Debate Number 2

Democratic Debate Number 2 is in the books, and Chris Matthews called it almost correct.  Before the debate started, Matthews called for an all out fist fight between Sanders and Biden, and while no fists were actually thrown; there were many verbal punches thrown.

Right from the start of the debate, all the candidates took the stance of not directly answering any questions they were asked.  Sanders took 3 minutes to answer his first question.  Sanders' first question was whether or not his "Medicare for all" program was going to raise taxes on the Middle Class.  When Sanders was done with his first "vote for me and here's why" pitch, the moderators had to push Sanders to answer the question.  Sanders finally answered and his answer was "Yes, the middle class will see an increase in taxes."  Way to shoot down your election campaign before the first primary there Bernie.

Biden was off all night, until he was pressed on some issues by Harris.  All night Biden was doing his best to tout the "accomplishments" of when he was VP.  He had to defend a few points from his VP years.  Throughout the whole night Biden, was just off.  He did not "attack" any of the other candidates on the stage, however; he was the "punching bag" for many of the other candidates. 

One of the big questions of the night for all of the candidates, was whether or not their healthcare plans were going to pay for the healthcare for all the illegal immigrants coming into this country.  All ten that were there last night raised their hands.  All ten of the candidates, are willing to use taxpayer money to pay for the health of those who broke into this country.  While that may be good for your base, that will not win the votes of those who are on the fence of whether to vote Democrat or Republican.

Many of the people on the stage last night did not need to be there.  Two were Andrew Yang (who was not paying attention to the first round of questions) Huh?  Also Ms. Williamson, she must be from the "My rent is to damn high" party, because she was the very oddball last night. 

After last night, I still think that by fourth quarter of 2019 we will only have 5 candidates still in the running on the Democratic side.

Democratic Debate Numero Uno

Last night was the first Democratic debate.  As most conservatives guessed, there really were not that many "hard hitting" questions.  The debate was broadcast on NBC, which has been out to get any and all conservatives since Donald Trump was elected.  The funniest part last night, in my eyes; was the "hot mic" section.  If you have no clue what happened, well here you go: NBC came back from a commercial break (why, who knows), during the break they changed moderators, NBC forgot to turn off the mics of the previous moderators before the new moderators started asking questions.  Way to go NBC, way to show the world how unprepared you were for the Debate last night.

Few questions about healthcare and what a few of the candidates would change.  Most of the first hour was spent bashing the economy.  Beto, Warren, Castro, Booker all said that since Trump has taken office, the economy has turned to crap.  Do they not realize that the economy is in a much higher place than when Obama left office, the Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P are all at record highs.  Paychecks are rising, although according to Inslee, noone has received a pay increase since 1980.  I tweeted this morning that I wonder how many of the candidate's paychecks are higher (those that are not in a government office, which is all of three from last night) since Trump took office.  After the whole "hot mic" incident, the questions turned to gun control.  Not one of the candidates that was able to answer the questions had anything good to say, a few of them came close to saying they were for confiscation of all guns.

Elizabeth Warren got the first question, and many other questions over the night.  It seemed like NBC had picked their candidate to be Warren during the first hour.  All of the candidates were talking over each other.  De Blasio was rude and needed his mic to be shut off many times.  A typical Democrat who was not getting his way, so he needed to interrupt, and try to talk louder than anyone on the stage last night.  Castro, reminded people who he was, and that he's Latino, and he can speak Spanish. 

The reason I titled this as Democratic Debate Numero Uno is because 3-4 questions were asked in Spanish and Beto, Castro and Booker all responded in Spanish.  Booker even had a "dumbfounded" look on his face when Beto broke out in Spanish first. 

The only one on the stage last night that even remotely towed the center was former Rep. John Delaney.  He was the only one that seemed to have any decent ideas, and that were not extremely left. 

I think by Friday we should start seeing some of the lesser candidates dropping out of the race, and i predict that by November we should have a clear front runner, with 4 others still in the race.  The Democratic Convention is July 13-16 2020.  If I had to guess my final five would be Warren, Biden, Sanders, Booker, and Castro.

I think Warren or Biden will come out on top and if Sanders truly wants to become President, then he will try to run on the Independent platform, which will only hurt the Democrats more.  This is going to be an interesting year until the Democratic Convention.  It's only going to get more, and more bizarre