I did not watch the CNN/YouTube debate last night. If you managed to sit through it, God bless you, but that sort of thing does not resemble the politics which drew me toward the process.

But I suppose I owe you an explanation.

WHY I DID NOT WATCH THE CNN/YOUTUBE GOP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

* I’d just completed my radiation treatment regimen for throat cancer, and I had more pressing concerns than surveying twaddle. I suppose Clean House was on Style Channel – it always is when I am flipping through – but Bruckner’s Symphony no 3 in D minor, the one Wagner really liked, by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Hartmut Haenchen had just arrived via USPS earlier. And there’s something to be said for our mail carrier. She’s… better looking than Rudy Giuliani.

* I had heard that Ron Paul were going to be there, and I wasn’t in the mood for a cipher. (Straight talk? Oh, right.)

* I’d heard the same of Dunc and Trancredo. I have nothing against middle-aged guys with long records of exemplary public service playing a little to their vanities, but the key modifier is “a little.” Not a lot. It’s time to move on, gentlemen.

* I don’t much care to watch a lefty blue jean heiress, Anderson Cooper, pretend to be objective or to be a newsman. (His mommy is Gloria Vanderbilt.)

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* Look, the Huckabee juggernaut would have overwhelmed me. Just the aura of the man, being in the same room… well, not in the same room, but on the other end of a TV signal… He’s lost a lot of weight, you know.

* The people who make those zany YouTube vids – the snowmen, the plants (see below), the aging hippies – intimidate me an’ my brain cell. They bring to mind the great revolutionary pamphleteers like Thomas Paine. Well, not Paine. Who was that guy who wrote the pamphlets that no one read?

* It is undeniable science-’cos-I-said-so, though not quite on the level of global climate change, that there are all sorts of plants which have important biological functions. That being said, there were just too many of them doing the YouTube thaang last night. (Start here and here.)

The main reason, though, that I didn’t watch the CNN/YouTube thing last night:

* My wife, a huge FNC fan, figured out how to V-Chip CNN off the bedroom TV.

The odds were stacked against me, but really, what would I have gained by seeing the political process turned into a combination of Deal or no Deal and Survivor?