I gotta admit, it was painful for me to watch. I had a high puckker factor before hand because I knew the world would analyze every word to death. One of the things conservatives have to fight every day is the myth that we are to "dumb" to see liberal intellectual superiority. By coming off as typical teen airheads, it only fuels the fire, whether they are or not.
The other thing that conservatives have to fight is the reality that too many of them are congenitally incapable of having a good time when one is on offer.