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Mark Penn called it a "Panderfest." There are dozens of takes online on last night’s unwatchable Democrat
debate, and here are two extracts that are short and snappy. First, Mr.
Vodkapundit, closing his drunkblogging report:
It was a big dud tonight.
Not that there weren't any fireworks,
because there were a few. Not because it was tedious, which might just be my
partisan bias. And not just because the field of ten had maybe three actual
contenders.
It was a big dud because -- and
correct me if I'm wrong here -- nobody did anything to move the needle.
Biden recovered from his last
outing, but didn't show us anything new. Harris failed completely to capitalize
on her earlier gains, and if I found out she really was on some kind of cold
medicine, I wouldn't be in the least surprised. Booker promised to take on
Biden, but demurred. Gabbard is *this* close to being a real contender, but
isn't quite campaigning at that level. Castro is better than expected, but not
that much better. And the rest were all just kind of there.
. . .
. . . there is really no difference
between the candidates. The most important thing to these jokers is getting rid
of Trump and they are counting on people who hate Trump to vote for them no
matter what lunatic policies they are pushing. If you think about it, it's a
smart strategy: desperate people make rash decisions and the deranged
anti-Trump folks are desperate to get rid of Trump. If the cost is open
borders, health care for illegal immigrants, an alarmist "climate
change" policy that will wipe out loads of American jobs, forcing people
out of their preferred healthcare plans in favor of one administered by postal
workers, raising taxes, taxpayer-subsidized abortion, post-birth abortion and
getting back in bed with Iran, so be it. As I wrote yesterday, the only
question that matters in this election is whether people hate Trump more than
than they hate these whacked-off policies. If it weren't for this
media-Democrat manufactured Orange Man Bad crisis, people wouldn't swallow the
radical, left-wing policy crap so easily. G-d help us.
But maybe cartoonist Henry Payne said it best:
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