horse of george

Odd but not really how my interest in the debates wanes in inverse proportion to the impact they seem to be having on the GOP race - canned answers, programmed responses, thinly veiled pandering to the base, policy proposals that even a cursory appeal to sound reasoning would render either misguided, undoable or outright stupid, grandstanding - and no actual debating. Much of the idiocy of these exhibitions is summed up in the Gingrich ostensible mistake of last night ie proposing amnesty for illegals. Now, I don't like Gingrich - I think there's a good chance he's not entirely sane - he's certainly a pretentious and arrogant blowhard blessed with a seemingly indefatigable ability to believe wholly and without shame in the intrinsic value of everything he says, even when he's lying - but, regardless, his response on illegal immigration was actually quite reasonable but of course also quite at odds with the base - therefore it was considered a 'mistake' - consequently Romney quickly jumped on this 'mistake' to claim amnesty 'wrong' even though I don't believe for a second Romney actually thinks that's true - he merely knows that it's exactly what the base wants to hear - silliness - and then I'm guessing this silliness will be doubled down on when the base, hating the idea of thinking Romney right on something, will probably flirt with the idea of forgiving Gingrich his apostasy - even though this just the tip of an iceberg of vulnerabilities and flaws the portly Gingrich is forever running up against, something the base would surely notice it wasn't so busy hating Romney. Silliness.