Pug Debate Highlight Bulletpoints. Pure. Comedy. Gold.

[Ruby the Liberal]

(Yeah, some of us watched so you didn't have to)

Debate watchers - did I miss any other insanity?

• Frothy Mixture Santorum kept dropping the 'polygamy' word into the gay marriage debate as a dig on Romney.
  
• Bachmann's strategy was to attack Pawlenty. Pawlenty all but picked up his podium and hit her over the head with it.
  
• Frothy Mixture broke the sancrosanct GOP rule that states "Ignore Ron Paul" by not only calling attention to him every time he spoke, but provoking him.
  
• Ron Paul was all "fuck your little bell I'm not done speaking".
  
• Newt kept whining about "gotcha questions" (Chris Wallace asked him about his staff quitting) and alternately kept telling people how much he reminds himself of Reagan.
  
• Frothy Mixture raged about gay marriage destroying the country, but feels that Iran is the most evil place on earth because of how they "trample on gay rights".
  
• Multiple Choice Mitt wants to replace unemployment INSURANCE with an undefined "account" for "all Americans" and finally,
  
• Huntsman defended the fact that 10k of his 12k employees are in India/China being due to the "EPA's reign of terror in regulations" preventing him from opening factories in the US.
  

People, you really can't make this shit up. :rofl:


A few choice post-debate tweets:

@howardfineman
Obama's best (maybe only) chance: edit this debate to an hour and run it on TV nationally every week from now until Election Day.

@JohnFugelsang
Gentlemen, I give you the Obama Re-election committee.

[Luminous Animal]

1. Thanks, Ruby!

[SoCalDem]

2. Did they have proper podia/podiums or were they in trash cans again?

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. LOL!

I missed that. Couldn't watch their shit in 2008 while our candidates were in scorched earth mode. Info overload.

That pic is priceless. :D

(Ps, I vote for Podia)

[Tx4obama]

7. Silver trashcans

Looks like the 'same' podiums, they just changed the color of the base.

[gkhouston]

10. Nah; looks like they boosted the real thing from the nearest airport. n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

29. !!!

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

12. Krylon to the rescue

:)

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!

:rofl:

[sfpcjock]

16. LMAO, smoking trash can lecterns

:rofl:

[Tx4obama]

3. I thought it was hilarious when Bachmann talked about the 'LIGHT BULB' bill. n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Indeed. You catch the T-Paw slam on her legislative "cred" she was pushing?

The fact that every cause she has bragged about standing for for has failed and for the sake of the party, she should step down now?

(paraphrased, but rest assured, I will dig this exchange up on the YT in a few days for posterity)

:rofl:

[Tx4obama]

11. Here's a link to a VIDEO but it's not on youtube.

VIDEO: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tim-pawlenty-and-rep-michele-bachmann-rumble-in-white-hot-debate-exchange/


Edited to add:

Here's a YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jajs1iwj7-w

[Ruby the Liberal]

18. Thanks!

That was excellent.

[TeamsterDem]

5. If I weren't familiar w/ the Republican Party I'd think you were pullin my leg. LOL. nt

[sofa king]

8. Thank you!

I used to do that for a living, watching Republicans lie for the people who couldn't stand watching it anymore themselves.

So I greatly appreciate your summary, because now I'm so far past the "can't stand it" stage that I can't even listen to Eric Clapton anymore.

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. It will get serious soon enough

but I actually had to take an advil a half hour ago. Laughter feeds on itself at times, and tonight I about laughed myself into a hernia between listening to the debate and reading comments here and from various comedians and pundits on twitter while the debate went on.

When the question came up about "Senator Santorum claims to be even more anti abortion than you, Governor Pawlenty - how do you respond to that? Is he"? I reactivley grabbed my crotch because I was honestly about to pee myself and my brain called for reinforcement. (Not kidding)

[Odin2005]

9. Every one of them is plain nuts.

[Emit]

20. lol, I originally read your post as "Every one of them is palin nuts."

and it even made perfect sense to me! :wow: :crazy: :rofl:

[DCKit]

15. "..but feels that Iran is the most evil place on earth because of how they "trample on gay rights".

WTF???? Ricky? Series? No way.

I think I want my frothy mixture from another source from now on. Starbucks, perhaps.

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. Yeah. I caught it and didn't believe it, then refreshed twitter

and my time line was blowing up with hypocracy comments. It was reassuring, but I still want the YouTube to be doubleplus certain because that was a jaw dropper in its Ted Haggard/Larry Craig (and dare I say, Marcus Bachmann) hypocracy.

[DCKit]

19. So, they're killing the parents to gain access to as may male and female orphans...

as any pedophile could want?

Just wondering.

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. Don't know, but just posted the videos in response to your first post.

:hi:

[DCKit]

24. Ruby, I'm not being aggressive. It's just not what I do.

I may ask questions, but I'll never be intentionally rude or hostile to another member of DU, and I like you a lot.

Please, don't ever assume that I'm doing anything more than asking for additional information or clarification, in anything less than honesty - and that goes for everyone. I'm not (intentionally) an asshole, ever. I believe in Karma - and Karma believes in me. I get smacked back every damn time.

I don't want to apologize every time I ask a question, and I don't want anyone here assuming I'm being hostile when I do... I'm just asking. Guess I'm just too blunt sometimes.

Kit

[Ruby the Liberal]

26. Ack!!? I didn't take you as blunt at all, much less rude or hostile in ANY way.

I apologize if my response was out of line - I just didn't get what you were saying about orphaned kids?

:hug:

[DCKit]

27. Slaves to "Good Republic, Xtian families"... It's where they're (we're) going.

TPTB have driven down wages in all of Europe and the U.S. with imported labor and, too often, slave labor. It's no wonder people are pissed off. We can't even get jobs cleaning their toilets. It's why we import labor... to keep the minimum wage depressed and people desperate for jobs.

Didn't mean to offend, just wanted you to know that I would never go there with you - at least not without asking for an explanation first.

[Ruby the Liberal]

28. Gotcha

:toast:

[Ruby the Liberal]

21. VIDEO: Frothy Mixture: Iran "tramples the rights of gays"

Source 1: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/rick-santorum-iran-tramples-on-the-rights-of-gays/

Source 2: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/08/11/294431/santorum-iran-tramples-the-rights-of-gays/

[MADem]

23. I want to thank you for this succinct review.

I wasn't going to even bother, but now, I can now gird my loins to watch a rerun of it with your cogent observations in mind!!

Your insightful analysis will make the grueling process much, much more enjoyable.

Thank you again!!!!

[Ruby the Liberal]

25. Tips for staying sober: Do not include the following in your drinking game

Forget the givens - (cut taxes, job creators, abortion, Reagan) - just take these off the bingo card ASAP:

1. Six Sigma
2. Dog Food
3. Growth target
4. Lightbulb freedom
5. China
6. "Thats a Gotcha Question"
7. Sharia law

And in the interest of sobriety, add this one at the top of the do drink list as a 2:1 favorite:

1. Tea Party


You are guaranteed to hear each of the first list no less than two times and the second list, never.

To your liver, I say "you are welcome". :hi:

[MADem]

30. Ha ha ha!!!!

:rofl: