Tag: debate

CNN grimly holding a debate chair warm for Joe Biden.

Desperation makes for an awful cologne: “Vice President Biden could qualify to participate in the first Democratic debate even if he did not decide to enter the race until debate day, according to participation criteria released by  host organization CNN on Monday.” Jazz Shaw over at Hot Air concentrated on how this position is showing special consideration for Joe Biden, which it totally is. But putting aside the question of why Democratic primary candidates are being treated in a gentler fashion than Republican candidates were*… there’s a question here over just why CNN wants Joe Biden on that stage. Why CNN needs Joe Biden on that stage. Continue reading CNN grimly holding a debate chair warm for Joe Biden.

I threw a Storify together on the primaries.

It seems to slightly bug Cruz supporters (mind you, I like Cruz) and the Trump ones (I don’t think that Trump’s campaign is viable in the long term, or even the medium). Such is life: the fun thing about espousing an autocratic strategy – even one that you know will never get implemented – is that you get to be, well, autocratic about it. The nice thing about my suggested strategy is that The Trash Heap Has Spoken and that’s the end of it so let’s all get on with our lives.
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The Democrats had a bad night in the Iowa Senate race.

Sounds like they lost a debate that they needed to win.

Such a tragedy.

Moe Lane

PS: The GOP locking down Iowa would make life exceptionally difficult for Democratic strategists.

WaPo reluctantly reports Terry McAuliffe’s bald-faced debate lie.

It’s bad when the Washington Post can’t come up with a way to excuse a Virginia Democrat:

In the most obvious misstatement of the debate, [Democrat Terry] McAuliffe attacked [Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken] Cuccinelli over the findings of a Richmond prosecutor who had been tasked with investigating Cuccinelli’s financial disclosures.

“If you read the whole report, which I have, it says in here that the attorney general should have been prosecuted,” McAuliffe said, over Cuccinelli’s failure to disclose his stock holdings in Star Scientific and gifts from Williams. McAuliffe also said that because of Cuccinelli’s ties to Williams and Star, which filed a civil tax case against the state, “a judge took the case away from him because of a conflict of interest.”

Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael Herring said in a report last week that he found no evidence that Cuccinelli had violated the law. And it was Cuccinelli’s office that requested recusal from the civil tax case.

“So much is inaccurate,” Cuccinelli said when asked in the debate to respond, “I’ll let the fact checkers take care of it. That one’s gonna get sliced up.”

After the debate, McAuliffe sought to clarify his comment. “On the report — the attorney general could have been prosecuted if we had stronger disclosure laws in Virginia,” McAuliffe said, although Herring’s report did not make that assertion.

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The morning after the third debate: first impressions.

Judging from the reaction that most of my colleagues are seeing, there are a lot of angry Lefties that are baffled at how their guy isn’t being lauded and cossetted and praised to the skies and resuming his mantle of inevitability; after all, did Obama not win last night?

So it’s going to be a fun rest of the week, I’m thinking.  Lot of bitterness and spite going to be going on, out there.  And damned little of it from my side, which is how it should be: we’re the good guys, after all.

Moe Lane

PS: Do you know what the really funny part will be? Watching the Left watch the polls tighten… and then loosen up again.

Tweet of the Day, …Oh. Oh My edition.

If this is true, well, it says it all:

Jeremy was that poor kid in the debate last night who was terrified to be on national television asking the current President (and the next one) a question. I’m not going to hate on him; it’s tough to speak in public if you don’t have the right skill- and mindset. Besides, if the above is true I’d have to say that his instincts are pretty sound.

#rsrh AARP throws Obama under his own bus.

Now this must have been embarrassing:

Via @MelissaTweets. Horrible thing, when an interest group that you bought fair and square won’t stay bought…