Every candidate no matter what party spends a great deal of time in rehearsal with every part of their response from the verbal responses to the hand gestures being carefully choreographed and rehearsed. No matter what takes place I see the most viable GOP candidate as Romney and the others in the basic state of being "also rans". What was proven in the debate was to me no surprise.
The problem with the GOP is very simple. They never from the beginning give a clear pathway as to what they can in fact do. Many do not understand the limitations of the job they are seeking and the GOP has over the past several decades slipped away from running on issues and making an entire campaign out of slamming the previous office holder. In the GOP many conservatives have come to accept non answers as answers and the Dems are not much better.
I will give Ms. Bachmann the nod as being the best actor on that stage. She did make an academy award winning performance and empty promises look very good. Not that her opposition is going to do much better. Remember that one of Ronald Reagans greatest abilities did not come from his political abilities because like all others his administration had many failures as well as successes. Reagan had decades of experience as an actor. It is an actors job to take fantasy and make it seem to be an acceptable alternative reality. I cannot see the background of being a Tax Attorney as a qualifying stint for possibly one of the most difficult jobs in the world. I don't think that Obama was really seasoned enough but was stuck with him because of Palin. A Bachmann in the Whitehouse will continue the trend of most Americans into the "poorhouse". The GOP was for some years a rubber stamp for corporate greed. Unfortunately the spineless wimp in the driver's seat right now still thinks that saying yes to the other guys is a win of something. He is a loser but so are what is being offered by the GOP. I would rather go with the idiot we have than a new idiot who in the process of shifting gears makes things even worse. We also need to clean house in this Government and eliminate "conflict of interest" which is where the worst part of the whole mess has come from.
The problem with the GOP is very simple. They never from the beginning give a clear pathway as to what they can in fact do. Many do not understand the limitations of the job they are seeking and the GOP has over the past several decades slipped away from running on issues and making an entire campaign out of slamming the previous office holder. In the GOP many conservatives have come to accept non answers as answers and the Dems are not much better.
I will give Ms. Bachmann the nod as being the best actor on that stage. She did make an academy award winning performance and empty promises look very good. Not that her opposition is going to do much better. Remember that one of Ronald Reagans greatest abilities did not come from his political abilities because like all others his administration had many failures as well as successes. Reagan had decades of experience as an actor. It is an actors job to take fantasy and make it seem to be an acceptable alternative reality. I cannot see the background of being a Tax Attorney as a qualifying stint for possibly one of the most difficult jobs in the world. I don't think that Obama was really seasoned enough but was stuck with him because of Palin. A Bachmann in the Whitehouse will continue the trend of most Americans into the "poorhouse". The GOP was for some years a rubber stamp for corporate greed. Unfortunately the spineless wimp in the driver's seat right now still thinks that saying yes to the other guys is a win of something. He is a loser but so are what is being offered by the GOP. I would rather go with the idiot we have than a new idiot who in the process of shifting gears makes things even worse. We also need to clean house in this Government and eliminate "conflict of interest" which is where the worst part of the whole mess has come from.