Republican Lt. Governor candidates face-off tonight in statewide debate

[TexasTowelie]

LIVE video stream of the debate at http://www.texasdebates.org, courtesy of KERA-TV.

The lieutenant governor candidates are facing off in the first statewide televised debate tonight.

The live, hourlong debate among the four candidates running for lieutenant governor starts at 8 p.m. central on KERA-TV Channel 13. The debate will also go on radio and television stations across Texas and streamed online live at texasdebates.org. The video will be available 24 hours later on-demand online at texasdebates.org.

Incumbent Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is running for re-election and defending his seat against three heavyweight Republican primary opponents.

More at http://www.reporternews.com/news/2014/jan/27/republican-lt-governor-candidates-face--tonight-st/ .

[font color=green]Tonight's TV Choices:
Season 4 premiere of Hotel Impossible
Another episode of Rachael v Guy: Celebrity Cookoff
Rachel Maddow
Republicans masterdebating themselves

I won't be watching the Pukes. [/font]

[ashling]

1. I missed it

Fell asleep waiting for the batshit crazy.

[PDittie]

2. Four boobs on the tube.

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2014/01/four-boobs-on-tube.html

All four want to force a woman to give birth to a child that is the product of rape or incest. All four said that the judge who compelled the hospital to end life support for a brain-dead pregnant woman carrying a deformed fetus was wrong, and would support a bill in the next session to prevent another judge from doing so.

All four support the teaching of creationism in public schools. All four are opposed to the decriminalization of marijuana. (Only Patterson among them favors the use of medical pot.) All except Patterson want a fifty-foot-high wall at the Rio Grande border armed with machine gun turrets and high voltage current running through the concertina wire at the top. (That's barely an exaggeration.)

Dan Patrick wouldn't pay back the debts he went bankrupt on, even now that he has the money. Jerry Patterson can say "tetrahydrocannabinol", several times, without mangling it. Todd Staples' head is still too large for his body. And Dewhurst is so confident of victory that he didn't bother to work in any time for debate practice.

No questions about infrastructure, or water, or the environment, or the Texas economy, or Medicaid expansion, or predatory payday lenders, or anything of substance to anyone outside the Tea Party base of the Texas Republican Party.

Thus, the winner of last night's Texas lieutenant governor debate was... Leticia Van de Putte.

[redqueen]

3. Staples sounds like a cartoon character.

Heard him interviewed on NPR and his accent sounds so affected.

[PDittie]

4. Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

Or Insane Clown Posse, as I prefer. But iin order for that to be completely accurate, you'd have to include Ted Cruz and Steve Stockman and Louie Gohmert.