What a great effort. And truthfully, I am glad the field was smaller,it allowed people to get to know these subset of candidates better in a short amount of time. Bret Baier and company did one fine job of moderating the debate, the questions and answers were terrific.
My top two: Herman Cain and Ron Paul. This was an outstanding forum. I hope to see more like it.
Well done all!!!!!!!!!!!! On to 2012. I felt more energy in that room than I have had in a long time.
We’ve got the “One” on the RUN! Game on.
I don’t know about the questions. I thought debates were supposed to have neutral questioners and those debating each other were supposed to be adversarial to one another?
I think there’s merit in having smaller debates as opposed to a crowd of, say, twelve, and you’re lucky to get five minutes of short answers from each candidate, making it very difficult to get a good overall impression of each candidate on the pertinent issues.
So a second group of five could include Bachmann, Romney, Gingrich, etc... then another group of five to include Palin, Huckabee, etc.
Just a thought.