Lindsay Graham can be one of the funniest men in politics, but last night at the debates he came up with some of the smartest stuff I have ever heard from a politician. He may have been on the undercard but he showed all the candidates what the reality of their attack on Islam is and how it is helping ISIS not keeping us safe.
Then he ruined it all by saying that he wished George Bush was still president. Well, you can’t have everything.
The debates went onto a war footing, with everybody except possibly Rand Paul. The rest of the candidates are all up in arms over the killings in San Bernardino. They are fanning the flames of fear and getting all their cowardly supporters up for war as long as they don’t have to fight it. But war against who? Not one of these turkeys mentioned the American terrorist who killed three people at a Planned Parenthood facility only a week before after listening to the lies of the likes of Carly Fiorina. Why didn’t Cruz, or Rubio or Trump or any of the other warmongers mention this? Because it didn’t fit into their political scenario of protecting us from all those horrible Muslims, all those people whose kids were fighting for our country, all those refugees who are now living in what amounts to prison camps because of George Bush’s foreign policy of war.
The problem is that if all these saber rattling Republican candidates, none of whom except Lindsay Graham ever put on a uniform to defend this country, admit that we are just as susceptible to America terrorists as we are to Muslim terrorists they will also have to admit that the problem isn’t the terrorists it’s the guns that are so easily available to them. If they do that, the arms dealers that pay for their campaign costs will be very peeved and may stop keeping them in corporate jets.
A quick overview o the debate shows that only Lindsay Graham and Rand Paul made any sense. John Kasich, who this blog felt would make the best president of them all decided that he was too far behind to keep up his program of logical thought as applied to government so he dropped the intelligent approach and rattled his sword for all he was worth, hoping that some of the nuts following Trump would fall off the tree and land in his pocket. Good luck.
Carly Fiorina didn’t seem to realize that she has actually lied her way out of contention. Who would believe that a Republican candidate could actually lie too much? She shouldn’t be around for any more debates unless they have one in a cathedral and she plays one of the gargoyles.
No one on the undercard with the exception of Graham had anything intelligent to say. He should be pumped up to the main event even if he hasn’t any numbers simply because the big table desperately needs the voice of reason, which has not yet been exhibited by any of the current occupants.
Cruz and Rubio had a nice little exchange in which each accused the other of destroying the government’s ability to spy on its own people. Both missing the point that the government had all the information it needed to stop 911, the Boston Bombers and the San Bernardino attack. But it didn’t have the organization or functionality to use that information. The problem isn’t that our homeland security apparatus is short on information about what it going on, it’s that they haven’t the ability to turn that information into protection, all at the cost of billions.
Jeb tried to grow a pair, but it’s really a lost cause. He won’t face the facts of history. He keeps trying to make his bigger, dumber brother look like he knew what he was doing, and worse, he just can’t stand up to the big bully.
Trump really knows how to play to the cheap seats, but he still doesn’t have a single plan on what to do about all the nonsense he brags that he will accomplish. Anyone with any sense knows that he can’t do what he says he will do because it’s either unconstitutional or impractical. But the nut gallery loves to hear him spout and it’s looking more and more like he might win this thing which is great news for the down card of the Democrats because whoever wins the presidency will need either the Senate or the House to get anything done.
Ben Carson is too lazy to be the president. He wants us to believe that if he gets the job he will gear up and find out what he needs to know to do it. You want the job, Ben? Gear up now and show us that you can absorb even a touch of what you will need to know if we are dumb enough to elect you. It appears that it is time for him to stop wasting peoples money and go the way of Fiorina.
And then there’s Chris Christie. Did you know that he was once a Federal Prosecutor? If you don’t you’ve been on another planet for the last nine months because he starts every sentence with that fact. I probably would too, if I were in his place, because he has nothing to brag about in his tenure as governor of New Jersey. Christie is fun to watch and I wouldn’t mind having him on my side in a street brawl but he is so wrong about so many things, that it’s hard to consider him a serious candidate.
Your evaluations get ever sharper as they get more acerbic and funnier. Keep it up, the years wear well on you.