Tan Man PWNed Gallagher for the first 20 minutes or so (mostly because he's so telegenic--TG came off as hesitant, stammering and far too negative too early). CC just has that whole "Hollywood" feel-good charm Reagan used so well.
TG recovered nicely in the "ask an opponent" a question round. Nice how he called out CC's failure to answer the abortion and civil union questions. But he went down hard with the question on the ethics panel--CC ate his lunch in the rebuttal. Not the definitive win TG probably needed.
BTW, could it be more obvious the questioners hated both men? Had to get an Iraq question in, even though it's a state race.
The way I see it the winner was Gallagher, hands down. He did come off too negative at the beginning, but only to people who didn't know about Crist's duplicitous record on uncivil unions. His attacks were validated after Crist gave a blatantly phony and insulting answer on abortion "I'm pro-life. That's why I'd keep the law pro-choice" and said that he's pro civil unions while again patronizing "I have a live and let live attitude." (tell that to Terri Schiavo btw). My idea of "live and let live isn't to encourage 100 Barney Frank lookalikes to march in a Faggot Day Parade with school kids. Apparently Charlie's is.
If this were a general election debate your analysis would be spot on. But remember, this is a GOP primary debate in which the voters are more like you and I and know about the issues. That's why issues count more than some emaciated guy's supposed good looks.
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