The Washington Post politics blog here comments on the opening few minutes of tonight’s presidential debate between Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. UPDATE: here is a more comprehensive story at the same site, written after the debate was over.
Here is a link to the debate through C-SPAN. Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport commenters for the link. Here is a Christian Science Monitor story about the debate.
So what’s up with Gary Johnson’s church lady facial expressions? And note to Jill and Rocky: We live in a republic, not a democracy. Whining “our democracy” over and over is just plain ignorant of basic American civics. Virgil should have pulled out his fellow statesman’s Federalist Ten: “Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” — James Madison
Apparently, from reading IPR it sounds like he’s been a little under the weather lately, that could be it. In all honesty he could have done far, far better tonight. What was with that meth-coke rant during 1 minute “rebuttal” time? What was that?
Reality Check — ANY national ratings ABOVE the 0.01 percent amount ???
# 1 — How about those EVIL monarchy/oligarchy MINORITY RULE regimes — gee — like those in the U.S.A. regime and in every State regime in the U.S.A. — due to those ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders.
1/2 votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 indirectly control.
MUCH worse in the gerrymander U.S.A. Senate.
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Save Democracy — regardless of ALL math MORONS.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
I disagree, I thought Gary did excellently and was the clear winner of the debate. I’m more committed than ever! Johnson/Gray 2012!