College gals are busy these days so I wanted to take a moment to review all you need to know about last night’s debate. It’s hard to squeeze this puppy in because I know you were working your hostess job to pay for yet another unpaid internship or actively note taking in your Monday night class.
Wait a second, you were watching The Bachelorette instead? Well the voting isn’t for a long time anyway… Read on to get your quick fix (nobody will ever know you opted for a roses and vacations to Thailand over the future of your country).
Last night, Republican candidates had the chance to address the American public on a variety issues. Seven potentials attended the event, but save your Palin hating, she wasn’t one of them. Our players, in no particular order, were: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. The biggest problem of the evening, Presidential candidates COULD NOT limit their answers to 30 seconds, (which is honestly kind of unreasonable anyway), and lead to constant interruptions by moderator John King all night long. Awk.
The winner from the evening (This is America after all, winning is far more important than the ideas) seems to have been Mitt Romney. The front-runner emerged from the evening, amazingly unscathed. Pawlenty had attacked his Massachusetts health care calling it, “Obamneycare” a few days before, but when asked to discuss his attack decidedly fumbled to create a response during the debate, to-to-today junior! Pawlenty chose instead to focus his answer on the problems with plain old ObamaCare.
On just the second question in the debate Bachmann said, “I will not rest until I repeal Obamacare.” She started the evening off with a band as she continued to explain that Obama’s healthcare will kill more than 800,000 jobs.
In fact, criticizing Obama seemed to be the only consistent theme for the evening. The boys (and token lady) played nice last night, their mommies should be proud. It seemed the republicans didn’t duke it out for a top spot in the race but rather presented a strong, anti-Obama front, because our soaring debt, faltering economy, healthcare and recent (dismal) job report provided far too much bait. Despite probing questions aimed to start the attacks, the candidates seemed pretty happy to sit back and be, well, friendly.
Another interesting topic that came up during the debate is the impact of the Tea Party. The Tea Party has been outspoken about their disapproval of Romney (and it the last night debates didn’t seem to win him any extra points with the group) and during the debate, questions about the affect of the Tea Party surfaced without really definitive answers
Totally relevant, CNN decided to spice up the evening with a “This or That” section. Because I don’t know about you but I definitely couldn’t vote for a president who thinks Dancing with the Stars over Idol, or thinks Pepsi is better than Coke. Really.
Bottom Line: We still have a long way to go. And by the way, Ron Paul is pretty hilarious. He lightened up the evening. YouTube him.
Once thought a longshot, Republican Alaskan Senator Sarah Palin is now on a plane to potentially stand at McCain’s side. Also leavin’ on a jetplane is Mass’s Mormon Mitt Romney. Ohhhhhhh the tension is killing me, but we have received some great insights from interns that we know who work at some real publications.
If Obama had tapped (politically speaking) Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney would be the VP bid to try and match her fund-raising firepower. Since Joe Biden is in, the Republicans can now pick a female VP and look (and this is a direct quote), “progressive in the ever-changing political landscape where all citizens have equal representation and a global voice.” Gosh, I wish I could write pretty like that. Read More »
Sen. John McCain will choose businessman, Republican Presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as his Vice President, in his bid for the White House this November, a source closely connected with the McCain campaign (who asked to remain anonymous), told us earlier this afternoon.
Though others were close in the running, the choice ultimately came down to the money–not the man. According to our source, the campaign narrowed their Vice Presidential options to Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the two most successful opponents of McCain in the bid for the Republican nomination. But despite Huckabee’s sway with far Right conservatives and evangelical voters, Romney packs the deepest fund-raising pockets. Read More »
He may have tried to keep sexual orientation out of the definition of hate crimes and voted against same sex marriage, but an Idaho Republican senator really does love the gays—for discrete bathroom romps.
Larry Craig, who until Monday was a key player in Massachusetts’s governor Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential bid, recently separated himself from the campaign for being a possible “distraction”.
Well, it seems that in June, he was apprehended by a plainclothes officer “investigating complaints of lewd behavior in an airport men’s room”.
The officer reported that the 62-year-old Republican “lingered outside a restroom stall where the officer was sitting, then entered the stall next door and blocked the door with his luggage.” The officer went on to explain that Craig then “tapped his right foot”, which is apparently a signal “used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct.”
To make sure he got his point across, Craig “touched the officer’ foot with his foot” and “proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times” after which the plainclothes officer put his police identification on the ground, no doubt causing Craig to lose any sort of pocket party he may have been fostering. Read More »
I must admit, I haven’t been paying all that much attention to the upcoming presidential vote. The main reason being, I stopped watching The Daily Show in college. And yes, at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, I was lucky enough to be home watching Jon Stewart, and not in class. Hint: become an arts major, not a physics major.
But, thanks to RadarOnline, I now have a better idea of who our potential presidential front-runners are, and where they are in the race.
The presidential candidates have been using Myspace as a means to put their names and messages out there to the Wired Ones of America – the ones who are up on their technology, in with the trends, the bloggers, the “cool kids,” – you know…us. And what’s better proof of just how well they and their campaigners are doing? Their number of Myspace friends.
According to the site’s very helpful Saved By the Bell chart, it seems as though Barack Obama is the Zack Morris of ’08 candidates. I wonder if Barack can pull off sporting such “natural” blonde locks and a nifty cell phone quite like the Zack Meister? Whatever he’s doing, he’s doing it right – he has over 100,000 Myspace friends. Almost as many as I have. Read More »
The New York Times reported in a recent article that the candidates for the 2008 election will be using social networking tools such as myspace as a campaign tool. So far, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joseph Biden, and Dennis Kucinich have set up myspace pages, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney will launch their official pages in the coming weeks.
“Tom Anderson, 31, a MySpace founder, said, “MySpace has a method of reaching people who are historically not interested in voting” and may not read newspapers or watch news on television. He added: “A MySpace profile could excite their interest in ways they are used to. In the same way they learn about their friends, they could learn about a candidate.””
I’m not sure how I feel about this tactic, it seems sort of silly to me that candidates are setting up accounts on sites where typically it would be creepy for someone their age to be on. But, I can see the argument that at least it gets young people interested in the issues, even if they are just glancing at the pages briefly.
Here’s what I could come up with in terms of myspace pages that are up so far for each
College gals are busy these days so I wanted to take a moment to review all you need to know about last night’s debate. It’s hard to squeeze this puppy in because I know you were working your hostess job to pay for yet another unpaid internship or actively note taking in your Monday night class.
He may have tried to keep sexual orientation out of the definition of hate crimes and voted against same sex marriage, but an Idaho Republican senator really does love the gays—for discrete bathroom romps.
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