I sat down on my couch with a 12-pack of MillerLite and prepared myself for what I thought was going to be a very interesting two hours. I had accepted the challenge from the National Suntimes to take on the official GOP debate drinking game: Round 7.
I flipped open my computer and opened up the rules, which had recently been slightly changed due to the fact that Donald Trump, a Republican front-runner, had withdrawn from the debate. My first thoughts about Trump’s absence: Wow, maybe they will actually get some helpful discussion done about actual political topics. Second thought: this game is going to be tough. They had added a rule that every time Donald Trump’s absence was mentioned you had to take a drink. About halfway through the debate, to my surprise, they had only mentioned this one time.
The rest of the rules were exactly what you would expect to hear in a Republican debate — you can check out the details on the Internet if you are interested — but they seemed like they would be pretty common occurrences such as: the mention of Hillary Clinton, or the mention of “radical Islamic extremists,” but with around 45 minutes of the debate left I was sadly disappointed. I had only taken about 38 “drinks” and had over half of my 12-pack left.
So, I made things a little more interesting and started adding my own rules based off the themes of the debate: every mention of Obama, every mention of Bernie Sanders, every commercial, and every mention of ISIS.
Needless to say the game really started “tipping off” at this point and I was making my way through a couple more bottles and seemed to be having a little more fun. I don’t quite think I would have had this problem if good ol’ Trump were there. Nonetheless, Suntimes needs to challenge us just a little more.
For statistical purposes, I ended up drinking 13 times for candidates refusing to stop speaking after the bell rings, 20 for the mention of Hillary, 18 times for the mention of Obama, 18 times for the mention of ISIS, four times for Bernie, seven times for mentioning God, six times for commercials, and only three for Mr. Trump. You can go ahead and do the math for the grand total but I definitely highly recommend it.
