He made a joke of himself before he made a joke.

What a bunch of asswipes.

of course, since they own the voting machines ... getting elected won't be a problem.

If elected president, from his explanation of what he did in New York, Giuliani is going to cut taxes 43 times.

Did Thompson start by saying the economy is "dynamic and vibrant", and end by saying, "Bankrupting the next generation and those yet to be born. Those are truthful things that the American people, I think, have an intuition about. We need to own up to it."?

I think the hynotized Salon reporter missed an epiphany of biblical proportions somewhere between minutes 1 and 73

Thank you Michael Scherer. No one in their right mind could have sat through these bottom feeders throwing pebbles at each other, whilst describing what to do about the huge gash in the bottom of the S.S. Titanic that we are all sailing on.

Needless to say, none of them, with the exception of Ron Paul offered unlocking the doors to the steerage section so that the poor would have just the slightest chance of survival. Little do they know that there are not enough lifeboats, even for the rich on deck. They would do best to continue as they have, by telling the orchestra to keep playing that song over and over.

Really.

wish I had seen it. Democratic candidates aren't really inspiring me to believe things will ever change.

The Breakdown of the Family[Brownback]? How about The Grinding Down of the Family]! By the HAVES AND HAVE MORES,"Muh Base" as Mr.Bush calls them.Actually the economic problems in Detroit come about because there are not enough McDonalds--Taco Bells--Burger Kings--Etc.Etc. in the city limits for the people to work 100 hours a week at! We need more "HAVE MORES" TO INVEST IN THESE ENTERPRISES.God knows their are more than enough desperate people to staff them!!!!!

I think I did myself a favour by turning the picture off and listening to it as if it were a radio broadcast.

In fact, the debates should be confined to radio; it focuses the attention on the words, which are the only things about politicians that matter in the end.

After all, who really cares what colour tie Mr Thompson was wearing? How is that going to affect public policy?

In the event, what a banal pile of horse manure it turned out to be. There was virtually nothing of substance, about policy, about real issues facing voters, discussed.

The answers given by the candidates showed the format up for it's purpose...to give the candidates a chance to expound for 30 seconds or 2 minutes on any given topic. And just as often as not, the candidate dedicated five words to the question he was asked, then began speaking about something totally unrelated.

This was not a debate, this was a Sound Bite Opportunity.

I pity you poor Americans. All you have left is fashion.

GOP strategists everywhere are drowning their sorrows in round after round of wood-alcohol cocktails.

by having subtitles, similar to Annie Hall.

Rudy: I believe that we are in a global blah blah blah...

(Subtitle : Remember when I was in charge? Can I be in charge again? Everything was scary, and I was mayor. Remember?)

Romney: I think the values of this great country are...

(Subtitle: Is this crap going over? Should I say the opposite maybe? Watch the crowd, are they nodding in approval? Or just falling asleep? Look, that guy over there is falling asleep! Oh wait, that's Fred Thompson.)

Thompson: Well, I think that the economy has uhm, moments...

(Subtitle: God this is boring. I wonder what's on TV. Me maybe?)

With the current “debates” being so Republican in nature, I thought I would spice things up with a few of the more memorable comments from past and present Republicans (and other notable voices).

Ishtak Weinstein at the 1933 Germany’s National Socialist Party Convention:

“Hitler or me, one of us has to go!”

Richard Nixon at the 1973 National Professional Chef’s Conference:

“I am not a cook!”

Arnold Schwartzenegger at the 2006 NAACP’s Solution to Racism Conference:

“I’ll be black!”

Vice President Chaney to the 2007 Population Control Conference on how to solve over population:

“Go f*** yourself!”

Noah to the 2000BCE Garden of Eden District’s Insurer’s Conference:

“Flood insurance, shmud insurance!”

Robert Downey Jr. to the 2002 Betty Ford Clinic Parole Board:

“Give me Liberty or give me Meth!”

Roger “Big Gun” Clark at the 2003 Responsible Deer Hunters of America Association Get-Together:

“Don’t fire until you see the brights in their eyes!”

Satan - Prince of Darkness, at the 2007 National Refrigeration Society’s Convention (to the chagrin of millions):

“Thanks to you, I now have a snowball in hell!”

President Bush to the 2006 Hollywood Actor’s Union brunch:

“Missed takes? Missed takes? I can’t recall ever making one!”

"I think we need to tell the American people the truth." Fred Thompson says. Yeah... riiiiiiight. Why start now? You are a sham and a lying sonofabitch.

Mitt Romney is such a brown-nosing liar, who is only relying on his youthful (compared to the scraggly, past their prime candidates) appearance to gain voters. As a former Massachusetts resident, I knew first hand what a sham this bastard is. He's a believe it because I say it type who wants to con the American people into supporting him. He's a do-nothing, but look good, it's all image anyway, asshole.

Has anyone noticed his huge, toothy-grin-fake smile that looks like Tony Robbins? PSYCHO. Why don't get get yourself an infomercial that runs at 4:30 in the morning and stop wasting our time.

John McCain. Give it up. You're embarrassing yourself. No one believes you anyway.

I don't have the time (or desire) to go on about any of these other worthless mothers (sorry, Sen. Sam Brownback). They are all liars who are talking through their asses about issues that they are only going to exploit if one of them in lucky (note: public=unlucky) to wins the big cheese (and it stinks) position.

I'm still crossing my fingers that this country will gain a democrat as it's representative. If a republican wins it, welcome to uber-hell.

God help us all.