The Republican Debate

I have to confess, I didn't watch the CNN sponsored republican debate last night. I watched a Stephen King horror movie called Trucks. It was terrible. Killer trucks plowing into human being or objects containing human beings. If only Halliburton had those things in Iraq, what a better world this would be. The military wouldn't have to blow them up everytime they blew a tire. They could blow themselves up, maybe taking a few insurgents with them. Instead of blackwater security guards, the State Department could simply hire alien trucks to mow down local traffic. No one could sue a truck.

Very few people really care about Halliburton and their disposable trucks, or how Blackwater treats Iraqi nationals, least among them Republicans. From the debate recap on C-span this morning, it seems all Republicans care about is immigration, homosexuality, and abortion.

One featured highlight fromt he debate showed Rudy Giuliani accusing Romney of having illegals doing work around his mansion. Romney should have come back at Giuliani by asking him whether he had strawberries in his yogurt that morning, or lettuce in his salad, or whether he makes sure all his fruits and vegetables are imported from countries where foreigners are legal. But no, he just sputtered something about not having to ask his workers for their papers. Wild applause from the audience.

Homosexuality made for a fun evening. The Youtuber who asked a question about gays in the military happened not only to be in the audience, but also a member of the Hillary Clinton for president steering committee. How ironic that CNN, which some people refer to as The Clinton News Network, would allow this man to stand up and speak extemporaneously for two minutes. If I were Mitt Romney, I'd be thinking "And the Democrats refused to attend a Fox sponsored debate...why?" The whole episode made me think of male call boy Jeff Gannon being called on to ask questions by Ari Fleischer at White House press briefings. Or Larry Craig with his bathroom hand signals. Or that whole congressional page pedophilia scandal...

As for abortion, it's a bit hard to take the subject seriously while little Afghan kids are being blown apart in Afghanistan and Iraq, much as the alien trucks I mentioned earlier. I saw a TV show once about a woman giving birth in a hospital in Afghanistan to premature twins. Here, they would have slapped those two kids into an incubator, but over there, they just put them aside to die. I guess you would call this nature performing a late term abortion.

These issues are all retreads, but they make for lively debates and good television. And really, the whole point of being American is to stay entertained. It's that pursuit of happiness thing. The only part of the Declaration of Independence anyone seems to remember.