Zandar's Thought Of The Day

Here's why I hate election politics sometimes.

What Harry Reid had to do in order to win last night's Senate debate in Nevada:

1. Memorize his entire Senate voting record.
2. Memorize every word he has said on the Senate floor.
3. Be prepared to debate every piece of legislation he has ever voted on.
4. Be prepared to defend every vote.
5. Memorize every dollar of income he has ever received and why.
6. Justify every job lost in Nevada since he became a politician.
7. Explain why every job in Nevada lost since then was lost.
8. Speak in an exciting, dynamic, and engaging manner.
9. Display all the gravitas of the Senate Majority Leader.
10. Defend President Obama.
11. Be willing to criticize President Obama.
12. Catalog every earmark Nevada has received because of his actions and defend them.
13. Justify every federal dollar spent in the last four years outside the state of Nevada, and what the benefit is to Nevada taxpayers.
14. Justify every federal dollar spent in the last four years in Nevada, and what the benefit is to Nevada taxpayers.
15. Explain everything to everybody, to everybody's satisfaction.
16. Prounounce every word correctly.
17. Not make any gestures that would be taken as his elitist dismissal of a real American.
18. Emote wildly in order to prove he is a regular American and not an elitist.
19. Satisfy the entire Village with his extreme seriousness, because the Senate is sacred.
20. Make everyone laugh at least once to show how human he is.

What Sharron Angle had to do in order to win last night's Senate debate in Nevada:

1. Not execute a box full of kittens with a food processor while praising Satan.

Guess who "won" the debate last night?

[UPDATE]  Steve M. argues fairly convincingly that Reid not only lost the debate, but this Senate race as well.  And that's where we are:  the Senate is now high school student council elections writ large, where the cool kid who wants to put vending machines in every locker is going to trounce the debate club nerd.