Anyone watching the scripted debate?

[genius]

I wonder who can afford the best script-writers? I understand that once Reagan tried to write one of his own speeches and was told that, if he gave it, he would be laughed out of politics.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. I'm watching!!!

Arnie is already attacking the working people!
He just lied about the business conditions in the state!

Arriana will take care of him!

[tridim]

4. Go Arianna!

She's speaking truth about the national (Bush) economy being the problem.

[Bucky]

39. GOP spin on Huffington

Watch out for this one:
"She's a Democratic ringer, existing solely to attack Schwarzeneggar so Bustamante can look gubernatorial." More lies, sigh...

This election will be decided on turn-out only. Issues no longer matter.

[xray s]

2. Scripted debate is an oxymoron

Designed to help the moron who is running (guess who).

Nothing new though. jeb was fed the questions in advance during the last election, or so I heard.

Bush will have a new wrinkle in '04. Not only will he have the questions in advance, but they will let him use a teleprompter to read the answer. He will still screw it up, though.

[Demobrat]

3. I am, but I'm on a dialup so it's hard to keep up.

Arianna's kicking ass on Arnold.

[tridim]

5. There's no way Arnold's going to hang

with these candidates. He's dead meat.

[Demobrat]

7. Arnie's pretty good

at talking over people. The moderator is trying to keep him on topic, but it appears he has speeches he wants to make and nobody's going to stop him.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. He's not answering the questions!

He's just going to give speeches about things he likes such as bashing the Democrats!

[Maddy McCall]

10. And he is answering in stupid euphemisms, catch-phrases.

He is also attempting to talk over everyone else, even after the ref tells him to shut up.

[Maddy McCall]

11. dbl. post

sorry :-(

[genius]

14. The trouble is that we are educated and most of the voters

(particularly the Republicans) vote for the stupidest reasons on Earth.

[Demobrat]

15. He's being an entertainer.

Delivering memorized lines. Which, for those of you at home, Arianna just called him on. He made some crack about his Humvee and Arianna told him they had advance notice from the NYTimes that he would say that.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. Do you hear Arnie?

It's all "bogus"!

Look in the mirror, YOUR BOGUS!

[genius]

12. He didn't know the difference between three strikes and the lemon law.

And people are thinking of voting for this idiot. Personally, I'm glad Peter Camejo is there. He's making some great points and he's really helping our side and setting a good direction for our government to follow. Arriana is also awesome. While they may be helping themselves, they are also nailing the Republicans. I'm glad Cruz is not up there alone against those vultures.

[genius]

8. Arriana, Cruz and Comejo seem to be holding together.

Arnold and Tom look really elitist I think.

[Maddy McCall]

13. So far, Ariana looks great...better than the other four.

She is INFORMED. She is eloquent. And, it doesn't hurt that she is gorgeous.

[Demobrat]

17. I'm liking Comejo a lot.

He may just have my vote.

[genius]

21. The problem is that Arnold is currently ahead in the polls

Unless this debate changes something, we are in trouble.

[burr]

37. Thank god I don't live there!!!

Bustamante sounded like shit when talking about the workers comp and so did Huffington. shrubby little, or tom..was at least honest about how corrupt he was. And then of course there was Arnold. Stupid, but got a few good one-liners out against Huffington.

I can't help but wonder if the recall succeeds, will Huffington be the Governor? It seems like all the men would split up the male vote in California. But then again, most California women are intelligent enough not to support Huffington.

Hopefully the recall will go down, because the only candidate running that did not pander to corporate wishes was Peter Camejo...

[genius]

16. "I don't understand the whole thing." Arnold

What's his IQ?

[Demobrat]

18. Who was it who muttered

there's probably a lot you don't understand?

[Dookus]

19. sounded like

Bustamante

[ErasureAcer]

20. Arnold is a fucking moron!

Oh my goodness...did he tell Arianna to get on decafe? This guy is taking cheap shots...he can't even put together a coherent sentence.

Jesus Christ...if Arnold is Governor of California...I will feel very sorry for those guys.

[Dookus]

23. Arianna just got him back...

he interrupted her and she said "don't interrupt me. I know that's how you like to treat women"

[ErasureAcer]

26. yeah, it was a good come back.

this debate is just a joke though at the moment.

This really is excruciating watching Arnold speak.

[Demobrat]

22. Arianna just said that what the people of CA need

is somebody who will fight the Bush administration for them. Arnie interrupted her. She told him "we know this is how you treat women, but not this time". Mod had to jump in.

[genius]

24. She would make a great running mate for Dennis

Imagine her as VP.

[Dookus]

25. She can't...

she's foreign-born.

[genius]

28. With Arnold on the stage, nobody sounds foreign-born.

Good point.

[genius]

27. Those poor interests that are screwing their employees.

After all who cares about poor injured employees who don't have sufficient health care and worker's comp.

Why isn't there more opposition to Arnold?

[Dookus]

29. He's getting hit pretty hard....

and definitely not distinguishing himself. His opponents SHOULD make him speak more. He has very little specifics, and when he TRIES to get specific, he's factually wrong.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

32. The problem is...

his supporters don't know that the facts are wrong.

Arianna rocks!

[genius]

30. Arriana is making most of the good hits on Arnold

She is really awesome. I think the moderator is on Arnold's side.

[Dookus]

31. actually, I think the moderator is doing OK...

He DID call Arianna on a specific personal attack, which is his job. I'm glad she said it anyway, though.

Plus he's letting her get a lot of time in.

[genius]

33. Who do you think won?

I think Arianna, then Camejo, then Cruz. If I were a right wing nut, I'd like Tom.

[Dookus]

35. I'd agree with that order...

And McClintock is actually a very attractive republican. I'm surprised he's not doing much better than Arnold.

[arcos]

36. is it over?

[genius]

34. Anyone want to guess who the broadcaster is voting for?

He seemed to be on Arnold's side.

[Bucky]

38. Moderator sorta fair, Tweety is NUTZ!!

The moderator seemed friendly to Schwarzeneggar, but not unfair to the others. The Hardball with Christopher Matthews on MSNBC after the debate was vomitrocious. Sixty minutes of Matthews providing both "pump" and "come" on Arnold's performance.

All the coverage on frontrunner Bustamante consisted solely of the one observation that he never defended Gray Davis. Hardly a word about McClintock or Carmejo. This is a joke news show and an abuse of the public airwaves.

In the debate I thought McClintock and Bustamonte did the best. They were the only ones who seemed to really understand the issues being discussed. I disagree with most of what McClintock said, but he at least seems like a serious candidate.

All Herr Pumpercomer could repeat is bland platitudes, like "we should bring moah business to Cally-forn-yuh. If business comes back, we will haff more tax revenues." Well DUH! as yall Cally-forn-yons like to say...