Yvette Carnell: What Republican Reaction to Last Night’s Debate Says About Them
by Yvette Carnell
Last night, Vice President Joe Biden took Paul Ryan to task on everything from the debt to foreign policy. It was a substantive debate, and one of the 
most engaging I’ve seen in awhile. But what was the reaction of the media and Republicans? To go at Joe Biden for perceived rudeness.
We have a Mormon who views himself as a savior, and believes it is his destiny to rescue America, vying for the Oval, and Republicans are peeved that VP Biden smiled and smirked too much?
What this tells you is that the media and Republicans have withdrawn completely from the arena of intellectual discourse. When it becomes all about style instead of substance, then politics as we know it in this country is over.
Did Biden barrel over Ryan in a few exchanges? Certainly, but that’s what most Alpha men do when challenged by younger and lesser adversaries. Republicans adored this quality in Bush, but in a Democrat, the standards shift, as they always do. It’s OK for Bush to be a gut guy, but when Biden does it, well, it’s an insult to Southern gentile standards.
Biden was Biden. He didn’t bother with thoroughly crafted canned answers. He said what he meant, and meant what he said. You’d think conservatives, who pride themselves on authenticity, would appreciate that. But they can’t because any smidgen of objectivity that remained prior Obama is gone now. You can’t very well expect people who view Obama, a centrist politician, as a Kenyan Socialist fraud, to make objective debate assessments.
Conservatives have come unhinged and I suspect most will remain mentally untethered from reality for some time to come. But the question then becomes; what do you do when half the country isn’t connected to reality in any real or identifiable way? How can you make your case when half the country is emotionally invested in something that doesn’t exist? That’s our challenge as liberals, and what last night’s debate demonstrates is that we have our work is cut out for us.
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The TEA-PUBLICANS are notorious with their unfairness. As long as Romney was up there acting like a bull in a china shop…it was “OK with the rightwing nuts.” They called that a BIG WIN. O000 they celebrated…degraded Pres. Obama and just talked like they had won the GOLD at the Olympics. But when Biden wiped the floor with RYAN MUNSTER…ooooh…that was rude ! And they have also been saying it was a “tie.” NOT. Biden mentioned facts…and Ryan did little more that throw out empty fairy tales….lies and fabricated nonsense. I just hope that this fiery debate opened some eyes for those folks who may be bamboozled by all the B.S. coming from Romney and his TEA-PUBLICAN buddies — who are out to take from the poor and give to the rich.
Wow. Guess you guys already forgot about the Demcratic response to B.Obama getting his tail kicked by the savior Mitt. The Dem reaction was ten-fold worse after the presidential beat-down B.Obama took last week.
Y Carnell is so biased that her “reporting” teeters on being a joke.
@Laura Shannon-Madeja – After he got beat down in the 1st debate, B.Obama should consider himself lucky that Mitt didnt toss him a quarter and tell him there will be a position in his cabinet to shine Paul Ryan’s shoes for the next 8 years. He wasn’t much use as a president; maybe he could shine them shoes a little better….
I thought it was provocative like a bullfight. VP Biden was the bullfighter, and Rep. Ryan was trying to be a bull. A debate is an opportunity to passionately and verbally disagree with your opponent in an effort to express your beliefs. VP Biden did a phenomenal job. He showed he is capable of being The President, if God forbid something happened to President Obama. Ryan on the other hand, could nor would not be capable as President if something, God forbid where to happen to Romney.
Chris you need to get somewhere and shut your mouth you sound like you are slow the POTUS did not lose the dedate and Romney he was very rude to the POTUS and to Mr. Jim For sure did not win you sound like a die hard tea party member stupid.
The Republicans have been showing their “butts” since Obama got elected. One comedian stated it well, “It’s as if they’d lost their minds”. The way they reacted to the vice president debate was nothing new. In fact, it’s in sync with how they’ve been behaving the past four years. I would have been surprised if they’d reacted any other way. How did you expect them to react?