Let's summarize the Republican debate tonight (hat tip to Daily Kos:
*Torture, yeah!
*No abortion even for rape victims!
*There are just as many scientists who say there is NOT global warming as that there IS.
*Embryonic stem cell research is evil.
*Islam is a religion that inherently wants to kill us.
*Huge applause for implied gay joke ("Congress is spending money like John Edwards at a beauty shop")
I could go on and on, but it's just too sickening. These people are seriously disturbed. All I can say is that if ANY of these people are elected President, we are totally screwed. Totally. Screwed.
P.S. The Hotline blog has coverage.
[UPDATE: A transcript is now available so you can see exactly how crazy these Republicans are.]
An example:
Senator Clinton, your party's leader in the United States Senate, Harry Reid, recently said the war in Iraq is lost. A letter to today's USA Today calls his comments "treasonous" and says if General Patton were alive today, Patton would "wipe his boots" with Senator Reid. Do you agree with the position of your leader in the Senate?
In the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, just 22 percent believe this country is on the right track. Mayor Giuliani, how do we get back to Ronald Reagan's morning in America?
And, yes, the term "liberal media" was brought up tonight.
Here's Wonkette's example:
10:20 TOMMY THOMPSON, ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO SAVE THE MALL OF AMERICA? THOMPSON: REAGAN REAGAN REAGAN COLIN POWELL REAGAN. ALSO, BOMBS.
10:19 ROMNEY: LET A THOUSAND GUANTANAMOS BLOOM, I WANT TO SEND EVERYONE THERE FOREVER. WE WILL NOT-QUITE-TORTURE THEM ALL UNTIL WE ARE FREE.
10:17 The audience just applauded waterboarding.
Oh, it's going to be a fun campaign season.
...he's a raving nutjob who believes in torturing people, bombing everyone back to the stone age, and making everyone carry a national ID card. Can we say "Big Brother?" Wonderful. Oh yeah, and he's corrupt too! Yipee! :)
"If I had to sum it up in a few minutes I would say he's a control freak -- and the control is over your life."
and remember Koch backed Bush in 2004, this isn't just partisan squabbling.
Tough on terror no torture
I invite yall to keep an open-mind on McCain
Some issues really are paramount moral ones. Two candidates opposed it clearly and honorably: McCain and Paul. All the others gleefully supported it - including Brownback. He's a born-again Christian for torture. Giuliani revealed himself as someone we already know. He would have no qualms in exercising executive power brutally, no scruples or restraints. Romney would double the size and scope of Gitmo, to ensure that none of the detainees have lawyers, regardless of their innocence or guilt. That is in itself a disqualification for the presidency of the United States. A man who has open contempt for the most basic rules of Western justice has no business being president.
I couldn't agree more. Anyone who condones or, even worse, advocates torture should be immediately disqualified from being the nominee of a major political party, let alone President of the United States. Torture is wrong, unAmerican, unethical, immoral, and against everything taught by major world religions - including Christianity, to which these candidates profess to adhere. What Would Jesus Do? He sure as heck wouldn't condone torture!
Heads up Democrats and candidates!!! A family value (and the sixth commandment): You shall not commit adultery.
Hint, hint...not a family value.
Challenge them (and him) on this one. In fact challenge the Republican Party....is adultery now okay?
Religious Right, make up your mind, or quit "flip flopping".
...the leading Democratic candidate for president of the United States has said that the unfettered free market is the most disastrous thing in modern America. That's a quote -- or that's a quote she agreed with.
Here's what Hillary Clinton actually said:
I just believe that there's got to be a healthy tension among all of our institutions in society, and that the market is the driving force behind our prosperity, our freedom in so many respects to make our lives our own but that it cannot be permitted just to run roughshod over people's lives as well.
So where did Giuilani get this quote? Well, it turns out that the person conducting the interview, Brian Lamb, quoted from Alan Arenhault, author of "The Lost City." Hillary Clinton simply believes, as do probably 90% of Americans, that the "free market" both domestically and internationally needs rules, checks and balances (e.g., laws against abuse of employees, fraud, insider trading), etc. Does anyone seriously think that the "free market" should operate with NO oversight or checks and balances whatsoever? Ee gads.