Comments on: Adios, Sayonnara, Ciao Washburn!

by: alex

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:38:25 +0000

if one nobody calls another nobody a nobody - what do we care?

by: Kelley Eidem

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:48:18 +0000

As awful as the Politboro-attired inquisitor was, let us not forget that four…count-em…four of the Republican candidates, Rudy, Mitt, Huck and McCain, imitated first graders by raising their hands before Fred Thompson put a stop to it.

Thank God there was a leader in the room.

by: Murph

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:07:06 +0000

For those of you who don’t live in Iowa trust me - we endure this kind of nonsense every day. The Register use to be a decent paper - liberal but functionally sound. Today it’s a very sad joke and Ms Washburn is one of the guiding lights responsible for its demise.

Of course, if you met the idiot slob we have for a Governor you’d understand why the Register has to employ kindergarten level reporters to cover government - like Forest Gump said, “stupid is as stupid does.”

In Iowa, stupid has a full-time job working for the Des Moines Register.

by: william

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:50:06 +0000

You have to be a total idiot to ask someone to raise their hand to answer TWO questions. Do you believe climate changeis a crisis?; and, Is man causing it?

by: Denny

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:04:51 +0000

All so true, re: the obviously outclassed Ms. Washburn, but let’s take it another step. Why are we investing so much time, money and effort into states such as Iowa, NH and all the rest?

My prediction: no matter who succeeds in grabbing the White House brass ring, a whole-scale revamping of the primary system will be in place before 2012. Disasters such as the “Register’s” so-called Presidential debate (”raise your hands…” I was hoping Fred would come out from behind his podium and slap her!) shine light on the obvious question: why are we allowing places like Iowa and NH to shape our Presidential candidate fields?

by: Fat Man

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:50:53 +0000

From Fox News Special Report With Brit Hume on Wed evening after the Republican debate:

KRAUTHAMMER: … That was not just the worst debate of 2007, that was the worst debate in western history, and that includes the ancient Greeks. There was no record in any major European record of a debate this transcendently and crushingly dull. It was an astonishment.

The best line of the day was Fred [Thompson] in commenting after the debate, when he said the moderator was Nurse Ratched. This moderator had the candidates shackled, handcuffed, and gagged with these absurd 15-second responses, 30 second responses. It was like a quiz show.

And, as you said earlier in the show, she had taken the major issues of any interest — Iraq and immigration — off the table at the beginning and never asked about the NIE or Iran or proliferation or interrogation — anything on our minds today.

The only redeeming feature was Alan Keyes. Where was the guy?

HUME: The “Des Moines Register” had said within the last couple of hours it’s going to post on its Web site the criteria that it used in permitting Alan Keyes to come in to this debate but not allowing Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel in the debate among Democrats on Thursday.

KRAUTHAMMER: But he should be admitted entirely on his entertainment value. This is a man who has a capacity to work himself into a froth of righteous indignation that is indescribable, in under 20 seconds, from a standing start, to the point where I kept thinking, as a doctor, is there an EMT crew nearby. This man is going to explode on screen.

We’re not going to see him again, which is unfortunate, but the other candidates, given how bad a debate it was and how it was handled, nobody excelled, nobody lost, except for Thompson for that moment, and he also was sharp on several answers.

by: Captian Dutch

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:32:36 +0000

Yeah, if anybody would know about making an ass of yourself on television, it would be somebody who wore an Elmer Fudd costume on a national prime time television program!!

by: The proposal

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:32:08 +0000

The solution to all these problems is to have experts in various fields ask the questions, not MSM hacks. Those experts could ask a series of questions about specific proposals from the candidates with the intent of pointing out the flaws in their plans. Something like this doesn’t have to be a big production: it could simply be uploaded to video sharing sites with a transcript provided.

Details at my name’s link.

by: Bob Hawkins

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:19:43 +0000

At least she didn’t ask, “If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?”

Er, did she?

by: ramona

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:03:31 +0000

“the woman was working with limited material”

So true, in so many ways.

by: richard

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:24:36 +0000

I GAVE EARLY WARNING ON THIS!

by: paul

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:02:15 +0000

When she asked the same questions to the dems, a day after they were asked to the gop field, it became clear that the woman was working with limited material.

Still… Dana Milbank critcizing another in the press? Frequent appearrances on Hardball and Olberman do not ‘a reality based pundit’ make.

Glass houses Dana, glass houses.