GOP debate quickly devolved into a horror show of absurdities on Thursday night

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,811786,00.html

01/27/2012

Lunar Landings and Lies

Republican Debate Veers Toward the Absurd

A Commentary by Marc Pitzke

The US Republican candidates' debate in Florida quickly devolved into a horror show of absurdities on Thursday night as candidates argued about immigration and moon colonies. Mitt Romney was branded the winner, but the real losers were the viewers, the truth and politics in general. snip

No Mention of the Economy

That may make for good TV, but it's the voters who pay. CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer tried to heighten the drama by asking absurd questions about US colonies on the moon, Swiss bank accounts, and Puerto Rican statehood, not to mention which of the four candidates' wives would make the best first lady.

For 120 minutes they "debated" the "hot topics," producing sound bites but offering no insight into how these men would cope with the enormous challenges facing the US. The most important topic for voters, the economy, wasn't addressed at all.

At the end, the commentators declared Romney the winner (because he bit the hardest) and Gingrich the loser (because he didn't bite back hard enough). Santorum was termed the "new" challenger (because he attacked everyone), and Paul became the funny uncle. But the real loser was the political system.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I heard Mittens on NPR this AM talking to a crowd 'How about that debate, huh?"

[southernyankeebelle]

2. your right the public lost. But not all loss because the President comes off looking like the grown

up.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. A historic number of debates ,with people

trying to ingratiate themselves with the 1% while trying to appeal to American Gothics , is eventually going to show it's roots ,pure Shit.

[wtmusic]

4. The political system won bigtime...

the fools looked like fools. For Obama and the country, that's a win-win.

[tularetom]

5. IMO you can blame the "moderators" for the utter failure of these "debates"

People like Wolf Blitzer are either too stupid, too spineless, or too compromised to ask anything but the most trite questions or too follow up when evasive responses are given.

This is why morons like Blitzer are selected for this job instead of somebody like Rachel Maddow who might actually reveal the shallowness of the candidates as well as the inane nature of the process.

[orpupilofnature57]

7. Bingo!!!! Rachel Maddow would end the debate

in a free for all ,instead of suck up to the nwo.

[asjr]

6. To the rest of the world the word

most likely to be used to describe the USA is "pathetic". We may as well retire the word debate and call it what it is--a food fight.