Thursday, August 24, 2023

Pundits Give Their Takes On Republican "Debate"

 

If you have the time and stomach for various pundit reactions to last night's Republican poo-fling, here are links to a variety of them, with the usual lame "who won" question analyzed by the chin-strokers:

CNN

New York (effing) Times

Politico

Washington Post

BBC

One common thread is that fascistic personality-challenged Florida Gov. Ron "Bootsie" DeSantis didn't help himself, that weaselly, pro-Russia tech bro and MAGAt Vivek Ramaswamy hogged the spotlight to his temporary advantage, and that the absent Malignant Loser didn't lose any cult supporters. 

BONUS:  Leave it to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan to wrap it up concisely --

...Forget a vision for America. These people have no vision for the Republican Party — a party that lost the House in 2018, lost the presidency and the Senate in 2020 and only narrowly regained the House in 2022. [snip]

These are political pygmies, trailing a disgraced front-runner who is facing 91 criminal counts in four different jurisdictions. These are not serious candidates for president of the United States. They had nothing original to say — nor credible policies to offer...