Bulldazzling!

No zingers. Huh.

Rmoney tricked me, I guess. Instead he went with a debate move which, I learned this morning, is called the "gish gallop". 

Essentially, you throw out so many lies and half-truths at your debate opponent that he's so over-whelmed at your lies that he doesn't know whether to poop or go blind as he tries to figure out which lie to address first.

Every pundit this side of the GOP Headquarters at Foxnews knows Mitt Romney lied his ass off at the Debacle In Denver. As strategeries go, the gish gallop is lame and frowned upon whether it's at presidential debates or the highschool level. You won't win if you resort to it. The judges see right through it. It remains to be seen if it will help Romney or not but, I doubt it. He blew his wad on the first debate and Obama has cameras all around to artfully refute his opponents bullshit until the next debate. Lies are still lies at the end of the day and, when you wake up in the morning.

Like most of my kind, I was disappointed in our president that night. I made the expected analogies with sports metaphors about the Chicago Cubs and how close they have come in my lifetime to winning it all. Never minding the '69 team that broke my young heart and molded my future as a man, it reminded me of the '84 bunch that spanked the daylights out of the San Diego Padres, going up two-oh in the play-offs...only to drop the next three on the road. I mean-sheesh- the fucking Padres? They had them...

Well, I got over '84 and '89 (and a couple others...) because, you just have to wake up the next day and realize that your happiness cannot reasonably be left in the hands of 25 men whom you don't know and whom probably won't even look at you if you were to hand them a ball and ask for their signature. It's tough enough to be in love with one person and rely on them for emotional fulfillment. Either case, you deal with it.

But, we're talking about the happiness in the here and now of more than 300 million people. Their future happiness as well. This is beyond baseball, folks. The play-offs start today and I'll watch out of the love I have for the game itself. The game is bigger than a team. The political game may be bigger than one man but, it comes down to one man the way our system *works*.

It's a big fucking deal, as Joe Biden would say. It really is. Bulldazzler Romney may think he can lie his way into the White House but we the people have to stop that. We know who and what he represents and it ain't us. The guy told Jim Lehrer, the debate moderator, that- though he liked him and Big Bird- he was going to fire both (as president) because he doesn't want to borrow money from China to keep them employed! What the fuck kind of idiocy is that? Who thinks like that and expects a nation to follow suit in that logic?

Mitt Romney, that's who. George Bush fought two wars on money borrowed from China and we have the debt to show for it. This asshole wants to fight Iran AND cut everyone's taxes by 20%! Um, to pay for it? The reich keeps saying we need a businessman in the White House and that is on this asshole's resume but, this is not how your uncle runs his hotdog stand, now is it? It's how Romney ran things at Bain though. Who made millions and how many tens of thousands of people lost jobs and pensions?

Romney does not care about "us". We the people are pawns to be sacrificed as cheaply as possible. The presidency is something he feels entitled to. He'll say and do anything to gain this position. He's not done making money either. I joke that he'd put oil wells on the White House lawn but, you'd see them Yosemite- if the new owner would let you in- if this guy wins. Yep. And the reichwing supporters would support that because they are stupid enough to believe that such efforts would lead to cheaper gas....

We get the government that we deserve, folks. Let's not get the government that asshole republicans deserve.