We think that Michelle Malkin can be rather irritating sometimes, but she has hit the nail on the head this time in regard to the number of registered Democrat "plants" who showed up in the YouTube video questions to the GOP candidates in last night's CNN/GOP debate from St. Petersburg, Florida. She has it on her blog here, so give it a look and have yourself a little chuckle. If you have to give credit to these little dopes, it is that they have some steel ones hanging in order to look this stupid on the national stage! Oh well, we expect the same from the little GOP clowns that will likely show up at similar Democratic gatherings in the months to come.
While this was funny the first time we heard it - largely because it is typical of the Clinton campaign to pull this crap in order to maintain polling numbers, a slight lead, or public favor - the overall volume of these little Democratic minions getting into the "bloodstream" smells like a Howard Dean email went out to the special interests folks and they kinda, sorta mobilized. I say "kinda, sorta" because this wasn't really a very well placed effort, and the questions were far too easy to sense and disseminate, given CNN's relative quick realization that they had been had by a bunch of amateurs. Just as long as we all realize that this was CNN, got it? Good.
Look, there is no damage to the GOP over this, the damage is to the credibility of the debate structure, CNN, and the idea that the voting public is ready to utilize this new technology responsibly. Although the media will not report on it, the real damage may have been done to the Democrats, as they ended up looking like nothing more than mischievous high schoolers with their little foray into video meddling. How many times have we seen a political party screw themselves because they couldn't control their rogue insiders from doing stupid things that look stupid on the national stage? Howard "Yeaaarrgghhh" Dean is probably the most at fault for this because he seems to have fallen hook, line, and sinker for presenting the BS rhetoric that guys like Terry McAuliffe were so good at during the 2004 campaign.
While the Republicans still look like the party of the "holier than thou", the Democrats still look like the whiny elitist brat pack that cannot get anyone to take them seriously because they don't take themselves seriously. They won't elect guys like Dodd and Biden to office because they want the status quo "golden girl" or the young and inexperienced "man of color" to represent their party, instead of men who look professional, polished, and who are equipped to actually lead a party and possibly a nation. There is no plan for the national health care nonsense that they keep throwing out there, and out of Hill and Barack, Obama is the only one who is presenting an honest evaluation of how health care can be structured to include most of the folks that each is targeting for the benefits. Hillary says she's going to insure us all, come hell or high water. Barack is going to insure those of us who truly need it, and then work from there.
Sorry, the soapbox was present, but you know where we need plants at debates? Off to the side of the podiums, maybe nice ferns or ficus trees, but not some dimwitted housewife who is also a wonk for the steel industry.
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