Perhaps it’s because the candidates had such awkward demeanors and deliveries - with Pence in particular seeming more blankly AI-generated than usual, to the point where I began referring to him in my notes as “ChatGOP.”īut ultimately, the funniest moments on stage were all unintentional, like the weirdly chaotic shouting match that ensued between Nikki Haley and Tim Scott over the cost of the curtains in her UN Ambassador’s residence. We’re going to choose the Marcellus over the Mullahs, and we’re going to choose Bakken over Beijing”). Perhaps it’s because so many of the lines on Wednesday night were so clearly pre-rehearsed, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s confusing avalanche of alliteration in support of his energy policy (“ We are going to choose Midland over Moscow. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” We’re going to call you Donald Duck”) to former Vice President Mike Pence’s faux-folksy attempt at a wink-wink-nudge-nudge gag about his wife (“I have been sleeping with a teacher for 38 years”), the candidates showed a remarkable inability to deliver zingers at a debate held in the memorial library of a Republican president who was a master of them. Facing off against Democratic candidate Walter Mondale in 1984, Ronald Reagan famously said: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. Human civilization has given us a few great unanswerable questions, such as “What is the meaning of life?” and “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” To these, we must now add “Why are Republicans so bad at telling jokes?”įrom former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s terrible pun targeting the absent frontrunner (“You’re ducking these things … You keep doing that and no one up here is going to call you Donald Trump anymore.
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