I just wanted to see if Mitt Romney would say something stupid.
But he didn't. He did very well. And after last night, there is a clear front-runner in this race.
52%
24%
24%
Clearly, for those who are worried about the educational system in America, Big Bird is the only choice. And with The Count as his running mate it seems that he just can't lose.
"We can't wait to roll out our new economic policy entitled We'll Get the Country Back on Track Because I Can't Count Higher than 10," The Count said in an interview this morning. "Ah ah ahhhh."
I know that doesn't seem like a very good reason to watch what should be a very important 2 hours to me as an American citizen, but I can't help it. As soon as any numbers are mentioned, my mind comes to a screeching halt and I get a glazed look. So if waiting for someone to say something ridiculous was my reason for watching the debate, then I think the Republicans have picked a great candidate who will get even the politically unaware (that would be me) interested in listening to what both candidates have to say.
Much ado was made about the facial expressions of both candidates during the debate while the other was speaking. Let me sum it up for you:
"It's my anniversary. I wonder if I'll get lucky tonight?"
"He's so pretty."
But I really think we should give them a break. Do you know what my face would look like if I had to argue with someone I hated for two hours on television?
Many people also remarked on how Romney seemed to run the show from the very beginning. But after his comment about getting rid of the funding that's going to PBS, I began to wonder if Jim Lehrer was giving him the go-ahead so that, if elected, Romney might offer him a job after he was canned from Public Television.
Then again, maybe Romney was just ignoring the moderator because he wasn't sure if he was real...or a product of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.
What I truly did enjoy during the debate was my 2 hour vacation from political commercials. I have gotten to the point where I DVR every single show I want to watch so that I can skip through all of those ads claiming that if we vote one side or the other, the world as we know it will end.
My mom is sick of it, too. "I just hate talking politics with anyone," she told me yesterday in a tired voice. "They all seem to think that if one party or the other is elected, none of us will survive."
She's not kidding and I know she's not the only one who feels this way. I have been reading posts from friends and family on Twitter and Facebook that seem to indicate that Americans now more than ever aren't voting for someone - they're voting against the other party. Even the people I know who are staunch Republicans seem to be saying, "Well...if that's the best you could do...." and the Democrats are just trying to hold on with their fingertips so that they might have a chance to finish what they started.
Well. I have news for you. In another 4 years, no one will really finish anything.
For those people who think that the country will collapse if either party is elected, you have clearly never sat on a board before. My impatience with working with a group of people who all have no doubt that their way is the best way and are completely unwilling to yield has made me a very uncivic-minded person. My last experience with this was about 10 years ago when I sat on the board of the local cultural commission that spent 6 months trying to get a statue in front of a restaurant approved. By the time I resigned, I was so damn frustrated that I was ready to vote against the arts in every poll that was put in front of me.
So imagine how hard it must be to get little things like taxes and healthcare approved.
What might take a dictator 2 days to roll out (not that I'm for that form of politics), Congress will never get off the ground in 4 years because every person seems to think they know best. If the Republicans are elected, they'll spend the next 4 years trying to overturn everything the Democrats have done and if the Democrats are elected they'll keep plugging away, trying to get what they want done before the next group gets in there and changes it all.
This would be why Big Bird might be the best alternative. And with all of those Stanley Steemer commercials that are set in the Oval Office, they already have things covered should a bird take office.
Anyway, after watching 2 hours of candidates telling each other that they were wrong about each other's policies and listening to Jim Lehrer say uh, wait, and you only have 5 seconds when he had clearly lost all control of what was going on, I had only one thing running through my mind the entire time.
They preempted Modern Family for this?
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