The Gloves Come Off During The Republican Presidential Debate

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Last night during the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa, we got a rare look at how Fox News reacts once they lose their ability to play the role of Republican candidate puppeteers. The first instance of this occurred after Chris Wallace asked Tim Pawlenty about whether he believed Michele Bachmann was unfit “to serve President because of her history of migraines.” Pawlenty quickly countered that it was Bachmann’s record, not her migraine problem that he had questioned. Never to back down from criticism, Bachmann quickly responded by equating Pawlenty’s policies as Minnesota Governor to those of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named – Barack Obama – and a hush fell over the auditorium.

Chris Wallace, noticing that this dispute had left the bounds of reciprocal condemnation of Obama’s Presidency and into the realm of, gasp, intra-Republican demonization and debate, decided to ask Bachmann if she understood if she knew what she was doing:

Chris Wallace: …Congresswoman Bachmann, isn’t that about the worst thing you can say about a fellow Republican in this campaign that he reminds you of Barack Obama?

Bachmann quickly re-affirmed her position and doubled down by mentioning her pro-bulb stance:

Rep. Bachmann:The policies that the Governor advocated for were cap and trade. He praised and wanted to require Minnesotans to purchase the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care and he said the era of small government is over. I have a very consistent record of fighting very hard against Barack Obama and his unconstitutional measures in congress. I’m very proud of that record. That is what qualifies me, as a fighter and Representative of the people, to go to Washington, D.C. and the White House. People are looking for a champion. They want someone who has been fighting. When it came to healthcare, I brought tens of thousands of Americans to Washington to fight the unconstitutional individual mandates, I didn’t praise it. When it came to cap and trade, I fought it with everything that was in me, I introduced the Lightbulb Freedom of Choice Act so people could purchase the lightbulb of their choice. I also believe that big government is hurting the United States. We need to have small government.

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When Republican candidates start comparing one another to Barack Obama, you know they are getting desperate and things are getting out of hand. What this also displays is how Fox News is losing their power to effectively choreograph their Republican Presidential Primary narrative. During their previous debate back in May, they steered clear of asking anything overly confrontational that would pit any of the candidates into an existential head-to-head; instead, they played it safe by asking irrelevant questions such as whether they agreed or disagreed with waterboarding. The takeaway message was that the candidates may have some disagreements, but at least they aren’t like Obama. Now, on the other hand, they are wading into the realm of asking questions that actually set the candidates against one another, and the results aren’t what they were expecting. I don’t think anybody was ready for the slur of “being like Obama” to be said.

Comments

  1. Thomas G Miller says:
    August 13, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    Contention between two cannibals over who will get to eat the American Populace is irrelevant, they are both cannibals.

    The American Populace is saturated from the “cradle to the grave” with sophism, dialectic, and propaganda and the purpose of sophism, dialectic, and propaganda from the “cradle to the grave” is to fill the minds of the American Populace with “genuine belief in deliberate lies” that will lead the American Populace to willingly and freely accept a false sense of advantage as real advantage.

    If it is within you to think, think about the purpose of sophism, dialectic, and propaganda, and ask yourself —- Am I receiving REAL ADVANTAGE from the existing Republican Party/Democratic Party Duopoly? — Or, is this Political Duopoly asking me to have “genuine belief in deliberate lies? And, is this process one that has been going on in the United States for 235 years in support of the “select few” of the American Aristocracy and the American Middle Class at the expense of the American Populace, the 70% Majority Common Population of the United States?

    If it is withing you to think —— THINK!!! And, —- ASK YOURSELF — Is it time for a change from having and accepting “genuine belief in deliberate lies” drilled into my head from the “cradle to the grave” that inculcates me to accept a false sense of advantage as real advantage? Or, is it time for OBJECTIVE VERIFIABLE REALITY that will provide OBJECTIVE VERIFIABLE BENEFIT that will give me, as a member of the American Populace, real objective quantifiable advantage without asking me to believe in a false sense of advantage? — the advantage of a Dream World, the American Dream.

    If it is time for a change, the first step in achieving that change is AWARENESS, awareness that from the “cradle to the grave” you are being inculcated to have “genuine belief in deliberate lies” that provide real advantage to a “select few” in the United States and a false sense of advantage to the “many” in the United States, the American Populace, the 70% Majority Common Population of the United States.

  2. kiel says:
    August 14, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    Well, I don’t know about you, but when I see quotation marks slung about like hash in a greasy-spoon diner, I become “very convinced.”

  3. Thomas G Miller says:
    August 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    The Middle Class represents the center between the other two classes — like your nose in the middle of your face represents the middle of your body, not your right hand or your left hand — Why, do you expect that your nose in the middle of your face should control your left hand? As a political metaphor for the Middle Class, should the nose be representing the Political Left? Of course not.

