Funny Video: ‘Peanuts’ Characters Star in GOP Debate Remake

Hat tip goes to ConservativeByte.com where I first saw this very funny video satirizing one of the recent GOP debates. It was produced by the Jimmy Kimmel TV Show. It pokes fun at the jousting that went on between Governors Perry and Romney. 

In the cartoon YouTube video Charlie Brown plays Mitt Romney, while Lucy plays Rick Perry.  Another ‘Peanuts” character plays Herman Cain. It is refreshingly funny.

Late Night Takes – On Debate Time and Bath Time

Late Night Jokes

Conan

Ron Paul’s campaign is upset because during last week's Republican presidential debate, he only got to speak for 89 seconds. Meanwhile, Rick Perry's campaign is upset because during last week's debate, he got to speak.

Over the weekend in New York, two Occupy Wall Street protesters got married at the protest. They are registered at Bed, Bath, and Seriously, You Need to Take a Bath.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

There was another Republican debate on Saturday, and listen to this: Ron Paul only got 89 seconds to speak. Seriously? Rick Perry gets more time than that to try to remember something.

These jokes are courtesy of NewsMax.com whichperiodically sends out an email compilation of jokes heard on late night TV talk shows, few of which are worth repeating . . . these were the exceptions.

Presidential Debate at the Reagan Library 9/7/2011 - The Mitt & Rick Show

Surprisingly, this debate, co-sponsored by very leftist leaning NBC, was on the up and up. Unlike the Fox debate there were no obvious gotcha questions. Strikingly, although I do not agree with all the candidates, all of them performed reasonably well.

Who won the debate?  Rick Perry was the center of attention and seemed to be the most forthright with a couple of his answers, especially on Capital Punishment and Social Security. The answers seemed to stun the liberal Brian Williams. Williams was equally shocked by the audience’s concurrence on Perry and Texas’ position as well.

You just know moderators were in obvious disagreement with Michele Bachmann’s answer regarding Libya. It was an unwise decision to intervene there was Bachmann’s view. I agree. But how dare she challenge the wisdom of 'Dear Leader' the 'all-wise' Barack Obama was the impression I get from the Left.

Jon Huntsman gave a very credible performance. Though I disagree with his mostly liberal positions, he did well. Herman Cain and Rick Santorum gave solid performances as well.

I guess if I had to give a rating how the candidates did tonight I would rate them as follows:

Rick Perry – A-

Mitt Romney – A-

Michele Bachmann - B

Newt Gingrich – B 

Ron Paul - B

Jon Huntsman - C+

Rick Santorum - C

Herman Cain - C

To be fair not every candidate got equal time. The spotlight was on the two so-called front runners Perry and Romney. After the debate it is still Bachmann, Paul, Perry and Romney in the top tier.

One thing both Perry and Romney also share is that they are very flawed. It is just the degree of "flawness." Neither are true conservatives.

Absent from the discussion were the social issues, which apparently are irrelevant to the secular humanist moderators. To me those are the key issues in this debate. Without the right to life, everything else is mute. 

GOP Presidential Debate in South Carolina on Labor Day

I watched the entire Palmetto Freedom Forum Presidential Debate today online at www.Townhall.com. The format was radically different from previous debates. Each of the five participants, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney was allocated 22 minutes to give an opening remarks and then they were grilled by three panelists with the remaining time. Each Presidential candidate was asked essentially the same question with a slight variation each time. They were given time to answer, as opposed to some of the previous debates, like the one held on Fox, which allowed only 30 seconds for a response.

The panelists consisted of Senator Jim DeMint, who was instrumental in organizing and designing the debate held in his home state of South Carolina. Congressman Steve King, who is from another early GOP primary state Iowa, was the second member of the panel. The third panel member was Professor Robert George of Princeton and the American Policy Project. Their questions were all insightful and challenged the candidates.

Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul both did exceptionally well. Newt Gingrich was best prepared intellectually, Ron Paul was the best prepared ideologically. Both candidates were entirely comfortable and confident in their responses to some tough questions. They both graded out as As. Cain received a B grade. Michele Bachmann and Romney received a C grade, though I still feel she is the best overall candidate in the race. Bachmann didn’t seem as sharp as I expected and her answers were not as comprehensive as Paul’s or Gingrich’s.  I still don’t trust anything that Romney says. It is hard to be objective with a person who seems to be totally unprincipled and who flip flops on the issues. Somehow I think he would appoint another Sandra Day O’Conner to the US Supreme Court despite his rhetoric to the contrary.

