With all due respect to Terry, one debate was enough.
Posted by: Donna
I don’t blame Terry Goddard for challenging Jan Brewer to a series of debates but I don’t see the point.
If Brewer agreed to another debate it immediately sets up the IOKIYAR Lowered Expectations Mulligan. You know what I’m talking about: When a Republican faceplants in a debate, because he/she is a Republican everyone decides to vastly lower the expectations in the next debate. It happened with GWB in the 2004 Presidential debates. Shoot, Palin got it right off the bat for her debate with Biden in 2008 due to her already demonstrated poor elocution and lack of knowledge of, well, anything. Under the lowered expectations rule all the Republican has to do is not fumble too badly at the debate and the punditocracy will swoon before such a valiant attempt at mediocrity. (Democratic politicians don’t benefit from mulligans or lowered expectations, you understand. One flub and you never live it down. I chalk it up to people having higher expectations of us.)
The low bar for a future Jan Brewer debate has broken a new record for the IOKIYAR Reduced Expectations Mulligan. Terry will win every debate with Jan on the technical merits because he knows what he’s talking about and she’s clueless but Jan will “win” the next one no matter how deplorably she actually does. Her handlers will double down on prepping her and if she burbles out the talking points in anything resembling the English language, there will be swooning en masse.
Which makes you wonder why Brewer’s handlers aren’t jumping at the chance for another debate.
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Has nothing to do with debates. Our natural lords and Masters the Establishment Punditocracy have decided for us that This is The Year Of The Republican Comeback, because they remember all the fun they had during the Klinton Killer Klown Klenis Show that they covered instead of things like threats to national security like guy training to fly airliners into skyscrapers.
MUCH more fun to talk about cigars and stains on blue dresses.
And of course everyone will balme the Democrats when things continue to go to hell in a handbasket, because, well,
IAOKIYAR