Well, not that there was one thing that fits this category..or even just a few. But I'd like to point out a few that really pissed me off last night or provoked nausea or both.

First: The Hillary "Pinyata". LAME! DENSE! WORTHLESS! and very, very CHEAP!

I swear. National "red meat" Politics can be such a joke. And Partisan National "red meat" Politics can border on intellectually criminal and childish. We all know the GOP hates Hillary. Big Deal. And we all know the candidates will generally go out of their way to poke an insult at her to get some cheers from the faithful. Sadly, and quite frankly, it's a worthless exercise.

The "focus group" orchestrated by Luntz was just as pathetic though sadly accurate in portraying the viewpoint of the "average voter". From this debate, they wanted someone to "step up". What that means exactly, regardless of how you define it, is totally worthless. They also wanted someone to show they can beat that socialist Hillary. Many liked Huckabee by night's end. I can see why, though I don't condone it: He sounds nice and folksy while saying things that sound good but meant absolutely nothing in terms of what a president can do. He does seem like a genuinely nice man though.

Luntz was delighted to show his revelation: The opinion-dial meter went through the roof when they bashed Hillary....WOW. Luntz may be onto something substantive with that observation!! duh.

Second: Duncan Hunter. This man is by far the worst candidate on the stage. He is the stereo-typical angry middle-age white man but with a suit and tie. I was waiting for him to walk out to a p-up truck awash with stickers like "These Colors Don't Run".

The highlight (er...lowlight) was in the post debate chit-chat with H&C. We went on and on about how Bill Clinton hurt this country with the military cuts. I was actually in the room when he started this rant and dropped everything to run back and listen with disturbed fascination.

He went on and on about how those cuts (with lots of bi-partisan support I might add) weakened with country in its ability to fight the War on "Terr'r". It was supposed to be a Peace Dividend but we didn't "git th'peace", he said.This type of argument has gotten steam in recent years as chicken hawks, ditto-heads and angry "yes men" have tried to find stuff to complain about as the occupation got stretched thin and bogged down. It also serves as a cute way to put an (*) by Clinton era budget numbers by claiming it was all military cuts, which is was not. It also deflected blame for all the jacked up military spending over the last 6 years.

A few glaring problems: He then admitted to Colmes in the next breath that the military did a better than expected job in taking Bagdhad and routing the Taliban in record time...which is true for what it's worth. Military prowess was not lost with those cuts because most of those cuts were in defunct areas that no longer served a real purpose. In short, a totally bunk and stupid point by Hunter. Defeating "Al Quaeda" and "Terrorism", in so far as it can be done, is not a real military solution in the conventional sense. A few more divisions, planes and tanks isn't going to change anything...neither would a lot more unless we plan on invading more countries while continuing to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan.

Armies are for doing battle, not occupying countries. And we fight battles quite. There's little else to gain. Besides, Bush never went into Iraq with the full force of the military and thought it could be occupied with a much smaller force than were capable of going in with. In short, he did it on the cheap with plenty to spare and still worked more than fine. Our foreign policy problems are not rooted in an undersized military. Some would argue the opposite. Finally, any lack of peace we've had since Clinton cut the military has nothing to do with those cuts at all and would have changed nothing....NOTHING. What a moron.

Hunter is an utter fool for trying to claim that a larger military would have changed anything at all in terms of war and peace in the last 12-14 years.