“These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one minute response. So, you know, if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the campaigns [debates] when all they’re interested in is stirring up between the candidates instead of really talking about the issues that are important to the American people.”
First off, I am sorry I made you read that quote. Sentence structure like that is never easy to experience. But more to the point, it appears Rick Perry is trying to make the case for not having candidate debates. (I stifle a "Yay!" I live tweet these things. All of them.) This makes sense since he sucks so bad a thinking/talking and, honestly what candidate wouldn't rather just share their carefully crafted, buffed and polished image of themselves with the public? What candidate wouldn't want to be able to present their hyperbolic dysentery without fear of factual repudiation or troublesome discussion? David Frum made a very good point the other day about Perry: Perry isn't speaking to the pundit/policy wonk class when he throws down garbage like The Sort of 20% Flat Tax Plan *Now With The Magiks™*, a the plan that will:
-Eliminate SS taxes without eliminating SS payments by protecting the SS Trust Fund that is already empty!
-Simply the tax code by preserving the entire existing tax code and adding a rasher of optional flat tax gobbled-d-gook to it!
-Promise to keep energy prices low and energy plentiful in the US of A while assuming in all predictive economic models that energy prices will double by 2018 and allowing all our domestically produced energy to be exported!
-Reduce Government spending and government revenue without cuts to entitlement or military spending or addressing healthcare costs at all! Not even a little bit! Not one word!
Perry is actually talking to the Cognitive Dissonance Class of repigs; people who want to think they are good people who don’t want poor children and old people to starve, who don’t relish having the blood of a million innocents on their hands and who want winners not cheaters to get the spoils of the great American white uny-corn 24 hour buffet. They want to be good whilst still being repigs and voting for assholes like Perry. If you spend several hours a day worrying about the devil bungholing your soul for all eternity, you want to be good bad enough to believe almost anything. As much of a stretch as it it, they might even believe that debates leave a brain trust like Perry in the grips of The Frustrations: the limited time allotted for answering queries is just too dang short for him to fully convey his deep knowledge of the issues of the day. Also, he can fly and poops blueberry muffins.
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