Thoughts on the Debate

My summary of how everyone did on tonight’s debate:
Fred Thompson: Awesome.
Everyone Else: They sucked.
BTW, remember my great Fred Thompson t-shirt you can buy to show your support. Not only does money go from it to support your favorite blogger (me, Frank J.), but buying it will also help the ThoseShirts.com models afford pants.
Lastly, here’s what Fred Thompson doing awesome at the debate looks like in Spanish:

!Que grande el Senador Thompson al contestar la última pregunta del debate!

I don’t what that means, but it sounds about right.
UPDATE:
He did even better talking to Hannity & Colmes after the debate. You’ll never hurt yourself with Republicans by overtly patronizing to Colmes.
UPDATE 2:
I noticed when Ron Paul got going on an answer, his voice would get higher and higher pitched to the point I half expected him to start crying like a baby. He really whines too much for a Republican.
That, and he’s somehow collected every single nut with too much time on his hands in his cult of followers.
In his interview with H&C (all the candidates were interviewed afterwards) Ron Paul was upset that he wasn’t able to stack the audience which caused him to rightly get booed at points. He also pretended to think his five or six supporters that stacked the FNC text message poll reflected actual support.
UPDATE 3:
Seriously, though, I thought it was a great debate and a lot of the candidates came off well. It’s almost like we Republicans have a strong field with a number of great candidates (and Ron Paul). SarahK and I actually got annoyed when the DVR messed up and caused us to miss some of it (we were watching it live, but somehow the box messed up and lost the feed at points).

Reminder

The next Republican Presidential Debate is on at 8pm ET on FOX News. Jon Henke will be liveblogging at Fred File (as will Carlos Curbelo is Spanish). I probably won’t liveblog anything unless something explodes.

Daily John Edwards Fabulous Fact

john edwards fabulous.jpgNever once has John Edwards either failed or missed a Cosmo quiz.

Good News, Everyone! (Who’s a Republican)

Did you know they had an election in Louisiana on a Saturday in October? Sounds like more election day shenanigans from the Republicans, but anyway, Bobby Jindal has been elected governor of Louisiana with 53% of the vote. As you’ll find in the lede of any story about the election, that will make him the youngest current governor (36), the first Indian-American governor, and the first non-white governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction. Less likely to find in a news story are the political reasons he won, as he ran a solidly conservative campaign. I don’t know whether this election indicates anything outside of Louisiana, but if Jindal has any success cleaning up that state, I’m sure people will be talking about a presidential run for him eventually (when he’s old enough).
Anyway, I want to be the first to congrulate Bush and Rove on their success of blowing up the levees in New Orleans to wash away all the Democrats.

Hillary Clinton Terrible Truths

Hillary Clinton has never actually been to Arkansas or any other American state that doesn’t touch one of the coastlines.

Daily Fred Thompson Fact

The original last line to King Kong was “Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Fred Thompson that killed the beast. Fred. @#$%. Thompson.”