Prediction with Tonight’s Debate
I’ve never heard Scott Rigell speak before. But from this video, he sounds like a frickin’ preacher. Egads! All that Pat Robertson guck looks like it’s rubbed off on him.
So my prediction is Glenn Nye wins the debate with a close second to Kenny Golden. Glenn has a brain that he can engage when speaking. Golden, I suspect, will have some wild card things to throw out, which will knock Rigell out of his preacher-like comfort zone.
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August 19th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Eileen, you should check the link… you transposed the “t” and the “u” in “youtube”.
Scott is a little over the top with the “hand jive”, and his delivery doesn’t convince me with what seems to be contrived and polished energy and emotion. A speech in somebody’s living room is one thing, but he hasn’t shown the ability to keep his cool when challenged aggressively in a freestyle give and take. Kenny may decide to jack him up on some of the Primary issues which got Scott upset, which will serve to see how he handles stress under fire. Scott pronouncing the words “Semper Fidelis” is like scraping fingernails on a chalkboard to us former Marines… we just don’t say it that way.
But on the other hand, Glenn has a couple of years of Congress behind him, so he has debate experience from being the incumbent which should make this interesting. I’m going to make an informal survey of bumper/window stickers in the parking lot on the way into the debate to see who’s there for who.
August 19th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Way to guess that one. Nye got crushed. He reminded me of a weird cyborg of sorts. Also, talking about how he stood up to party leadership…this guy doesn’t belong in the Democratic party.
August 19th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
To say that Nye got crushed is being kind…. Nye was simply irrelevant! That was my first time seeing Nye speak in person, and he was totally underwhelming. Golden was a joke. He doesn’t even realize he’s an embarassment. Scott Rigell was the biggest surprise of the night! He just chugged through every question, and the audience was totally with him. He was sincere, likeable, and knowledgeable…all the things that we want in a congressman. Whoever thought that Rigell was a pushover at a debate was totally wrong. I heard a “bye bye Nye” phrase earlier, and I think it is an accurate prediction…
August 20th, 2010 at 4:49 am
I thought Rigell did OK, if you like Mr. Rogers neighborhood.
If I had read a transcript of the debate, I would say it was a close call between Nye and Golden, but Nye’s delivery was way, way off. Kenny gave detailed answers to the questions with some funny lines sprinkled in and Nye spoke well about his record. My only issue is that Nye seems to only half believe what he says, maybe he is just timid?
Rigell gave good answers as well, but it is obvious everything was canned talking points. There were several times when he couldn’t answer the question and had to drone on and on and then be asked by the moderator to get to the point.
August 20th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Greetings from Wisconsin.
@DClark
If you are going to throw moderates and even the occasional conservative out of the Democratic Party you are going to have a very small party.
You progressives get to have Pelosi as Speaker but you still object that there might be a few moderates included in the mix in the House. Sounds pretty intolerant to me. “Why shucks, we can’t have them moderates in the neighborhood, they might bring down housing (pun intended) values.”
If progressives do not show up for Glenn on election day, you will only have yourself to blame. While majority status in the House is not dependent on this one election, the lack of progressive leadership at the national level to bring out the base for moderate and even (gasp) conservative candidates will undo the fantastic leadership provided by former DNC Chairman Howard Dean to reach out to these types of candidates. It is hard to argue with success, and Howard Dean achieved it by putting the right candidates in the right congressional districts.
But you are unhappy with moderate Glenn Nye? OK, don’t show up on election day. If you are unhappy with the moderate who is willing to talk to progressive members of Congress and willing to compromise then see how happy you will be with a Republican ideologue who is more worried about who the members of the Tea Party are going to back against him in the primary then who the progressives are going to nominate to run against him in the general election.
Rigell is going to try to make this into a vote for moderate Glenn Nye is a vote for Pelosi as Speaker. If that is not enough to motivate you progressives to turn out on election day I will expand on it a little bit. Moderate Republicans do not win primaries anymore, they’re called RINOs (Republican In Name Only) and while I will not say there are not moderate Republican Party members, there are very few moderate Republican Party candidates (New England still seems to be the exception). Now, if enough of the slate of ideologically driven, hard right, conservative on every issue to the core, candidates are elected what type of Speaker are we going to end up with?
You are upset Glenn voted against the health care bill? With Republican domination of the House we won’t need to hear what the Supreme Court says about it because the House of Representatives will not vote to fund it. No funding and the program withers on the vine and even the filibuster in the Senate can not stop it.