Monday, October 30, 2006
Second Debate.
I missed the first one. Topics for the debate are some of the consumer issues angering voters, including property insurance costs, taxes, school testing and campaign financing.
Linn is here. He won his court order. Davis looks good on TV. Of course not as charismatic as Crist, but Crist doesn't look as good on video as he does in print photos. Crist is giving the tired reasons for Iraq. He sounds just like GWB Linn is underscoring Davis' points about the Iraq. Davis gave a pretty good answer to the question about his vote on Iraq. He says he was against the war as soon as he found out that the intelligence information was bad.
Second question is about the marriage thing. Here we go! Crist only supports civil unions and not gay marriage and not gay adoption. Davis is for traditional marriage, civil unions, and gay adoptions. Linn is for gay marriage and gay adoption. Update: I didn't notice any awkwardness when Crist was talking about his divorce.
Thank you Chris Matthews for acknowledging this clean campaign. Crist is running on a conservative platform, Davis ducks his liberal label. Instead he talks about his platform and called it his values and beliefs. Matthews follows up by asking the question again, and he compares himself to Florida .... that most Floridians don't fall under a single label. Good answer and should resonate with Independents.
Crist looks good when he attacks Davis' education reform by pointing out that this will cause a rise in taxes. So far it's a wash, and Linn doesn't look all that good to me, but I didn't see the first debate and what do I know. Oh oh Linn just kicked into high gear. He looks fantastic. But he wants to outsource bussing and cafeterias. No no No!!!
Linn is calling Crist a liar, saying that Crist took money from insurance companies. Matthews is getting flustered. He reminds Linn that he cannot speak directly to another debater. Now Davis is asked about the teacher's unions campaign support . Davis says their contributions are not as much as people say because teachers don't have much money. Chris is trying to pin each one of them on where they will get the money for their tax relief plans. Linn gives a pretty good answer, that the money is already there. Davis is now summing up with a plan to make developers pay more. Linn is going on and on attacking Crist and Chris stops that good. Linn attacks Crist's plan and says it will bankrupt small towns. Matthews is really asking all the right kinds of questions that Floridians want to hear. Crist says he disagreed with Bush on Schiavo, hmmmmm. Davis blasts Crist for not speaking out, when Davis did speak out on the House floor about the Schiavo case. Whew. Commercial time.
Linn talks about how there isn't too much of a difference between the two parties. Good Lord, Chris Matthews is actually asking about he SCOTUS decision in 2000. Matthews asks if we could have confidence that our vote will be counted accurately. Then he asks Davis if African Americans will have problems at the polls. Davis is blasting Crist. Davis is going for a paper trail and random audits. Crist gives his concern about paper trails being able to be bought. Matthews pins Davis down on his support for a paper trail that also shows how the person votes. I don't think the voters understand the finer point of election reform. Davis does good for simply blasting Crist on not doing anything.
Cup cake question about grading Jeb. Davis gave Jeb a C. Linn gives him a B. He calls Crist a rubber stamper for giving Jeb an A. Then he got asks about Bush. Crist lavishes the praise. Davis gives the preznit an F and at the same time is able to equate Crist with the Bush administration. Linn gives Bush an F too. Linn blasts Crist for attending lavish fundraisers.
Update: the grand finale was Crist backpeddling on his claim that crime has gone down when murder has shown a dramatic increase. I hate to say it, but Chris Matthews rocks.
That's all folks. I can't do this. ¶ 8:01 PM
Linn is here. He won his court order. Davis looks good on TV. Of course not as charismatic as Crist, but Crist doesn't look as good on video as he does in print photos. Crist is giving the tired reasons for Iraq. He sounds just like GWB Linn is underscoring Davis' points about the Iraq. Davis gave a pretty good answer to the question about his vote on Iraq. He says he was against the war as soon as he found out that the intelligence information was bad.
Second question is about the marriage thing. Here we go! Crist only supports civil unions and not gay marriage and not gay adoption. Davis is for traditional marriage, civil unions, and gay adoptions. Linn is for gay marriage and gay adoption. Update: I didn't notice any awkwardness when Crist was talking about his divorce.
Thank you Chris Matthews for acknowledging this clean campaign. Crist is running on a conservative platform, Davis ducks his liberal label. Instead he talks about his platform and called it his values and beliefs. Matthews follows up by asking the question again, and he compares himself to Florida .... that most Floridians don't fall under a single label. Good answer and should resonate with Independents.
Crist looks good when he attacks Davis' education reform by pointing out that this will cause a rise in taxes. So far it's a wash, and Linn doesn't look all that good to me, but I didn't see the first debate and what do I know. Oh oh Linn just kicked into high gear. He looks fantastic. But he wants to outsource bussing and cafeterias. No no No!!!
Linn is calling Crist a liar, saying that Crist took money from insurance companies. Matthews is getting flustered. He reminds Linn that he cannot speak directly to another debater. Now Davis is asked about the teacher's unions campaign support . Davis says their contributions are not as much as people say because teachers don't have much money. Chris is trying to pin each one of them on where they will get the money for their tax relief plans. Linn gives a pretty good answer, that the money is already there. Davis is now summing up with a plan to make developers pay more. Linn is going on and on attacking Crist and Chris stops that good. Linn attacks Crist's plan and says it will bankrupt small towns. Matthews is really asking all the right kinds of questions that Floridians want to hear. Crist says he disagreed with Bush on Schiavo, hmmmmm. Davis blasts Crist for not speaking out, when Davis did speak out on the House floor about the Schiavo case. Whew. Commercial time.
Linn talks about how there isn't too much of a difference between the two parties. Good Lord, Chris Matthews is actually asking about he SCOTUS decision in 2000. Matthews asks if we could have confidence that our vote will be counted accurately. Then he asks Davis if African Americans will have problems at the polls. Davis is blasting Crist. Davis is going for a paper trail and random audits. Crist gives his concern about paper trails being able to be bought. Matthews pins Davis down on his support for a paper trail that also shows how the person votes. I don't think the voters understand the finer point of election reform. Davis does good for simply blasting Crist on not doing anything.
Cup cake question about grading Jeb. Davis gave Jeb a C. Linn gives him a B. He calls Crist a rubber stamper for giving Jeb an A. Then he got asks about Bush. Crist lavishes the praise. Davis gives the preznit an F and at the same time is able to equate Crist with the Bush administration. Linn gives Bush an F too. Linn blasts Crist for attending lavish fundraisers.
Update: the grand finale was Crist backpeddling on his claim that crime has gone down when murder has shown a dramatic increase. I hate to say it, but Chris Matthews rocks.
That's all folks. I can't do this. ¶ 8:01 PM
