So who won the VP debate?

[Aiemond]

steven787 said:

The_vagabond7 said:
that's kind of the catch 22, Nightdragon. If congress and the senate are ruled by the majority opposite of the president, nothing gets done (like the past two years), if the President's party is in power then lots of terrible things get done (like the previous six years). Either way the country gets screwed by partisan incompetence.

 

Except the Democrats are a much more divided party. There are fiscally conservative democrat (Reagen Dems) religious right democrats (rr-anti-war for instance), Hawkish Democrats (the Neo-cons actually started as Democrats) though most of these are keeping quiet right now. Republicans are a much less fractured, and tend to follow voting orders better than Dems, look at the Bail out Dems were under orders and 95/63 Democrats still voted against it.

 

The republicans were under orders and they had 130/100 vote against. The republicans are fracturing. The fiscals are fighting the evangelicals, McCain dismisses any republican that thinks Palin is not a good choice, etc. They are far from what they used to be. All they are now are pro life and anti gay. What happened to the fiscal conservatives? We voted them in and government bloated up. The republicans are going to have to redefine their party, being the party of deregulation and evangelicals cannot work anymore.

Plus, you talk about Obama doing whatever it takes....McCain knows Palin is not qualified. What happened to the straight talk express? He fibs more than he tells the truth, he defends outlandish claims (the sex ed ad, etc), etc. The man is no saint anymore, he has no strategy. He's like a loose cannon.