned me off by the end of the night. Giuliani was Giuliani. I keep forgetting Duncan Hunter exists and he did nothing to help me here. Fred Thompson did nothing except stand around looking like he was maybe two or three years away from completely turning into the Creature From the Black Lagoon. Ron Paul didn’t really hook me with anything tonight but granted, by the time he started responding to stuff I had already had enough. I actually had to go back and add in McCain to this paragraph as I totally forgot he was there. I don’t really have anything to say about That Other Dude.
I don’t care for Hillary as I probably made clear when I went over the Democratic CNN debate, but I’d take over in a heartbeat over Giuliani, Romney, Huckabee, Thompson, and Hunter. McCain & Paul didn’t outright offend me in any manner tonight which is more than I can say about the others.
