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OK, I’ll follow suit.

Here were my impressions.

Perry: Similar thought here. I think Perry must have decided to show a fire in his belly to prove he wanted this nomination and was willing to work for it. The more aggressive nature he presented tonight showed a personal determination. He also sounded in control and undaunted. I do have to admit, having learned my English in a more northern state (and sometimes I still speak REALLY fast), Perry’s breaks in the middle of many sentences were noticeable, but nothing that was real problematic. All in all, he spoke very well tonight.

Mitt: Did very poorly tonight. With each passing jab from the various candidates, his words became more quickly spoken and his mouth tightened to the point that he even mispronounced a couple of sentences. He did not do well under so much fire.

Newt: Great as usual but not the classic “Newt” as we’ve seen in previous debates. Still, his knowledge rose yet again to the highest standards. He did seem to be on a somewhat different stand on the nuclear waste question than all the others, or was I wrong in that understanding?

Bachmann: Did well with answers (with the exception of a somewhat odd answer to the NV foreclosure question), and her persona did not seem as tight tonight. She seems very genuine and very intelligent. The “Anderson, Anderson” callings during other candidate’s answers did not show really well, but I’m not holding that against her too much since the moderator Anderson Cooper was probably more to blame for the bantering back and forth that was occurring. MB has also looked much better in both this and the last debate. She got away from some of her campaign workers apparently that made her hair look stiff and her face look like Tammy Faye Baker. MB looked wonderful tonight, professional but not fakey at all. She was the old Michele Bachmann we all know and love.

Paul: He is proving to be a quite funny person. The joke about going over the fed’s head (or whatever it was he said) was downright funny. Ron Paul is FUNNY! Who knew that? :) I’m glad he is still there to give some punches, and he gives punches to all of them from time to time. Like Rick Santorum said once... Ron Paul is wrong a lot, but a lot of the time he’s right.

Cain: Had to deal with a lot tonight. It must be hard to be criticized and unmercifully lambasted by every single candidate on the stage, and the bulk of it all happened in the first ten minutes or so of the debate. He handled the jabs there fairly well though, and even I understood the apples to oranges analogy he used for the national and state taxes, so he must have made that point clear. His earlier CNN interview where he said there he would release Gitmo prisoners in a hostage negotiation with Al Queda seemed damaging, but he did say during the debate he didn’t mean that. We’ll see if that situation becomes a problem for Mr. Cain or not.

Santorum: I think this was probably Rick Santorum’s best debate. He looked confident. He spoke confidently. He spoke boldly about the strength of families and set the idea of the best foundation of America being families across the land. He surprised me when he began the debate with such a feisty aggressiveness, especially going straight for Herman Cain as he did. He may not be pulling much in the polls, but tonight, he sure didn’t act like he was anything other than a top tier candidate.

Overall: Was very frustrated by this debate’s permissive atmosphere of yelling back and forth at each other and continued back and forth 30 second responses. I’m ready to hear the candidates get a little more time to actually SAY something about the issues at hand. Come on, can we at least give everyone 3 minutes or so to answer something by this point?