Welcome to the 2012 presidential campaign.
September 14th, 2011 by Steven GardnerThis week I got a thrill down my leg watching the CNN/Tea Party Express Republican presidential candidate debate. I only watched the first hour, which means I missed some of the more interesting moments. Nonetheless, I got a charge I hadn’t expected. I really thought that after 2008 and 2010 I was still pretty exhausted by presidential elections.
Not so, it turns out. The season keeps getting earlier and earlier so the process does run the risk of running out of gas even before Iowa. If enough candidates dropped out based on polling numbers, we could have all but one candidate from each party out of the running by January, with primaries and caucuses being nothing more than wastes of your campaign donations.
Still, I enjoyed Monday’s debate, and it got me excited for 2012. Someday I’ll admit regretting that statement, but for now I’m still psyched.
If nothing else, it gives us a chance to laugh at things like this:
Tags: Politics, presidential elections, The Daily Show, United States presidential election, United States presidential primaries
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September 14th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Aw geeze. I thought you were serious until I watched and realized you’re high on CNN’s jerky turkeys.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I WAS serious. I got excited!
September 14th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
You didn’t throw up did you?
September 14th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
No, I watched less than an hour of it, so maybe that’s why I escaped without hurling.
Steve
September 14th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I am a conservative and even I was pretty sad that this was supposedly the best the Republican Party has to offer. I just kept watching most of it. Like a bad train wreck you can’t turn away from. Every time Michelle Bachman opened her mouth, I yelled at the TV. For now I am going to stick to monitoring local races. The National level is just way too depressing on both sides, and don’t get me started on congress. All I can think is that we are screwed.
September 14th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
“…we are screwed.”
Not yet.
September 14th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
CNN can make almost anything look bad…
September 17th, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Well we do have a history of ordinary people rising to the occassion . Lets hope we continue that history.
Real soon though.,.