The Vilest Moments Of The GOP Las Vegas Debate, As Chosen By Wonkette, Which Knows From ‘Vile’

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The Vilest Moments Of The GOP Las Vegas Debate, As Chosen By Wonkette, Which Knows From ‘Vile’


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Now that we’ve had almost a full day to take our Dramamine, and maybe some knockout-drops, we are ready to look back at the main GOP debate in Las Vegas and determine: who, among the Trumps and not-Trumps, managed to say out loud the vilest, nastiest, most inhumane bullshit that ragtag bunch of misanthropes could offer? We mean, obviously, it was probably Donald Trump, right? Is there anything that guy doesn’t win?! Or might the answer surprise you? We polled each of the people in the chatcave today (Kaili is on vacation with the King of Spain, as Democrats are wont to do, and we didn’t bother with the freelancers), and present, unvarnished and unedited, their considered opinions.

Me, Rebecca Schoenkopf: I don’t know why this struck me more than any of the others racing to outmacho their brethren and Carlyen, but Chris Christie’s opening statement — where he sneered, spittle flying, that Obama has “betrayed” us — actually shocked me. Maybe it was because it was in such sharp contrast with John Kasich’s “we’re not blue states or red states, we’re American states,” “before we’re Democrats and Republicans, we’re Americans,” but the open disdain for the sitting president of the United States actually outraged me. Actually, it wasn’t even disdain; it was more dangerous than that. What is someone who betrays you? A traitor. And what is the punishment for traitors? Being hanged by the neck until dead.

Chris Christie is supposed to be the one who’s not actually a lunatic, just a jerky yelling man. He went on to blame Barack Obama for the shutdown of the Los Angeles Unified School District the same day — and nobody, including Wolf Blitzer, thought to mention that that LAUSD had shut down because of a hoax. THANKS OBAMA.

CA Pinkham: For me, the vilest moment of Tuesday’s GOP debate was, incredibly, not caused by any of the 847 candidates on the stage. Instead, the crowd starred in an impromptu production of Our Fuckheaded American Cousin, as the GOP voter base’s bile-drenched Id reared its hideous maw. Moderator Hugh Hewitt pressed retired self-practicing neurosurgeon Ben Carson on his comments about bombing ISIS-controlled areas and pointed out — quite reasonably — that waging war the way Carson has talked about is guaranteed to result in the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of innocent children. The crowd lost its goddamn mind in one of the biggest boo moments of the night.

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