    The Middle Class is the MIDDLE, —- and the Middle Class will only represent its own constituents of “THE MIDDLE!!!, a 20% minority.”

    It is time for The LEFT, the American Populace, the 70% MAJORITY Common Population to WAKE UP and realize that if “The LEFT,” the American Populace, does not represent itself, “The LEFT;” that the American Middle Class cannot be expected to do so. The Middle Class will do as it always has, the Middle Class will represent the Middle Class, and “The LEFT Class”, the American Populace as a class and culture, will be EXCLUDED from the making and enforcing of “legislated law and order” by the American Aristocracy and the American Middle Class, a 30% duopoly, unless the American Populace forces a “Democratic Springtime” by the force of the will of the American Populace that forces INCLUSION of the American Populace in the “making and enforcing of legislated law and order” that is INCLUSIVE of the best interest of the 70% MAJORITY American Populace.

    Sophism, dialectic, and propaganda of the HARD-RIGHT and Lite-RIGHT, the American Aristocracy and the American Middle Class http://www.hulu.com/watch/112523/the-american-ruling-class enables genuine belief in deliberate lies of the American Aristocracy and American Middle Class that by Institutionalized Public Education and Inculcation of the American Populace to accept the false sense of advantage of a dream world, the American Dream, as real advantage; there is no substance to a dream, it is time to WAKE UP to reality that YOU, the American Populace, are being inculcated by the institutionalized and entrenched self serving political order of the HARD-RIGHT and Lite-RIGHT, the American Aristocracy and American Middle Class duopoly to have genuine belief in their deliberate lies that intentionally inculcate you, the American Populace, with a false sense of advantage, benefit only of a dream world and benefit only from living in that dream world while efforts of the American Populace enable real objective advantage for the American Aristocracy and the American Middle Class, and nothing more than real and objective squalor for the American Populace and the false sense of advantage of an institutionalized dream world to serve as subjective benefit, rather than objective benefit for the American Populace, the 70% MAJORITY Population of the United States.

    It is time for a change.

    It is time for the American Populace Class to have real objective advantage of American Society along with the real objective advantage obtained by the American Aristocracy and the American Middle Class.

    It is time for the American Populace as a Class and Culture to take its place with the American Aristocracy and the American Middle Class as a CO-EQUAL PARTICIPANT in the making and enforcing of “legislated law and order” in the United States that serves the best interest of the American Populace, the 70% MAJORITY population of the United States.

  4. Thomas G Miller says:
    August 16, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    Privatized Capitalism was enabled, originated, has been, is, and will continue to be enabled and maintained by PUBLIC WELFARE; socialism was the means for the origin and maintenance of Privatized Capitalism and socialism continues from the past to the present, and into the future, at the expense of PUBLIC WELFARE and at the expense of PUBLIC WELFARE continues to be the means that sustains and maintains Privatized Capitalism; this is evidenced by the Enclosure Movement in Britain that enabled Privatized Capitalism by the redistribution of social property and resources and by the PUBLIC WELFARE used to recapitalize Privatized Capitalism as a result of the cyclical collapse of Privatized Capitalism, the so called Economic Cycle that results in the cyclical death and reanimation of Privatized Capitalism by way of PUBLIC WELFARE as evidenced in the recent past by the TARP.

    Institutionalized sophism, dialectic, and propaganda of the Aristocracy and Middle Class of Britain enabled the origin of Privatized Capitalism at the expense of the Populace, and institutionalized sophism, dialectic, and propaganda of the American Aristocracy and American Middle Class has maintained cyclical recapitalization of Privatized Capitalism by way of PUBLIC WELFARE from the time of the origin of Privatized Capitalism to the present.

    Privatized Capitalism was originated and has been maintained since its origin as a Dependent of PUBLIC WELFARE at the expense of the Populace, seeking greedy self serving benefit at the expense of PUBLIC WELFARE from the time of its origin to the present; PRIVATE PROFIT at the expense of PUBLIC WELFARE that calls itself Privatized Capitalism is not in fact Privatized Capitalism, but Parasitic Capitalism that serves Private Interests at Public Expense.

    Sophism, dialectic, and propaganda of the HARD-RIGHT and Lite-RIGHT present Parasitic Capitalism as Privatized Capitalism, when in fact, so called Privatized Capitalism is nothing more than Parasitic Capitalism operating for Private Profit as a Dependent of PUBLIC WELFARE.

    IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE.

    It is time for Privatized Capitalism to be understood and dealt with for what it is, Parasitic Capitalism operating for Private Profit as a Dependent of PUBLIC WELFARE.