Posted on 10/15/2015 5:41:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Its over. The Democratic Partys first debate just ended, and my main takeaway is how sad it is that the party of JFK has been reduced to five elderly white people arguing over who can out nut-job each other.
For all his problems, Kennedy was a tax-cutting anti-communist who loved and defended this country whose values have no place in todays Democratic Party.
I dont know what country those candidates were talking about, but it sounds awful. It has a rigged system that keeps down minorities, women, gays, men, aliens, animals, trees, anything living and most things dead. But somehow this horrible nation favors the rich. Im not sure how they earn the money the rich steal from them since theyre so severely oppressed, but it all just sounds horrible.
Whoever has been running the place they were speaking about must be some kind of monster for not fixing these egregious injustices.
Fear not, America. Those Democrats running to replace that person promise more of the same, only with different results. Theres a definition of insanity in there somewhere.
The basic theme of the Democratic debate was: Big government isnt working, so we need bigger government.
Aside from Jim Webb who appears to have been in hibernation since the JFK days and still believes in what the Democratic Party once stood for not a single candidate has any semblance of a realistic view of the world.
Martin OMalley was a robot low on batteries. His most memorable moment was Wait, he was there? OMalley tries to speak in sweeping prose, but he never says anything. Hes the white Maya Angelou, minus the talent, who seems to be running for president only because he knows hes otherwise unemployable outside of academia. I dont promote drug use, but Marty could use a bump or two of cocaine before the next debate, if he makes it that long.
Lincoln Chafee was governor of Rhode Island. Seriously. In fact, Rhode Island elected him the mayor of a city and to the U.S. Senate before it made him governor. Again, I am not kidding. Our smallest state is, it turns out, our densest when it comes to crazy.
This rejected concept for a Muppet is running for president because even academia wont hire him. His most memorable moment was admitting he voted for a bill he opposed because he was new to the Senate and it was popular. Hell make the next debate because the only way hell have anything better to do is if the rocks he talks to begin to answer back.
Bernie Sanders is what would result if Larry David impregnated the Cookie Monster. He represents a state whose major industry involves hammering spigots into trees and driving to New Hampshire to avoid paying sales tax. His adult life has been spent in government, and he has nothing to show for it. Name a single bill he shepherded through Congress into law. Thats what I thought.
He loves free stuff more than junkies love methadone. But like a junkie, he has no idea how to pay for any of it. Moreover, he has no concern about it. If you lend a junkie money, you never get it back. If you elect Bernie Sanders you will never get your wallet back. Hes the only human being who looks at an $18 trillion national debt and thinks, That needs to be doubled.
Sanders hates Wall Street speculators, which is anyone with an IRA who actually wants it to increase in value. Stagnation as social justice and a you cant do it attitude has led Bernie to corner the get off my lawn vote.
His most memorable moment was staying awake past the streetlights turning on.
Hillary Clinton was there too, promising to do for the country what shes done with the Clinton Foundation spend other peoples money on her whims. After having successfully sheltered her familys fortune, shes promising to raise taxes on people in whose tax bracket she would be in if she hadnt created a charity to pay her expenses.
Shes joined Sanders in calling for free college of everyone, which must come as a shock to professors, administrators and janitors who would have to work for no pay to fulfill that pledge. Of course, shes not talking about anything for free; shes talking about paying for it with massive amounts of our money. Actually, not our money our money and our kids money is already spent. Clinton is now promising to spend the money of zygotes and the children of zygotes.
Hilariously, in the midst of a scandal and FBI investigation about how she mishandled classified material, Hillary had the gall to condemn Edward Snowden for mishandling classified material. Everyone on stage either was too drowsy to notice or too afraid theyd never get another paying job in Democratic Party politics to say anything.
Her most memorable moment was a pee joke. Seriously. Returning late from a break, Hillary said it takes her longer. It was funny, but it also was fitting. When asked how she would be different from Barack Obama her answer was pretty much that she would always use the toilet sitting down. That probably needs to be fact checked, on both parts, but Ill let it slide.
The big winners of the night were the people who didnt watch. Even if they spent that time chewing glass, they made the right call. That in a nation of 330 million people, in which a third belong to that party, these are the best the Democratic Party could field tells you all you need to know about how far it has fallen.
That one of them, based almost exclusively on who she married and how she uses the toilet, could end up being president of the United States says a lot about how far the country has fallen.
To paraphrase former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan: “Which office do I go to to get my two hours back?”
It was nothing more than a schmoozefest for gimmedats. The debate should’ve been held in Cuba, Venezuela or red China.
Debate taught me that Democratic Socialism has finally gained a firm foothold in this country, and that we are now officially Europe.
No need for any more Dem debates, although Hillary’s likely to flip flop a few more times. Then she can debate herself.
I was in a class Tuesday night. Our 60’s era hippie instructor, who griped he had to give the class on debate night, was trying to give us his lecture at the same time keeping up on the debate on his smart phone. I didn’t axe him any political questions.
Great article by Derek Hunter. More neo-socialist nonsense from the SCUMBAGS who’ve been ripping us off for decades.
$18,407,150,250,409+
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
BTTT
Reads like the great Dave Barry.
Here we had 4 Democrat hacks and one self identified Socialist who over the course of only a little over two hours made promises to initiate programs that had a price tag approaching $20 trillion (10 years). Lord help us if one of these goofs has 4 years to think up new shit.
Funny thing is that not one of those people had any criticism of the others potlatch promises. In the debate the terms “national debt”, “balanced budget” and “government waste” were not mentioned.
Taking the total adjusted gross income of the top one percent would not be enough to pay for it.
Good for you or you would have been arrested for murder
Sorry I couldn't resist. Is it so difficult to say "ask"?
‘Debate taught me that Democratic Socialism has finally gained a firm foothold in this country, and that we are now officially Europe.’
We are a democrat socialist country that pays for its own defense. We are really screwed.
Before the debate I drove through an area of town where Millenials like to hang out, and 1 out of 3 cars bore a Feel the Bern bumper sticker.
Screwed indeed.
I didn’t watch it because I knew that it would be.
If we don't fight it WE will be wasted literally. Remember, things in the media are blacked out. To her supporters, she is really terrific.
I agree.
And had he lived, he would be downright apoplectic over the way the dim party has turned.
(Even though I kinda think he did, deep down inside, really believe that "Camelot" bullshit.)
That wasn’t a modern debate about the issues....that was a hippie love-in from the sixties. They all sounded so much like one-world, socialist cranks from the sixties, I firmly believe all the participants smoked some high grade MJ before they went on stage.
Fifty years ago Dems and Pubbies agreed on most social issues. There were still plenty of Dem pols who believed in a strong defense and fighting communism. A Bernie Sanders couldn't have gotten elected dog catcher in those days. All gone now.
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