Gop Debate Blogging.

Y'know...Mitt Romney really does look the part, like a skinnier version of "Tom Strong" the comic book super hero.
Things go south however as soon as he opens his mouth.
Mitt talks way too low and way too fast careening from talking point to sound byte...and this is when he isn't emitting a thick joyless cloud of cliches that is apparently designed to completely obscure his real thinking from everyone.
As far as the debate last night goes, it was a remarkably cheerless performance from Romney largely built around never ever answering a straight question, no doubt he'll keep this up until the New Hampshire electorate sends him packing with a big black bootprint on his ass.
And then there is former Governor/HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, Romney's complete bizarro opposite in every way. From his lousy toupee to the bad eyebrow pencil-job, Tommy resembles a seesy circus clown on the bum. Nonetheless, he is the anti-Romney, incoherent and unintentionally funny where Mitt is simply dull and robotic.
When Thompson avowed that he wouldn't send George Bush to the U.N. as an acceptable post presidential sinecure, a sort of audible gasp went round' the room as if to say "is he really that slap-happy??"
Otherwise, the remaining nine candidates are a listless idea-deficient lot. In deference to his low polling numbers, they all made critical remarks about President Bush but really none of them will govern the country any differently, they certainly don't have problem one with GWB's autocratic leadership style, save perhaps Dingy Ron Paul.
They all wanna stay in Iraq and perpetuate the slaughter, the eleven only differ in the excuses they'll offer to keep the troops in.
Almost all their domestic proposals start with massive tax cuts and end with small to moderate tax breaks for the middle class.
If asked their policy on sending a man to mars, all eleven would no doubt propose dropping the top ate to nineteen percent as an important first step in exploring the planets.
In other words, these guys are all clones of George Bush Jr. don't let their alleged criticism of the White House fool you. If Bush was polling at a 55% approval rating they'd be barking the president's praise's like trained dogs and Dick Cheney would be the front-runner for the nomination.