Reducing the debate to four words...

Binders full of women.

How do you debate someone using the Gish Gallop technique?

The definition of Gish Gallop.. which sounds like something you experience after eating bad food, basically is unloading so many lies all at once that the opponent cannot attack any of them.  It lets you win the debate (especially if the other one is not ready for it) but you've given the other side enough ammo for a zillion negative campaign ads in the end.

 

It's suggested that Romney's debate win probably made the House stay Republican, even if he himself loses the election. Only time will tell....

Chaos on Bulls**t Mountain

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Calling out liars

Before their lies can be repeated enough to become the truth.

What the election will be about

Unless there's a space alien attack, a tsunami in Kansas, or somebody somewhere says something dumb....

Recent history...

As an 'historian', Newt should remember this...

 

and realize we may be momentarily distracted by snark and speeches, but people will recall his hypocrisy in the end....

Stop time travel!

Because ideology is always better than intelligence

Stand up and fight back

via Rachel Maddow's blog.

Making it clear.

Be afraid of Sharia law sneaking in and perverting our Constitution!1!! ... because we actually want to allow Christianity to sneak in and pervert our Constitution.

Run, Newt!

Please!

The last one did so well, how about his brother?

JEB! floats a trial balloon.

If this man gets anywhere NEAR the White House, the USA is truly finally completely totally finished.

Newt for president in 2012?

Oh, do. Please!

Why do we do this to our politicians?

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Couldn't we change our Constitution and/or the rules and have a 'no confidence' vote instead of impeachment, and have somehow a faster campaign time? Our news media won't know what to do with themselves the day after the election.

If a candidate is running an ugly campaign

It reflects his desire to run an ugly campaign. John McCain is not an honorable man forced to do what he doesn't want to do. That would indicate a) he's not even able to control his own staff and campaign aides or b) he has no clue what is being done in his name or even worse 3) he's totally clueless because of the onset of senility.

John McCain clearly knows what he is doing. He is playing both sides and playing them for all they're worth.

John McCain may have been at one time honorable. He is no longer.

Glenn Greenwald:

Time's Ana Marie Cox, in a Bloggingheads discussion with Ann Althouse, does an excellent job of expressing what is still, amazingly enough, the prevailing media view of John McCain: namely, that this deeply honorable and principled man is vehemently opposed to running an ugly, dirty campaign against Barack Obama, and that is happening despite McCain's deep opposition to such campaigns and the way it profoundly violates his code of honor.

[snip]

The national press corps continues to revere John McCain despite what is widely acknowledged to be the toxic and ugly campaign he's running because they still think that this campaign is being run despite McCain's character and wishes, not because of them. The idea that someone should be judged by their actual conduct never seems to occur to them, nor do they accept what ought to be the rather self-evident proposition that someone who repeatedly does dishonorable things is, by definition, dishonorable. By their fruits ye shall know them. Or, as former/long-time McCain lover Andrew Sullivan put it:

I'm afraid that [Atlantic Editor] Jim [Fallows] is dealing with what we're all dealing with: the fact that the myth we had of McCain is, in fact, a lie. The real McCain - dishonest, dishonorable and despicable - is now in plain sight. To say I'm disillusioned would be an understatement. The last six weeks have shown us all something we'd rather never have found out. But we can't ignore it now, can we?

Some obviously can -- and are.

Exactly. People in the media would come away from an interview with George Bush declaring he was really a nice guy. As if they couldn't see that both Bush and McCain are ultimate professionals who know how to finesse the media. We who stand back and watch are stunned that the media falls for this trick every single damn time. Cox is just the latest one to fall.

The essence of the last debate.

Fearguth has it.

Lobbyists?

Yeah, McCain, THESE LOBBYISTS.

Watch out!

And of course, the top ten.

McCain takes credit for the bailout bill

before it doesn't pass.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.

The rush to claim he had engineered a victory now looks like a strategic blunder that will prolong the McCain’s campaign’s difficulty in finding a winning message on the economy.

Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the sidelines.

“I've never been afraid of stepping in to solve problems for the American people, and I'm not going to stop now,” McCain told a rally in Columbus, Ohio. “Sen. Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was monitoring the situation.”
McCain, grinning, flashed a sarcastic thumbs up.

Obama vs. McCain, round one

But what we will probably get:



And with the VP debates between Biden and Palin:



But what we will probably get:



So McCain will play the last card he has. The sympathy card:



But at that point, most of the watching audience will no longer care: