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Here’s what I learned from tonight’s surprising debate chock full of new questions and equal response time:

• Gay marriage : BAD. I know I don’t need to point out the obvious: that this is the most important issue facing our country today. Children need a mother AND a father, see. Got that, single moms and widows?
• Pro-life : GOOD! Unless they’re babies in the Middle East, Asia, or Africa, those we don’t mind killing.
• The military budget : TOO SMALL! Spending more than every other country in the world combined is not enough. No wonder Iran and Russia are standing up to us, we don’t spend enough on defense!
• Hillary: BAD. And apparently the only Democratic party candidate.
• Mitt Romney: PRETTY.
• Diversity: BAD. Obvious from the demographic make-up of the audience. Or maybe there aren’t any black people in Florida?
• Ron Paul: BAD. Not enough war-talk. Me need more war! Won’t spend enough imaginary money and bankrupt our future generations. BOOO!!!

Ron Paul, the only passionate and not-full-of-s—t speaker up there, was booed multiple times, including when he talked about non-interventionism and this crazy idea of TALKING with other countries instead of immediately bombing them. There was also booing at his mention of leaving Iraq. You can be sure those that booed are the people proudly shipping their children over there right now.

Here it is, not even November 2007, and already the election has been decided.

You all know this right? It will be Hillary vs. Giuliani whether you like it or not. Forget that we haven’t held a single primary yet, the media has already declared it thus, and so it must be. Giuliani could have stood up there and quacked like a duck the whole time and the commentators afterwards still would have said,

“The obvious front-runner is Giuliani, he did everything right tonight.”

Likewise, there may as well be no other candidates running for the Democratic party nomination, Hillary has already been dubbed The One.

The only way out of this — our only hope — is if we can get people to quit watching these ridiculous “debates”, do their own research on the candidates using objective sources of information (no campaign websites or corporate-owned media websites) and not base their opinions on what ANY members of the mainstream media say. If people would look up voting records, campaign contributions, find out who owns the TV stations they’re watching, and weigh the factors that truly qualify someone to be President — Giuliani, Hillary, and many others would be removed from the equation in a heartbeat, and the media could take their spoon-fed “2+2=5″ rhetoric and shove it up their doublespeak arses.

Get people to do their own research? Turn the TV off and f—k the media?

Yeah, I know, we’re screwed.

P.S. Why no follow-up poll, Fox News? Don’t like the way those pesky non-scientific and easy-to-hack measures of public opinion have been turning out lately?