Last night the Presidential hopefuls of the Republican Party persuasion gathered somewhere out west to debate. I should say some of the hopefuls, because there was a kiddies table again: a handful of candidates debated at 5 pm instead of 8pm. People like Pataki and Santorum (remember him?), who did not make the cut to prime time. How debilitating, if you ask me.
I was in front of my television, iPad and stylis in hand. CNBC turned out to be controversial in its questioning, and in the way some of the journalists shouted and over-acted their questioning. Sorry I didn’t get that in my drawing, it would have been difficult to do. But it was very unprofessional. Plus they did not start at 8:00, but made us listen to their pundits go on and on for fifteen minutes beforehand. This is what its come to, forced-pundit-listening.
No one appeared to stand out as a particular winner, from my vantage point. They all seemed to do similarly. Christie tried to out-Trump Trump with his loud bombastic statements, and Trump seemed to be quieter this time. Perhaps Carson is rubbing off on him (not something you want to picture). Jeb seemed cantankerous, Rubio seemed angry, Huckabee is Mr. Smooth, Carly took aim at Hillary, and Cruz used his eyebrows often. We didn’t hear from Rand Paul for a long time, and I wondered if he had left. I can’t really remember the last guy’s name, and can’t remember what it was he said.
Here are the drawings that I tweeted out in real time, within minutes. Hardest to draw, you ask? Ben Carson: he is round, very round. I wrote that on twitter and one of my followers said he should be easy to draw because he never moves! Well none of them do, really. Next debate, I am going to make a concerted effort to draw entire bodies. And maybe there will be more movement on stage for me to draw, you never know. Wouldn’t that be fun. Dancing, perhaps some tango?
