Posted on 06/19/2010 2:00:18 AM PDT by JohnThune2012
Plain And Simple, This Will Be Like Ronald Regan VS Obama Or John F. Kennedy VS Barney The Dinasour. Does anyone know if there is going to be a debate? Will Al Green need teleprompters,cue cards,and his father by his side to assist him with the answers?
Needed the laugh.
No disrespect to Greene. Treating him like a dog is simplimply not right IMO
At least Joe Biden hasn’t called him clean and articulate. Who knows what he’s like in front of a teleprompter? DeMint might have something to worry about.
Greene has the potential (notice the word potential) to be dangerous in a debate, for several reasons:
1. The meme that he’s an idiot is just that. By the same token, so is Gov. Palin, and Pres. Reagan for that matter, and for the same reasons: it fits somebody’s agenda. He MAY BE an idiot, but it’ll take more than snippets of conversation taken out of context by a neophyte to press coverage in order to determine that.
In fact, the very fact that he’s the nominee and the subject of this thread may suggest that he’s crazy like a fox. (Win or lose, this guy will recoup far more than the 10k filing fee he’s ponied up so far. BOOK DEAL!)
2. He has no experience with the ‘big league’ rules and therefore can’t be expected to abide by them in a debate. Unpredictability can be an asset.
3. As evidenced by this thread, the bar is set so low that just showing up in a suit and speaking in complete sentences could be interpreted as a ‘win’.
Obviously, he doesn’t stand a chance in Nov - just ask Vic Rawls. . . Sen Demint will handily beat this guy - but you STILL take your opponents seriously.
I watched a lesson in this regard play out in high school, during an election for class president. The well-known, highly intelligent, football-playing, future Fullbright Scholar, always-had-been class president made the mistake of publicly laughing at his opponent, a very poor, virtually unknown and not at all well spoken opponent who had never put himself up for any sort of anything, athletic, academic or what have you.
He lost and the “nobody” won. Maybe it’s a southern thing, but you just don’t mock, belittle and humiliate your opponent, no matter how deserving he or she may appear to be.
I heard part of an interview that Laura Ingraham conducted with Alvin Greene, and he mentioned something about a debate in August, 2010.
Keeping a straight face?
It will be the debate of the century!
Any election involving a Democrat gives intelligent individuals plenty to worry about.
To begin with, you know that it will not be honest or fair. Then there is the lying media to contend with.
And last but not least, The Democrats know every way that has been devised to steal an election under the sun. And have devised and used most of them.
Any Republican or anyother party candidate that goes into an election against a Democrat and does not worry is a fool.
Did you hear the interview by Mark Levin where Greene couldn’t remember who he’s running against?
IMHO, I feel bad for Greene and think that DeMint has enough class to leave him alone.
In Demint’s own self interest, Greene is so bad, a debate would diminish the meaning of a DeMint win.
I think DeMint could do a sit down debate with the guy and look good.
Structure it so they have a lot of time and don’t have rebuttal.
Kind of a joint fireside chat.
There is no reason for the Pubbies to trash the guy. He’s geting enough flak from the Demons.
The guy is sincere, just not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In a time where people are starting to get out and try to make a difference (Tea Party) it wouldn’t be good form to pan the guy for trying.
I give Alvin a lot of credit.
Don’t let Al Greene sing. If he is as good as his namesake, DeMint may be in trouble.
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