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tweakabelle -> RE: 4th republican debate (11/11/2015 5:46:29 AM)
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Jeb Lund, writing in The Guardian was somewhat less than impressed with the debate and the candidates:
"Both Paul and Bush should just drop out of the race, but there’s no reason to expect that they will, because dropping out would be the most practical outcome. If the Republican primary process were governed by the rigors of making any sense, no part of it as currently constructed would exist. Up is down, high is low, water is dry, we wear shoes on our heads, hamburgers eat people and everyone can and will run for president forever.
With Bush there’s some small reason to keep going even if he can’t win. Overlooking the fact that it has to gnaw at Bush’s ambition to forsake the presidency after his idiot brother had the job, a lot of people have sunk a lot of money into Jeb! 2016. Those people probably want a return on their investment, and Jeb! probably feels some obligation to give them a little effort for the cash. Meanwhile, Rand Paul has given every indication over the span of his career that there is no privilege of which he believes himself undeserving, so the process of matching his self-abnegation to the American people’s massive disinterest cannot happen overnight.
They’ll keep running, because they can, because nobody will tell them to stop, and because they don’t really know, in their heart of hearts, that it’s over and has been since the first debate.
And so they will go on, as we all must, heedless of the consequences, locked into a struggle unbounded by time or sanity, doomed to another five months of the same arguments, the same peevishness, the same victimization, the same existential threats, the same unreflective boasting, the same rage, the same, the same, the same. We have never had so much of the same for so long, and it will never leave. We have always been the caretakers here."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/29/jeb-bush-and-rand-paul-should-drop-out-instead-theyll-run-for-president-forever
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