I would have liked to see Governor Rick Perry involved in this debate, since we have not had opportunity to watch him in any of the previous debates, because of his recent entry into the race. Why Senator Santorum, Governors Huntsman and Johnson or Congressman McCotter where not in the debate I’m not sure. Maybe because they were polling so low and there was not enough time for the debate format to include all the announced candidates.

Ron Paul emphasized the need for sound money, which was a theme that wove through all of his responses. Herman Cain wove his basic canned campaign themes into his answers. He was well organized and well-spoken. Regarding illegal aliens, Cain wanted a100% secure border, regarding keeping out both law-breaking people and illegal drugs. Michele Bachmann said that making profit was a good thing.

For my money, the “winner” of the debate was a tie between Gingrich and Paul. I am beginning to agree more and more with Paul’s foreign policy of getting out of foreign entanglements and alliances. However, I don’t think we should close all of our foreign bases. Maybe most should be evaluated, and reduced but not totally eliminated. We need to have strategically placed presence in order to respond to situations that advance our national security.

I don’t agree that any of the five would be better than Obama. Certainly Romney would be Obama-lite and like I said before I could not trust him to remain true to conservative principles, which I wonder if he even hold any apart from the political necessity to do so. He would be another unacceptable RINO in the John McCain mold. I still have my doubts about Gingrich, but he sure is persuasive with his response regarding his seeking God’s involvement in his decision-making.  But did he say that for the audience’s sake?

Republican Presidential Debate

Wow! This seems early.  We have a whole year until the election.  Watch the debate at the links below.

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0kARR4WWM

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdXoRlJNP8

part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLmakvy2c0

part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlH9dxbvM8

part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToBYuMqo7Y

part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAiwMEhfFTg

part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdaUqDFGA9I

Obama: Just Words, Just Speeches, Just Gaffes?

Senator Barack Hussein Obama is just another Chicago political hack and thug. He is best described as ‘the best orator a teleprompter can produce.’ He has made many gaffes during this campaign, but they are all ignored by the leftist mainstream media types. They are extremely biased toward him, wanting him to be elected our next President. Why not? They are predominately socialists driven by Marxist ideology. Here is one of the gaffes, which he made during Friday’s first McCain-Obama debate in Mississippi.

NewsBusters.com (the Media Research Center) reported (article titled, "Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?") Sunday (9/28/08) that the family of the soldier named on the bracelet worn by Barack Hussein Obama had requested that he NOT wear their son's bracelet any longer. They see him having used it for political gain as demonstrated somewhat ineffectively during the debate on Friday. Obama is a cheap two-bit politician, a punk, as shown by his using anything true or false to get elected. What a sham, what a shame!

"I've Got a Bracelet, Too" (Obama)


Here is a transcript of the above YouTube video:

MCCAIN: He was 22 years old and he was killed in combat outside of Baghdad, Matthew Stanley, before Christmas last year. This was last August, a year ago. And I said, “I will — I will wear his bracelet with honor.”

And this was August, a year ago. And then she said, “But, Senator McCain, I want you to do everything — promise me one thing, that you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that my son’s death was not in vain.”

That means that that mission succeeds, just like those young people who re-enlisted in Baghdad, just like the mother I met at the airport the other day whose son was killed. And they all say to me that we don’t want defeat.

A war that I was in, where we had an Army, that it wasn’t through any fault of their own, but they were defeated. And I know how hard it is for that — for an Army and a military to recover from that. And it did and we will win this one and we won’t come home in defeat and dishonor and probably have to go back if we fail.

OBAMA: Jim, let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too, from Sergeant - from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopeck, sure another mother is not going through what I’m going through.

I like the comment made by Ed Morrissey on the HotAir.com website.

“Now, the point here was valid — not all Gold Star Mothers agree on Iraq, Cindy Sheehan being the most outré example of Obama’s constituency among them. Unfortunately, Obama fumbled the delivery on two points. First, his “I’ve got a bracelet, too” sounded whiny, childish, and petulant. Obama wanted to one-up McCain rather than make his point, and it came out defensive and petty instead of presidential.

“Obama clearly prepared for this moment, knowing McCain would discuss his bracelet, but in those preparations, Obama didn’t commit the soldier’s name to memory. He had to look down at his bracelet to remember the name. McCain didn’t have to do that, which made Obama look much more manipulative in his presentation. It was a “tell”, a poker term for an involuntary physical manifestation of a player’s hand.

“Will this be a defining moment of this debate? Perhaps, although I doubt it will get much attention outside of the blogosphere . . .”