[Girlene]

Yep, I don’t think Ron Paul will run; if he does, say hello Pres. obama.

I’m getting the debate an hour later than the live thread, so I’ll post commentary here.

I swear Huntsman and Romney must have made a pact. When Huntsman says something stupid (and it’s not every time, but when he does ..), Romney capitalizes on it, and has some of his strongest points of the debates.

Gingrich thinks he can work with the other side if you have real leadership....explains how he did it when he was leader.

Romney does the same.

Ron Paul - Gregory reminds him he has sponsored over 600 bills (would this make Paul a frivolous bill sponsor?), but has only had one signed into law. He doesn’t answer the question.

Santorum - goes after Paul - people like him because of his economic plan, but he’s never accomplished anything. But Paul could accomplish his foreign policy plans starting on day one. Santorum does an excellent job taking Paul down on this one.

[Girlene]

Gregory asks a question about what would you do to make your other Republicans upset?????
(these are some stupid lines of questioning - what would you do to tick off Republican voters?, what would you do to tick off Republican congress....what’s next .... what would you do to tick off your wife? what would you do to get your dog to bite you? what would you do to get thrown out of your neighborhood association?)

Huntsman suggest He would propose term limits for Congress.

Perry says the problem has been spending in Congress - he would propose term limits, part time congress, cut their pay, balanced budget amendment.

[Son House]

Gingrich thinks he can work with the other side if you have real leadership

There should be 2 big points to make here,

1. the health care bill is rotten, can you get Democrats to help repeal it and replace it with the stuff that make sense in the American Economy?

2. the tax code is rotten, can you get Democrats to help replace it with a single low rate for all?

[Son House]

The follow-up question for Ron Paul should have been, if the people should want to go to war, would you do it? My assessment is the Ron Paul excuses not to go to war would roll out like wild fire.

[ngat]

Thanks for the running commentary, as I’m not where I can see or hear this mornings’ (or last night’s) debate.

I was told by someone that saw last night that the anticipated clash between Gingrich and Romney didn’t happen - and it was surprisingly toned-down between the two. Is that correct?

Also, is it true Romney and Santorum seem to be taking it easy on each other?