Wingnuts and Geography Lessons
Posted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: religious extremists, Republican politics, Republican presidential politics | Tags: CNN Republican Debate 10 Comments
Well, yet another Republican debate went down tonight. This one was held in Las Vegas and broadcast by CNN. High winds took out my electricity earlier so I’ve had to play catch up. Here’s some of the more memorable moments. Some one woke Perry up for this one.
The former pizza company CEO is the latest and unlikeliest phenomenon in the race to pick a Republican rival for President Barack Obama. A black man in a party that draws few votes from Africans Americans, he had bumped along with little notice as Romney sought to fend off one fast-rising rival after another.
That all changed in the past few weeks, after Perry burst into the race and then fell back in the polls. However unlikely Cain’s rise, Tuesday night’s debate made clear that none of his rivals are willing to let him go unchallenged.
“Herman, I love you, brother, but let me tell you something, you don’t need to have a big analysis to figure this thing out,” Perry said to Cain. “Go to New Hampshire where they don’t have a sales tax and you’re fixing to give them one,” he said, referring to the state that will hold the first primary early next year.
Mitt pulled a power body move.
The two men talked over one another, and at one point, Romney placed his hand on Perry’s shoulder.
“It’s been a tough couple of debates for Rick. And I understand that so you’re going to get nasty,” he said.
As Perry continued to speak, Romney stopped him: “You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking, and I suggest that if you want to become president of the United States, you’ve got to let both people speak,” he said.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) criticized President Obama’s foreign policy during Tuesday night’s CNN debate, saying, “Now with the president, he put us in Libya. He is now putting us in Africa. We already were stretched too thin, and he put our special operations forces in Africa,” she said.
Libya, it should be noted, is in Africa.
Ron Paul doesn’t too be concerned about Jewish voters or for that matter, about North Korea.
Foreign policy took a secondary role in the debate, and the new strain of Republican isolationism quickly surfaced.
Paul said U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Korea — where they have been stationed for more than 50 years — and foreign aid to Israel cut.
Perry said it was “time to have a very serious discussion about defunding the United Nations.
Huntsman wasn’t there (not that any one noticed) because he’s boycotting Nevada. I’m assuming Santorum and Gingrich were there, but I can’t be sure since no one seems to have written anything about them.
The opener for Saturday Night Live should be great this week. I wonder if I’ll be able to catch in on the airplane coming back from Denver.
Whatever has happened to the party of Eiswenhower, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln!
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Maybe there has been a stupider group of Republican candidates in our history, but if so I don’t know when it was. Not in my lifetime have I seen anything this bad.
It’s a first for me. These nitwits take the booby prize.
well, you didn’t mention Newt. (I didn’t see the debate). Lots of my facebook Tea Party friends thought Newt was the winner tonight.
The winds knocked out my electricity here. I’m going to have to watch it online. The chatter appears to be more on attacks than the wins for some reason.
I just saw that nasty interaction between Romney and Perry. I thought Perry might punch Romney in the nose.
Yeah, if looks could kill right?
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Bachmann is a typical American — most don’t know where Libya is. Most don’t even know that NEW Mexico is a state in the US between Texas and Arizona — and hell they probably couldn’t draw a map of the US and put the names of the states in their approximate location.
0bowma made some inexcusable USA Geography mistakes — not knowing the states that border Illinois, putting the Great Lakes in or near Oregon — etc.
But since Bachmann wants to be Prez she should be aware of just exactly where US assets are being wasted.
I do admit that naming and placing all the changing African states is a bit challenging for me — the north African countries have remained more or less stable — but the ending colonial occupation of Africa has brought about so many name changes.
I’ll bet most American don’t know where in the world 0bowma just sent 100 military personnel — or why. Perhaps cleaning up the messes made by “The Family”???
Way back in the Stone Ages we were required to learn all the countries of the world and to be able to find them on a Globe.
Perhaps all Bachmann had to do was point up to the sky and say — jesus is coming from there.
I said the same thing Dak…………………….Libya is in Africa………………
Kat, oh boy…it was sort of surreal and funny to an extent a couple of months ago, but now? That we are taking ANY of these “candidates” seriously makes me retreat into some faux-black-mahakala dance. Then again, for Rick Perry, Vajrayogini would be more appropriate.
Meh, I am truly hoping that Obama is just playing some trump card like his amazing ability to preach from the pulpit to put whichever of these “candidates” emerges as the GOP nominee into their place. I mean I want a presidential bitch slap during the REAL debates next summer.
I mean COME ON…a pizza guy? ANOTHER loser from Texas? Ron Paul who really DID have relations with Bruno? A guy who wears temple garments and takes certain cues from Salt Lake City? The wife of Satan (the man she is with now is merely a beard)? A guy whose name equates anal sex detritus? A “fat, old guy” who cheated on his dying cancer wife?
I’m surprised Dennis Kucinich didn’t jump parties just to eff with these things, and yeah, I call them things. These are not presidential candidates. These are reality show contestants. I’m starting to understand how some might have felt during the latter half of the 19th C and post Wilson in the twenties.
Again, I hope Obama pulls some rabbit out of his hat and scares the shite out of Rocky. OR Hillary surprises us all and runs. She has my vote if she does. I want her to run, but it’s good to want things.
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