(August 6, 2015 at 8:59 pm)Cato Wrote: I forgot about it, thanks! Televised political debates, particularly with ten participants, are to debates what the untelevised initial American Idol tryouts are to singing.
Right now, I'm all in for The Donald. Hell, I'm registered as Independent (not to be confused in NY with the Independent Party, I discovered there is such a thing), I may even change my registration to vote in the Republican primary when I register in Florida after moving towards the end of the year.
Trump and Sanders are the same in one vital aspect when it comes to earning my vote; integrity. You may not agree with everything or anything that comes out of their mouths, but there's no denying they mean what they say. The rest are "public servants" with a bad case of entitlement and a way of dumbing down their way of speaking to the public.
This last bit badly grates on my nerves. I don't know quite how to describe it. Don't you know when you're being talked down to? The measured cadence is one sign. Another is the forced inflection on words that must have been highlighted from a stupid focus group. The fact that prepared speeches by educated people are given at a 5th grade reading level is annoying as hell and insulting.
There's a long time to go, but right now I would love a Sanders vs. Trump race. I doubt seriously either one makes it, but I hope their commitment to the primary runs change the conversation.
I'd rather see Rand Paul, although he does have the whiff of hypocrite about him. Trump, on the other hand, is more a troll, deliberately inflaming folks with his words in order to garner a higher campaign profile; he knows that if the media is talking about you, you'll do better. But the shit he's said about women and immigrants, that shit is repulsive, and his being sincere about those comments only makes them worse, not better.
