Who cares?

It’s still more than a year away and real life is passing us by while we decide which candidates had the best sound-bite material. It’s not as if the world’s problems can be solved by a bunch of polished politicos parading before television cameras responding to hostile and sometimes completely stupid questions by political opponents in under a 30 second time limit.

The highlights:

1. Chris Matthews poses the question about whether it would be good for Bill Clinton to return to the White House. Translation: Hillary, you’re still the little wifey despite being the actual candidate.

2. Jim VandeHei asks Mitt Romney what he dislikes about America. Romney gives the Beaver Clever answer of, “Gosh, Wally, I guess I’m at a loss for words.” Here’s some help, Mitt: Surrender-loving democrats, illegal immigration, the legalization of infanticide, pork-barrel spending, broken government social programs, race-peddlers, global warming advocates that commute on jumbo jets, black jelly beans and endless coverage of the Anna Nicole Smith story.

3. Chris Matthews asks Jim Gilmore if Karl Rove is his friend. Apparently Matthews failed to realize recess was over and didn’t pose it appropriately to Matthews in the form of a written question with three boxes to check: “Yes”, “No” and “We’re like BFF”.

4. Jim VandeHei asks the candidates if they know the difference between Shia and Sunni. I wonder if Democrat and House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes submitted that one.

Maybe Jim should’ve asked that question of Chris Matthews, who apparently doesn’t even know the difference between altered nuclear transfer (as an alternative to fetal stem cells) and nuclear energy.

Now back to American Idol…

1. I watched the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate broadcast live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., and was left thinking Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson came away clear winners.

   That’s right! Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, and Thompson, the Law and Order star and former U.S. senator from Tennessee, can declare victory simply because both were smart enough to skip the event for two likely reasons:

   First, because it’s taking place far too early to be remembered by voters 9 or more months from now;

   and

   Second, because video clips and sound bites from the event will serve Democrat candidates’ needs more than Republicans, a result of the fact that many of the questions were “loaded” with liberal bias in a variety of ways.

   Comment by HotOffThePress — 10:02 am
   

2. Despite the fact that a great deal of attention was lavished on the big three, I thought Duncan Hunter represented his positions well and gave substantive answers on the issues of national security and border control. Hunter’s credentials are certainly solid enough to warrant a closer look by the media.

   Comment by Nathan Tabor — 3:23 pm
   

3. Does it even matter at this point though? With the election more then a year away does anything anyone say really matter right now?

   Comment by MrCynic1 — 12:33 pm
   

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