For many months now, we’ve been playing with the “clown car” metaphor to describe the Republican presidential primary field. In hindsight, I think we misjudged the tone. There’s a simpler and more salient means of nailing the behavior of the GOP’s presidential reality show, and it’s impossible to have watched Saturday night’s CBS News debate and see these blithering empty-suits as anything other than children.
In fact, I was half hoping one of the late night shows would go there — casting each Republican candidate with little boy performers in suits to re-enact the debate word-for-word. There’s still time, I suppose.
While the Democratic race has grown more incendiary, with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders engaged in a fairly typical intra-party shovel fight about issues, flip-flops, voting records and whether individual policy platforms are too ambitious or not ambitious enough, the behavior of the Democratic candidates is relatively standard, though painful. By contrast, the Republicans spent a not insignificant length of time during Saturday’s debate literally acting like petulant kids. (The chief irony being that several of the candidates have accused President Obama, one of the most even-keeled and personally disciplined presidents in modern history, of acting childish.)
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