{"id":1584,"date":"2007-11-29T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2007-11-29T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:14:00","slug":"if-only-theyd-invited-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"If Only They’d Invited Colbert…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I happened to catch the second half of the Republican YouTube<\/span> debate <\/a>tonight. Safe to say, Canadian parties could learn a thing or two from this about how to make many-candidate leadership debates interesting. Here are a few random observations:<\/p>\n

-Duncan Hunter: “Most army recruits are conservatives with deep judeo<\/span>-christian values \u2013 that\u2019s why we can\u2019t have gays in the military<\/em>“. Whaaaaaaaaaa? Come back Daily Show! Your snark is needed!<\/p>\n

–Huckabee<\/span> on putting an American on Mars: \u201cMaybe Hillary Clinton should be on the first rocket to Mars<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

–Huckabee<\/span> on What would Jesus do on the death penalty: \u201cJesus was too smart to ever run for public office<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

-John McCain says the US didn<\/span>\u2019t lose the Vietnam War. I guess he also believes that John McCain didn<\/span>\u2019t lose the 2000 Republican nomination.<\/p>\n

-Mitt Romney believes nothing<\/em> he believed 10 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n

-When asked about the crumbling infrastructure in the United States, Ron Paul says there\u2019s too much government so\u2026uhh<\/span>\u2026privately owned roads anyone?<\/p>\n

-John McCain says it was Ron Paul\u2019s strategy that allowed Hitler to come to power. It’s never a good sign when you’re a Republican and running plays from Elizabeth May’s strategy book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

-Ron Paul says he had 5,000 people show up at a rally \u201cwith flags and Hispanics<\/em>\u201d. Wow. Flags and <\/em>hispanics – that must have been quite the organizational feat!<\/p>\n

-Giuliani has trouble defending himself on immigration, guns, and…wait for it…baseball. You think he’d have a snappy comeback for his Red Sox rooting<\/a> by now but he’s still stumbling around on that one. My suggested answer for the next time he gets asked the question: “Not rooting for the Red Sox would mean the terrorists win. 9\/11! 9\/11! 9\/11<\/em>!” It doesn’t have the Huckabee witt to it but at least it fits in with his overarching campaign theme.<\/p>\n

-Kudos to Fred Thompson for skipping his 120th<\/span> birthday celebrations to attend the debate. <\/p>\n

-Thompson\u2019s youtube<\/span> video goes after Romney and Huckabee<\/span> on abortion and taxes. It\u2019s a bad sign when your campaign feels that Mike Huckabee<\/span> is worthy of an attack add.<\/p>\n

-According to the pundits, immigration is the number one issue in Iowa. Go figure.<\/p>\n

-A CNN commercial calls this debate \u201cone for the history books\u201d. That may be a bit of a stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I happened to catch the second half of the Republican YouTube debate tonight. Safe to say, Canadian parties could learn a thing or two from this about how to make many-candidate leadership debates interesting. Here are a few random observations: -Duncan Hunter: “Most army recruits are conservatives with deep judeo-christian values \u2013 that\u2019s why we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}