My ranking in terms of who won, in descending order.
Desantis. Too scripted. A little stiff and sour. Good on the issues. Didn’t get negative. Best of the bunch
Vivek. Too silly at first. Came across as young and not seasoned. Haley scored on him with “you have no foreign policy experience, and it shows,” and he never got a chance to reply. He was good on policy and scored his own zingers against most of the others.
Pence. Slow. Strange combination of boring and too aggressive / obnoxious. Came across as an establishment figure.
Haley. I don’t like her. She was mostly uninteresting and consistently obnoxious. She also made a flatly sexist comment. (Female privilege.) I’m putting her in this spot because she did stand out a bit.
Scott. Good, but not breaking out. He was polite and positive and had some good things to say.
Christie. Uninteresting, and his anti-Trump approach is going to kill whatever small chance he might have had.
Burgum. Surprisingly interesting at some points, but not smooth, and no chance.
Hutchinson. He’s delusional if he thinks he has any chance. He’s a lame candidate with nothing to recommend him.
How did I know you wouldn’t like Haley?
Of all the candidates… debates be damned…I’ve lived next to AR for nearly 30 years and I’ve seen and read and approve of what Hutchinson has done more than the others.
I’m pretty sure Orange Bozo is going to be the nominee. So, some of these, especially Vivek, is actually running for the VP pick. My nickname for him is Apu Trump. He’s my least favorite.
In the debate, I liked Haley. Two times Desantis said he “served along SEALs”. To me, that is valor stealing. He was a JAG… he basically advised the SEALs with how much torture they could get away with… so, I found his “served along SEALs” to be offputting. But I guess his fans love it. For real, I worked alongside USAF Test Pilots and was in the same briefing room with Chuck Yeager… And? (I never flew a USAF jet)
Cocksucking audience wants soundbites over experience. I guess we get what we deserve.
How did I know Desanctimonious would be ranked highest (and next Vivek)?
“How did I know you wouldn’t like Haley?”
Because she’s obnoxious and a neocon.
You like people who are more obnoxious…so that’s not it… 😉
And Reagan… he would be binned as a neocon… so that’s not quite it either…
I assume you think I don’t like her because she’s a woman, because you’ve bought into modern idiotic arguments.
If you like a woman, it’s because you’re been captivated by her charms. (E.g., McCain and Palin). If you don’t like a woman, it’s because you’re against “strong women.”
There’s always some lame excuse, and it’s really tiresome and stupid, and it ensures that women can never be treated on their merits.
But that’s the goal anyway.
Over the years some bearded ginger that looks an awful lot like the proprietor of this website has said he doesn’t think women should be in leadership positions. Maybe that person has mellowed. I’m sure that person would vote for Haley over Biden…but while holding his nose and crossing his fingers…if it even mattered being in a blue state like MD where an individual presidential vote matters as much as individual presidential vote in red OK
When I think of Hutchinson I think of his veto of a bill to ban trans surgery.
What bill would that be? The bill he vetoed and he knew his veto would get overridden and he knew it would be unpopular, he vetoed anyway. It did NOT INVOLVE SURGERY. It did not grandfather in people already under treatment and he thought it was overreach.
Sometimes conservatives they say they want to get the government out of peoples lives. That’s generally a lie.
Here is a 1-2 minute read of interview Hutchinson gave: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984829976/gov-asa-hutchinson-on-vetoing-a-bill-banning-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-you
I never could get into reality television.
It was amusing to watch…some of the attack lines were rather funny!
I suspect if things continue as they are now Trump will be the Republican nominee. The irony is there is potential for at least one of them to beat Trump “if” they were willing to coordinate. If he’s such a sure loser (in the general election), as many of them think, it seems they would try that. Yet, they seem beholden to him. Even though he didn’t participant, the consensus was that he won. You can’t make this stuff up!
Republicans have long prided themselves on being the party of “law and order” and upholding the “rule of law”. Yet, when the question was asked during the debate that if Trump was “convicted”, would they support him if he were the party nominee. Nearly all raised their hands to indicate they would. So, it’s curious to me as to how they could support someone to be in an office that promises to uphold the law but was found guilty breaking the law. Yet, at the same time, they “accuse” Biden (without a legal conviction) of being involved in illegal activity with his son and made threats to impeach/remove him from office for such. Curious.