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Running Scared

July 27th, 2007

Oh, this is too precious: Republican candidates are running scared from the YouTube debate! Yes, that’s right, this is the same party that pilloried the Democratic candidates for being “afraid of journalists” because they did not allow the propaganda arm of the Republican Party to run a debate for them.

It wasn’t enough for them to run scared from black people when all but one of them steered clear of the NAACP debate. Now they apparently are running scared from the actual people of this country, likely because it’s a debate where citizens ask questions without having their Republican credentials assured before they can be allowed in.

But hey, how can you blame them? If you were Rudy Giuliani, would you want to open yourself up to having a NYFD firefighter come on live TV and expose you for being a complete fuckup?

Not that a YouTube debate would really help them that much, even if potentially damaging questions were weeded out beforehand. Giuliani is so easily uncovered as a corrupt fraud that he’d be easily beaten by virtually any of the top Democratic candidates. Mitt Romney isn’t far behind, with massive flip-flopping and dissembling. John McCain’s campaign is pretty much a walking corpse (which is probably why is is signing on, in hopes of reversing his fortunes), and even Fred Thompson, once seen as the savior of the GOP in 2008, is now falling apart (due to fundraising woes, his lobbyist past becoming more public, and other credibility issues).

So can you blame them for running like scaredy-cats from any audience that isn’t pre-filtered for Republican bias? Well, actually, yes you can… but you can’t claim any measure of surprise when doing so.

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