Last Night's Political Circus...The Debate

The Face of a Shrew?

Sometimes I listen to the pundits, wonder how they watched and saw a completely different debate than the one I watched.   The first glaring difference between the pundits and I revolves around Carly Fiorina.   Almost unanimously the pundits are calling her the overall winner of the debate, saying she hit it out of the park.  I completely disagree...Trump may not have made a politically correct and astute remark, but Trumps summation when he said to look at her face is pretty well on target.  It would not be inaccurate to define Carly Fiorina using the word Shrew.  If the lady smiled, think her face might crack.   She strikes me as a very angry woman with a very large chip on her shoulder despite the fact that she has been blessed in life with a lot of advantages.

However; something handled with kid gloves, but the reason why her political career should be over occurred when she spoke about losing her step-daughter to drugs. Curious here Carly, did you provide your daughter with a kind, nurturing love filled home as she grew up, or instead were you and your husband so busy being Titans of the business/jet set world that you found it easier to leave her in the hands of a Nanny, or  did you pack her off to boarding schools in the name of giving her a better education. Did you bake cookies with/for her, or have the nanny pick some up at the bakery?  If you knew she had addiction problems, should you and your husband have made her the one and only priority instead of worrying about your careers?  How much time was dedicated over to making sure "SHE WAS SAFE", and if you could not keep your step daughter safe, how can you keep America and her citizens safe?  You last night wanted to blame your daughter's untimely and tragic death on drugs, but willing to bet here that a big portion of the blame can be laid at the feet of both you and your husband.  OWN THAT LADY!

Trump is Trump...a loud, brash, brawler with no real clue.   That said, lets be honest.  A) If he should get the Republican nod to be the Torch Bearer, the very next day he will get a briefing paper that will bring him up to speed, and from that day forward he will know more about what is going on and who the major players are that far surpasses the knowledge base of every one on stage last night.   B)  He has a point...a president of America, or a major corporation is to a great degree only as good as the people he or she surrounds themselves with.  

Which brings us to Jeb Bush...Think every other candidate on stage missed a great opportunity to put

Jeb seems more a toad than turtle.

the final nail in his coffin when they failed to capitalize when he tried to wrap illegal immigration and legal immigration all into one identical package.   Americans are generous of heart, but there is a world of difference between legal immigrants who followed the rules, and those who entered America illegally...Illegal Aliens.  However, the most telling reason to kick this turtle to the curb is his own admission that most of his close confidants  are from the same swimming hole that gave us Rumsfield and appropriately named Dick Cheney.   Are we really ignorant enough as a nation to go back to another four more years of the Bush Clan and all that entails?  By the way Jeb...your brother kept us safe? Maybe if he had paid more attention to that August briefing paper 9/11 would have never happened.

Carson... he needs to go back to being a surgeon and corporate insider.  Bush may have no energy he may resemble a "Nilla Wafer", but Carson has zero personality...none, zippo, nano, zilch, a personality zero that could put the most attentive listener to sleep.  I have no doubt the man is brilliant, but when it comes to personality, God short changed him, and he is never going to be in the White House unless there as a guest.

Cruz and Huckabee...PLEASE.   In two words, "Religious Zealots" that need to go find a pulpit from which to spew forth their rhetoric to their faithful four percent...the rest of us are not going to be drinking their Kool-Aid.

Chris Christie...The man (much like Trump) is a raging bull.   That said, he had two brilliant moments last night.   His telling Trump and Fiorina that middle/lower class Americans are sick of hearing these two narcissistic egos talking about their own records and successes is spot on.   His second brilliant touching moment was sharing the story of his wife on 911...all of us in the New York Metro area have stories, and his sharing of his own story was a touching moment.  That said, not going to vote for a man who's attitudes about marijuana are so antiquated...the medical benefits of marijuana at this point are well documented, and it is time we legalize marijuana nation wide.  The war on drugs has never worked, just as Prohibition back in the day did not work.   Lets put and end to the Latin American Drug Cartels by legalizing marijuana here in America and letting our own farmers add another crop to their revenue streams.   Stay in New Jersey Chris...you are a failure when it comes to the National Stage.

The rest of the folks should be labeled the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" and be sent packing. Sorry folks, but it is time to cull the herd, and all of you NEED TO GO.  You just do not have the chops to be president, and it is time for the dreams to be put away.