Couldn't tell you - I've never seen a GOP debate. Probably not.
So ... no knockout punches (no "I knew Jack Kennedy" or "You had an option, sir" lines).
The left-wing party leader flubbed his closing statement, which is especially bad since he was reading it from notes. The centrist leader (the youngest of the four, IIRC) did much better than I had expected him to do, dispelling the "he doesn't have enough experience" message in the other parties' attack ads. The right-wing party leader was on the defensive (understandable since he's the one looking for re-election), almost admitted that the country is in a recession, and said he expects the next US President is going to approve Keystone XL. The Green Party leader showed knowledge on topics that are outside the stereotypical Green purview, thus showing (to me, at least) that she has the ability to lead a country. Whether I want her to lead the country is another matter, of course.
I have some policy-watching to do over the next eleven weeks...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
So ... no knockout punches (no "I knew Jack Kennedy" or "You had an option, sir" lines).
The left-wing party leader flubbed his closing statement, which is especially bad since he was reading it from notes. The centrist leader (the youngest of the four, IIRC) did much better than I had expected him to do, dispelling the "he doesn't have enough experience" message in the other parties' attack ads. The right-wing party leader was on the defensive (understandable since he's the one looking for re-election), almost admitted that the country is in a recession, and said he expects the next US President is going to approve Keystone XL. The Green Party leader showed knowledge on topics that are outside the stereotypical Green purview, thus showing (to me, at least) that she has the ability to lead a country. Whether I want her to lead the country is another matter, of course.
I have some policy-watching to do over the next eleven weeks...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012