So far, the crowds at this fall’s Republican presidential primary debates have booed a gay soldier, applauded the hypothetical death of a man without health insurance, cheered Texas’s high number of executions, and freaked out over HPV vaccination programs.

TONIGHT AT 5 P.M. PST, during the Washington Post/Bloomberg Republican Presidential Debate, we’ll get to see what makes them go crazy next. (Prediction: They’ll either boo the Occupy Wall Street protesters or scream wildly for the candidate who vows to crush them the most mercilessly.)

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7 replies on “Tonight’s Republican Debate: Who Will the Tea Baggers “Boo” Next?”

  2. I’m goin’ with Puppies. There will be a clip of a puppy staring soulfully into the camera, and that will be its “question.” Then the awful people in the audience will boo it because Patriotism, or something.

  3. Teenage girls (unable to get health insurance) dying from pregnancy complications after being raped.

    Actually, I can sort of imagine they would applaud this. Oh god.

  5. dmitrir – *twinkle-up* for you sir!
    While I find the disparity of wealth here appalling compared to other countries, the more I see of these ‘occupiers’ the more I think they are ripe for a mockumentary of epic portions.
    At least those tea-baggers had more clearly defined goals and affected change nationally, whether or not you agreed with those goals.

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