I'm serious. There was just nothing remotely memorable. I guess Lindsay Graham had a few moments that he at least was kind of interesting.
Overall, though, a snooze-fest. I really wonder if it's not time to disband the Kids' Table. If you can't manage a certain level of poll support by now then watch it at home.
It's a matter of simple math. There are too many candidates. To have these four forgettable guys in a debate is just a waste of time and money. On the other hand to do the Rachel Maddow solution and let everyone be at the main debate leads to the thing being way too long.
Randomly putting half on one stage and half on another as Rachael also suggested robs the audience. They have a right to see those with a real shot to win on the same stage debating with each other. I don't think the focus should be fairness to those who have no chance anyway. It should be fairness to the audience in seeing a meaningful debate.
It's different in the Dem debate as there are so few candidates that it makes sense to keep bringing Martin O'Malley with us. He is very good at keeping the essential discussion of gun control going.
Tonight Graham mostly did the usual GOP Rambo talk. He's going to show the 'world's dictators a clenched fist.'
He managed to redirect an allegedly economics discussion to Syria at every chance. He did come out for 'legal immigration' and this was treated as something new, but it isn't. Only accepting legal immigration is the GOP view already-and send back the 11 million already here and build a fence.
Nothing new here.
But I think Bobby Jindal put the exclamation point on the Kids' Debate. After the debate he explained that the GOP will never win by offering 'free stuff.'
This is amazing. He's invoking Romney. Does he not realize that Romney lost? This is the GOP in a nutshell. They continue to employ the same losing strategies and expect a different result.
If free stuff was a political loser in 2012 why does Jindal imagine it's gold this time?
Overall, though, a snooze-fest. I really wonder if it's not time to disband the Kids' Table. If you can't manage a certain level of poll support by now then watch it at home.
It's a matter of simple math. There are too many candidates. To have these four forgettable guys in a debate is just a waste of time and money. On the other hand to do the Rachel Maddow solution and let everyone be at the main debate leads to the thing being way too long.
Randomly putting half on one stage and half on another as Rachael also suggested robs the audience. They have a right to see those with a real shot to win on the same stage debating with each other. I don't think the focus should be fairness to those who have no chance anyway. It should be fairness to the audience in seeing a meaningful debate.
It's different in the Dem debate as there are so few candidates that it makes sense to keep bringing Martin O'Malley with us. He is very good at keeping the essential discussion of gun control going.
Tonight Graham mostly did the usual GOP Rambo talk. He's going to show the 'world's dictators a clenched fist.'
He managed to redirect an allegedly economics discussion to Syria at every chance. He did come out for 'legal immigration' and this was treated as something new, but it isn't. Only accepting legal immigration is the GOP view already-and send back the 11 million already here and build a fence.
Nothing new here.
But I think Bobby Jindal put the exclamation point on the Kids' Debate. After the debate he explained that the GOP will never win by offering 'free stuff.'
This is amazing. He's invoking Romney. Does he not realize that Romney lost? This is the GOP in a nutshell. They continue to employ the same losing strategies and expect a different result.
If free stuff was a political loser in 2012 why does Jindal imagine it's gold this time?
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