The “health care” debate was last night and, as you would expect of such an event put on by UNC-TV, it was a complete trainwreck of hidden assumptions and suppressed premises.
All I came away with is that Hillary Perdue thinks government can “provide” something called “health care.” That and Pat McCrory needs to tighten up on his verbage.
The mayor tried to play an anti-lawyer card — always a good move — but forgot — or did not know — that Fred Smith has not practiced law in years. McCrory also misspoke and said that illegal immigrants are born in North Carolina hospitals, garbling Sue Myrick’s “anchor baby” riff.
McCrory also offered this insight on his preventative medical measures: “As mayor of a major city, sometimes I use stress as a way to lose weight. That’s not the way to do it.”
Somebody get the mayor a treadmill, stat.
Still, bonus points to the Mayor for making clear that growing a bureaucracy in Raleigh in the name of improving mental health care is damn crazy.
Bonus Observation: Public Policy Polling’s pre-debate tracking poll basically has McCrory and Smith in a deadheat at around 25 percent and Graham and Orr trailing behind at around 10 percent. McCrory’s best issue, according to respondents, is education and his biggest support comes from the 704 area code. Big surprise.
Special Bonus Observation: Did the Uptown paper of record know about the debate? I cannot find any coverage of it.
