Kathianne
08-04-2015, 09:38 AM
One guy's scorecard. Interesting grades, at least to me. My current bias is towards Walker, he doesn't fare too well in this scoring.
I know some think debates are a waste of time, I don't. It gives me a place to start on comparing what they say, to what they've done or tried to do.
http://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2015/08/04/14-no-trump-grading-the-candidates/
14 No Trump—Grading the Candidatesby Roger L Simon
Something called the “Voters First Forum” was held Monday night at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, with 14, count ‘em, 14 Republican candidates doing a kinda, sorta rehearsal for Fox’s big debate on Thursday night. For that one, only the top 10 (by polling) are invited, the others being remanded to an early show that afternoon, an electoral Siberia watched primarily by baby sitters.
For this one, three were MIA — Mike Huckabee (“scheduling conflict”), Jim Gilmore (“declared too late”) and Donald Trump. His Trumpesty was apparently miffed the New Hampshire Union Leader, one of the sponsors of the event with newspapers from Iowa and South Carolina, had mocked his treatment of John McCain in an editorial, so he demurred. Or perhaps the frontrunner is already “doing a Hillary,” making himself inaccessible. Someone should warn him that hasn’t worked out so well for Our Lady of Chappaqua.
Whatever the case, the amazing thing is that The Donald was not even mentioned by any of the candidates and only referred to once, in a veiled way, by moderator/host Jack Heath. The Republican candidates’ forum may have been the only place Trump wasn’t discussed Monday night. If Donald himself was watching, half way through he would have turned it off. How boring.
But it wasn’t that boring, even if it was a CSPAN event par excellence (video available here (http://www.c-span.org/video/?327157-1/2016-republican-candidates-voters-first-forum&live)). I made it through the two hours with a minimum of multi-tasking. So here’s my review of how the candidates fared. CAVEAT: My views are biased and inconsistent, like almost everybody’s if they would admit it. Or as they say on the Internet, YMMV, especially if you drive a Tesla. Also worth noting is no one made a gaffe of any substance and there wasn’t much to choose ideologically between the candidates. They all wanted to secure the border, balance the budget and defeat ISIS. And they didn’t have much good to say about the Iran deal, which Ted Cruz deemed catastrophic. (I would agree.) All things considered, I would prefer any of them in a heartbeat to any Democratic candidate from Chappaqua to Chappaquiddick.
The candidates appeared in a random order by lot and that’s how I will discuss them. (Actually, they appeared twice.) Here goes, right after the page break.
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I know some think debates are a waste of time, I don't. It gives me a place to start on comparing what they say, to what they've done or tried to do.
http://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2015/08/04/14-no-trump-grading-the-candidates/
14 No Trump—Grading the Candidatesby Roger L Simon
Something called the “Voters First Forum” was held Monday night at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, with 14, count ‘em, 14 Republican candidates doing a kinda, sorta rehearsal for Fox’s big debate on Thursday night. For that one, only the top 10 (by polling) are invited, the others being remanded to an early show that afternoon, an electoral Siberia watched primarily by baby sitters.
For this one, three were MIA — Mike Huckabee (“scheduling conflict”), Jim Gilmore (“declared too late”) and Donald Trump. His Trumpesty was apparently miffed the New Hampshire Union Leader, one of the sponsors of the event with newspapers from Iowa and South Carolina, had mocked his treatment of John McCain in an editorial, so he demurred. Or perhaps the frontrunner is already “doing a Hillary,” making himself inaccessible. Someone should warn him that hasn’t worked out so well for Our Lady of Chappaqua.
Whatever the case, the amazing thing is that The Donald was not even mentioned by any of the candidates and only referred to once, in a veiled way, by moderator/host Jack Heath. The Republican candidates’ forum may have been the only place Trump wasn’t discussed Monday night. If Donald himself was watching, half way through he would have turned it off. How boring.
But it wasn’t that boring, even if it was a CSPAN event par excellence (video available here (http://www.c-span.org/video/?327157-1/2016-republican-candidates-voters-first-forum&live)). I made it through the two hours with a minimum of multi-tasking. So here’s my review of how the candidates fared. CAVEAT: My views are biased and inconsistent, like almost everybody’s if they would admit it. Or as they say on the Internet, YMMV, especially if you drive a Tesla. Also worth noting is no one made a gaffe of any substance and there wasn’t much to choose ideologically between the candidates. They all wanted to secure the border, balance the budget and defeat ISIS. And they didn’t have much good to say about the Iran deal, which Ted Cruz deemed catastrophic. (I would agree.) All things considered, I would prefer any of them in a heartbeat to any Democratic candidate from Chappaqua to Chappaquiddick.
The candidates appeared in a random order by lot and that’s how I will discuss them. (Actually, they appeared twice.) Here goes, right after the page break.
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