The Primary Debate
It's our understanding that the two Republican candidates will debate again this Thursday on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Two things we found interesting based on reports from the last debate to keep an eye on this time.
Tyberg called for abolishing Social Security in the last debate. While we at Obey Out think Social Security was a poorly designed system and is badly in need of reform, Tyberg's position is both unworkable and unelectable. It's a pipe dream to think you could just wave a magic wand and make the Social Security sytem disappear. A better approach would be to take a step in a new direction by keeping the government's hands off our money and let it grow, but keeping a system in place that still helps those who need it the most. It's the best we could get and we should be fighting for it.
Tyberg also said something along the lines that people in the United States don't know how good they have it when it comes to gas prices. He says other countries pay much more and we shouldn't be complaining so much. That pretty much speaks for itself.
Otherwise, look for the two candidates to agree on a lot - which is good, they are both Republicans after all.
By contrast, this Rhode Island debate between two Republicans had a little more fireworks, including this exchange on the death penalty and applying it to Bin Laden.
Two things we found interesting based on reports from the last debate to keep an eye on this time.
Tyberg called for abolishing Social Security in the last debate. While we at Obey Out think Social Security was a poorly designed system and is badly in need of reform, Tyberg's position is both unworkable and unelectable. It's a pipe dream to think you could just wave a magic wand and make the Social Security sytem disappear. A better approach would be to take a step in a new direction by keeping the government's hands off our money and let it grow, but keeping a system in place that still helps those who need it the most. It's the best we could get and we should be fighting for it.
Tyberg also said something along the lines that people in the United States don't know how good they have it when it comes to gas prices. He says other countries pay much more and we shouldn't be complaining so much. That pretty much speaks for itself.
Otherwise, look for the two candidates to agree on a lot - which is good, they are both Republicans after all.
By contrast, this Rhode Island debate between two Republicans had a little more fireworks, including this exchange on the death penalty and applying it to Bin Laden.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 8:08 AM
1 Comments:
Lincoln Chafee is an abomination that is sadly included on the "Republican" side. He's no more a Republican than Harry Reid or Hillary Clinton. We can only hope he is soundly defeated in his primary and then we can finally look to add a conservative to our "majority" in the Senate.
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