Posts Tagged ‘2012’

Bob Franken

“What an incredible night this will be!”

Rush Limbaugh is beside himself. He’s the moderator of the first GOP presidential debate of 2012, carried exclusively on Fox News Channel. What a highly charged confrontation we can expect! Who would have known four years ago that the candidates would include Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Joe Wilson, Michelle Bachmann, Joe the Plumber, Michael Steele, what-his-name…oh yeah…Mitt Romney, the guy who looks like an anchor-man, and the front-runner, New Jersey Senator Lou Dobbs, who never did look like one.

'Well, that's all the time we have...'

They have already marched onto the stage. There was a brief scuffle as they each lurched to the far right, but things have settled down now. All of them are staking out the same extreme position. It’s not hard to understand. Ever since that upstate New York congressional loss, no Republican wants to be in the middle. Not the road, not the stage. Not anything. Read the rest of this entry »