Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Ross Kaminsky on 2.23.12 @ 12:06AM I’m sorry to disagree with my friend, and sincere Rick Santorum supporter, Quin Hillyer, who suggests that Wednesday’s Republican debate was “no game changer.” Having heard a little more than an hour of the Republican debate on Wednesday evening, my gut [...]
How to Win the Marriage Debate
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The big news on the culture-war front is a federal court’s striking down of Proposition 8, California’s constitutional amendment protecting marriage. In a two-to-one ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote, “The people may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip [...]
The Debate Show
January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For months now we’ve been watching a series of kick lines fatuously called debates. The formula is essentially the same: a moderator or moderators, presses a slowly diminishing number of Republican candidates for their party’s nomination with a variety of questions, mostly irrelevant, idiotic and quite obviously designed to make the questioner look good and [...]
CNN Florida GOP Debate Post-Mortem
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.26.12 @ 11:17PM Here are my final thoughts on tonight’s Florida GOP Debate in Jacksonville which aired on CNN. Ron Paul – He had his moments during the debate especially when Wolf Blitzer asked him about his medical records. Paul handled that question with good [...]
CNN Florida GOP Debate Post-Mortem
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.26.12 @ 11:17PM Here are my final thoughts on tonight’s Florida GOP Debate in Jacksonville which aired on CNN. Ron Paul – He had his moments during the debate especially when Wolf Blitzer asked him about his medical records. Paul handled that question with good [...]
CNN S.C. GOP Debate Post-Mortem
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.19.12 @ 10:55PM Here are my final thoughts on tonight’s GOP Debate in Charleston, South Carolina which aired on CNN. Ron Paul – He was marginalized in the debate. It was too much for the audience which forced moderator John King to include him [...]
Fox News South Carolina GOP Debate Post-Mortem
January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.16.12 @ 11:36PM Here are my final thoughts on tonight’s Fox News South Carolina GOP Debate which took place in Myrtle Beach. Rick Perry – He was full of piss and vinegar tonight. Perry scored early when he called upon Mitt Romney to release [...]
NBC Meet The Press NH GOP Debate Post-Mortem
January 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.8.12 @ 11:41AM Here are my final thoughts on the New Hampshire GOP debate which aired this morning on NBC’s Meet the Press and moderated by David Gregory. Jon Huntsman – I think this was his best debate. His answers were full of sobriety [...]
A GOP Pajamas Debate
January 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.8.12 @ 12:21AM Since we have to get up bright and early tomorrow for the next GOP faceoff I think the candidates should be required to spend the debate in their pajamas. Admittedly this format would work better if Michele Bachmann were still in the [...]
Fox News Iowa GOP Debate Post-Mortem
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 12.15.11 @ 11:50PM Here are my final thoughts on tonight’s Iowa GOP Debate in Sioux Falls which aired on the Fox News Channel. Rick Santorum – He had a particularly eloquent rebuttal to Ron Paul on Iran and he had Romney on the defensive [...]