Well that’s 90 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Worst debate so far, and that’s saying a lot. 60 minutes of it live, with 20 minutes of commercials leaves 40 minutes for the 8 candidates. The moderators took at leat 15% of that asking questions and interrupting, so in reality we had 40 minutes minus 15% = 34 minutes divided by 8 candidates = 4.25 minutes total speaking time per candidate. It’s ridiculous, and the candidates all had difficulty wrapping up their answers while Scott Pelley talked over them saying “Your time is up! Your time is up!” Lord have mercy. The MSM game is to hold all the candidates to 30 second sound bites, suitable for endless loop replays in the hopes that some of them will make at least one big flub.
So, tonight there were no flubs. Michele Bachmann looked lovely. She must have a new hair and make-up artist. Ricky Perry had his best showing to date, the first time with no incoherent rambling, brain freezes, or “heartless” gaffes. Newt slapped the moderator around quite well, as expected. Cain neither hurt nor helped himself tonight. Santorum and Huntsman both whined about not having equal time, as usual. Ron Paul got nutty with his isolationism, as he often does, and that untamed caterpillar above his right eye is still trying to escape his face. It’s distracting...but that may work in Paul’s favor.
Hopefully the next debate on CNN, with the Heritage Foundation as a co-sponsor, will offer more.
Thanks for the rundown. I planned to watch a vid tonight of the debate, but from your synopsis and others, I think I’ll skip it. I’m suddenly grateful to my kids for tuning into CMT movies tonight.