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The present crop of Republican presidential candidates continues to amaze. Now they are telling us they want to change the GOP debates because they don't like answering difficult questions. They want:
1. friendly interrogators who will give them softball questions,
2. they want the length of the debate limited to 2 hours,
3. they want the temperature lowered so they do not perspire,
4. they want rock-star green rooms prior to the debate
5. no questions about things like foreign policy
In other words, they don't want a debate, but have a platform for each candidate to do a free campaign commercial.
Most of their campaigns are based on fear, but who would have guessed they were afraid of an independent media. Since in the past they have "waged war" on whatever they fear, we will now be witnessing a "war on the media." And, if that's not enough, one of the candidates, Donald Trump, wants to get paid for participating.
If you're thinking a debate such as they are asking for would be so boring no one would watch, I would agree.;but this could be a lot of fun if the candidates asked each other questions. Talk about a cat fight. Their debates would have the same appeal as a World Wrestling Federation match and would attract the same audience. And, in my opinion, they should, like wrestlers, be paid for their performances.
On a more serious note, one has to wonder how these candidates would be able to handle the presidency if they have trouble with a few hours of tough questions from independent journalists. The questions and decisions become much more so in the Oval Office.
Presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, complained recently, "I have a lot of really cool things that I can do" other than run for president.
It's difficult for me to imagine Jeb doing anything "really cool," but then his concept of "really cool" is probably different from mine. In a previous post, I suggested that he would probably not consider working for Habitat for Humanity as "really cool."
Let's look at some "really cool things" he might consider:
1. make more money -- pretty easy to do when you are born into wealth.
2. remind your Brother, George W, that he owes you since you, as Florida governor, stole the 2000 election and put him in the White house.
3.buy some "really cool" cowboy boots to add to his collection, although he has never worked on a ranch or farm.
4. hire a ghost writer to write his "autobiography," just like big brother, George W. Bush.
5. go to work for Fox News and try to revise history by convincing viewers that George's Iraq Invasion was a good idea.
6. follow George's retirement plan , take art classes, and paint nude portraits of yourself.
7. spend more time playing fantasy football since he already bragged in the last debate how well his "team" was doing..
8. hang out with his "Swift Boat Veterans" and congratulate them once again for lying about John Kerry in 2004. Of course they can't share war stories because Jeb was never in the military and the only battlefield the "veterans" saw was the Alamo memorial.
9. explain his illegal and unconstitutional interference as governor in the Terri Sciavo case.
10. swim in the St.John's River, "Florida's American Heritage River," and deny that the Koch brothers' Georgia Pacific plant is daily dumping millions of gallons of toxic waste into the river.
11. study the Bush family genealogy, but then he might learn his grandfather, Prescott Bush, financially profited from his involvement with the architects of Nazism.
12. become, like so many former elected officials, a high-paid lobbyist and use his contacts and networks to influence legislation in favor of his wealthy clients.
13. work for a gun manufacturer or the NRA,since he was the genius who gave Florida "Stand Your Ground" legislation.
Most recently Jeb has assured us he "eats nails for breakfast," I'm presuming he considers that a "really cool thing" to do. In that case, I have nothing to offer, except maybe milk and sugar.
