We Looking for Somone Like William Holden Only Not So Pretty...

Last night's GOP debate (at least from the transcripts) looked like a casting call for the Perfect Republican... circa 1984. All the candidates were trying to show what immigrant hatin' straight people lovin' tax detesting sons of bitches they were. It was a sad spectacle. They all want to be the President of a "Country that No Longer Exists". Two moments of sanity prevailed:

Rep. Duncan Hunter refused to sign a no new taxes pledge -- a Republican staple -- because he thought a national emergency might require a tax increase. Duncan, you will not get far in the GOP with that kind of measured and reasonable thinking.

John McCain got into it with Romney about torture. On the issue of waterboarding, McCain said: “How in the world anybody could think that that kind of thing could be inflicted by Americans on people who are held in our custody is absolutely beyond me." Romney let it be known that he doesn't much mind torture because he is so darn rugged and patriotic.