To watch last night’s wrestling match of a Republican Presidential candidate debate was to catch a glimpse of the sheer genius of Mike Judge’s 2006 comedy “Idiocracy,” where the once mighty United States of America has intellectually crumbled into a dim-bulb netherworld of absolute morons. The childish bully antics of Donald Trump managed from time to time to pull even the other “serious” candidates down to his boorish level, the four of them pelting each other with fistfuls of verbal sand in pathetic attempts to garner the cheers of their own portion of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers populating the rube-infested audience. While no fan of FOX News, I couldn’t help but admire – and, yes, feel sorry for - the three hosts who did their best to soldier on valiantly, heads held high in attempting to bring some level of respectable discourse to this sorry affair, each frequently being booed and heckled for having the audacity to ask what I thought was a consistent presentation of not only fair-minded but hardball questions, the type that an informed electorate should welcome when vetting the highest office in our nation. Sadly, what we saw instead was a national embarrassment.
BILL
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