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Heh, how about we have another debate?? Sounds great.

And I didn’t mention it yesterday but I kinda liked the format of that one, candidates were able to challenge each other a little more. This debate looks like it’s just more of the same old boring debates we’ve had.

Oh and let me start off by saying that every time a candidate uses the name “Reagan” I want to hurl a beer through my television, and you all know how much I hate to waste good beer. Reagan is dead, get over it. NONE of you are Reagan, you’re not even close. Moreover, Reagan was perfect for his time and place, that time and place is not now and here.

Holy crap….could they seat these guys around a smaller table??? Seriously, doesn’t Fox have a table bigger than a stool??

Oh, and where did the crazy guy go??? Oh that’s right, he got left out of this debate. So we’re gonna have a debate of the old boring format and we don’t even get to listen to them all ridicule Ron Paul’s crazy ramblings?? Shit…I don’t have enough beer for this.

A few thoughts…

• As these debates get more heated, there is an increasingly obvious development. Nobody is attacking Thompson. This is either due to nobody regarding him as a serious threat, or else none of them have figured out a way to attack him without revealing themselves as not a conservative. I hope it’s the latter, rather than the former.
• When people do address him, it’s usually to cling onto his ideas and take them for a ride. One could say this is good because he is driving the debate, but at the end of the day, are the others just talking for the sake of talking, or are they really being convinced?
• Huckabee, Romney and McCain seem to be just having their own private little threesome here. Not surprising, McCain has to attack both. Romney and Huckabee are both trying to fend each other off. I think Romney is winning here.
• Again, it appears that anything positive these guys can agree on originated from Thompson….can we just nominate him and dispense with these other ego-driven hypocrites now? Although he seems a little out of it tonite.
• It’s clear these guys are acting upon lessons learned in yesterday’s debate. Everyone seems very low key.
• I’m starting to feel like I’m watching a bunch of kids fight for positions on student council.
• All the “Why I should be President” answers sucked.

Focus group….

• Heh, there are crazy people outside the windows in the back
• According to them Romney was the clear winner, Thompson was the clear loser, and Romney won over alot of people tonite
• Unimpressed with Huckabee, including “I’m not voting for a pastor, I’m voting for a President”. Bad news for Huck
• Nobody had anything bad to say about anything Thompson had to say, but rather has manner of saying it.

This debate basically sucked and was boring. Not sure I agree with the focus group, but for what it’s worth I wouldn’t say Romney lost this debate. I like Thompson’s answers and personally I like his manner of delivery, but it’s becoming pretty clear that his manner of delivery apparently doesn’t work in the east coast mentality, which the GOP can pretty much punt on anyway.

Honestly I’d have to give Romney the win here, with Thompson a close second. Third is tricky. Huckabee was sleazy, Giuliani was non-existant, and McCain toned it down alot so really didn’t stand out. I’d give the very tentative third to McCain.

Oh and this was Ron Paul’s best debate performance so far.